Fellows Alumni
Mark Anderson | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2008-2009 Mark Anderson earned his PhD in 2011. His dissertation is "Three Essays on Public Policy and Risky Youth Behavior." He is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Montana State University, beginning fall 2011. |
Arif Al Mamun | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2003-2004 Arif Al Mamun received his PhD in 2005. His dissertation is entitled "Essays in Economics of the Family: Incorporating Cohabitation." Arif is a Senior Research Economist, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC.
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Leontine Alkema | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2006-2007 Leontine Alkema received her PhD in 2008. Her dissertation title is "Uncertainty assessments of demographic estimates and projections." Leontine is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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Amy Kate Bailey | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2003-2004 Amy Kate Bailey obtained her PhD in 2008. Her dissertation was on "The effect of veteran status on spatial and socioeconomic mobility: outcomes for black and white men in the late 20th century." Amy is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Utah State University. |
Giedrius Blazys | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2005-2006 Giedrius Blazys earned his PhD in Economics in 2009. His dissertation is titled "Essays on the Economics of the Life Course." He is currently Research Fellow, Department of Economics at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden. |
Emily Brunson | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Emily Brunson earned her PhD in 2010. Her dissertation is entitled "The Point of the Needle: An Anthropological Study of Childhood Vaccination in the United States." Emily is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos TX. |
Shauna Carlisle | |
 | Fellowship Years: 2004-2005 Shauna Carlisle earned her PhD in 2010. Her dissertation is "From Healthy to Unhealthy: Disaggregating the relationship between race, nativity, perceived discrimination, and chronic health." Shauna is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of Washington, Bothell, beginning fall 2011 |
Anoshua Chaudhuri | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2001-2002 Anoshua Chaudhuri received her PhD in 2003. Her dissertation is entitled "Intended and Unintended Consequences of Maternal and Child Health program in rural Bangladesh: An Investigation of Anthropometric Outcomes and Intra-household Spillovers." Anosha is currently Associate Professor of Economics, San Francisco State University.
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Hyung-Jai Choi |
Fellowship Start Year: 2001-2002 Hyung-Jai earned her PhD in 2003. Her dissertation is "The impacts of the secondary earner deduction on the time use of married couples." She is Associate Professor of Economics, Korea University, Sejong Campus. |
Katherine J. Curtis | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Katherine J. Curtis received her PhD in Sociology in 2003. Her dissertation is titled a "Century of Population Change in the U.S. Great Plains." Katherine is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin in the Community and Environmental Sociology department. |
Amon Emeka | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2003-2004 Amon Emeka received his PhD in 2004. His dissertation is entitled "New blacks, new whites and the new day: Intergenerational mobility among black and white immigrants in the post-civil rights era." Amon is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California.
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Phyllis Fletcher | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2008-2009 |
Jamie Goodwin-White | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Jamie Goodwin-White received her PhD in 2005. Her dissertation is "Placing Progress: Inequality, Internal Migration, and Intergenerational Immigrant Incorporation." Jamie is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UCLA.
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Jennifer Hook | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2005-2006 Jennifer Hook received her PhD in 2006. Her dissertation is entitled "Care in Context: Men's Unpaid Work in Advanced Industrialized Countries, 1965-2003." Jennifer is a Research Scientist at Partners for Our Children, which is affiliated with the University of Washington's School of Social Work. For more information on Jennifer click here. |
Brian Houle | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2007-2008 |
David Hsu | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2008-2009
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Geoff Kushnick | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2006-2007 Geoff Kushnick received his PhD in 2006. His dissertation is entitled "Parent-Offspring Conflict among the Karo of North Sumatra." Geoff is currently a Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, the University of Washington. |
Ting Li | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2010-2011 |
Ratna Maya Magarati | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2003-2004 Ratna Maya Magarati earned her PhD in 2010. Her dissertation is entitled "Home Language Fluency, English Language Proficiency, and Bilingualism and the Transition to College." She is currently a Research Scientist at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute in the UW School of Social Work.
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Momoe Makino | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2009-2010 Momoe Makino earned her PhD in 2011. Her dissertation is "Essays on Population Economics and People's Time Allocation." Momoe is Research Associate,
Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, beginning fall 2011.
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Siobhan Mattison | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2005-2006
Siobhán M. Mattison received her PhD in Anthropology in 2010. Her dissertation is titled “Demystifying the Mosuo: the behavioral ecology of kinship and reproduction of China’s ‘last matriarchal’ society.” Siobhán is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. She has accepted a position as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland. which starts in July, 2011. |
Lori Miller | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2008-2009 |
Dawn Neill | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2006-2007 Dawn Neill received her PhD in 2007. Her dissertation is on "The effect of urbanization on parental investment decisions among Indo-Fijians." Dawn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the California Polytechnic State University. |
David Nolin | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2007-2008 David received his PhD in the biocultural program of the Department of Anthropology in 2008. His dissertation was entitled "Food-Sharing networks in Lamalera, Indonesia: tests of adaptive hypotheses." David is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, the University of North Carolina. |
Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej | |
 | fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej earned his PhD in 2010. His dissertation is "A More Comprehensive Theory of Educational Attainment: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the College Completion Process." He is currently Post-Doctoral Research Associate,
University of Washington Beyond High School Research Project
Department of Sociology, UW.
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Tricia Ruiz | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2007-2008 Tricia Ruiz earned her PhD in 2011. Her dissertation is "Separate and Unequal? Exploring the Racial Geographies of School Quality and Student Achievement." In summer 2011 she begins her Presidential Management Fellowship, Health and Urban Development, in the Fair Housing Act research and enforcement division. |
Ekaterina Stepanova | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Ekaterina Stepanova received her PhD in 2006. Her dissertation is entitled "Essays on the effect of demographic on household consumption. She is a Senior Economist, Fannie Mae, Washington, DC. |
Puk Teerawichitchainan | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Puk Teerawichitchainan received her PhD in 2005. Her dissertation is on the "Impact of War and Military Service on the Transition to Adulthood and Long-term Socioeconomic Achievement in Northern Vietnam." Puk is Assistant Professor at Singapore Management University. |
Jason Thomas | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2002-2003 Jason Thomas received his PhD in sociology in 2009. His dissertation is entitled "The Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa." After graduating from UW, Jason was a Research Associate at the Center of Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently an assistant professor of sociology at Penn State University. |
Nalina Varanasi | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2007-2008 Nalina Varanasi received her PhD in 2009. Her dissertation, titled "Essays in Labor Economics", focuses on the economics of fertility, migration and household behavior. Nalina is a Post-Graduate Fellow at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle. |
Man Wang | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2003-2004 Man Wang earned her PhD in 2011. Her
dissertation is "Dynamics of Housing Inequality in Urban China: a Case Study of Wuhan." |
Yingying Zhou | |
 | Fellowship Start Year: 2001-2002 Yingying Zhou received her PhD in 2008. Her dissertation is "The determinants of internal migration in rural China -- A study using longitudinal data, 1989-2004" She is a Project Manager for the Asia/China region, InterMedia Survey Institute, New York. |