Job Placements

Our recent PhDs have found jobs in a range of academic and non-academic institutions after completing dissertations on a wide variety of topics.

Graduated 2022

Youngeun Nam accepted a Research Scientist position at the Center for Human Services Research at the State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation in Albany, NY. 

Graduated 2021

Amy Petts is the Library Assessment Manager at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

Marissa Rurka is a Senior Analyst at the Center for Health and Research Transformation at the University of Michigan

Graduated 2020

Monica Farrelly is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Social Research and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan

Joe Marshall is a Survey Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, MD

Yunping Tong is a Research Associate at Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.

Jared Wright is a Sociology Instructor at TED University in Ankara, Turkey 

Graduated 2019

Jacqueline Henke is an Analyst at Superior Court of Santa Barbara

Preethi Krishnan is an Assistant Professor at Western Carolina University

Zachary Palmer is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, Commerce

Soon Seok Park is a Lecturer at Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Siyun Peng is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Indiana University

Graduated 2018

Joy Kadowaki is an Assistant Professor at University of Dayton

Blakelee Kemp is a Post-Doc at Syracuse University

Ty Miller is an Assistant Professor at Winthrop University

Graduated 2017

Jong Hyun Jung is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (after holding a Post-Doc at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing)

Ashleigh Kysar-Moon is an Assistant Professor at University of Northern Iowa

Yun Lu is a Research Fellow at Sun Yat-sen University, China

Fanhao Nie is an Assistant Professor at Dixie State University

Andrew Raridon is an Assistant Professor at Valparaiso University

Graduated 2016

Gülçin Con Wright is an Assistant Professor at TED University, Ankara / Turkey

Rong Fu is an Associate Professor at Siena College

Patricia Morton is an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University (after holding a Post-Doc in Statistics & Sociology at Rice University)

Xiaozhao Yang is an Assistant Professor at Murray State University

Graduated 2015

Tyrell Connor is an Assistant Professor at State University of New York, New Paltz

Abigail Howard is a Researcher at Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Seoyoun Kim is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University, San Marcos

Miao Li is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University (after holding a Post-Doc in the School of Public Health and Heath Professions, State University of New York, Buffalo)

Jennifer Stevens is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University

Zhenyu Tang is an Assistant Professor at Franklin College

Graduated 2014

Robert Morris is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at Dixie State University

Reid J Leamaster is a tenure track faculty in the Social Sciences Department of Glendale Community College

Ryan Lecount is an Assistant Professor at Hamline University

Lindsay Wilkinson is an Assistant Professor at Baylor University