COLLEAGUES

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Current Pre- and Postdoctoral Trainees

Doctoral Students- Where are they now?

Postdoctoral Fellows- Where are they now?

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Current Pre- and Postdoctoral Trainees

Year Started	Name	Status	Prior Degree	Research Area
2001	Lance Erickson	Pre-Doctoral Student	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	The life course
2003	Tyson Brown	Pre-Doctoral Student	University of Florida	Aging and the life course
2004	David Warner	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Penn State University	Demography of work and retirement
2004	Steve McDonald	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Florida State University	Social networks and employment outcomes
2004	Matthew Loyd	Pre-Doctoral Student	Carleton College	Work/family responsibilities over the life course
2005	Kathryn Henderson	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Indiana University

Doctoral students

Year degree completed	Name	Current Position	Dissertation topic
1973	Harold Grasmick	Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma	Social change and the Wallace movement in the south
1974	William Corsaro	Robert H. Shafer Class of 1967 Endowed Professor of Sociology, Indiana University	A developmental sociolinguistic approach to socialization
1975	Howard Sacks	Associate Provost, Professor of Sociology, Director of Rural Life Center, Kenyon College	Socialization and status change in the development of self
1976	Sheila Bennett	Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Culture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges	Social change and women's roles
1984	Elizabeth C. Clipp	Professor of Nursing, Associate Research Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center; Director, NINR-funded TRAC Center; Director, Hartford Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Center	Health in later life
1984	Susan Rose	Professor of Sociology, Dickinson College	Religion and the life course
1986	Avshalom Caspi	Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Personality and the life course
1991	Cynthia P. Gimbel	Caliber Associates, Fairfax, Virginia	Long-term recall and life course development
1991	Weiqiao Wu	Sales Manager, Bristol Corporation, Beijing, China	Family formation in contemporary urban China
1991	Martha Skinner	Statistics and Evaluation, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Linking economic hardship to female adolescent depressive symptoms
1991	Mareena Wright	WESTAT, Rockville, Maryland	Holding up their half of the sky
1991	Michael Foster	Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography, Population Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania	Rural families and economics
1992	Amy Wofford
1992	Glenn Deane	Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY Albany	Parents and progeny
1993	Rachel Ivie	Caliber Associates, Fairfax, Virginia
1994	Monika Ardelt	Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Florida at Gainesville	Wisdom in the later years
1995	Richard Miech	Assistant Professor of Sociology and Mental Hygiene (joint appt.), Johns Hopkins University	Working to improve society
1996	Angela P. Willeto	Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northern Arizona University	Navajo culture and education
1998	Toshiko Kaneda	Social Science Fellow, Population Council, New York City	Patterns of aging in China
1999	Raymond Swisher	Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University	Neighborhood effects on adolescent college expectations
2002	Margaret Mueller	Research Analyst, Leo J. Shapiro and Associates, Chicago, Illinois	Work, family and well-being over the life course
2003	Jenny Godley	Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary	Eating disorders in adolescence

Postdoctoral Fellows

Year	Name	Current Position	Prior Degree	Research Area
1979-1983	Jeffrey Liker	Professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan	University of Massachusetts	Economic factors in the life course
1987-1991	Eliza Pavalko	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University	Florida State University	Health trajectories and longevity
1986-1987	Avshalom Caspi	Institute of Psychiatry, London, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison	Cornell University	Personality and the life course
1988-1991	Elizabeth Robertson	Chief, Prevention Research Branch, NIDA	UNC-Greensboro	Health trajectories and substance abuse
1989-1990	Margaret Miller Love	Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of Kentucky	University of Minnesota
1991-1993	Laura Rudkin	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston	Princeton University	Age-related rural migration
1991-1993	Aimee Dechter	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison	University of Pennsylvania	Economic factors in divorce
1991-1995	Michael J. Shanahan	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of Minnesota	Adolescent work experience
1992-1995	Debra Mekos	Assistant Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University	University of Virginia	Family socialization and relations
1993-1996	Valarie King	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University	University of Pennsylvania	Intergenerational processes
1994-1997	Stephen T. Russell	Assistant Professor, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis	Duke University	Rural change
1994-1997	Christopher Chan	SAS Institute, Houston, Texas	Harvard University	Social change and the life course
1994-1996	Anne Fletcher	Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, UNC-Greensboro	Temple University	Social ecology of adolescents
1997-1999	Heather Koball	Associate Research Scientist, National Center for Children in Poverty, New York	Virginia Tech University	Role of economic crisis in changing men's roles in families
1997-1999	Daniel J. McGrath	American Institutes for Research, Washington, D.C.	University of Pennsylvania	Urban families and economic factors
1997-2000	Hiromi Taniguchi	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Louisville, Kentucky	Princeton University	War in men's lives
1999-2000	Brenda K. Wilhelm	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Mesa State College	University of Arizona	Intergenerational dynamics
1999-2000	Mark Regnerus	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin	UNC-Chapel Hill	Religious influences on adolescence
1999-2001	Robert Crosnoe	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin	Stanford University	Human development, education, health
1999-2001	Rashmita Mistry	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University	University of Texas at Austin	Poverty's affect on children
1999-2002	Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Washington State University	University of Minnesota	Education and work in adolescence and young adulthood
2001-2002	Sabrina Oesterle	Research Associate, School of Social Work, University of Washington	University of Minnesota	Transition to adulthood
2001-2003	Kim Shuey	Workforce Aging in the New Economy, University of Western Ontario	Florida State University	Intergenerational relationships and exchanges
2001-2003	Andrea Willson	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario	Florida State University	Dynamics of inequality over the life course
2001-2003	Scott Stoner-Eby		University of Pennsylvania	Educational attainment among youth in disadvantaged settings
2002-2003	Margaret Mueller	Research Analyst, Leo J. Shapiro and Associates, Chicago, Illinois	UNC-Chapel Hill	Work, family and well-being over the life course
2002-2005	J Scott Brown	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Miami University of Ohio	Duke University	Aging
2003-2005	Steven Hitlin	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Self, values, agency and the life course

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