Alumni

Christopher Adolph, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Washington, Seattle

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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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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 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 (2007-present)

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.
Instructor in Public Policy and Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government

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

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

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

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

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

Tomás Jiménez, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego

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

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Andy Karch’s first book, Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion among the American States, will be published by University of Michigan Press in May 2007.

 

 

 

 

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

Andrew Leigh, Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2004.
Fellow, Social Policy Analysis, Evaluation and Research Centre
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences

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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).
Lecturer and Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow on Education (2 years)
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Richard Mora, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy (expected 2008)
Instructor in 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

Jonah Rockoff, Ph.D. in Economics, 2004.
Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance
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.
National Bureau of Economic Research

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

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.

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

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Mario Luis Small's book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, University of Chicago Press, 2004, has 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.

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Susan Crawford Sullivan, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2005.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
College of the Holy Cross

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

Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2005.
Lecturer in US Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas
School of Advanced Studies, University of London

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, Wasted Assets: Situated Bureaucrats and Entanglements of Race, Class, and Welfare, is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.

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Tara Watson, Ph.D. in Economics, 2004.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Williams College

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

Rachel Deyette Werkema, Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, 2004.
Deputy Research Director
Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC)

Martin R. West, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy (2006)
Assistant Professor of Education and Political Science
Brown University

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.

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Christopher Wimer, Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, 2007.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
Stanford University.

Justin Wolfers, Ph.D. in Economics, 2001.
Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, Ph.D. in Economics, 2002.
Assistant 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 recently 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.

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