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    Jeff Denis

    Jeffrey S. Denis

    PhD in Sociology, 2011.
    Associate Professor of Sociology, McMaster University.


    Canada at a Crossroads, by Jeffrey S. DenisAuthor of Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations, based on Denis's PhD dissertation research, which included 18 months of fieldwork, 160 interviews, and a photovoice project with Anishinaabe, Métis, and white residents of Northwestern Ontario (Treaty #3 territory). University of Toronto Press (2020).

    Winner of the IPUMS Health Surveys Research Award, 2018.

    Graziella Moraes Silva

    Graziella Silva

    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).

    Co-author of Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel, by Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica S. Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog & Elisa Reis. Princeton University Press (2016).

    Gesemia Nelson

    Gesemia Nelson

    PhD in Sociology, 2004.
    Associate Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan State University of Denver.
    Ethan Fosse

    Ethan Fosse

    PhD in Sociology, 2015.
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto.


    The Cultural MatrixPostdoctoral Research Associate, Departments of Sociology and Politics, Princeton University.

    Orlando Patterson and Ethan Fosse are the editors of The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (Harvard University Press, 2015).

    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).

    Daniel Schrage

    Daniel Schrage

    PhD in Sociology, 2017.
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California.
    Christy Ley

    Christy Ley

    PhD in Sociology, 2018.
    Senior Social Science Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
    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.

    Christopher Bail

    Christopher Bail

    PhD in Sociology, 2011.
    Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Duke University.
    Director of the Duke Polarization Lab.


    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of Michigan, 2011-2013.

    Measuring Culture, by John W. Mohr et. al.Measuring Culture, by John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry, has been published by Columbia University Press (July 2020).

    Paul Lazarsfeld Award, Political Communication Section, American Political Science Association, for "Exposureto Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media," 2019.

    Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, for a Duke faculty member who embodies the highest values of scholarship, teaching, and collegiality, 2019.

    Guggenheim Fellow, 2018.

    Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2017.

    Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became MainstreamChristopher Bail's first book, Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream, has been published by Princeton University Press (2014).

    Outstanding Book Award, Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action,  2016.

    Distinguished Book Award, Religion Section, American Sociological Association, 2016.

    Honorable Mention, Charles Tilly Award for Best Book, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association, 2016.

    Junior Theorist Award (for scholar less than 8 years post-PhD), Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2015.

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