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Andreja Siliunas

PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy



Jennifer Sykes

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2011.
Associate Professor of Social Relations and Policy, James Madison College, Michigan State University.


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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Daniel Shoag

PhD in Economics, 2011.
Associate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University.

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Martin West

William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Education
Deputy Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG)


Research interests: Politics of K-12 education in the United States and how education policies affect student learning and non-cognitive development.

Current projects include studies of public opinion on education policy, the effects of charter school attendance on cognitive and non-cognitive skills, data use in schools, and the influence of relative pay on teacher quality.

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Martin R. West

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2006.
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Deputy Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy School.


Teachers versus the Public: What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them, by Paul E. Peterson, Michael Henderson (PhD '11), and Martin R. West (PhD. '06) has been published by The Brookings Institution (2014).

Martin West's earlier book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education, examines the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years. Brookings Institution Press, 2009).

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Justin Wolfers

PhD in Economics, 2001.
Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics.


Visting Professor of Economics, The University of Sydney, 2014-present.
Senior Scientist, Gallup, 2011-present.

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, 2009-present.
Research Associate, NBER, 2009-present.

Named one of the  top 25 economists under the age of 45 by the IMF, 2014.

Recipient of the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, Kiel Institute (Germany), 2007.

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Crystal S. Yang

PhD in Economics and JD, Harvard Law School, 2013.
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.


Olin Fellow and Instructor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2013-2014.

Crystal Yang’s teaching and research interests center around empirical law and economics, particularly in the areas of criminal justice and consumer bankruptcy.

Winner John M. Olin Prize for best paper in law and economics for “Free At Last? Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing,” 2013.

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Brielle Bryan

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2018.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University.


Co-winner (with Alexandra Killewald) of American Sociological Association Population Section Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, 2019.

Winner of American Sociological Association Family Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, 2018.

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Nicole M. Deterding

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2015.
Senior Social Science Research Analyst, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.


National Poverty Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015-2017.

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Sara Sternberg Greene

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2014.
Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.


Sara Sternberg Greene is an interdisciplinary scholar whose interests span consumer law, bankruptcy, poverty law, access to justice, tax, and contracts. Broadly concerned in her scholarship with the relationship between law and inequality, Greene has recently focused on the role of the law in perpetuating and exacerbating poverty and inequality.

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