PhD Alumni & Placements
The PhD program trains its students for careers as faculty with appointments in public policy and other interdisciplinary programs, as well as in disciplinary departments of economics and sociology. We also regularly place students in research careers with think tanks, government, private consulting, and the not-for-profit sector.
Below, you will find the first placements for students with PhDs in Public Policy, as well as Brooks-funded students with PhDs in Economics and Sociology.
| Year Graduate | Name | Title and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Tatiana Padilla | Postdoctoral Fellowship at Boston University’s Center for Innovation in Social Sciences |
| 2023 | Nathan Robbins | Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| 2023 | Stephenson Strobel | Postdoctoral Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical School |
| 2022 | Li (Julia) Zhu | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Labor Economics, Department of Economics and FAIR, Norwegian School of Economics |
| 2022 | Rene Crespin | Dean’s Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellowship), Department of Economics, Michigan State University |
| 2021 | Emily Parker | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan |
| 2021 | Katherine Wen | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University School of Public Health; and then Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University |
| 2021 | Sam Dodini | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Labor Economics, Norwegian School of Economics |
| 2020 | Jun Hyun Yun | Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University |
| 2020 | Pamela Meyerhoefer | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University |
| 2020 | Andrea Monge | Public Health Strategy and Analysis Staff of the Office of Economics and Analysis in the Office of the Commissioner of the Food Drug Administration |
| 2019 | Mariana Amorim | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Washington State University |
| 2019 | Marisa Carlos | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Analysis Group |
| 2018 | Alexander Willen | Assistant Professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics |
| 2018 | Sherry Zhang | Postdoctoral Fellowship, University Wisconsin Madison |
| 2015 | Richard Patterson | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, US Military Academy, West Point |
| 2015 | Anna Choi | Young Professionals Programme, OECD, Paris |
| 2015 | Daniel Grossman | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, West Virginia University |
| 2014 | Jose Balmori de la Miyar | Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business at Universidad Anáhuac México |
| 2014 | Anna Hill | Economist, Mathematica Policy Research |
| 2014 | Lauren Jones | Assistant Professor, Dept of Consumer Science, Ohio State University |
| 2014 | Katherine Michelmore | Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2012 | Richard Turner | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University |
| 2012 | Margaret Jones | Economist, U.S. Census Bureau |
| 2012 | Fenaba Addo | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| 2011 | Matt Sweeney | Economist, Mathematica Policy Research |
| 2011 | Asia Sikora | Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| 2010 | Joshua Price | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Arlington |
| 2009 | Kai-Wen Cheng | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco |
| 2009 | Mabel Andalon Lopez | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2009 | Julie Carmalt | Lecturer, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University |
| 2009 | Maki Ueyama | Vice President – Epidemiology, IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health, Chennai India; postdoctoral scholar, University of Toronto |
| 2009 | Sean Eversley Bradwell | Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Ithaca College |
| 2009 | Ashish Bajracharya | Fred H. Bixby Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Council |
| 2009 | Ning Zhang | Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of Rochester |
| 2008 | Max Schmeiser | Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 2008 | Michael Collins | Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 2008 | Daniel Dukjae Maeng | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Health Care and Policy Research, Penn State University |
| 2008 | Felicia Yang (Deleone) | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2008 | David Filiberto | Consultant, NMR Group and COO at Carbon Consulting, LLC |
| 2008 | Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle | Economist, Analysis Group |
| 2007 | Feng Liu | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Shanghai University of Economics and Finance |
| 2007 | Hae Kyung Yang | Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Texas Tech University |
| 2007 | Sarah Hoda (Neyaz) | Health Economist, MedStat |
| 2007 | Xiaofei Pei | Economist, Thomson Reuters |
| Year Graduated | Name | Title and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Matthew Comey | Economist at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation |
| 2023 | Zihan Hu | Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University |
| 2023 | Grace Phillips | Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis |
| 2023 | David Wasser | Economist, U.S. Census Bureau |
| 2021 | Amanda Eng | Economist, U.S. Census Bureau |
| 2021 | Anne Burton | Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2020 | Katelyn Heath | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Economics, Rice University |
| 2020 | Lucy Xiaolu Wang | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany, then Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2019 | Cassandra Benson | Assistant Professor of Economics, U.S. Air Force Academy |
| 2019 | James Elwell | Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation |
| 2018 | Barton Willage | Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University |
| 2018 | Corbin Miller | Economist, Office of Tax Analysis at the Treasury |
| 2018 | Todd Jones | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia State University |
| 2017 | Daniel Ludwinski | Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University |
| 2017 | Nicholas Tilipman | Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois |