PSC Trainees

Alexandra Achen, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 2
Email Link, 734/647-4428 , mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: family demography, survey research techniques.
 
Jennifer Ailshire, Sociology, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: James House, Jeffrey Morenoff
Research Interests: Health disparities, social and physical environmental influences on health, social epidemiology..
 
Michael Bader, Sociology, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-730-7564, mentor: Jeff Morenoff
Research Interests: Urban issues, racial issues and residential segregation.
 
LuLu Chen, Sociology, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Yu Xie
 
Adam J. Cole, Economics, Year: 5
Email Link, 763-3123, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor economics, public finance, and migration.
 
Daniel Harris Cooper, Economics, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4108, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, econometrics, economics of aging.
 
Taryn Dinkelman, Economics, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: David Lam
Research Interests: Labor economics, and the impact of households (group effects) on labor market transitions in South Africa.
 
Jennifer L. Eckerman, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-936-2633, mentor: Jennifer Barber
Research Interests: Family, fertility, work and family, social policy, survey methods.
 
Amie Emens, Sociology, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-615-3555, mentor: Jennifer Barber
Research Interests: Family, social demography, fertility, marriage, and cohabitation.
 
Margaret Michele Gough, Sociology, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4108, mentor: Yu Xie
 
Jesse Gregory, Economics, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-2952, mentor: John Bound
 
Lloyd Grieger, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Social policy, poverty, race and inequality, social capital, research methods.
 
David Gunter, Economics, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor economics, public finance, immigration.
 
Brad Hershbein, Economics, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor and public economics, economics of gender and family composition .
 
Maggie Hicken, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: Racial disparities in women's and perinatal health; social construction of racial inequalities.
 
Jessica Hoel, Economics, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: Martha Bailey
Research Interests: Economics of Fertility and Economic Development.
 
Sun-Jae Hwang, Sociology, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Social policy, stratification, social demography, quantitative methodology.
 
Elyse Ann Jennings, Sociology, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-936-0051, mentor: Bill Axinn
Research Interests: family, social demography and fertility.
 
Yang Jiang, Sociology, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-615-4607, mentor: Jeff Morenoff
Research Interests: social demography, interracial dating, spacial analysis and quantitative methods.
 
Danya Keene, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: Social inequalities and health, reproductive health.
 
Benjamin Keys, Economics, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4552, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor and public economics, poverty, wealth and income inequality.
 
Katherine E. King, Sociology, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-3443, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Social demography, inequality, China.
 
Brian Kovak, Economics, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor and international economics .
 
Lisa Lapeyrouse, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: advanced
Email Link, 763-4552, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: Women and adolescent reproductive health and ethnic disparities in health.
 
Susan Lee-Rife, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: Pam Smock
Research Interests: Adolescence and the transition to adulthood in developing countries (especially Egypt and South Africa); marriage and cohabitation; reproductive health behaviors .
 
Erin Linnenbringer, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: Social and physiological factors in health disparities, research methods.
 
Cynthia F. Macht, Sociology, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-615-3558, mentor: William Axinn
Research Interests: Social demography, family studies, fertility.
 
Kristin Irene Meyer, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: Rachel Snow
Research Interests: Health disparities; social and environmental influences on reproductive health and HIV prevention in Central Asia and the Former Soviet Union.
 
Ryan Michaels, Economics, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-5261, mentor: David Weir
Research Interests: macroeconomics and labor economics.
 
Colter Mitchell, Sociology, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-615-3549, mentor: Arland Thornton
Research Interests: Family demography, survey methods, quantitative methods, attitudes.
 
Zheng Mu, Sociology, Year: 1
Email Link, 734-763-4589, mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: social demography, social stratification and quantitative methods.
 
Marta Murray-Close, Economics, Year: 4
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor economics, poverty and inequality, family structure, and the economics of gender.
 
Meeta Sainju Pradhan, Sociology, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-615-3553, mentor: Bill Axinn
Research Interests: Development, women's empowerment, and poverty alleviation.
 
Toinu Elzah Reeves, Economics, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: John Bound
 
Annie Eun Young Ro, Health Behavior and Health Education, SPH, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4570, mentor: Arline Geronimus
Research Interests: structural racism, discrimination, the effect of social policy on health disparities .
 
Jane Rochmes, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, , mentor: David Featherman
Research Interests: race and ethnicity, education, inequality, and social policy.
 
James Sallee, Economics, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Household Bargaining, Economics of Marriage and Fertility, Normative Tax Theory.
 
Kristin Seefeldt, Sociology/Public Policy, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: Sarah Burgard
Research Interests: Social policy, poverty, fertility, family structure.
 
Michael A. Stevens, Economics, Year: 3
Email Link, 734-763-4519, mentor: John Bound
Research Interests: Labor economics, racial disparities in health and income .
 
David Diego Torres, Sociology, Year: 2
Email Link, 734-763-4098, mentor: David Harding
Research Interests: Economic stratification, inequality in education, minority engagement in the stock market, changes in the global labor:capital ratio brought about by the free market liberalism of the last thirty years and its effect on the American working- and middle-classes.
 
Lai Sze Tso, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, 734-763-4531, mentor: James Lee
Research Interests: Social Demography, mortality, migration, and Women in China.
 
Nathalie Williams, Sociology, Year: 5
Email Link, 734-936-2267, mentor: William Axinn
Research Interests: Migration, armed conflict, HIV/AIDS, Nepal, Cambodia.
 
Haiyan Zhu, Sociology, Year: advanced
Email Link, , mentor: Yu Xie
Research Interests: Research methods, migration.
 

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