Biography
Chassidy is a fourth-year PhD student in the department of sociology. She earned her Masters of Arts in Sociology in 2023 and completed her Bachelors of Arts in Sociology with Honors from the University of California Irvine in 2021.
She teaches the courses Immigration and Ethnicity (SOC 467) and Sociological Theory (SOC 316).
Her research interests are in historical comparative methods, immigrant health, and ethnic enclaves and ghettos. Her current research examines responses to bubonic plague outbreaks in San Francisco and Honolulu's Chinatowns and how they differed during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She asks why the more integrated Chinatown of Honolulu burn while the more segregated Chinatown of San Francisco was spared? It is through her work she explores the paradox of the ghetto and responses to epidemics.