Alumni

Christopher Adolph, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Washington, Seattle (2004-present)
and Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research
University of Michigan (2007-2009)

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Christopher Adolph's dissertation, "The Dilemma of Discretion: Career Ambitions and the Politics of Central Banking," has won the 2005 Mancur Olson Award for best dissertation in political economy, given the by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association

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Leah Platt Bouston, Ph.D. in Economics 2006.
Assistant Professor of Economics
UCLA

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Leah Platt Bouston’s dissertation, "The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets, 1940-1970,” has won the Economic History Association’s Alan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in US economic history.

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Elias Bruegmann, Ph.D. in Economics, 2008.
Cornerstone Research

Traci R. Burch, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2007.
Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

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Traci Burch has won the American Political Science Association's William Anderson Award for the best dissertation in field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations, 2008, for her dissertation, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy.”

Traci Burch has won the American Political Science Association's Urban Politics Section award for best dissertation in urban politics, 2008.

Traci Burch has won the 2007 Harvard University Robert Noxon Toppan prize, awarded for the best essay or dissertation upon a subject of political science, for her dissertation, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions
Threaten American Democracy.”

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Naomi Calvo, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2007.
Principal Associate, Education Resource Strategies

Andrew Clarkwest, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2005.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Population Studies Center
University of Michigan (2005-2007).
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (2007-present)

Hanley Chiang, Ph.D. in Economics, 2008.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Carrie Conaway, A.M. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2001.
Director of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
Massachusetts Department of Education

Benjamin Deufel, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2006.
Senior Associate, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Inc.

Daniel Devroye, Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, 2002.
Private Sector Division
Inter-American Development Bank

David K. Evans, Ph.D. in Economics, 2005.
Associate Economist
The Rand Corporation

Andrew Feldman, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2007.
Senior Policy Advisor
Office of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle

Michael J. Fortner, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, exp. 2009.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois-Chicago (2009-2010)

Cybelle Fox, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (2007-2009).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley (starting July 2009)

Carola Frydman, Ph.D. in Economics, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management

Nora E. Gordon, Ph.D. in Economics, 2002.
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Marriage Research
Bowling Green State University (2009-2010).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College (on leave, 2009-2010).

David J. Harding, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Michigan

 

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David Harding's book, Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys, is to be published by the University of Chicago Press (forthcoming, 2010).

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Matissa N. Hollister, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dartmouth College

Dan Hopkins, Ph.D. in Government, 2007.
Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard University (2008-2009)
and Assistant Professor of Government (beginning 2009-2010)
Georgetown University

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Dan Hopkins has been awarded American Political Science Association’s E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American Government (2008)

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Elisabeth S. Jacobs, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2008.
American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow (2008-2009) (info» )
Senior Policy Analyst, US Congress Joint Economic Committee (2009- )

Tomás Jiménez, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stanford University

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Tomás Jiménez's first book, Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

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Andrew Karch, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2004.
Associate Professor of Government
University of Texas, Austin

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Andy Karch’s first book, Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion among the American States, has been published by University of Michigan Press (2007).

 

 

 

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June (Kim) Han, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2007.

Noam Kirson, Ph.D. in Economics, 2008.
Analysis Group

Jason M. Lakin, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2008.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health

Andrew Leigh, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2004.
Professor, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

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Andrew Leigh has won the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Early Career Award (2006).

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Jal Mehta, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Jal Mehta has been awarded the 2008 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Politics of Education for his dissertation, "The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001: Ideas and the Rise of Accountability Politics."

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Ryan T. Moore, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2008.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Washington University in St. Louis

Richard Mora, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Occidental College

Gesemia Nelson, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2004.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Metropolitan State College of Denver

Nirmala Ravishankar, Ph.D. in Government, 2007.
Research Scientist, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
University of Washington (2007-2009)
Abt Associates (2009- )

Jonah Rockoff, Ph.D. in Economics, 2004.
Associate Professor of Finance and Economics
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business

Wendy D. Roth, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2006
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Gavin Samms, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2004.
Partner, Legacy Solutions Group (info» )
and Research Director, EdLabs
Harvard University

Alicia Sasser, Ph.D. in Economics, 2001.
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Patrick Sharkey, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University (2007-2009).
and Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University.

Francis X. Shen, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2008.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project (info»).

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Francis X. Shen is co-author (with Douglas L. Kriner) of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities, forthcoming (2010) from Oxford University Press.

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Mario Luis Small, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2001.
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago

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Mario Luis Small's first book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, University of Chicago Press, 2004, received the C. Wright Mills Award (2005) from the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Robert E. Park Award for Best Book (2005) from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Mario Luis Small's latest book, Unanticipated Gains, Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, has been published by Oxford University Press (2009).

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Susan Crawford Sullivan, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow, College of the Holy Cross (2005-present)
and Colorado Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor
Harvard Divinity School (2009-2010) (info» )

Adam Thomas, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2007.
Research Director, Center on Children and Families
The Brookings Institution

Ruth Lopez Turley, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2001.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Albert Saíz, Ph.D. in Economics, 2002.
Assistant Professor, Real Estate Department
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Zoua M. Vang, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2008.
National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center
and Associate Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives
University of Pennsylvania (2008-2010).

Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Natasha Kumar Warikoo's first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture and Peer Status among Children of Immigrants in New York and London, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2003.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies
Northwestern University

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes’s first book,
The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press (2009).

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Tara Watson, Ph.D. in Economics, 2004.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Williams College (2004 to present)
and Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research
University of Michigan (2007-2009)

Vesla M. Weaver, Ph.D. in Government and Sociology, 2007.
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia

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Vesla M. Weaver has won the American Political Science Association’s Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Dissertation Award, 2008, for her dissertation, "Frontlash: Race and the Politics of Punishment."

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Rachel Deyette Werkema, Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, 2004.
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

Martin R. West, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy (2006)
Assistant Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Thad Williamson, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2004.
Assistant Professor, Jepson School of Leadership Studies
University of Richmond

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Thad Williamson's dissertation, "Sprawl, Justice and Citizenship: A Philosophical and Empirical Inquiry," has won American Political Science Association's 2005 Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public policy.

Thad Williamson's latest book, Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life, will be published in 2009 by Oxford University Press.

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Scott Winship, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
Research Manager, Economic Mobility Project
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Justin Wolfers, Ph.D. in Economics, 2001.
Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy (with tenure)
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, Ph.D. in Economics, 2002.
Associate Professor of Economics
Amherst College

Jong-Sung You, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD

Daniyal Zuberi, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2004.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of British Columbia

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Dan Zuberi's first book has been published by Cornell University Press: Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada, by Dan Zuberi (2006).

Winner of the Michael Harrington Book Award given by the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association (2007).

Finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize, awarded annually for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia.

Finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize.
Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Award.
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.

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