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.

If you're an alumnus of the Cornell Ph.D. program in Sociology and are not listed here or the listing is outdated, please drop the Graduate Field Assistant a line so that we can update your entry.

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 Auburn, NY.

Zun Tang (Ph.D. 2007) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell.

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 a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at Harvard University and will join the faculty at MIT in fall 2008.

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

Min-Dong Paul Lee (Ph.D. 2006) 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 and will be a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in 2008-09.

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. 2005) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hallym University, in Korea.

Mary Still (Ph.D. 2005) is a post-doc at Cornell on the ISS Networks Theme Project. Before returning to Ithaca, Mary ran an Alfred P. Sloan research center on work, family, and law at American University in Washington, DC.

Ian 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. 2004) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University.

Elaine Howard Ecklund (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo.

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. 2004) 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 Assistant 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 Associate Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 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 at the University of New Mexico.

Sarah Soule (Ph.D. 1995) is a Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

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.

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