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Former Members

  • Sarah Blanchard
  • Amanda Bosky 
  • Jamie Carroll
  • Sarah Crissey
  • Kimberly Daniels
  • Denisse Gelber
  • Sam Field
  • Michelle Frisco
  • Kelly Fulton
  • Melissa Humphries
  • Yujin Kim
  • Barbara King
  • Janet Kuo
  • Amy G. Langenkamp
  • David McClendon
  • Chelsea Moore
  • Susan Moreno
  • Edward Morris
  • Anna S. Mueller
  • Eve Pattison 
  • Jennifer Pearson
  • Dara Shifrer
  • Charles Stokes
  • April Sutton
  • Karina Vielma
  • Tim Werwath
  • Lindsey Wilkinson
  • Lisa Wyatt 


Sarah Blanchard Kyte

Dissertation Title: Academic and Social Influences of Underrepresented Adolescents' Perceptions of Opportunity and Plans for the Future

Current Location: Senior Research, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/faculty-staff/sarah-kyte

Email Address: sarah.b.kyte@rutgers.edu

 

Amanda Bosky

Dissertation: Academic Preparation in High School and Gendered Exposure to Economic Insecurity at Midlife
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Website: http://www.amandabosky.com/

 

Jamie Carroll

Dissertation Title: Sustaining a Nonrepresentative Democracy: How Education Shapes Long-term Voting Patterns
Current Location: University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center - Associate Project Director of National Study of Learning Mindsets

Website: https://www.jamiemcarroll.com/ 


Sarah Crissey 

Dissertation Title: Gender Differences in the Academic Consequences of Heterosexual Adolescent Romantic Relationships

Current Location: Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau

Email Address : sarahcrissey@hotmail.com


Kimberly Daniels

Company: National Survey of Family Growth, National Center for Health Statistics

Job Title: Associate Service Fellow

Email: kdaniels1@cdc.gov


Michelle Frisco

Dissertation Title: Adolescents' Future Opportunity: Family, Sexual Decision-Making, and Academic Achievement

Current Location: The Pennsylvania State University 

Website: http://www.pop.psu.edu/directory/mlf112/

Email Address: mlf112@psu.edu


Kelly Fulton

Dissertation Title: All in the Family: Community, Class, and Caring in an African American Elementary School

Current Location: Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin

Email Address: kelgor@mail.utexas.edu 


Melissa Humphries

Dissertation: Beyond Credential: Postsecondary Education and Health in Early Adulthood

Current Location: Senior Research Specialist, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

 

Yujin Kim

 

Dissertation: Men's Mass Imprisonment and Race Differences in Women's Family Formation Behaviors

Current Location: Postdoc, Chung-Ang University and Lecturer at Korea University

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Janet Kuo

Dissertation Title: Racial and Educational Disparities in UnionTransitions of Cohabitors: The Importance of Long-term Economic Prospects.

Current Location: Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan).

Email Address: janetkuo@utexas.edu


Barbara King

Dissertation Title: Examining the Power of Performance: An Investigation of STEM Persistence across Field of Study and Gender

Current Location: Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Florida International University

Website: http://education.fiu.edu/docs/faculty_profiles/profile_King.pdf

Email Address: bking@fiu.edu

 
Amy G. Langenkamp

Dissertation Title: Following Different Pathways: Effects of Social Relationships and Social Opportunity on Students' Academic Trajectory After School Transitions

Current Location: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Website: http://sociology.nd.edu/people/amy-langenkamp/

Email Address: alangenk@nd.edu


David McClendon

Dissertation Title: Marriage Markets during the Transition to Adulthood in the United States

Current Location: Pew Research Center

Website: http://www.pewresearch.org/david-mcclendon/

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Chelsea Moore

Dissertation Title: Socioeconomic Stratification in the Stem Pathway From College to the Labor Market

Current Location: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Email Address: cdmoore@umass.edu


Susan Moreno
 
Dissertation Title: Keeping the Door Open: Latino and African American Friendships as a Resource for University Mathematics Achievement

Current Location: Director of the Office of Instituional Research, University of Houston

Email Address: semoreno@uh.edu

Website: http://www.uh.edu/ir/about-ir/staff/


Edward Morris

Dissertation Title: The Majority Minority: Academic Experiences of White Students in a Predominately Racial/Ethnic Minority School

Current Location: Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

Website: http://soc.as.uky.edu/users/ewmo222

Email Address: edward.morris@uky.edu


Anna S. Mueller

Dissertation Title: Weight Control, Self-Perception, and Self-Esteem in Adolescence: The Role of Schools and Social Comparison

Current Location: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Website: http://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/anna-mueller

Email Address: amueller@uchicago.edu

 

Evangeleen (Eve) Pattison

Dissertation: Educational Stratification and Obesity in Midlife: Considering the Role of Sex, Social Class, and Race/Ethnicity

Current Location: University of Texas at Austin

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Jennifer Pearson

Dissertation Title: Young Women's Sexual Agency in the Transition to Adulthood

Current Location: Associate Professor, Wichita State University

Website: http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=sociology&p=/pearson/

Email Address: jennifer.pearson@wichita.edu


Dara Shifrer

Dissertation Title : The Structural and Social Correlates of the Learning Disability Label

Current Location: Assistant Professor, Portland State University

Website: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dara_Shifrer

Email: dshifrer@pdx.edu


Charles E. Stokes

Dissertation Title: Family Religious Contexts and Educational Outcomes During the Transition to Adulthood

Current Location: Scholar-in-Residence, Samford University

Website: https://www.samford.edu/arts-and-sciences/sociology/faculty-and-staff/?id=21474855984#article

Email Address: cestokes@samford.edu


April Sutton

Dissertation Title: Training for Local Labor in a Global Economy: Local Labor Markets, High School Course Offerings, and Males’ and Females’ Education and Early Labor Market Outcomes

Current Location: Assistant Professor, UC San Diego. Department of Sociology.

Website: https://www.suttonapril.com/

Email Address: asutton@ucsd.edu


Tim Werwath:

Thesis: Academic Marginalization in High School as a Predictor of Depressive Symptoms in Midlife

Current Location: Santa Fe, NM

Email Address: ts.werwath@gmail.com


Lindsey Wilkinson

Dissertation Title: Inconsistent Hispanic/Latino Self-Identification in Adolescence and Academic Performance

Current Location: Assistant Professor, Portland State University

Website: http://www.pdx.edu/sociology/lindsey-wilkinson

Email Address: lindsw@pdx.edu


Lisa Wyatt

Dissertation Title: Racial differences in television watching, family context and reading achievement