Where are They Now?

Here is is list of placements, some recent and some less so, of our graduate students. We've made every effort to be comprehensive, but 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If you're an alumnus of the Cornell Ph.D. program in Sociology and are not listed here or the listing is outdated, please drop the Graduate Field Assistant an e-mail so that we can update your entry.

Mark McKerrow (Ph.D. 2008) will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at McMaster University in July, 2009.

Stephen Benard (Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Indiana- Bloomington.

Ed Carberry (Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Business-Society Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (the Netherlands).

John Scott (Ph.D. 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Matt Di Carlo (Ph.D. 2008) is a Research Associate with the American Federation of Teachers in Washington, DC.

Ko Kuwabara (Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

Arnout van de Rijt (Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook.

Judy Rosenstein (Ph.D. 2007) is a post-doctoral fellow at Wells College in Aurora, NY.

Erik Volz (Ph.D. 2006) is a postdoctoral associate at UCSD working with Dr. Simon Frost, a mathematical biologist and statistician, on respondent driven sampling.

Damon Centola (Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Young-Mi Kim (Ph.D. 2006) is a postdoctoral fellow at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea.

Min-Dong Paul Lee (Ph.D. 2007) is Assistant Professor of Business at the University of South Florida.

Robb Willer (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Wubiao Zhou (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Kate Hynes (Ph.D. 2005) is Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University.

Dong-Il Jung (Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hallym University, in Korea.

Mary Still (Ph.D. 2007) is Assistant Professor of Organizational Sciences at The George Washington University.

Ion Bogdan Vasi (Ph.D. 2005) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the School of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University. Bogdan and his wife celebrated the birth of their daughter, Anna, in July, 2006.

Evelyn Bush (Ph.D. 2005) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University.

Elaine Howard Ecklund (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.

Marianna Klochko (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University-Marion.

Kristen Schultz Lee (Ph.D. 2004) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo.

Hyunjoo Min (Ph.D. 2004) is a Research Instructor in the Department of Economics at Korea University.

Gabriela Sandoval (Ph.D. 2005) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Pawan Dhingra (Ph.D. 2002) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College, Ohio.

Heather Hofmeister (Ph.D. 2002) is a Professor of Sociology at the Institut for Soziologie, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Joy Pixley (Ph.D. 2002) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Irvine.

James Kitts (Ph.D. 2001) is an Assistant Professor of Management at Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Brent Simpson (Ph.D. 2001) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina.

Yang Cao (Ph.D. 2000) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Amy Foerster (Ph.D. 2000) is an Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at Pace University in New York.

Pamela Jull (Ph.D. 1999) is the co-founder and manager of 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) is an Assistant Provost for the Academic Program at the University of Denver.

Melissa Favreault (Ph.D. 1998) is a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC and an Affiliated Professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University.

Jayita Lal (Ph.D. 1998) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where she is also affiliated with the Women's Studies and Asian Studies programs.

Rebecca Matthews (Ph.D. 1998) is an analyst with the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

David Dornisch (Ph.D. 1997) is Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Lisa Keister (Ph.D. 1997) is a Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

Susan Roschke (Ph.D. 1997) is Planning Director for the City of Norwood, OH.

Loreen Wolfer (Ph.D. 1996) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at Scranton University.

Ray Liedka (Ph.D. 1995) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Oakland University.

Sarah Soule (Ph.D. 1995) is a Professor at the Stanford Business School.

Ellen Bradburn (Ph.D. 1994) is a Senior Research Associate at MPR Associates Inc, an education research consulting firm in Washington DC.

David Barron (Ph.D. 1992) is a Fellow in Management Studies at the Said Business School, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK.

Sonja Drobnic (Ph.D. 1992) is a Professor in the Institute for Sociology at Hamburg University.

Pam Popielarz (Ph.D. 1992) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

John Roberts (Ph.D. 1992) is an Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

Dawn Robinson (Ph.D. 1992) is an Associate 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 Deputy Provost and Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

James Ranger-Moore (Ph.D. 1991) is an Associate Professor and Div I Director at the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona.

Scott Sernau (Ph.D. 1991) is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Sociology, University of Indiana-South Bend.

Michiko Kurahashi (Ph.D. 1989) is head of Marketing and Communications at HSBC Private Bank-Americas.

Next: Awards and accomplishments of current Ph.D students.