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Carrie Carter is a Sociology PhD Candidate at North Carolina State University. Her research explores how organizational structures, policies and practices impact equity and effectiveness in the military and higher education. Her dissertation draws on in-depth interviews with active-duty soldiers to examine the paradoxical impacts of three gendered policy changes on gender relations in the United States Army. Her work has appeared in Gender, Work & Organization, the Journal of Veterans Studies and the Journal of College Student Development.
Jaqueline Mendez is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Texas A&M University whose research examines inequalities among first- and second-generation Latina/o immigrants in the United States. Her dissertation focuses on how citizenship-based bureaucratic systems shape families’ access to economic, material, and social resources. Her research has been recognized with a Graduate Residential Fellowship at the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and a Graduate Research Fellowship at the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University. She also holds a graduate certificate in Latina/o and Mexican American Studies (LMAS) from Texas A&M, where she earned both her M.S. and B.S. in Sociology.
Claire Migliore is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a trainee with the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests center around the relationship between child welfare involvement and family outcomes, with a particular focus on parents who experience termination of their parental rights.
Dorothy Rau is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, studying gender, sexuality, and incarceration. Their dissertation examines how incarcerated people navigate identity, relationships, and everyday life under conditions of constraint. Their work has been published in Gender & Society and the International Journal of Human Rights. Dorothy also leads the Texas Prison Education Initiative, which provides free, credit-bearing college courses to incarcerated students across Texas.