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Ph.D. Student Placements

  • 2025

    Chloe Craig, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dickinson College

    KJ Davidson-Turner, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California

    Jonathan Davis, Ph.D., Research Scientist, The Texas State Senate

    Brooke Whitfield, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reproductive Equity Action Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • 2024

    Kristen Burke, Ph.D., Professional Researcher, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco

    Faith Deckard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California Los Angeles

    Kimberly McErlean, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (WeEqualize project), Institut Polytechnique de Paris

    Isabel H. McLoughlin Brooks, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center

    Jared Daniel Thorpe, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Kathryn Wiley, Ph.D., Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Clemson University 

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  • 2023

    Francisco A. Castellanos-Sosa, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Texas Census Institute

    H. Min Cha, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California

    Celeste Fernandez, Ph.D., Postoctoral Fellow, Center on Research and Evaluation (CORE) and Advancing Evaluation in Philanthropy Fellowship (AEPF), Southern Methodist University

    Michelle Eilers, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

    Michael A. Garcia. Ph.D., Social Scientist, Far Harbor

    Dana Johnson, Ph.D., Senior Associate Research Scientist, Ibis Reproductive Health

    Andrew Koepp, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

    Karen Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, DePaul University

    Sophie Morse, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco

    Yiwen Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Rice University

  • 2022

    Carolina Aragão, Ph.D., Research Associate, Family Demography, Pew Research Center

    Marta Ascherio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Sciences and Latino Studies, Illinois State University

    Lindsay Bing, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University

    Meg Bishop, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park

    Kathleen Broussard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of South Carolina

    Ana Canedo, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, McGill University

    Shaofei Jiang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Bonn

    Jamie O'Quinn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino

    Shan Siddiqui, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology, Texas Christian University

    Matt Snidal, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara

    Sangita Vyas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Hunter College (CUNY)

    Inbar Weiss, Ph.D., Associate Director, Research Department, UBS

    Jin Yan, Ph.D., Economist, Revello Labs

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  • 2021

    Kevin Dahaghi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Wilson Center for Science and Justice, Duke Law School 

    Haley Stritzel, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Kara Takasaki, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin

    Kristopher Velasco, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

    Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Lilla Pivnick, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University 

    Shengjie Lin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, The Child Study Center, Yale University

  • 2020

    Mateo Farina, Ph.D., NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California

    Aida Villanueva, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Allen Mallory, Ph.D., Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Human Sciences, Ohio State University

    Wesley Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, University of North Texas

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  • 2019

    Amanda Bosky, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Jamie Carrol, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, The Mindset Project, UT Austin

    Rachel Donnelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University

    Kierra Sattler, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Robert Ressler, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy, Brandeis University

  • 2018

    Letisha Brown, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech University

    Elizabeth Cozzolino, Ph.D.,, Quantitative User Experience Researcher, Indeed

    Carmen Gutierrez, Ph.D.,, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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  • 2017

    Catherine Emily Hendrick, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Cristian Paredes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago

    Brandon Robinson, Ph.D., Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Riverside

    Connor Sheehan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California

    Julie Skalamera Olson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chelsea Smith Gonzalez, Ph.D., Senior Analyst, Atlassian

  • 2016

    Arya Ansari, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Research Associate, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

    Janet Kuo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University

    Amanda Stevenson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

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  • 2015

    Neveen Shafeek Amin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

    Claude Bonazzo, Ph.D., Adjunct Instructor, Austin Community College

    Daniel Briley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Melissa Humphries, Ph.D., Research Associate, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

    Celia Hubert Lopez, Ph.D., Research Associate, National Institute of Public Health

    Marc Garcia, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

    Jennifer Melvin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Flagler College Department of Social Sciences

    David McClendon, Ph.D., Research Associate, Pew Research Center

    Nina Palmo, Ph.D., Lecturer, UT Austin Sociology Department

    April Sutton, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University

  • 2014

    Abigail Aiken, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; Fall 2016, Assistant Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas

    Molly Dondero, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University; Assistant Professor, American University

    Jane Ebot, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Scientist, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Chelsea Moore, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Isaac Sasson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2016, Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Tel Aviv University

    Mieke Thomeer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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  • 2013

    Kaeley Bobbitt, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas Child & Family Research Partnership, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

    Dustin Brown, Ph.D., NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan; Mississippi State University

    Chi-Tsun Chiu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University and National University of Singapore; Academia Sinica

    Joseph Lariscy, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Research Institute, Duke University; University of Memphis

    Yuka Minagawa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokoyo, Japan

    Stipica Mudrazija, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California; Urban Institute

    Aida Ramos-Wada, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio 

    Anthony Walker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Health Sciences, Indiana State University 

  • 2012

    Lissette Aliaga, Ph.D., Research Associate, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha

    MaryAnn Bylander, Ph.D., Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London

    Juanita J. Chinn, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University

    Carlos Diaz-Venegas, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research

    Andrea Henderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina

    Erin Trouth Hofmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work, & Anthropology, Utah State University

    Nicolette D. Manglos, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College

    Michael J. McFarland, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University

    Catherine McNamee, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University

    Dara R Shifrer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University

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  • 2011

    Jennifer M Augustine, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, Rice University

    Jocelyn Jing Li, Ph.D., August 2011, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Baylor University

    Ryan K Masters, Ph.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar, Columbia University

    Jennifer Karas Montez, Ph.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, Harvard University

    Anna Strassmann Mueller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis

    Corinne E Reczek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Cincinnati

    Charles E Stokes, Ph.D., Scholar-in-residence, Samford University

    Kari White, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2010

    Nicole Angotti, Ph.D., William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, African Population Research &Training Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado-Boulder

    Tod Hamilton, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard University

    Kimberly Huyser, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Center for Health Policy, University of New Mexico

    Georgina Martinez Canizales, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

    Sarah McKinnon, Ph.D., Data Analyst/Programmer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Javier Pereira Bruno, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Universidad Catolica, Uruguay

    Viviana Salinas Ulloa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Isao Takei, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nihon University, Japan

    Jeremy Uecker, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Eunice Vargas Valle, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico

    Ana Paula Verona, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Development and Regional Planning, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

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  • 2009

    Erin Hamilton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Davis

    Madlene Hamilton, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University

    Paul Peters, Ph.D., Technical Specialist, Statistics Canada

    Molly Kate Sullivan, Ph.D., CDC Programs Coordinator, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Maternal & Child Health Department of State Health Services

    Meredith Worthen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma

  • 2008

    Jennifer Barrett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago

    Matt Bradshaw, Ph.D., NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina

    Khatuna Doliashvili, Ph.D., Consultant, World Health Organization

    Joong-Baeck Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee

    Hui Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University

    Kelly Mikelson, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University

    Jennifer Pearson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wichita State University

    Heeju Shin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Margaret Vaaler, Ph.D., Research Specialist, Office of Program Decision Support, Texas Department of State Health Services

    Lindsey Wilkinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Portland State University

    Hyeyoung Woo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wichita State University

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