Edward Berchick,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Health and Societies, University of Pennsylvania, 2008.
M.P.H., Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale University, 2010.
Interests: health, inequality/stratification, and social demography
Kristin Bietsch,
Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2010.
Interests: population and development, demographic methods, and fertility
Laura Blue,
Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall 2008.
B.A., History and Economics, University of British Columbia, 2004.
Interests: health behaviors, health disparities
Cheng C Cheng,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2012.
B.A., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 2012.
Interests: demography and aging
Diane Coffey,
Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Sociology, Villanova University, 2006.
M.P.A, Development Studies, Princeton University, 2010.
Interests: demography, development economics, early life health in India, survey methodology
Angela R. Dixon,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2012.
B.S., Psychology and Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011.
Interests: race/ethnicity, sociology of education, social stratification
Janeria A. Dunlap,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2011.
B.A., Sociology and English, Duke University, 2011.
Interests: domestic and global stratification, social mobility, race and ethnicity, economic sociology
Dennis Feehan,
Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall 2008.
B.A., Mathematics, Harvard College, 2002.
Interests: networks, population health, population and development, demographic methods
Lauren Gaydosh,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2009.
B.A., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Interests: health, family, inequality, economic sociology and African demography
Julia Gelatt,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2007.
B.A., Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton College, 2004.
Interests: U.S. immigration, immigrant integration, demography, gender, social inequality
Kerstin Gentsch,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2008.
B.A., Economics and Linguistics & Language, Swarthmore College, 2005.
Interests: higher education, social demography, survey methodology
Joanne W. Golann,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2008.
B.A., English, Amherst College, 2004.
M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2006.
Interests: education, social inequality, gender, and ethnography
Aaron J. Gottlieb,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2011.
B.A., Public Affairs and Political Science, Syracuse University, 2007.
Interests: intergenerational mobility of children in marginalized populations and life-course effects of childhood poverty
Angelina Grigoryeva,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Sociology, Moscow State University, Higher School of Economics, 2010.
Interests: economic sociology, stratification, and quantitative methods
Caroline A. Holcombe,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2012.
B.A., Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University, 2009.
Interests: sociology of the family, sociology of education, stratification
Mariana Campos Horta,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2011.
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2007.
Interests: inequality, migration, ethnicity, and health and educational outcomes
Patrick Ishizuka,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Philosophy, Santa Clara University, 2004.
Interests: race and ethnicity, labor markets, families, and inequality
Sarah A. James,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2012.
B.A., Sociology, Rice University, 2012.
Interests: demography, sociology of education, sociology of the family
Laura N. Khan,
Population and Social Policy Program. Entered Fall 2011.
B.A., Psychology and Spanish, Tufts University, 2006.
M.Sc., Public Health, Harvard University, 2011.
Interests: health and population policy, urbanization, inequality
Vanessa L. Lehner,
Population and Social Policy Program. Entered Fall 2012.
B.A., Human Sciences, Oxford University, 2012.
Interests: family formation trends, educational attainment in second- and third-generation migrants
Ayesha S. Mahmud,
Population and Social Policy Program. Entered Fall 2012.
B.A., Physics and Economics, Carleton College, 2009.
Interests: reproductive health and access to healthcare in developing countries
Zitsi Mirakhur,
Population and Social Policy Program. Entered Fall 2011.
B.A., Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, 2008.
Interests: educational outcomes, poverty, family and community structures, inequality, urbanization
Jayanti Owens,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2007.
B.A., Political Science, Sociology, and Public Policy, Swarthmore College, 2006.
M.A., Sociology, Princeton University, 2009.
Interests: educational and labor market inequality, entrepreneurship, economic sociology, social demography, and gender
John Palmer,
Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2008.
B.S., Biology, Cornell University, 1997.
J.D., Cornell Law School, 2003.
Interests: human movement and migration, spatial segregation, law, ecology
Michelle Phelps,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2007.
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
Interests: crime and punishment, sociology of law, inequality, and social policy
Alejandro Rivas,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2006.
M.A., Sociology, Stanford University, 2006.
B.A., Health and Health Policy, Stanford University, 2006.
Interests: immigration, poverty, inequality, assimilation
Takudzwa Sayi,
Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall 2010.
B.Com. (Hon), Actuarial Science, National University of Science & Technology, Zimbabwe, 2007.
M.Phil., Demography, University of Cape Town, 2009.
Interests: reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, fertility, and marriage in sub-Saharan Africa, and demographic methods for incomplete data
Wendy Sheldon,
Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2007.
M.P.H., Maternal and Child Health, University of California - Berkeley, 2000.
M.S.W., Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Interests: relationships between reproductive health and rights and many other aspects of development, including general health and nutrition, economic development, women’s empowerment, the environment, and education
Naomi Sugie,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2007.
B.A., Urban Studies, Columbia University, 2003.
Interests: crime and criminal justice system, inequality, families,new technologies for data collection
Elizabeth Sully,
Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2009.
B.A., Joint Honors Political Science and IDS, McGill University, 2008.
Interests: health, family demography, gender, partnership formation/dissolution, HIV/AIDS, and sexual network analysis
Jonathan C. Tannen,
Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2010.
B.S., Physics and Math, Harvard, 2007.
M.S.Ed., Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
Interests: the internal structure of cities, segregation, youth development and mathematical modeling of emergent structures
Catherine Thorkelson,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University, 2007.
M.Sc., Human Geography, Umeå University, Sweden, 2010.
Interests: international migration, inequality, race and ethnic studies, comparative sociology
Megan Todd,
Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2010.
B.A., Economics, Harvard University, 2003.
Interests: biodemography, spatial demography, health disparities, health measurement, social and economic determinants of health
LaTonya J. Trotter,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2006.
B.A., Sociology, Williams College, 1998.
M.P.H., Health and Health Policy, University of Washington, 2006.
Interests: immigration, inequality, health, stratification
Erik Vickstrom,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2007.
B.A., Sociology and American Studies, Wesleyan University, 1998.
Interests: international migration and development, inequality, social networks, and West Africa
Amy K. Winter,
Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall 2011.
B.A., International Relations and History, University of Georgia , 2007.
M.P.H., Public Health, Emory University, 2011.
Interests: global health disparities, particularly women’s reproductive health in low-resource settings
Melanie Wright Fox,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2011.
A.B., Public Policy and Theater Studies, Duke University, 2009.
Interests: how neighborhoods and families contribute to social inequalities and in social policies that mitigate early-life disadvantage
Jessica Yiu,
Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2008.
B.A., Sociology, University of Toronto, 2006.
M.A., Sociology, University of Toronto, 2008.
Interests: immigration, race and ethnic relations, and network analysis
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New Students
This fall we welcomed seven new students to OPR.
Visiting Student
Research Collaborators
Béatrice Georgelin,
a graduate student in Planning & Sociology
at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm) in France,
is visiting OPR for the academic year 2012-2013
under the sponsorship of Doug Massey. She has a Master’s in Public Affairs from Sciences-Po Paris. Her research interests include: health disparities, social inequality, socio-spatial issues in public policy.
Rafael Grande Martin,a graduate student in Sociology & Communication at University of Salamanca (Spain). He has a Master’s in Latin-American Studies with mention in International Economics also from the University of Salamanca, is visiting OPR in the spring of 2013 under the sponsorship of Douglas Massey. He’s working on labor and family integration of Latin-American and Caribbean population in Spain and the U.S. for his dissertation.
New Faces
For more information about newcomers please see the new faces
page or the listings on this page.
