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Ph.D. Student Placements

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., Postdoc, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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

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., Research Associate, Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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

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

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

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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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
Sara Yeatman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Health & Behavior Sciences, University of Colorado at Denver