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Ph.D. alumni in Social Policy
The Harvard Ph.D. Programs in Social Policy are relatively new, established in 1999. In this period, 39 graduates have earned their doctorates.
Jesse Bradford, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
McKinsey & Company, London and Washington, DC.
Traci R. Burch, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2007.
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Northwestern University
and Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
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 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver (Ph.D. '07), and Traci R. Burch's book, Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America, has been published by Princeton University Press (2012).
Traci Burch has won the American Political Science Association's E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics (2009); the William Anderson Award for the best
dissertation in field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations (2008); and the Urban Politics Section award for best dissertation in urban politics (2008) for her
dissertation, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions
Threaten American Democracy.”
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.
Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2012.
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Victor Tan Chen, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2012.
American Sociological Association Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2012-2014).
Andrew Clarkwest, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2005.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Population Studies Center
University of Michigan (2005-2007).
Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, DC (2007- ).
Carrie Conaway, A.M. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2001.
Director of Planning, Research, and Evaluation,
Massachusetts Department of Education.
Porsha Cropper, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2012.
Senior Analyst, Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA.
Katherine Levine Einstein, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2012.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University.
Michael J. Fortner, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois-Chicago (2009-2010) and Visiting Fellow, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University (2010-2011).
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Dept. of Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University-Camden (2011- ).
Cybelle Fox, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy Research,
University of California, Berkeley (2007-2009).
and Assistant Professor of Sociology (starting July 2009),
University of California, Berkeley.
Katherine N. Gan, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2010.
Senior Analyst, Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD.
Benjamin Goodrich, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2010.
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University.
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 (2009-2011).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2011-present).
David J. Harding, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2005.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
David Harding has been awarded the 2011 Henry Russel Award, one of University of Michigan's highest awards given to mid-career faculty, for "exceptional scholarship and conspicuous ability as a teacher." (2010).
David Harding's book, Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys, has been published by the University of Chicago Press (2010).
Michael Henderson, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2011.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Mississippi.
Joel Horwich, A.M. in Sociology and Social Policy.
Citizen Schools, Boston, MA.
Matissa N. Hollister, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Dartmouth College.
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte, A.M. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.
Author and Teacher, Concord Academy.
 Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte is the author of Black Marks (Akashic Books, 2006). She was awarded the Astraea Emerging Writer Award in 2006 and was a finalist for A Room of Her Own's Gift of Freedom award in 2007.
Jason M. Lakin, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2008.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Harvard School of Public Health (2008-09).
Program Officer, International Budget Partnership (2009-present).
Helen B. Marrow, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy Research,
University of California, Berkeley (2008-2010).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tufts University (2010- ).
 Helen Marrow's book, New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South (Stanford University Press, 2011), draws on 129 in-depth interviews and a year of participant observation to understand how Hispanic/Latino newcomers are being incorporated into or excluded from economic, social, institutional, and political life in “new immigrant destinations” of the rural U.S. South.
Helen Marrow has won the American Sociological Association's 2008 Dissertation Award for best dissertation submitted in the previous calendar year for her dissertation, "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural and Small-Town U.S. South."
Jal Mehta, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Education,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
 Jal Mehta's forthcoming book, The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (Oxford University Press, May 2013), "recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal."
 The Futures of School Reform, edited by Jal Mehta, Robert B. Schwartz, and Frederick M. Hess (Harvard Education Press, 2012), represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Jal Mehta spent the 2011-12 academic year as a fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on a project, The Chastened Dream, about the limits and possibilities of using social science as a means of achieving social progress.
Jal Mehta is a 2010 recipient of the Spencer Foundation's Exemplary Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001: Ideas and the Rise of Accountability Politics."
Jal was also awarded the 2008 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Politics of Education.
Ryan T. Moore, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2008.
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis (2008-present).
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research,
University of California, Berkeley (2010-2012).
Ryan Moore has been named a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley for 2010-2012.
Richard Mora, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2009.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Occidental College.
Bikila Ochoa, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2011.
Ann Owens, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2012.
American Sociological Association Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2012-2013).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California (beginning fall 2013).
Melanie Penny Ochoa, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2011.
Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2011- ).
Sanjay Pinto, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (2012-2014).
Cassi L. Pittman, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, expected 2012.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University (2012-2014).
Brenna Marea Powell, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2011.
Visiting Scholar, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University (2011-2012).
Principal and Chairman, The IPRE Group (2012- ).
María G. Rendón, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research,
University of California, Berkeley (2009-2011).
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Sociology, University of California, Irvine (2011-present).
Wendy D. Roth, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2006.
Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
 Wendy Roth's new book, Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race, has been published by Stanford University Press (2012). In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind.
Wendy Roth is the winner of the American Sociological Association's 2007 Dissertation Award for best dissertation submitted in the previous calendar year for her dissertation, "Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans' and Puerto Ricans' Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility."
Daniel Schlozman, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2011.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University (2011-12).
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University (2012- ).
Patrick Sharkey, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University (2007-2009).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University (2009-12 ).
Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University (2012- ).
 Patrick Sharkey's first book, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in January 2013.
Patrick Sharkey has been named one of four new William T. Grant Scholars for 2010. The program identifies and supports promising early-career researchers in the behavioral and social sciences with five-year research awards.
Francis X. Shen, Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2008.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Associate Director, MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project (2009-2011) and Visiting Fellow, Vanderbilt University Law School (2010-2011).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University Law School
and The Murphy Institute (2011-2012).
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School (2012- ).
and Executive Director of Education and Outreach activities for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience (info»).
Francis X. Shen is co-author (with Douglas L. Kriner) of The Casualty Gap:
The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Jennifer Sykes, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2011.
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University.
Laura Tach, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2010.
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (2010-2012).
Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management Cornell University (beginning 2012).
Van C. Tran, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2011.
Robert Wood Johnson
Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (2011-2013).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University (beginning fall 2013).
Vesla M. Weaver, Ph.D. in Government and Sociology, 2007.
Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Virginia (2007-2012).
Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, Yale University (2012- ).
Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, and Traci R. Burch's (Ph.D., '07) book, Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America, has been published by Princeton University Press (2012).
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."
Martin R. West, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Education, Political Science, and Public Policy, Brown University (2006-2009).
Assistant Professor of Education,
Harvard Graduate School of Education (2009-present).
 Martin West's most recent book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), examines the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years.
Christopher Wimer, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Assistant Director, Collaboration for Poverty Research, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality,
Stanford University (2007-2012).
Research Scientist, Columbia Population Research Center, Columbia University (2012- ).
Scott Winship, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2009.
Research Manager, Economic Mobility Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts (2009-2011).
Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution (2011- ).
Daniyal Zuberi, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2004.
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2004-present) (on leave 2012-2013).
William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow, Harvard University (2011-2012).
Associate Professor of Social Policy, University of Toronto (2012- )
Dan Zuberi has published his first book, which is based on his dissertation research: Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada (Cornell University Press, 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.
Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Award.
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
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Katherine S. Newman (now Johns Hopkins University) and Victor Tan Chen are the authors of 
Cybelle Fox's new book, 
