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Rhodes Postdoc Program

CPC’s postdoctoral training program is supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies’ endowment in honor of former Cornell president, Frank H. T. Rhodes. The Frank H. T. Rhodes Fellowships stand as a testament to the profound difference Frank Rhodes has made at Cornell by furthering scholarship and research in areas related to poverty alleviation, support for the elderly and disadvantaged children and youth, public health, and human rights. CPC supports new scholars in developing collaborative research with faculty and launching their own programs of research. Postdoctoral Associates are actively involved in CPC.

We are searching this Fall for our next Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship to start August 2025 (position posted here). This postdoc program has been very successful over the last decade in attracting promising early-career scholars and providing them with opportunities to deepen their work and develop collaborations with CPC affiliates. All applications require a CPC faculty mentor that requires a very brief survey confirmation (rather than a letter of recommendation). We seek applications from extraordinary candidates.

 

Current CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellows

Jiwon Lee (2023-2025). Jiwon earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University. Research interests: social stratification, demography, public opinion, immigration, and sociology of education.

Recent CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellows

Elizabeth C. Martin
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D., Sociology, the Ohio State University
Research interests: inequality and political economy, with focuses on economic insecurity, credit and debt, social policy, and financial shocks.

Linda Zhao
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2021)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University
Research interests: consequences and causes of network structure within two main substantive areas: immigrant-origin youth and police misconduct and crime.

Sarah James
Population Health Science Post-Doctoral Fellow, Minnesota Population Center
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021).
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton University
Research interests: health disparities, inequality, social demography.

Cassandra Robertson
Senior Fellow, New Practice Lab at New America
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-20)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.d., Sociology, Harvard University
Research interests: social policy and economic mobility

Patrick Ishizuka
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-19)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton University
Research interests: social inequality, gender, work, families

April Sutton
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-17).
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Research interests are in social stratification, education, gender, spatial inequalities, and life course transitions.

Amelia Branigan
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-16)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 2014
Research interests: inequality, race, education, health

Kimberly Turner
Analytics Translator, Business Intelligence Principal, Humana
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-14)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.B.A., Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business
Research interests: interplay between family experiences, socioeconomic status, racial-ethnic disparities, fatherhood research, and the role of public policy in countering growing inequality

Bonogh Kye
Associate Professor, Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-13)
Cornell Population Center
Ph.D, Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles
Research interests: demography, social stratification, quantitative methods

Postdoctoral Working Group

CPC supports the Postdoctoral Social Science Working Group that fosters the development of work in progress and collaboration on population-related research. Any postdocs interested in participating in the working group, joining the listserv, or affiliating, please send your name, department, and general area of interest/specialty to Gretchen Rymarchyk