Subfield: Education, Demography, Quantitative Methods, Social Stratification and Mobility

Subfield: Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Theory; Political Violence and War; Human Rights, Democracy, and Foreign Policy; Modern Iraq.

Subfield: Computational social science; Culture and cognition; Health and illness; Stigma; Media; Natural language processing (NLP) methods

Subfield: Political Sociology, Political Economy, Development in Latin America, Social Movements and Collective Behavior. 

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, International Migration, Political Sociology

Subfield: Education, Race and Ethnicity, Gender

Subfield: Family, Gender, Immigration, Social Stratification

 I analyze diverse expressions of organized crime and social violence in the North America region. My current research uses computational methods such as machine learning for crime forecasting, and social network analysis to understand criminal networks.

Subfield: - Computational Sociology- Economic Sociology- Violence- Organized Crime

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology

Irene is currently studying the relationship between the medical training in the US and the ways in which medical students take actions against health inequities related to race, gender, and sexuality. Irene earned a B.A. in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a M.A. in Gender and Women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Internal grants from both institutions and a fellowship from the Fogarty Institute facilitated her previous research, which explores how class, gender, and ethnicity shape the experiences of teen pregnancy and home birth in Perú.

Subfield: Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Gender, Ethnography, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice, Health Inequalities 

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Labor, Political Sociology. 

• Gaddis, S. Michael, Colleen M. Carey, and Nicholas V. DiRago. “Changes over Time in COVID-19 Vaccination Inequalities in Eight Large U.S. Cities.” Invitation to revise and resubmit to Health Equity. [preprint]
• Zhou, Min, and Nicholas V. DiRago. “Migration and Urbanization in Los Angeles.” Invited submission to Migration and Urbanization Conference and subsequent volume, edited by A. Portes.
• DiRago, Nicholas V., Andre Comandon, and Paul Ong. “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Traffic to Businesses in Ethnic Corridors of Los Angeles.”
• Gaddis, S. Michael, Nicholas V. DiRago, and Raj Ghoshal. “Moving to the City: An Audit Study Examining the Consequences of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination on Residential Segregation.” [working paper]
• DiRago, Nicholas V. “Reconstructing Abandoned Real Estate: Land Banks and the Organizational Dimensions of Urban Governance and Inequality in the U.S., 2009 to 2019.”

Subfield: community and urban sociology; inequality, poverty, and mobility; sociology of population; political sociology; organizations, occupations, and work

Subfield: International Migration, Political Sociology, Inequality, Forced Migration, Organizations, Qualitative Methods

Subfield: International Migration, Latin America, South-South Migration, Immigrant Access to Rights

Subfield: Gender, Social Demography, Family

Subfield: Political Sociology, Social Movements and State Building, Middle East Politics, Qualitative Methods, Ethnography

Subfield: Sociology of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Health

Subfield: Medical Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Social Movements; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Black Feminist Thought

 My research interests revolve around the relationships between cultural politics and nation-building processes, both for international and domestic consumption. 

Subfield: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Tourism, Caribbean Studies

Subfield: Gender, social categorization, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology

Subfield: Economic Sociology, Social Stratification, Organizations

Subfield: Organizations, Urban Sociology, Computational Methods, Stratification

Subfield: Comparative Historical Sociology, Organizations, Economic Sociology

Subfield: Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Stratification, Middle East & West Asia

Subfield: Race, Nationalism, Trauma, Collective Memory, Belonging, Identity Formation, Sikh Punjabis

Subfield: Social Network Analysis, Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, Ethnography, Political Polarization

Subfield: Computational Social Science; Urban Sociology

Subfield: International Migration, Legal Status, Health, Social Stratification, Youth Development

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Social Interaction

Subfield: Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Ethnographic Methods; Public Policy

Description of Previous and Ongoing Research Projects

• The Formation of Cosmologies on Death and Dying in Gang Members (2017)
• The Construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project and Gentrification in the Crenshaw District (2017) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Karida Brown

• The Effectiveness of Homeless Court Programs in Los Angeles (2017-2018) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Yeheskel "Zeke" Hasenfeld, (Rest In Peace, Zeke)

• The Contributions of Joan Moore to the Development of Critical Gang Studies and Reflexive Research Methodology (2019) - Collaboration with Dr. Robert Weide

• Traumatic Loss and Social Reproductions of Urban Violence in L.A. (ongoing)
• Income Generation Strategies, Job Seeking and Employment for Gang Members in a Gentrifying Los Angeles (ongoing)

Subfield: Critical Gang Studies; Material Scarcity; Social Violence; Hyper-Incarceration; Ethnography; Theory

Subfield: Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Economy Sociology, Quantitative and Computational Methods

Subfield: Political Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Political Violence; Authoritarianism; Comparative & Historical.

Subfield: Social Stratification and Mobility; Education; Race

Language and social interaction. Reciprocity and exchange behavior. Economic conversation analysis. Exposure, leaks, and sense making of contentious interactions.  Spanish conversation.  

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Language and Social Interaction, Linguistic Anthrpology, SociolinguisticsComprehensive exams: Conversation Analysis and Economic Sociology

Subfield: Political sociology, international migration, displacement, development, Southeast Asia, comparative ethnography and qualitative methods

Subfield: Computational Sociology, Economic Sociology, Labor, Work, Technology, 

Subfield: Sociology of law; gender and sexuality; social movements; ethnography; carcerality; race and ethnicity  

Subfield: Comparative-Historical; Race & Ethnicity; Gender; Inequality; Distribution, Maintenance, and Protection of Power

Subfield: Comparative-Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Political Violence and War; Genocide; Cultural Sociology

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Policing, Race & Ethnicity

Subfield: Social stratification, race and ethnicity, social demography, international migration

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Mixed Methods

Subfield: Carcerality; Black Feminist Thought; Race and Ethnicity; Law and Society; Critical Race Theory; Gender; Urban and Suburban Sociology; Historical Sociology Methods Specialization: Archival Ethnography; Geographic Information Systems

Subfield: Rental housing and landlords, political sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology, ethnography 

Subfield: Political Sociology; Social Movements; Development; Infrastructure and Land-use Policies; Environment & Natural Resources; Welfare Policies; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Ethnographic Methods; Brazil & India.

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification and Inequality, Community Policing, Neighborhood Change

Subfield: Decolonial Feminisms, Black Feminisms, Latinx Feminisms, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Qualitative methods including art analysis and discourse analysis, Public Policy, Archival Methodology including historical processing and tracing, the Caribbean and Latin America, Spanish Language Interpretation and Translation 

Subfield: Political sociology, comparative-historical sociology

Subfield: Incarceration; Race & Ethnicity; Urban Sociology; Gender & Sexuality; Social Movements;

Subfield: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Socialist and Post-Socialist States, Welfare, Labor, Disability

Subfield: Aging and Life Course, Technology, Culture, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, Temporality