Sociology Lab Alumni

Former Assistant Lab Directors

Soocheol Cho
Assistant Lab Director Emeritus

Soocheol Cho is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Indiana University, where he received his M.S. in Applied Statistics. His research agenda is driven by the overarching goal of attaining a comprehensive understanding of how cultural beliefs about gender, along with their persistence and changes, contribute to the (re)production of inequalities. In recent projects, he examines the ways in which gender, work, families, and public policies intersect to shape these disparities. In his work, he typically employs quantitative and experimental methods.


Nora Weber
Assistant Lab Director Emeritus

Nora Weber is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Indiana University. Her research focuses on education, workforce, and politics. She takes a multi-methods approach, including surveys, secondary data analysis, interviews, text analysis, and field and survey experiments to pursue her research agenda.


Annie Russian
Assistant Lab Director Emeritus

Anna Acosta Russian received her Ph.D. in Sociology and MS in Applied Statistics at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and sport. She uses varied methodological approaches, including: in-depth qualitative interviews, secondary data analysis, and experiments.


Bianca Manago
Assistant Lab Director Emeritus

Bianca Manago received her Ph.D. in Sociology and MS in Applied Statistics from Indiana University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her research addresses questions at the intersection of medical sociology, inequality, and social psychology.


Trenton Mize
Norman Triplett Distinguished Assistant Lab Director Emeritus

Trenton Mize received his Ph.D. in Sociology and MS in Applied Statistics from Indiana University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. His research focuses on social psychology and applied statistics, including computational social science and experimental methods.


Former Research Assistants

Kia Heryadi
Mantas Grigorovicius
Julia Park
Jocelyn Chang-Stroman
Daniela Alvarez
Brontee Anderson
Lance Bertsch
Jason Blind
J. Alexander Buchanan
Maxwell Cabello
Jessica Cadwell
Mark Chandler
Zac Childers
Josh Coker
Kelsey Cundiff
Farida Daouda
Rachel Desmarais
Long Doan
Kayla Douglas
Joshua Doyle
Greyson Foote
Qiyun Gao
Courtney Hamilton
Liz Harlan
Sidney Harris
Eve Hickey
Erin Macke
Bradley Montgomery
Amber Nelson
Aaron O’Brien
Lauryn Quick
Wyatt Reed
Bryce Ryan
Brandi Schmitt
Clayton Sheets
Sarah Simcox
Emma Sperry
Erik Thorelli
Kiersten Thaxton
David Tite
Olivia Whalen
Emily Winters
Matt Wood
Jenny Yang
Elizabeth Zack
Lynn Zhang