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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, 22 graduates have earned their doctorates.
Jesse Bradford, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
McKinsey and Company, London.
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.
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.
Andrew Clarkwest, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2005.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Population Studies Center,
University of Michigan (2005-07).
Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC (2007-present).
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 Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy Research
University of California, Berkeley (2007-2009).
Assistant Professor of Sociology (starting July 2009)
University of California, Berkeley.
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 & Social Policy, 2005.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Michigan.
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).
Matissa N. Hollister, Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dartmouth College
Jason M. Lakin, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2008.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health
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).
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 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."
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
Bikila Ochoa, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
J.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School
María Rendón, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research
University of California, Berkeley (2009-2011)
Wendy D. Roth, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Wendy Roth has won 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."
Patrick Sharkey, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Robert Woods Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University (2007-2009).
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»).
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.
Vesla M. Weaver, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2007.
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia
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
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Christopher Wimer, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
Stanford University
Scott Winship, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
Research Manager, Economic Mobility Project
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Daniyal Zuberi, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2004.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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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