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    Anny Fenton

    Anny Fenton

    PhD in Sociology, 2019.
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Maine Medical Center Research Institute.
    Asad L. Asad

    Asad L. Asad

    PhD in Sociology, 2017.
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.


    Center for the Study of Inequality Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 2017-2019.

    Winner of the Louis Wirth Best Article Award (with co-author Jackelyn Hwang, PhD'15) from the American Sociological Association's International Migration section, 2019.

    Elisabeth Jacobs

    Elisabeth Jacobs

    PhD in Sociology, 2008.
    Senior Fellow, Urban Institute


    Elisabeth Jacobs is a senior fellow focusing on issues related to family economic security and economic mobility. Elisabeth is a nationally recognized expert on family income and earnings instability, low-wage employment and job quality, intergenerational mobility and opportunity, as well as a wide range of related policies including social insurance, labor market regulations, and safety net policies.

    Founding Senior Director, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, 2014-2019.
    Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution, 2011-2014.
    Senior Policy Analyst, US Congress Joint Economic Committee, 2009-2011.
    American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow, 2008-2009.

    Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance, 2019.

    Who Cares?Who Cares? Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age, by Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs, has been published by Princeton University Press (2010).

    Nathan Fosse

    Nathan Fosse

    PhD in Sociology, 2012.
    Sociologist, Harvard Division of Continuing Education.
    Visiting Fellow and Research Statistician, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.


    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Junior Fellow, Harvard University (2011-2013).

    Tomás Jiménez

    Tomás R. Jiménez

    PhD in Sociology, 2005.
    Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University.


    TThe Other Side of Assimilation, by Tomás Jiménezomás Jiménez's second book, The Other Side of Assimilation, uses interviews from a race and class spectrum of Silicon Valley residents to show how a relational form of assimilation changes both newcomers (immigrants and their children) and established individuals (people born in the US to US-born parents). University of California Press (2017).

    Replenished EthnicityAuthor of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, University of California Press (2010). 

    Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Latino/a Sociology, 2011.

    Christopher Muller

    Christopher Muller

    PhD in Sociology, 2014.
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.


    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, Columbia University, 2014-16.

    Winner of the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association Comparative-Historical Section, 2019.  For "Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South," American Journal of Sociology 124: 367-405.

    Winner of  IPUMS Spatial Research Award, 2018.

    Winner of the Larry Neal Prize (joint with James Feigenbaum) for best article in Explorations in Economic History, 2017.

    Outstanding Professor, Berkeley Undergraduate Sociology Association, 2017,

    Winner of the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award, 2015.

    Winner of the Roger V. Gould Prize for best article in the American Journal of Sociology, 2014.

    Sabrina Pendergrass

    Sabrina Pendergrass

    PhD in Sociology, 2010.
    Assistant Professor, Department 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.

    Nathan Wilmers

    Nathan Wilmers

    PhD in Sociology, 2018.
    Sarofim Family Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organizations, MIT Sloan School of Management.


    Winner of the American Sociological Association Granovetter Award for Best Paper in Economic Sociology, 2018.

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