Samuel J. Abrams

Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010.
Professor of Politics and Social Sciences, Sarah Lawrence College.
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

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Lucy Barnes

Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, 2010.
Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University College London

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (2011-2013).

Lucy Barnes is the 2009 recipient of the Best Paper...

David Deming

Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2010.
Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

David Deming is one of five new William T. Grant Scholars for 2013-2018. The William T. Grant Scholars Program “supports the professional development of promising early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences” with five-year research awards.

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Michael Javen Fortner

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2010.
Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Michael Javen Fortner is the author of Black Silent Majority: Urban Politics and the Rockefeller Drug Laws, Harvard University Press (2015).

Winner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History by the New York Academy of History, 2016.

He is also co-editor with Amy Bridges of Urban Citizenship and American Democracy: The Historical and Institutional Roots of Local Politics and Policy, SUNY Press (2016).

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Katherine N. Gan

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2010.
Senior Social Scientist, The Lab @ DC

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Benjamin Goodrich

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2010.
Lecturer in Political Science and Associate Research Scholar, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University.

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Victoria Levin

Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2010.
The World Bank

Sabrina Pendergrass

Ph.D. in Sociology, 2010.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Carter G. Woodson Institute of African American and African Studies, University of Virginia.

Sabrina Pendergrass has been awarded Exemplary Diversity Dissertation Award from the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan (2010), for her dissertation, “Making moves: Place, culture, and stratification in African American reverse migration to the urban South.”

Sabrina Pendergrass has been awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Poverty, Class, and Inequality Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for “Making Moves: Social Stratification and the Socioeconomic and Symbolic Dimensions of Black Reverse Migration to the South.” (2010).

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Graziella Silva

Ph.D. in Sociology, 2010.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Vice Chair, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Inequality, University of Rio de Janeiro. (on leave beginning Sept 2016).

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Laura Tach

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2010.
Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology (by courtesy), Cornell University.
Associate Director, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University.

Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012.

William Julius Wilson Early Career Award: Inequality, Poverty, Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2018.

Laura Tach has been named a William T. Grant Scholar, 2015-2020. The William T. Grant Scholars program selects 4-6 promising early-career researchers each year in the social, behavioral, and health sciences and supports their professional development with five-year research awards.

It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World, co-authored by Sarah Halpern-Meekin '09, Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University), Laura Tach '10, and Jennifer Sykes '11, has been published by the University of California Press (2015).