PSC Trainees

Catherine (Kate) Ambler, Economics, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: David Lam
Research Interests: economic micro-development and economic demography.
 
Thomas Bridges, Economics, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: economics of aging, macroeconomics, intergenerational wealth transfers, retirement savings decision.
 
Susan Brower, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, , mentor: Phillipa Clark
Research Interests: Sociology of the family, aging, and living arrangements of the elderly in the U.S..
 
Tanya Byker, Economics, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: David Lam w/Jeff Smith
Research Interests: School, Returns to Education, Labor Force Participation, Occupations, Race and Gender Issues .
 
LuLu Chen, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: stratification, immigration, education, economic assimilation.
 
Patricia V. Chen, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Sarah Burgard
 
Siwei Cheng, Sociology, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-615-4061, mentor: Yu Xie
 
Jamein Cunningham, Economics, Year: 2
Email Link, , mentor: John Bound
 
Cynthia Doniger, Economics, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-9798, mentor: Bob Willis
Research Interests: Microeconomics, econometrics, decision making under uncertainty, financial planning among the elderly.
 
Maxwell (Max) Farrell, Economics, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Applied microeconomics with a focus on health issues.
 
Susan Godlonton, Economics/Public Policy, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4108, mentor: David Lam w/Rebecca Thornton
 
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Economics, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-3189, mentor: John Bound w/Martha Bailey
Research Interests: labor economics, antipoverty policy evalution and determinants of poverty and income inequality.
 
Margaret Gough, Sociology, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-4108, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Work and family, labor force participation, stratification, and social demography.
 
Jesse Gregory, Economics, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: labor economics, applied microeconomics, and urban economics.
 
Lloyd Grieger, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: social policy, poverty race and inequality, family formation, research methods.
 
Claire Herbert, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4108, mentor: David Harding and Jeff Morenoff
 
Brad Hershbein, Economics, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor and public economics, economics of gender and family composition .
 
Margaret (Maggie) Hicken, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: biosocial factors and black-white health disparities; biological-environmental interaction and health; stress and black-white health disparities.
 
Jessica Hoel, Economics, Year: 3
Email Link, , mentor: Martha Bailey
Research Interests: Economics of Fertility and Economic Development.
 
Sun-Jae Hwang, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Social policy, stratification, social demography, quantitative methodology.
 
Elyse Ann Jennings, Sociology, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-615-3561, mentor: Bill Axinn
Research Interests: family, social demography and fertility.
 
Yang Jiang, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, , mentor: Jeff Morenoff and Pam Smock
Research Interests: social demography, interracial dating, spacial analysis and quantitative methods.
 
Sarah W. Johnson, Sociology, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: David Harding
Research Interests: urban poverty, social inequality and social epidemiology.
 
Alexandra (Sasha) Achen Killewald, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 4
Email Link, 734/615-4601, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: gender stratification, education, quantitative methods.
 
Katherine E. King, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: James House
Research Interests: Social demography, inequality, China.
 
Brian Kovak, Economics, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: David Lam
Research Interests: Labor and international economics .
 
Qing Lai, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-615-4608, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: education, family, China, research methods.
 
Bridget Lavelle, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: Pam Smock
Research Interests: Domestic poverty, demographic influences on poverty, low-wage employment, social welfare policy.
 
Katherine Lin, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4589, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Health and Aging.
 
Cynthia F. Link, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, , mentor: William Axinn
Research Interests: Social demography, family dynamics, fertility, data collection and research methods.
 
Erin Linnenbringer, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: Social and physiological factors in health disparities, research methods.
 
Kristin Irene Meyer, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: Rachel Snow
Research Interests: Reproductive health and family structure in Central Asia.
 
Ryan Michaels, Economics, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-5261, mentor: David Weir
Research Interests: macroeconomics and labor economics.
 
Zheng Mu, Sociology, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-4589, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: social demography, social stratification and quantitative methods.
 
Marta Murray-Close, Economics, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor economics, poverty and inequality, family structure, and the economics of gender.
 
Johannes Norling, Economics, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: David Lam
Research Interests: Development economics, labor economics, and economic history.
 
Rachael Pierotti, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Sarah Burgard
Research Interests: influence of gender norms on health and other development outcomes in Africa.
 
Meeta Sainju Pradhan, Sociology, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-615-3553, mentor: Bill Axinn
Research Interests: Development, women's empowerment, and poverty alleviation.
 
Annie Eun Young Ro, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: structural racism, discrimination, the effect of social policy on health disparities.
 
Jane Rochmes, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 4
Email Link, , mentor: David Featherman
Research Interests: race and ethnicity, education, inequality, and social policy.
 
Kristin Seefeldt, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 4
Email Link, 734 615-3802, mentor: Pam Smock
Research Interests: Social policy, poverty, fertility, family structure.
 
David Diego Torres, Sociology, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-3221, mentor: David Harding
Research Interests: education disparity and the correlates of race- and gender-based policies (e.g., affirmative action) and redistributive policies (e.g., welfare, social security).
 
Lai Sze Tso, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, , mentor: James Lee and Pam Smock
Research Interests: Social Demography, mortality, migration, and Women in China.
 
Akilah Wise, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: Arline Geronimus
 
Geoffrey (Geoff) Wodtke, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-3221, mentor: David Harding
Research Interests: Stratification, poverty, public opinion, research methodology.
 
Jennifer Eckerman Yarger, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: advanced
Email Link, , mentor: Jennifer Barber
Research Interests: Family, fertility, work and family, social policy, survey methods.
 

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