PhD in Public Policy, 2010. Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Winner of the David N Kershaw Early Career Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), 2018. The award honors those under the age of 40 who have made a distinguished contribution to the field of public policy analysis and management.
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.
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.
PhD in Sociology, 2010. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Carter G. Woodson Institute of African American and African Studies, University of Virginia.
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, 2012-2014.
Sabrina Pendergrass is currently working on a book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press, about the African American reverse migration to the South.
Winner of the Exemplary Diversity Dissertation Award from the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, for her dissertation, “Making moves: Place, culture, and stratification in African American reverse migration to the urban South,” 2010.
Winner of 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.
PhD 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 from 2016).
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.
Michael Javen Fortner is the author of
Co-author of 
It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
