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.

Minseo Cho
Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.

Madison Garcia
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

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

Javier Rodríguez
Senior Analyst, Equis, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Sara Ronnkvist
Postdoctoral Researcher, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Michael Topping
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center within the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, 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.
Now: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Sarah Jensen 
Research Associate, Justice System Partners, Easton, Massachusetts.
Now: Senior Associate, Justice System Partners, Easton, Massachusetts.

Walker Kahn 
Postdoctoral Fellow, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
Now: Assistant Professor of Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Youbin Kang, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Now: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Anita Li 
Survey Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau.
Now: Demographer and Sociologist, U.S. Census Bureau.

Wendy Li 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Now: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Ruo-Fan Liu 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Standford, California.
Now: Assistant Professor of Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

Alex Mikulas
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Now: Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

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.
Now: Freelance Independent Consultant.

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.
Now: WAC Associate Director, Assistant Teaching Professor Department of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

Tiffany Neman
Survey Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles, California.
Now: Associate Research Director, Stanford Institute for Excellence in Survey Research, Standford, 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.
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Di Wang
Deputy Director, Wing on Wo Project, New York, New York.
Now: Senior Member & Convening Officer at Funders for LGBTQ Issues, 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
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Political, Social and Cultural Sciences, Kean University, Union, New Jersey

Chloe Haimson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Prison Education Program, New York University, New York, New York
Now: Director of Research, Justice Policy Lab, Brown University

Won-Tak Joo
Postdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley Population Center, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Now: 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, Center for Social Norms & Behavioral Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Now: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. 

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. 
Now: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Kelsey Wright
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Now: Research Scientist and Deputy Head of the Fertility & Well-being Lab, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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