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Erin HudnallFaculty Mentor: Katie Corcoran
Erin is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in sociology. She received a BA in sociology and a BA in psychology from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Erin's interests include prosocial behavior, disaster volunteerism, community development, and the sociology of rural communities and organizations. She is an applied, community-engaged researcher with hopes to advance public sociology in West Virginia and within the discipline. Her current research focuses on processes of community development and place-making in rural contexts. |
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Brittany KowalskiFaculty Mentor: Rachel Stein
Brittany received her BA in sociology with a double major in Catholic studies, a minor in women and gender studies, and a certificate from the honors program from Seton Hall University in 2015. She then began her graduate studies at West Virginia University where she graduated with her MA in sociology in May 2017. Her master’s thesis focused on gender roles and their effect on attraction amongst college students. She is currently a third-year doctoral student in the sociology program at WVU and pursuing a certificate in higher education teaching. Brittany is currently a Graduate Research Assistant on an NSF funded grant with Drs. Kasi Jackson and Sharon Bird that is examining the effectiveness of programs at addressing barriers to greater representation of historically underrepresented groups in academia. Her broad interests include gender, social psychology, roles, perceptions, motivations, religion, and methods. |
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Ellory DabbsFaculty Mentor: Chris Scheitle
Ellory is a second-year PhD student in sociology, with an emphasis in crime. She graduated with a BA in criminology and a minor in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in December of 2016. She is now serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the SOCA department. Her interests include, but are not limited to, media influences on perceptions of crime, terrorism, and victimization, victimology, and white-collar crime. |
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Emily HawkinsFaculty Mentor: Chris Scheitle
Emily is a second-year PhD student in sociology, a W.E.B. Du Bois fellow, and a SREB doctoral scholar. She received her BA in political science and geography from Concord University in 2016 and her Masters of Public Administration degree from West Virginia University in 2018. She is currently pursuing her MA thesis on the topic of altruistic fear of crime, or the fear of crime on behalf of others, and its relation to religious-bias motivated victimization. Her broad research interests include religion, gender, families, immigration, and refugee resettlement. |