Graduate Placement
The following is a comprehensive list of placements of our graduate students in academia, industry, and the non-profit and public sectors. We don’t systematically track the promotions or job changes of our alumni, so in most cases these are first placements.
Abdullah Shahid (PhD August 2022): Lecturer, Trans-disciplinary Course Program, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Yunsub Lee (PhD August 2022): Post-doc at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain.
Sang Kyung Lee (PhD August 2022): Postdoctoral Associate at Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
Jocelyn Fischer (PhD December 2021): Post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Women and Work in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Erin McCauley (PhD December 2021): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California-San Francisco.
Yuanyuan Liu (PhD August 2021): Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong.
Lisha Liu (PhD May 2021): Assistant Professor of Organizations and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Radu Parvulescu (PhD May 2021): Analyst for Canadian Housing Statistics Program at Statistics, Canada.
Alexander Ruch (PhD May 2021): Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify.
Xinwei Xu (PhD December 2021): Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Thomas Davidson (PhD August 2020): Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.
Alyssa Goldman (PhD May 2020): Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College.
Mario Molina (PhD August 2020): Post-doctoral Associate in Social Science Division, NYU-Abu Dhabi.
Youngmin Yi (PhD May 2020): Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Meg Doherty Bea (PhD May 2019): Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Theresa Rocha Beardall (PhD May 2019): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington.
Bridget Brew (PhD May 2019): Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mary Washington.
Jing-Mao Ho (PhD May 2019): Assistant Professor, Data Science, Utica College.
Paul Muniz (PhD May 2019): Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bucknell University.
Antonio Sirianni (PhD May 2019): Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantitative Social Sciences, Dartmouth College.
Mauricio Bucca (PhD 2018): Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Chile.
Alex Currit (PhD 2018): People Research Scientist at Meta.
Lucas Drouhot (PhD 2018): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Michael Siemon (PhD 2018): Senior Data Scientist at Ericsson.
Daniel Della Posta (PhD 2017): Associate Professor of Sociology, Penn State University.
Fedor Dokshin (PhD 2017): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto.
Allison Dwyer-Emory (PhD 2017): Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo
Alicia Eads (PhD 2017): Assistant Professor of Sociology and Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
Scott Golder (PhD 2017): Senior Director, Data Scientist at Capital One.
Hilary Holbrow (PhD 2017): Assistant Professor, East Asian Language and Culture, Indiana University Bloomington.
Yujin Oh (PhD 2017): Assistant Director, Learning Strategies Center, Cornell University.
Defne Över (PhD 2017): Assistant Professor, Texas A&M, Department of Sociology.
Emily Taylor Poppe (PhD 2016): Assistant Professor of Law, University of California-Irvine School of Law
Kyle Albert (PhD 2016): Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Policy at George Washington University
Rachel Behler (PhD 2016): Senior Research Scientist at Meta.
Chris Cameron (PhD 2016): Computational Scientist at Cornell Center for Advanced Computing.
Benjamin Franco-Suarez (PhD 2016): Retired, age 90. Read his remarkable story here.
Dafna Gelbgiser (PhD 2016): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tel Aviv University.
Emily Hoagland (PhD 2016): Vice President, Strategic Insights & Initiatives at National Geographic Society.
Patrick Park (PhD 2016): Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science.
Yongren Shi (PhD 2016): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Iowa.
Shuo Zhang (PhD 2016): Assistant Professor, China University of Political Science and Law.
Erik Schmidt (PhD 2015): Survey Statistician, US Census Bureau.
Chan Suh (PhD 2015): Associate Professor of Sociology, Chung Ang University.
Milena Tsvetkova (PhD 2015): Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Laura Ford (PhD 2014): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bard College.
Michael Genkin (PhD 2014): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University.
Erin Lentz (PhD 2014): Associate Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas Austin.
Michael “Trey” Spiller (PhD 2014): USDA Statistician, Dallas, TX.
Jessica Su (PhD 2014): Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Matthew Hoffberg (PhD 2013): Head of Product Management Content Applications at Pearson in Boston MA.
Jung Mee Park (PhD 2013): Data Analys, University Information Technology Services, University of Arizona.
Alexa Yesukevich (PhD 2013): Instructor in Sociology at Elmira College.
Christin Munsch (PhD 2012): Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Connecticut.
Kelly Patterson (PhD 2012): Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business.
Kyle Siler (PhD 2012): Research Professor and Principal Investigator at University of Montreal.
Christopher Yenkey (PhD 2011): Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business.
Jennifer Todd (PhD 2011): Director, US Department of Education, office of Well-Rounded Education.
Jared Peifer (PhD 2011): Associate Professor of Management in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.
Bart Ligouri (PhD 2011): Division Director at Legislative Research Commission in Kentucky.
Nicolas Eilbaum (PhD 2011): Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Greensboro College.
Tom Lento (PhD 2011): Software Engineer at Transform, CA.
Cate Taylor (PhD 2010): Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara.
Mark Dodd Jacobs (PhD 2010): Assistant Professor, Renmin University School of Business, Beijing.
Li Ma (PhD 2010): Assistant Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai.
Youngjoo Cha (PhD 2010): Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University.
Sarah Thebaud (PhD 2010): Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara.
Yujun Wang (PhD 2010): Associate Professor of Sociology, Renmin University, Beijing, China
Diana Hernandez (PhD 2009): Associate Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University.
Cyprian Wejnert (PhD 2009): Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
Esther Quintero (PhD 2008): Senior Research Fellow, Albert Shanker Institute (American Federation of Teachers), Washington, DC.
Mark McKerrow (Ph.D. 2008): Senior Researcher at Blueprint ADE, Ontario Canada.
Stephen Benard (Ph.D. 2008): Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University.
Ed Carberry (Ph.D. 2008): Associate Professor of Management, U-Mass Boston.
John Scott (Ph.D. 2008):Director of Retirement Savings Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington D.C.
Matt Di Carlo (Ph.D. 2008): Senior Research Fellow, Albert Shanker Institute (American Federation of Teachers), Washington, DC.
Ko Kuwabara (Ph.D. 2007): Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD, France
Arnout van de Rijt (Ph.D. 2007): Professor of Sociology, European University Institute, Italy.
Judy Rosenstein (Ph.D. 2007): Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Zun Tang (Ph.D. 2007): Director of Institutional Research CUNY.
Min-Dong Paul Lee (Ph.D. 2007): Norris A. Aldeen Chair of Business, and Associate Professor of Business at Wheaton College.
Mary Still (Ph.D. 2007): Social and Data Scientist, Boston, MA.
Erik Volz (Ph.D. 2006): Lecturer, Population Biology and Infectious Diseases, Imperial College in London.
Damon Centola (Ph.D. 2006): Elihu Katz Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Young-Mi Kim (Ph.D. 2006): Associate Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University, Korea.
Robb Willer (Ph.D. 2006): Professor of Sociology and Psychology at Stanford University.
Wubiao Zhou (Ph.D. 2006): Associate Professor, Department of Management, Birmingham Business School, UK
Dong-Il Jung (Ph.D. 2006): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hallym University, Korea.
Kate Hynes (Ph.D. 2005): Program Coordinator, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University.
Ion Bogdan Vasi (Ph.D. 2005): Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Iowa.
Evelyn Bush (Ph.D. 2005): Associate Professor of Sociology, Fordham University.
Gabriela Sandoval (Ph.D. 2005): Director of Race & Equity Policy at California Immigrant Policy Center, Oakland California.
Elaine Howard Ecklund (Ph.D. 2004): Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Sociology and Director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University.
Marianna Klochko (Ph.D. 2004): Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University – Marion.
Kristen Schultz Lee (Ph.D. 2004): Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Buffalo.
Hyunjoo Min (Ph.D. 2004): Research Instructor, Department of Economics, Korea University.
Emma Dentinger (Ph.D. 2003): Lives in Philadelphia, PA
Pawan Dhingra (Ph.D. 2002): Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty; Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies, Amherst College.
Heather Hofmeister (Ph.D. 2002): Professor of Sociology of Work at the Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Joy Pixley (Ph.D. 2002): Research Director, California Plug Load Research Center at UC Irvine.
James Kitts (Ph.D. 2001): Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst.
Brent Simpson (Ph.D. 2001): Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina.
Stacey Merola (Ph.D. 2001): Mixed-methods Researcher and Program Evaluator, Washington, DC.
Yang Cao (Ph.D. 2000): Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina Charlotte.
Amy Foerster (Ph.D. 2000): Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Pace University, New York City.
Pamela Jull (Ph.D. 1999): Program Director of Sustainable Connection, Bellingham, WA.
Jennifer Karas (Ph.D. 1999): Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Denver.
Melissa Favreault (Ph.D. 1998): Senior Fellow, Urban Institute Income and Benefits Policy Center in Washington, DC.
Jayiti Lal (Ph.D. 1998): Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest University.
Rebecca Matthews (Ph.D. 1998): Research Analyst, U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Lisa Schneider-Bentley (PhD 1997): Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives at Cornell University.
David Dornisch (Ph.D. 1997): Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Data Scientist at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C.
Lisa Keister (Ph.D. 1997): Gilhuly Family Professor of Sociology, Duke University.
Susan Roschke (Ph.D. 1997): Grants and Donor Data Manager in Cincinnati Ohio.
Loreen Wolfer (Ph.D. 1996): Professor of Sociology / Criminal Justice, Scranton University.
Sarah Soule (Ph.D. 1995): Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University Business School.
Christiana Agawu (Ph.D. 1995): Lecturer in Africana Studies, Princeton University.
Ellen Bradburn (Ph.D. 1994): Senior Research Associate, at MPR Associates Inc, an education research consulting firm in Washington DC.
David Barron (Ph.D. 1992): Associate Professor in Organisational Sociology, University of Oxford.
Sonja Drobnic (Ph.D. 1992): Professor, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen.
Pam Popielarz (Ph.D. 1992): Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago.
John Roberts (Ph.D. 1992): Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.
Dawn Robinson (Ph.D. 1992): Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia.
Jane Banaszak-Holl (Ph.D. 1991): Professor, School of Health & Social Care, University of Greenwich.
Kristin Esterberg (Ph.D. 1991): President of SUNY Potsdam.
James Ranger-Moore (Ph.D. 1991): Associate Professor at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Elizabeth West (PhD 1991): Professor of Applied Social Research in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich.
Scott Sernau (Ph.D. 1991): Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University South Bend.
Michiko Kurahashi (Ph.D. 1989): Chief Marketing Officer at AXIS Capital, New York City.