Placement Upon Graduation

Placement after Ph.D. program completion by year.
 

2023

• Jessica Kang
  Senior Research Scientist, Evaluation Studio
   
• Jinna Ji Eun Kim
  Research Assistant, UCI
   
• Chit Wai John Mok
  Research Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
   
• Selena Margarita Livas
  Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland Baltimore County
   
• Alexandra Rose Maresca
  Qualitative Researcher, UCI
   

2022

• Martin Jacinto
  Assistant Professor, Sociology, California State University, Chico
   
• Langou Lian
  Senior Research Scientist, California Department of Health Care Access and Information
   
• Miles Davison
  Research Scientist, NWEA
   
• Vanessa Delgado
  Assistant Professor, Washington State University
   
• Stephanie Delise Jones
  UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Riverside
   
• Steven Andrew Mejia
  Assistant Professor, Washington State University
   
• Ngoc-Thoa Vinh Khuu
  Postdoctoral Researcher, Population Research Center, Pennsylvania State University
   
• Noemi Linares-Ramirez
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University
   
• Scott Leo Renshaw
  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Software & Societal Systems (S3D), Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Steven Edward Schmidt
  Postdoctoral Fellow, USC
   
• Breauna Marie Spencer
  Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Computer Science, Stanford
   
• Connor Barclay Saxon Strobel
  Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
   
• Sara Ivethe Villalta
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University
   
• Ehsan Farshchi
  Research Data Specialist, Demographer, Covered California
   

2021

• Oshin Khachikian
  Researcher, American Institutes for Research
   
• Janet Muniz
  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Sociology Department, California State University, Long Beach
   
• Aaron Tester
  Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Stanford Univeristy
   
• Jessica Cabrera
  Chief Operating Officer, Cabrera-Williams Consulting Inc.
   
• Cam Nguyen Owen
  Researcher and Policy Analyst, Nonprofit Organization, New York
   
• Alex Olsen
  Assistant Social and Behavioral Science Professor, Umpqua Community College
   
• Archibaldo Silva
  Professor, California State University, Long Beach
   
• Edward Lee Watson
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Fullerton
   

2020

• Alma Garza
  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sociology Department, Purdue University
   
• Kelly Ward
  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Sociology and Gender & Women's Studies Departments, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   
• Tonia Docarmo
  Legal Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
   
• Ben Leffel
  Lecturer at University of California, Merced
   
• Setareh Mahmoudi
  Educaton Research Analyst, DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)
   
• Stephanie Pulles
  Statistician at U.S. Employment and Economic Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
   
• Christopher Gibson
  Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, California State University, Fullerton
   
• Francis Lee
  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
   
• Jess Lee
  Assistant Professor of Sociology (tenure track), Social Sciences Department, Cal Poly SLO
   
• Julie Kim
  Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine
   
• Christoffer Zoeller
  Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
   

2019

• Megan Brooker
  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
   
• Monique D.A. Kelly
  Postdoctoral position, Dean's Research Associate, Michigan State University
   
• Anna Penner
  Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University
   
• Mikaela Smith
  Postdoctoral position, Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, The Ohio State University
   
• Daniel Millán
  Core Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College
   
• Tanya Sanabria
  Assistant Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
   
• Burrel Vann Jr.
  Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
   

2018

• Britni Adams
  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
   
• Bonnie Bui
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University
   
• Emma Smith
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Math, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
   
• Jolene McCall
  Assistant Professor, International Studies, California State University, Long Beach
   
• John McCollum
  Assistant Professor, Minot State, North Dakota
   
• Danielle Vesia
  Senior Research Scientist, Foresee Survey Research Company
   
• Tyson Patros
  Assistant Professor & Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, New York University
   

2017

• Sean Drake
  Assistant Professor, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, NY University
   
• Sheefteh Khalili
  Executive Director, Office of Academic Planning-Office of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UCI
   
• Jessica Kizer
  Assistant Professor, Pitzer College
   
• Ralph Hosoki
  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Sociology, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
   
• Yader Lanuza
  Assistant Professor, University of Miami
   
• Dan Schneider
  Labor Market Consultant, California Employment Development Department
   
• Amber Tierney
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maine
   
• Cheng-Tong Wang
  Research Analyst, Volunteers of America Los Angeles
   
• Christine Tomlinson
  Lecturer, UC Irvine
   
• Nolan Phillips
  Postdoctoral Fellow Position, Harvard University
   

2016

• Edelina Burciaga
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver
   
• Jonathan Calvillo
  Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion, Boston University School of Theology
   
• Erin Evans
  Educator at National Nurses United, Oakland, CA
   
• Beth Gardner
  Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Potsdam
   
• Henry Hail
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Pacific University
   
• Joe King
  Statistician at Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (CARRA), US Census Bureau
   
• Dana Moss
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Kara Placek
  Assistant Professor, Sociology, Pitzer College
   
• Matthew Rafalow
  Scientist, Google
   

2015

• Rosalio Cedillo
  Assistant Professor, Dominican University Chicago
   
• Thomas Elliott
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Youth Activism Project, University of Arizona
   
• Sean Fitzhugh
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Network Science Team, US Army Research Laboratory
   
• Raul Perez
  Assistant Professor, University of Denver
   
• Amanda Pullum
  Assistant Professor, The School of Social, Behavioral, and Global Studies, Cal State University, Monterey Bay
   
• Rachael Russell
  Research Analyst, Valencia College, Orlando
   
• Mariam Ashtiani
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal State Fullerton
   
• Andrew Duncan
  Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College
   
• Fernando Chirino
  Lecturer, University of California, Merced
   
• Michelle Peria
  Part-time Professor of Arts and Sciences, Madison College
   

2014

• Esther Castillo
  Lecturer, Chapman University & CSU Fullerton
   
• Katie Dingeman-Cerda
  isiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Criminology, University of Denver
   
• Sharmaine Jackson
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale University
   
• Allen Kim
  Associate Professor of Sociology, International Christian University, Tokyo
   
• Vincent Laus
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Central Oklahoma
   
• Paul Morgan
  Lecturer, Cal State University, Stanislaus
   
• Alice Motes
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Data Curation, University of Minnesota
   
• Dana Nakano
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, CSU - Stanislaus
   
• Kris Noam-Zuidervaart
  Research Manager, Clifford Beers Clinic
   
• Jared Olesen
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Illinois Valley Community College
   
• Joshua Saldana
  UCI Institutional Research, Research Analyst at Cal Poly Pomona
   
• Christopher Smith
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University
   
• Carolyn Zambrano
  Research Scientist, Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control, California Department of Public Health
   

2013

• Zack Almquist
  Assistant Professor of Sociology & Statistics, University of Minnesota
   
• Daisy Carreon
  Research Specialist, McREL International Pacific Center for Changing the Odds
   
• Zoya Gubernskaya
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Albany
   
• Michael Landis
  Survey Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service Office - Sacramento
   
• Daisy Verduzco Reyes
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut
   
• Kristen Shorette
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY - Stony Brook
   
• Elizabeth Sowers
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Channel Islands
   
• Emma Spiro
  Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Washington
   

2012

• Jimmie Bany
  Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Hanover College
   
• Linda Borgen
  Instructor of Rhetoric & Writing Studies, San Diego State University
   
• Scott Byrd
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Murray State University
   
• Katie Furuyama
  Program Coordinator, Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy, and Leadership
   
• Brian Gillespie
  Researcher, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen
   
• Lorien Jasny
  Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, England
   
• Jasmine Kerrissey
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachussets, Amherst
   
• Christopher Marcum
  Staff Scientist, Human Genome Project, National Institutes of Health
   
• Yung-Yi Diana Pan
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College - CUNY
   
• Nina Smart
  Founder, SWF International
   
• James Stobaugh
  Assistant Professor of Sociology at Arkansas Tech University
   

2011

• Georgiana Bostean
  Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Health, and Policy, Chapman University
   
• Elizabeth Chiarello
  Assistant Professor of Sociology & Fellow, Saint Louis University & Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
   
• Remy Cross
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Webster University
   
• Carol Glasser
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Minnesota State University, Mankato
   
• Ben Lind
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
   
• Hien Park
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanguard University
   
• Karen Jeong Robinson
  Associate Professor, CSU - San Bernardino
   
• Megan Thiele
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, San Jose State University
   

2010

• Ryan Acton
  Data Scientist, WeddingWire
   
• James Bachmeier
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Temple University
   
• Steven Boutcher
  Executive Officer, Law & Society Association
   
• Rosaura Conley-Estrada
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boise State University
   
• Renee Ellis
  Statistician, Housing & Household Statistics Division, US Census Bureau
   
• Tara Hardinge
  Associate Professor of Sociology, Mission College
   
• Goldie Komaie
  Supervisor of Public Health Research, School of Medicine, Washington University
   
• Kelsy Kretschmer
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University
   

2009

• Ting Jiang
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan State College of Denver
   
• Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
  Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Washington
   
• Ping Ren
  Statistician, Housing & Household Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau
   
• Leah Ruppanner
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Melbourne, Australia
   
• Sabeen Sandhu
  Instructor of Sociology, Santa Clara University
   
• Monica Trieu
  Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, Purdue University
   

2008

• Roberto GonzalesAssistant Professor of Education, Harvard University
   
• Matthew MahutgaAssociate Professor of Sociology, UC - Riverside
   
• Christine OhAssistant Dean, Psychology and Health Sciences, Azuza Pacific University, University College
   
• Sharon OselinAssociate Professor of Sociology, UC - Riverside
   
• Danielle RudesAssociate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, George Mason University
   
• Julie SongAssociate Professor of Sociology, Chaffey College
   
• Tsui-O TaiAssistant Professor, Taipei National University
   
• Jody Agius VallejoAssociate Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California
   

2007

• Jessica Ayo Alabi
  Assistant Professor of Sociology & Gender Studies, Orange Coast College
   
• Christina Baker-Foley
  Assistant Professor of American & Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University
   
• Wai Kit Choi
  Associate Professor of Sociology, CSU - Los Angeles
   
• Catherine Corrigall-Brown
  Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
   
• Makiko Fuwa
  Associate Professor of Urban Liberal Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
   
• Liana Christin Landivar
  Sociologist and Senior Researcher, Women's Bureau, US Department of Labor
   
• Yuki Kato
  Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
   
• Mark Leach
  Statistician, US Census Bureau
   
• Charlie Morgan
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ohio University
   
• Rebecca Trammell
  Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Metropolitan State College of Denver
   
• Kassia Wosick
  Associate Professor of Sociology, New Mexico State University
   

2006

• Gary Pritchard
  Dean of Fine Arts & Mass Communications, Cerritos College
   
• Selim Shahine
  Instructor of Anthropology, UC - Irvine
   
• Sandrine Zerbib
  Associate Professor of Sociology, St. Cloud State University
   

2005

• Jeanne Batalova
  Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute
   
• Yvonne Braun
  Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Oregon
   
• Leslie Bunnage
  Associate Professor of Sociology, Seton Hall University
   
• Marnie Dobson
  Associate Director, Center for Social Epidemiology
   
• Danielle MacCartney
  Associate Dean of Sociology,Webster University
   
• Derek Martin
  Instructor of Sociology, University of Arizona
   
• Elizabeth Ribet
  Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA
   
• Erika Sanchez-Reenan
  Instructor of Sociology, Orange Coast College
   

2004

• Eric Anderson
  Professor of Gender & Sports Studies, University of Winchester, England
   
• Olga Bright
  Instructor of Sociology, CSU - San Bernardino
   
• Hyun Choe
  Professor of Sociology, Jeju National University, South Korea
   
• Karen Kendrick
  Associate Professor of Sociology, Albertus Magnus College
   
• Deana Rohlinger
  Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
   
• Kristine Wright
  Instructor of Sociology, Los Angeles Southwest College