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Bikila Ochoa

PhD in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
JD, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Deputy Director, The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

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Cassi Pittman Claytor

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2012.
Climo Junior Professor of Sociology, Case Western Reserve.


Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University, 2012-2014.

Cassi Pittman Claytor's first book, Black Privilege: Modern Middle Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press (Sep 2020).

Shelia Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, 2018.

Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2017.

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María G. Rendón

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2009.
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine.


Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2009-2011.

María G. Rendón's book, Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of Second-Generation Latinos, has been published by the Russell Sage Foundation (2019).

Winner of the Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2020.

Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association, 2020.

Honorable Mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, 2020.

Dean’s Award for Inclusionary Excellence, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 2018.

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Eva Rosen

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2014.
Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.


Postdoctoral Fellow, Poverty and Inequality Research Lab, Johns Hopkins University, 2015-2017.

Eva Rosen's first book, The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood, has been published by Princeton University Press (July 2020).

Recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars, receiving their 40 for 40 fellowship, 2018.

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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.

State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, 2020. Awarded for her research on the connections between economic insecurity, relationship instability and the well-being of children.

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.

Confronting Inequality: How Policies and Practices Shape Children's Opportunities, edited by Laura Tach, Rachel Dunifon, and Douglas L. Miller, has been publisehd by the American Psychological Association (2020).

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, Laura Tach '10, and Jennifer Sykes '11, has been published by the University of California Press (2015).

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Christopher Wimer

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.
Co-Director, Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University.
Senior Research Scientist, Columbia Population Research Center.


Christopher Wimer is the co-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University and a researcher focusing on the measurement of poverty and disadvantage in both local and national contexts, as well as historical trends in poverty and the impacts of social policies on the poverty rate. He is project director of the Columbia Population Research Center's Robin Hood Poverty Tracker, which monitors how New York City residents cope with disadvantage.

Christopher Wimer is co-editor, with Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan, of Children of the Great Recession, published by the Russell Sage Foundation (2016).


Christopher Wimer is co-editor, with David B. Grusky and Bruce Western, of The Great Recession, published by the Russell Sage Foundation (2011).

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Queenie Zhu

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2016.
Senior Cultural Strategist, Yum! Brands | Collider

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Anthony Abraham Jack

PhD in Sociology, 2016.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Shutzer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.


Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2016-2019.

Anthony Abraham Jack's first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, reveals how―and why―disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what these schools can do differently if these students are to thrive. Harvard University Press (2019).

C. Wright Mills Award, Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020

Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award, Honorable Mention, Section on Sociology of Education, American Sociological Association, 2020

Michael Harrington Award, Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020.

Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2020.

Outstanding Book Award, Social Problems Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020.

PROSE Award, Finalist, Education Practice, Association of American Publishers, 2020

Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press.  Awarded for outstanding first-book by Harvard University Press, 2019.

CEP Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2019. 

Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2019.

Named one of NPR Book's Best Books of 2019.
 

Amherst College Harold Wade Jr. ‘68 Fellowship, Amherst College, 2016-2019.

National Center of Institution Diversity Emerging Diversity Scholar, University of Michigan, 2016.

Tribute to Black Men Faculty Award, Association of Black Harvard Women, Harvard University, 2015.

Graduate Student Paper Award, Education Problems Division, Society of the Study of Social Problems, 2015.

Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising Award, Harvard College, 2015.

Charles V. Willie Minority Graduate Student Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2015.

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association, 2014.

David Lee Stevenson Award for best Graduate Student Paper, Honorable Mention, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association 2014.

Harvard College Race Relations Adviser Award, 2013

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Carly R. Knight

PhD in Sociology, 2018.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University.

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Jessica T. Simes

PhD in Sociology, 2016.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University.
Associate Director of Research of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.


University Provost Career Development Professor, Boston University, 2016-2019.

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