ALUMNI NEWS
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Three of our 2007 Ph.D. recipients recently started
new jobs. Best wishes to:
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Alex Bierman,
Assistant Professor, California State University,
Northridge, CA
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Sara Raley,
Assistant Professor, McDaniel College, MD
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Sonya Rastogi,
United States Census Bureau, MD
Awards and Honors:
Congratulations to Alex Bierman (2007) who has won the
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Family
Division Graduate Student Paper Competition! The paper
is based on his dissertation. The award entails a
cash prize and the opportunity to present the paper at
the 2007 SSSP meetings in New York.
Congratulations to
Joan Hermsen
(1997; Associate Professor, University of
Missouri-Columbia) for winning the 2006 William
T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and 2006
Excellence in Education Award at the University of
Missouri-Columbia
Five
alumni recently took on new positions. Congratulations
to:
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Philip Cohen
(1999; Associate Professor, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill) on becoming graduate
director of the UNC department;
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Timothy Moran
(2000; SUNY-Stony Brook) on his promotion from
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor;
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Tim, along with Roberto Korzeniewicz (Associate
Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland,
College Park) was at the Russell Sage Foundation
in Fall 2006 to write a book examining
inequality from a global perspective, focused on
rising economic disparities among countries
around the world.
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Morten Ender
(1996; West Point)
on becoming the
Director of the Sociology Program at West Point;
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Liana Sayer
(2001; Assistant Professor, Ohio State University)
on becoming chair of the
Distinguished Career Award Committee, ASA Family
Section 2006-2007;
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Perla Werner
(1996; Professor, University of Haifa, Mount
Carmel, Israel) on becoming the Dean of the Faculty
of Social Welfare and Health Studies.
Publications:
Two alumni recently published or have forthcoming books:
Awards and Honors:
Congratulations to
Joan Hermsen
(1997; Associate Professor, University of
Missouri-Columbia) for winning the 2006 William
T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and 2006
Excellence in Education Award at the University of
Missouri-Columbia
New Additions!
Ryan and Ruth Kelty
(2004; Assistant Professor, West Point) just welcomed
the arrival of a baby girl, Taylor Kaitlyn Kelty (5lbs 8
oz; 20 inches long), on Feb 22, 2007. Congratulations!
OUR ALUMNI (1990-2007)
2007
Alex Bierman,
Assistant Professor, California State University,
Northridge, CA
Sara Raley,
Assistant Professor, McDaniel College, MD
Sonya Rastogi,
United States Census Bureau, MD
2006
Rachel Lipari,
Defense Manpower Data Center, United States Department
of Defense, Arlington, VA
Vrushali Patil,
Assistant Professor,
Women's Studies and Sociology/Anthropology, Florida
International University, Miami
Gayle Richards,
United States Department of Health & Human Services,
Washington DC
Kristin Smith,
Research Assistant Professor, Carsey Institute,
University of New Hamphire, NH
Meridith Thanner,
Faculty Research Associate, Office of Critical Event
Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) and Project Manager,
National Center of Excellence for the Study of
Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER),
Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore
Brian Reed,
Commander of the 1-24 Infantry, Fort Wainwright, Alaska
Irving Smith,
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral
Sciences and Leadership, United States Military Academy,
West Point
Bradford Hepler,
Director of Research, Responsive Management,
Harrisonburg
Samia Ahmad
2005
Ryan Kelty,
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences
and Leadership, United States Military Academy, West
Point
Marybeth Mattingly,
NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of New Hampshire,
NH
Mauricio E. Florez-Morris,
Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario, Bogata,
Colombia
Ching-Yi Shieh,
Assistant Professor, Fayetteville State
University, Fayetteville, NC
Lekha Subaiya,
Population Fellow, ORC Macro International, Calverton,
MD
Aparna Sundaram,
American Institutes for Research, Washington DC
Elena Vinogradova,
REDA International Inc., Wheaton, MD
Yuko Whitestone,
Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Maryland,
College Park
2004
Emmanuel Ejiogu,
Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park
Elizabeth Malone,
Senior Research Scientist, Joint Global Change Research
Institute, College Park, MD (a partnership between the
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University
of Maryland)
Pia Peltola,
American Institutes for Research, Washington DC
Geoffrey Rothwell,
Senior Lecturer, Bermuda College, Bermuda
Stephen Trainor,
Permanent Military Professor of Leadership, Department
of Leadership, Ethics, Law, & Character, United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis
Gwyndolyn Weathers,
Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico, PR
2003
Richard Cooney,
Chief of Diversity Research, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force, United States Air Force
Kiersten Johnson,
ORC Macro International, Calverton, MD
Stephen Meersman,
Scientist, National Cancer Institute, National Institute
of Health, Bethesda, MD
Kei Nomaguchi,
Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL
Seth Ovadia,
Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Mark Pioli,
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Northern
Iowa, IA
Wendy Wiedenhoft,
Assistant Professor, John Carroll College, Cleveland, OH
2002
Maitreyi Das,
Economist, Social Protection Unit, World Bank,
Washington DC
Stephani Hatch,
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College
London
Annette Rogers,
United States Census Bureau (Check out Annette's
co-authored
report on extended measures of well-being)
2001
Soumya Alva,
ORC Macro International, Calverton, MD
Douglas Goodman,
Lecturer,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
Amy McLaughlin,
Associate Director, Consortium on Race, Gender &
Ethnicity, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Riad
Nasser,
Associate Professor, Fairleigh Dickenson University,
Madison, NJ
Liana Sayer,
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2000
Bradley Booth,
ICF-Caliber and Associates
Matthew Bramlett,
Survey Statistician, Division of Health Interview
Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics,
Hyattsville, MD
Tallese Johnson,
United States Census Bureau
Marla Kohlman,
Associate Professor, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Timothy Moran,
Associate Professor, SUNY Stonybrook
David Rohall,
Assistant Professor, Western Illoinis University,
Macomb, IL
Mitali Sen,
Research Associate, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD
Julie Dawson Weeks,
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
1999
Philip Cohen,
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Wan He,
Aging Studies Branch, Population Division, United States
Census Bureau
Diane Illig.
Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology,
Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
Rose Kreider,
Fertility and Family Statistics Branch, United States
Census Bureau
Laura Moore,
Assistant Professor, Hood College, Fredrick, MD
Susan Rogers,
Research Analyst, Research Triangle Institute, Bethesda,
MD
Ronica Rooks,
Assistant Professor, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Zheng Wang
1998
Tracy Armstrong,
University of Maryland University College, Germany
Elizabeth Bamberger,
Independent Consultant
Valerie Durrant.
Scientific Review Administrator, Division of Clinical
and Population-Based Studies. National Institute of
Health/Center for Scientific Review
Wilbur Hadden,
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
Myoung-Ouk Kim.
Statistician/Demographer, Population Projections
Department, United States Census Bureau
Constance Krach
Erjan Kurbanov
C. Martin Lee
Gladys Martinez,
Statistician, National Center for Health Statistics,
Hyattsville, MD
Basmat Shiw Parsad,
Research Analyst, WESTAT Inc.
1997
Amy Cox,
PRGS Professor, The Fredrick S Pardee RAND Graduate
School, Santa Monica, CA
Joan Hermsen.
Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
Stephen Lankenau,
Assistant Professor of Research, Department of
Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Mather,
Deputy Director, Domestic Programs, Population Reference
Bureau, Washington DC
1996
David Cotter,
Associate Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Morten Ender,
Associate Professor and Director of the Sociology
Program, Department of Behavioral Sciences and
Leadership, United States Military Academy, West Point,
CT
Elhum
Haghighat-Sordellini,
Assistant Professor, Lehman College, City University
of New York, NY
Terri LeMoyne,
UC Foundation Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN
Barbara Lovitts,
Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering,
Washington DC
Catherine Mobley,
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate
Studies, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Perla Werner,
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Social Welfare and
Health Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel,
Israel
1995
Karen
Carver
Wendy
Colquitt
JoAnn DeFiore,
Assistant Professor, Saint Francis University,
Loretto, PA
Doris Briley Durand
Sheng Che Kuo
Xiaolin Li
Karin A. Mack,
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
Brenda Marsteller-Kowalewski,
Associate Professor and Sociology Program
Coordinator, Weber State University, Ogden,
UT
John Daniel Schubert
Lovell H.Smith
1994
Bruce DeForge,
Associate Professor, University
of Maryland, Baltimore
Zhongren Jing
Alan Robertson Lehman
Hsiao-ye Yi, Senior Research Associate,
Consulting Services and Research Inc., MD
1993
Ki-Seon Chung, Senior Researcher,
Survey Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul,
Kore
Gary Oates, Associate Professor, Bowling Green
State University, Bowling Green, OH
Bruce
Rankin, Associate Professor, Koc University,
Turkey
1992
Taghi
Azadarmaki,
Professor in Sociology, Social Science Faculty,
University of Tehran, Iran
Mary A. Collins
Sunita Kishor,
ORC Macro International, Calverton, MD
Kathleen M. Paasch
1991
Isik Aytac,
Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Patricia
Esborg
Sara Poggio,
Associate Professor, Modern
Languages and Linguistics, University of Maryland
Baltimore County
Roger Reitman, Professor, Hood College,
Fredrick, MD
Mona-Rae Thompson
Claudine Voyadzis,
CEB Council of Europe Development Bank, France
Robert Waldman
Shanyang Zhao, Associate Professor, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA
1990
Marina
Adler,
Associate Professor, University of
Maryland Baltimore County, MD
April Brayfield, Associate
Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans,
LA
Thomas
Burns, Professor, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK
Sue Dowden
Liane Heggy, Of Counsel, Jacobs Chase Frick
Kleinkopf & Kelley, Denver, CO
Robert Pernick, HRD and OD Consultant (Amherst
Group, MD( and Faculty, Carey Business School of Johns
Hopkins University
Susan Queen, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Dept. of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
Jacqueline Scarville,
Defense Manpower Data Center, United States Department
of Defense, Arlington, VA
Diane Zablotsky, Associate Professor, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
