Where Did They Go?
Here is a list of placements, some recent and some less so, of our graduate students. We've made every effort to be comprehensive, but we may have lost track of some students. (We also haven't updated many of the entries as former students are promoted or move on to new positions.)
If you're an alumnus of the Cornell Ph.D. program in Sociology and are not listed here or the listing is outdated, please drop the Graduate Field Assistant an e-mail so that we can update your entry.
Christin Munsch (PhD 2012): Postdoctoral Fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research; Stanford University. She will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Furman University in the Fall of 2013.
Kelly Patterson (PhD 2012): Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
Kyle Siler (PhD 2012): Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University.
Christopher Yenkey (PhD 2011): Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Jennifer Todd (PhD 2011): Research Analyst, Department of Education.
Cate Taylor (PhD 2011): Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Indiana- Bloomington.
Jared Peifer (PhD 2011): Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Rice University.
Bart Ligouri (PhD 2011): Research Analyst, Department of Education.
Nicolas Eilbaum (PhD 2011): Lecture Fellow at the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.
Tom Lento (PhD 2011): Data Scientist at Facebook.
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): Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Indiana-Bloomington.
Sarah Thebaud (PhD 2010): Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara.
Yujun Wang (PhD 2010): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Renmin University, Beijing.
Diana Hernandez (PhD 2009): Associate Research Scientist, Department of Sociomedical Science, Columbia University.
Cyprian Wejnert (PhD 2009): Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta.
Esther Quintero (PhD 2008): Research Associate, Albert Shanker Institute (American Federation of Teachers), Washington, DC.
Mark McKerrow (Ph.D. 2008): Assistant Professor of Sociology, McMaster University.
Stephen Benard (Ph.D. 2008): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Indiana- Bloomington.
Ed Carberry (Ph.D. 2008): Assistant Professor of Management, U-Mass Boston.
John Scott (Ph.D. 2008): Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Matt Di Carlo (Ph.D. 2008): Senior Fellow, Albert Shanker Institute (American Federation of Teachers), Washington, DC.
Ko Kuwabara (Ph.D. 2007): Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.
Arnout van de Rijt (Ph.D. 2007): Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY-Stony Brook.
Judy Rosenstein (Ph.D. 2007): Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Zun Tang (Ph.D. 2007): Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Haverford College.
Min-Dong Paul Lee (Ph.D. 2007): Norris A. Aldeen Associate Professor of Business, Wheaton College.
Mary Still (Ph.D. 2007): Assistant Professor of Sociology, at University of Massachusetts Boston.
Erik Volz (Ph.D. 2006): Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan.
Damon Centola (Ph.D. 2006): Assistant Professor, MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Young-Mi Kim (Ph.D. 2006): Assistant Professor, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
Robb Willer (Ph.D. 2006): Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley.
Wubiao Zhou (Ph.D. 2006): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Dong-Il Jung (Ph.D. 2006): Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hallym University, Korea.
Kate Hynes (Ph.D. 2005): Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University.
Ion Bogdan Vasi (Ph.D. 2005): Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the School of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University.
Evelyn Bush (Ph.D. 2005): Associate Professor of Sociology, Fordham University.
Gabriela Sandoval (Ph.D. 2005): Director of Research Policy at Insight Center for Community Economic Development in Oakland California.
Elaine Howard Ecklund (Ph.D. 2004): Associate Professor of Sociology, Rice University, in Houston, Texas.
Marianna Klochko (Ph.D. 2004): Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University-Marion.
Kristen Schultz Lee (Ph.D. 2004): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Buffalo.
Hyunjoo Min (Ph.D. 2004): Research Instructor, Department of Economics, Korea University.
Pawan Dhingra (Ph.D. 2002): Associate Professor of Sociology, Oberlin College, Ohio.
Heather Hofmeister (Ph.D. 2002): Professor of Sociology of Work at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt and Co-Directory of the Center for Leadership and Behavior Organizations.
Joy Pixley (Ph.D. 2002): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California-Irvine.
James Kitts (Ph.D. 2001): Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington; now Assistant Professor of Management, Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Brent Simpson (Ph.D. 2001): Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina.
Stacey Merola (Ph.D. 2001): President and Principal Scientist at Merola Research, LLC in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Yang Cao (Ph.D. 2000): Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Amy Foerster (Ph.D. 2000): Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, Pace University, New York.
Pamela Jull (Ph.D. 1999): President, Applied Research Northwest, a social science research firm based in Bellingham, WA that conducts community and evaluative research for government and non-profit agencies.
Jennifer Karas (Ph.D. 1999): Associate Provost of the Undergraduate Academic Program at the University of Denver.
Melissa Favreault (Ph.D. 1998): Senior Fellow, Urban Institute in Washington, DC and an Affiliated Professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University.
Jayiti Lal (Ph.D. 1998): Associate Professor of Sociology, Ambedkar University Delhi.
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): Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Lisa Keister (Ph.D. 1997): Professor of Sociology and Director of Markets and Management Studies, Duke University.
Susan Roschke (Ph.D. 1997): Planning Director, City of Norwood, OH.
Loreen Wolfer (Ph.D. 1996): Professor of Sociology / Criminal Justice, Scranton University.
Ray Liedka (Ph.D. 1995): Special Instructor of Sociology, Oakland University.
Sarah Soule (Ph.D. 1995): Professor, Stanford University Business School.
Christina Agawu (Ph.D. 1995): Princeton Environmental Institute at 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): Reader at the University of Oxford, UK.
Sonja Drobnic (Ph.D. 1992): Professor, Economics and Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology at Hamburg University.
Pam Popielarz (Ph.D. 1992): Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago.
John Roberts (Ph.D. 1992) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.
Dawn Robinson (Ph.D. 1992) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia.
Jane Banaszak-Holl (Ph.D. 1991) is an Associate Professor of Health Management & Policy at the University of Michigan.
Kristin Esterberg (Ph.D. 1991) is Associate Provost and Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
James Ranger-Moore (Ph.D. 1991) is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Elizabeth West (PhD 1991) Director of Research at the University of Greenwich.
Scott Sernau (Ph.D. 1991) is a Professor of Sociology and Director of International Programs at the University of Indiana-South Bend.
Michiko Kurahashi (Ph.D. 1989) Chief Marketing Officer at CIT Bank in New York City.
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