Placements of Recent Graduates

2026

John Canfield
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

Lindsay Cannon
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Demography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Madison Garcia
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Morgan Lynndell Henson
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island

Benny Witkovsky
Wisconsin State Lead, Bridging Divides Initiative, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2025

Nona Gronert
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

Taylor Laemmli
Assistant Professor, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Chiara Packard
Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Michael Roll
Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development & Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

Emma Romell
Postdoctoral Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Ang Yu
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Matthew Zinsli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

2024

Sarah Farr
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sarah “Frankie” Frank 
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Kristina Fullerton Rico 
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Shiro Furuya 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sarah Jensen 
Research Associate, Justice System Partners

Walker Kahn 
Postdoctoral Fellow, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

Youbin Kang, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Anita Li 
Survey Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau

Wendy Li 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Ruo-Fan Liu 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Standford, California

Alex Mikulas
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Grace Venechuk
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Lucas Wiscons
Assistant Professor, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota

Boyan Zheng
Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University & Princeton University

2023

Isabel Anadon
Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

Annaliese Grant, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Noah Hirschl, Quantitative Researcher, Vermont Foodbank, Newfane, Vermont.

Kurt Kuehne, Post-doctoral Researcher, New York University-Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates.

Martina Kunovic, Full-time Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, Madison College, Madison, Wisconsin.

Abby Letak, Teaching Faculty, Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Masoud Movahed, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Social Norms & Behavioral Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tiffany Neman, Survey Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles, California.

Jill Richardson, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Jason Robey, Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York.

Di Wang, Deputy Director, Wing on Wo Project, New York, New York.

Jake Wertz, Director of Research & Program Analysis, Elmhurst Community School District 205, Elmhurst, Illinois.

Greg Wilson, Assistant Professor, Management & Public Affairs, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Leafia Ye, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2022

Michael Billeaux, Full-time Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, Madison College, Madison, Wisconsin

H. Jacob Carlson (PhD 2020), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Kean University, Union, New Jersey

Chloe Haimson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Prison Education Program, New York University, New York, New York

Won-Tak Joo, Postdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley Population Center, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Beginning January 2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Isaac “Ike” Leslie (PhD 2020), Extension Assistant Professor of Community Development, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Morgan Matthews, Social Scientist, Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau, Madison, Wisconsin

Kerem Morgul, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina

Masoud Movahed, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jessica Polos (PhD 2020), Assistant Professor, Master’s in Public Health Program, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Jia Wang, Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, Fall 2022.  Beginning January 2023, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Kelsey Wright, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

2021

Miriam Barcus, Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, 2021-22. Beginning Fall 2022, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York

Sebastian Daza, Senior Researcher, ECHO project, Instituto de Economia, Geografia Demografia. Madrid, Spain.

Garrett Grainger, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Adam Hayes, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

June Jeon (PhD 2020), Associate Research Fellow, National Assembly Futures Institute, Republic of Korea

Kristinn Már,  Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China.

Emanuel Ubert (PhD 2019), Assistant Professor of Strategic Management in the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Andrew Wolf, Assistant Professor of Global Labor and Work at the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Jaclyn Wypler, Project Manager, Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network, Burlington, Vermont.

2020

Maria Azocar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California

H. Jacob Carlson, Postdoctoral Fellow at Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Catherine Doren (PhD 2018), Survey Statistician in the Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

Nate Ela (PhD 2018), Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Jingying He, Postdoctoral Fellow,  Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

June Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow in Civic Science, Tisch College of Civic Life, at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

Kaan Jittian,  Assistant Professor and Director of the Department of International Relations, at Chulalongkorn, University, Thailand.

Amy Jones, Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Teachers College, New York City, New York

Mike King, Survey Statistician in the Program Participation and Income Transfer Branch within the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

Isaac “Ike” Leslie, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Lefeng “Frank” Lin, Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Szuchou, China.

Lily Liang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at SUNY-Cortland, Cortland, New York

Madeleine Pape (PhD 2019), Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Sports Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Joao Peschanski, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, at Faculdade Cásper Libero, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.

Jessica Polos, Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

Ankit Rastogi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Laura Hanson Schlachter, Researcher, UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives, Madison, Wisconsin

Nathan Seltzer, Postdoctoral Scholar at UC- Berkeley, Department of Demography, Berkeley, California

Ph.D. graduates at the Sociology Department’s 2026 graduation ceremony.