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New Faces at OPR
This year OPR welcomes a number of new faculty, postdoctoral fellows,
graduate students, visiting student research collaborators,
and research and technical staff.
Faculty
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Jeffrey S. Hammer.
Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979.
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Economic Development, (CHW) Woodrow Wilson School. Interests: measuring and improving the quality of medical care, primarily in India; absenteeism of teachers and health workers; policy-related determinants of health status; and improving service delivery through better accountability mechanisms. |
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Elizabeth L. Paluck.
Ph.D., Yale University, 2007.
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs. |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra.
Ph.D., Public Policy and Demography, Princeton University, 2011.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: migration, immigration, poverty. |
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Elizabeth A. Chiarello.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2011.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: law and society, medical sociology, professions/organizations, social movements, and reproductive health. |
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Guy S. Grossman.
Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, 2011.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: exploring the relationship between governance institutions and public goods provision in low-income countries, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Gabriela Sanchez-Soto.
Ph.D., Sociology, Brown University, 2011.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: migration, life course, education and social mobility, marriage and family formation, children and youth. |
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Miranda R. Waggoner.
Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Brandeis University, 2011.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: medical sociology, maternal and child health, women’s health policy, science and technology studies. |
Graduate Students
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Aaron J. Gottlieb,
Department of Sociology.
B.A., Public Affairs and Political Science, Syracuse University, 2007.
Interests: intergenerational mobility of children in marginalized populations and life-course effects of childhood poverty |
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Mariana Campos Horta,
Department of Sociology.
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2007.
Interests: inequality, migration, ethnicity, and health and educational outcomes |
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Laura N. Khan,
Population and Social Policy Program.
B.A., Psychology and Spanish, Tufts University, 2006.
Interests: sexual and reproductive health policy, migration, urbanization and the effects of social structure on global public health |
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Yea Lhim Kim,
Population and Social Policy Program.
B.A., Public Administration, Seoul National University of Technology, 2009.
Interests: social construction of race, multiracial families and children in Korea and in immigrant, youth and family policy |
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Zitsi Mirakhur,
Population and Social Policy Program.
B.A., Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, 2008.
Interests: the relationships between communities, schools and students and would like to study educational reform and urban development |
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Jonathan C. Tannen,
Woodrow Wilson School.
B.S., Physics and Math, Harvard, 2007.
Interests: the internal structure of cities, segregation, youth development and mathematical modeling of emergent structures |
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Amy K. Winter,
Program in Population Studies.
B.A., International Relations and History, University of Georgia , 2007.
Interests: global health disparities, particularly women’s reproductive health in low-resource settings |
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Melanie Wright,
Department of Sociology.
A.B., Public Policy and Theater Studies, Duke University, 2009.
Interests: how neighborhoods and families contribute to social inequalities and in social policies that mitigate early-life disadvantage |
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Visiting Scholars
Elizabeth T. Wilde.
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 2008.
Interests: impact of welfare reform on long term health and disability rates,
federal initiatives and chronic homelessness, impact of insurance
costs on adherence to cancer treatment, and health care quality.
Visiting Student Research Collaborators
Sascha Krannich,
a graduate student in Political Science
at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Germany,
is visiting OPR for the academic year 2011-2012
under the sponsorship of Doug Massey.
He will be working in the general subject of his dissertation,
"Diaspora and Conflict: the Role of the Chiapanecan
Diaspora in the Chiapas Conflict".
Research Staff
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Wade C.
Jacobsen, Research Specialist, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.
M.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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Susana
Sanchez, Research Assistant.
B.A., Liberal Arts, Hampshire College, 2011.
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Kimberly
Torres, Associate Project Manager, New Immigrant Survey.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
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