Category: Job Appointments

Job Appointments 2023-2024

Mara Getz Sheftel (‘21)

Started a tenure track position at the Rutgers School of Public Health and the Rutgers Institute for Health.

Jonathan Zisook (‘21)

Was appointed Assistant Teaching Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh

Beiyi Hu (‘24)

Accepted a visiting assistant professor offer at Oberlin College, starting in Fall 2024

Morgan Richards-Melamdir (‘24)

Was recently promoted to Sector Lead for Poverty and Inequality at the research firm Global Insight, where she has been working for the past few years.

Dakota Ross-Cabrera (‘24)

Started a new job as a user researcher at the dating app Hinge. Her dissertation focuses on relationships and dating app experiences for Latinx emerging adults.

Edwin Grimsley (‘23)

Accepted an assistant professor offer at Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, starting in fall 2023.

Xuemeng Li (‘23)

Accepted doctoral lecturer offer at Hunter College, starting in fall 2023.

Lorraine Torres-Colon(‘23)

Accepted Latino Social Science Postdoctoral Fellow offer at Latinx Research Center at University of California, Berkeley starting in fall 2023.

Kasey Zapatka (‘23)

Accepted a postdoc offer in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley starting summer 2023

Juliana de Castro Galvão (‘23)

Accepted a postdoc offer at Oxford University.

Benjamin Haber (‘17)

Accepted tenure-track assistant professor position at Wesleyan University

Job Appointments April-October 2021

Karen Okigbo 

Accepted a postdoc offer at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Karen defended her dissertation this summer and began the position in September.

 

Siqi Tu

Accepted a postdoctoral fellow position for Global Perspective on Society at NYU Shanghai for the 2021-2022 Academic Year. Siqi is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the department of Ethics, Law and Politics of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

 

Jonathan Zisook

Accepted a visiting lecturer position in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh for the 2021-2022 academic year

 

Wenjuan Zheng 

Accepted an assistant professor position at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Job Appointments in July 2020

Carmela Dormani (Class of 2020)

Will join Mercy College as an assistant professor in the Sociology/Behavioral Sciences Department in Fall 2020. Carmela was featured in the GC Class of 2020 Series: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55180

 

Eric Ketcham (Class of 2020)

Has been working at the New York City Department of City Planning since June, 2019. Eric was featured in the GC Class of 2020 series: https://gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55032

 

Rebecca Karam 

Will begin a postdoc position in Fall 2020 at Michigan State University as a Dean’s Research Associate. She will defend her dissertation titled “Making Muslim Americans: Parenting Practices, Parochial Schools, and the Transmission of Faith Across Generations in Metropolitan Detroit” in August, 2020.

https://socialscience.msu.edu/diversity/DRAP/research-assoc2.html

 

Berglind Hólm Ragnarsdóttir (‘2019)

Will start a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of Akureyri, Iceland in Fall 2020

 

Tanesha Thomas 

Accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of sociology at Montclair State University. Tanesha defended his dissertation titled “Is the South (still) America’s Sacrifice Zone? A Regional Analysis of Toxic Emissions, 1987-2017” in June, 2020.

 

Anna Zhelnina 

Will start a two-year postdoc position at the University of Helsinki in Fall 2020.   Anna plans to defend her dissertation “”Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow’s Renovation” in August 2020.

 

Melanie Lorek (‘2018)

Accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor with CUNY School of Professional Studies.