Sociology
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Sugimoto, Haruki
Sociology
Haruki Sugimoto studies how natural disasters shape migration and fertility patterns, as well as the consequences of such post-disaster population dynamics. He uses causal inference and demographic methods to analyze large-scale administrative and survey data from the United States, Mexico, and Japan.
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Read, Amy
Sociology
Amy Read studies the ways disasters shape communities long after the acute exposure period is over, including the effects on housing markets and residents’ perception of future climate and severe weather risk. Their dissertation combines demographic data with tornado track data to look at long-term temporal and spatial patterns in disaster impacts in the United States. They are also interested in how disaster exposure (and the recovery process itself) reinforces patterns of social inequality. Amy is advised by Filiz Garip, professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. -
Monteiro Jayasankar, Kalyani (‘16 - ‘18)
Sociology
Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar is a third year PhD student in the Sociology department. Kalyani’s research interests lie in environmental risk, urban climate change and their intersections with inequality. Her research examines the experience of coastal flooding by vulnerable communities in Mumbai, drawing on ethnographic work as well as archival research and spatial analysis.
As an undergraduate, Kalyani studied sociology and geology at Mount Holyoke College. She subsequently worked on a research project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, that involved a comparative study of structural violence in three cities in the global south: Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and Durban.
