November 7, 2009

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New Faces at OPR

We welcome the following new OPR visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and members of the research and technical staff.

Visiting Scholars

Tracy Chu, (CE). Ph.D., CUNY, Graduate School and University Center, Interdisciplinary Studies concentration in Advanced Social Research. Tracy is currently a NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mental Health Services Research Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University, and is visiting Princeton to study demogrpahy. She is also a Research/Statistical Consultant for the NYC Department of Health, Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Program. Her areas of Specialization are Medical Sociology; Immigration and Ethnicity; Urban Sociology and Quantitative Methods.

Janina Söhn, visiting Scholar from the Center for Social Research in Berlin, where she is studying the integration of immigrants in Germany. Söhn received her diploma in Sociology from the Free University in Berlin in 2000. She is supported by the Hans-Boeckler Foundation and will be in Princeton for September and October.

Chizuru Ushida, Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Program). Ph.D, Nagoya University, Japan, 2009. Professor of Education, Nanzan University, Japan Interests: bilingual / bicultural education, academic performance of Latino immigrant children, Latin American Society, race and ethnicity.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Terry-Ann Craigie Ph.D. 2009, Michigan State University, Economics. Interests: labor economics, economics of the family, applied microeconomics.

Mathew Creighton, Research Associate. Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2009. Interests: migration, health disparities, gender inequality and educational stratification.

Colter Mitchell, Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 2009. Interests: family formation, parent-child relationships, gene-environment interactions, ideational change, survey and quantitative methodology.

Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Research Associate. Ph.D., Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago, 2009. Interests: health disparities, inequality and stratification, complementary and alternative medicine, health care markets.

Graduate Students

Lauren Gaydosh, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2009.B.A., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2007. Interests: social influences and consequences of the HIV epidemic and other health problems in developing countries, with a strong emphasis on both quantitative and qualitative methods within sociology and demography.

Joanne W Golann, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2008. B.A., English, Amherst College, 2004. Interests: social inequality, higher education, immigration, and ethnography.

Elizabeth Sully, Woodrow Wilson School, Entered Fall 2009. B.A., IDS and Political Science, McGill University, 2008. Interests: HIV/AIDS and gender within conflict and post-conflict societies, changes to sexual networks and conceptions of sexuality.

Research/Technical Staff

Mary Himmelstein, CRCW Research Specialist II. M.A., General/Experimental Psychology, St. John's University.

Melanie Wright, CRCW Research Specialist I. B.A., Public Policy/ Theater Studies, Duke University.