Postdoctoral Alumni
Allison Helmuth
Postdoc: 2022-2024
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Texas
Seth Williams
Postdoc: 2022-2024
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University
Ian Kennedy
Postdoc: 2022-2023
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois Chicago
Jacqui Frost
Postdoc: 2020-2022
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University
Oneya Fennell Okuwobi
Postdoc: 2021-2022
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati
Rachel C. Schneider
Postdoc: 2019-2022
Current Employment: Director, Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance
Steven T. Jefferson
Postdoc: 2020-2022
Current Employment: Assistant Professor at Fordham University
Zhe (Meredith) Zhang
Postdoc: 2018-2022
Current Employment: Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University of Arkansas
Dialika Sall
Postdoc: 2020-2021
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Lehman College-CUNY
DongMei Li
Current Employment: Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College Columbia University; Senior Research/Evaluation Associate, Socially Responsible Evaluation in Education at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Bob Thomson
Postdoc: 2017-2019
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Erin Baumgartner
Postdoc: 2015-2018
Current Employment: Associate Director of HISD Research and Relations, Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University
Brian Holzman
Postdoc: 2016-2018
Current Employment: Research Scientist, Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University
Ashley Kranjac
Postdoc: 2015-2017
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chapman University
Patricia Morton
Postdoc: 2016-2017
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Heather O’Connell
Postdoc: 2014-2017
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
Pamela Prickett
Postdoc: 2015-2017
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Kori Stroub
Postdoc: 2014-2016
Current Employment: Research Scientist, Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University
David Johnson
Postdoc: 2012-2016
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Higher Education, Georgia State University; Non-resident Research Fellow, Religion and Public Life Program, Rice University
Claire Altman
Postdoc: 2013-2015
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri
Gregory Sharp
Postdoc: 2013-2015
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
Daniel Bowen
Postdoc: 2013-2015
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University School of Education web page
Dara Shifrer
Postdoc: 2013-2015
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociology, Portland State University; Research Affiliate, Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University
Diego Torres
Postdoc: 2013 - 2015
Current Employment: Analyst II, Lone Star College
Brandon Vaidyanathan
Current Employment: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, The Catholic University of America
Jennifer Augustine
Postdoc: 2011-2012
Current Employment: Associate Professor & Undergraduate Program Director, University of South Carolina
Sarah Damaske
Postdoc: 2009-2011
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Sociology, and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Adrianne Frech
Postdoc: 2009-2011
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Health Sciences, University of Missouri
Madlene Hamilton
Postdoc: 2009-2011
Current Employment: Fulbright Scholar, University of Sierra Leone (FBC) - Institute for Population Studies and Development
Patricia Snell Herzog
Postdoc: 2011-2013
Current Employment: Melvin Simon Chair and Associate Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Kimberly Kay Hoang
Postdoc: 2011-2013
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago
Jared Peifer
Postdoc: 2011-2013
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Baruch College Zicklin School of Business
Jeremy Porter
Postdoc: 2008-2010
Current Employment: Chief Research Officer, First Street Foundation; Professor of Sociology and Director of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, CUNY-Brooklyn
Marcus Britton
Postdoc: 2005-2008
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Melanie Heath
Postdoc: 2006-2008
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University
Kristin Schilt
Postdoc: 2006-2008
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, University of Chicago
Jason Shelton
Postdoc: 2006-2008
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington
Anne E. Lincoln
Postdoc: 2004-2006
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociology, Southern Methodist University
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Postdoc: 2004-2006
Current Employment: Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology; Graduate Program Director; Director, Religion and Public Life Program; Rice University
Michael Aguilera
Postdoc: 2002-2004
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
Jen'nan Ghazal Read
Postdoc: 2001-2003
Current Employment: Professor of Sociology and Global Health, Duke University