Our Alumni

UC Berkeley / UC San Francisco Scholar Alumni Information
(Summer 2010)

News

Cohort 19 Candidates Dinner Click here to see the photos of the dinner for Cohort 19 candidates at Shattuck Hotel on January 17.

Ryan Moore (Cohort 18), PhD, RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research, publishes an article on Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets.(The article can be found here).

Benjamin Handel (Cohort 18), PhD, RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research, publishes a paper on Assessment of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program.(The article can be found here).

Benjamin Handel (Cohort 18), PhD, RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research, has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.

Colin Moore (Cohort 16) is this year's recipient of the American Political Science Association's Walter Dean Burnham Award for the best dissertation in Politics and History for his work, "Institutions of Empire: Information, Delegation, and the Political Control of American Imperialism, 1880-1913."

Eric McDaniel (Cohort 15) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the co-recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award (with co-author Christopher Ellison) from the Western Political Science Association for their June 2008 Political Research Quarterly Article: "God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time."

Tim Büthe (Cohort 14) has published, "The Globalization of Health and Safety Standards: Delegation of Regulatory Authority in the SPS Agreement of the 1994 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization" in Law and Contemporary Problems.

Robert Mickey (Cohort 13) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Politcal Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Anthony Chen (Cohort 12) has joined Northwestern University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Policy Research.

Christopher Parker (Cohort 12) has been promoted and named the Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice by the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Alumni Career Paths

Cohort XVI (2009-2011)

• Gadarian, Shana, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  Syracuse University
  Syracuse, NY
  
  
• Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Management Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Colin Moore, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Honolulu, HI
  
  
• Maria Rendon, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Planning, Policy and Design School of Social Ecology
  University of California, Irvine
  Irvine, CA

Cohort XV (2008-2010)

• Rene Almeling, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  Yale University
  New Haven, Connecticut
  
  
• Kyna Fong, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  Stanford University
  Palo Alto, CA
  
  
• Helen Marrow, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  Tufts University
  Medford, MA
  
  
• Eric McDaniel, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Government
  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX

Cohort XIV (2007-2009)

• Lori Beaman, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL
  
  
• Tim Bϋthe, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  Duke University
  Durham, NC
  
  
• Cybelle Fox, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  University of California, Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA
  
  
• John Friedman, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, MA

Cohort XIII (2006-2008)

• Michael Anderson, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  University of California, Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA
  
  
• Robert Mickey, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, MI
  
  
• Naomi Murakawa, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA
  
  
• Aaron Panofsky, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Center for Society and Genetics
  School of Public Policy/Center for Society and Genetics
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA

Cohort XII (2005-2007)

• Christopher Parker, Ph.D.
  Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice, Department of Political Science
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA
  
  
• Alexandra Kalev, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, AZ
  
  
• Jordan Matsudaira, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, NY
  
  
• Anthony Chen, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the Institute for Policy Research
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL

Cohort XI (2004-2006)

• Karen R. Albright, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Behavioral Health, and
  Director of Qualitative Research, Colorado Health Outcomes Program
  University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, CO

• Seema Jayachandran, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA
  
  
• Michael Schwarz, Ph.D.
  Principal Research Scientist
  Yahoo Research Labs
  Berkeley, CA
  
  
• Robert Van Houweling, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of California, Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA

Cohort X (2003-2005)

• Jeb Barnes, J.D., Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA

• Brian Gifford, Ph.D.
  Senior Research Associate
  Integrated Benefits Institute
  San Francisco, CA
  
  
• Sarah Reber, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
  UCLA School of Public Affairs
  Los Angeles, CA
  
  
• Mark Sawyer, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics
  Department of Political Science
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA

Cohort IX (2002-2004)

• Kristen S. Harknett, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, PA
  
  
• Ann C. Keller, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
  University of California, Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA
  
  
• Jonathan D. Ketcham, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, School of Health Management and Policy
  W.P. Carey School of Business
  Arizona State University
  Tempe, AZ
  
  
• Karen E. Lutfey, Ph.D.
  Director, Center on Patient-Provider Relationships and Senior Research Scientist
  New England Research Institutes
  Watertown, MA
  
  
• Adam D. Sheingate, PhD
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, MD
  
  
• Diane M. Whitmore Schanzenbach, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  School of Education and Social Policy
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL

Cohort VIII (2001-2003)

• Christopher Bonastia, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
  Lehman College, The City University of New York
  Bronx, NY
  
  
• Thomas F. Burke, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  Wellesley College
  Wellesley, MA
  
  
• Dino Falaschetti, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Law and Economics, College of Law
  Florida State University
  Tallahassee, FL
  On Leave: Campbell National Fellow 2009-2010, Hoover Institution
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA
  
  
• Jonah B. Gelbach, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Economics
  Eller College of Management
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, AZ

Cohort VII (2000-2002)

• Michele T. Berger, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Curriculum in Women's Studies
  University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Carol A. Caronna, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
  Towson University
  Towson, MD
  
  
• Kevin Esterling, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of California, Riverside
  Riverside, CA
  
  Brian K. Finch, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Sociology
  San Diego State University
  San Diego, CA
  
  
• Douglas Miller, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Economics
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA

Cohort VI (1999-2001)

• Chiquita A. Collins, Ph.D.
  Research Director, Health Equity
  Altarum Institute
  San Antonio, TX
  
  
• Ted Gayer, Ph.D.
  Co-director of Economic Studies and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow
  Brookings Institution
  Washington, DC
  
  
• Albert H. Yoon, J.D., Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario

Cohort V (1998-2000)

• Michael B. Greenstone, Ph.D.
  3M Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, MA
  On leave: Chief Economist
  Council of Economic Advisers
  Washington, DC
  
  
• Helen Levy, Ph.D.
  Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research and
  Assistant Research Scientist
  School of Public Health
  University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, MI
  
  
• David N. Pellow, Ph.D.
  Professor and the Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair, Department of Sociology
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, MN
  
  
• Lynn M. Sanders, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Politics
  University of Virginia
  Charlottesville, VA

Cohort IV (1997-1999)

• Glenn D. Beamer, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Public Health, and
  Director, Master of Public Health Program
  University of the Sciences
  Philadelphia, PA

• Daniel P. Dohan, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor and Associate Director for Training
  R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
  University of California, San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA
  
  
• Robin D. Hanson, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Economics
  George Mason University
  Fairfax, VA
  
  
• Anne Morrison Piehl, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Economics
  Rutgers University
  New Brunswick, NJ

Cohort III (1996-1998)

• Dalton C. Conley, Ph.D.
  Dean of the Social Sciences
  Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
  New York University
  New York, NY
  
  
• Bowen Garrett, Ph.D.
  Senior Research Associate
  Health Policy Center
  The Urban Institute
  Washington, DC
  
  
• Timothy S. Prinz, Ph.D.
  Senior Policy Analyst, Blue Sky Health
  Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA
  
  
• Stephanie A. Robert, Ph.D.
  Professor and Associate Director, School of Social Work
  University of Wisconsin – Madison
  Madison, WI

Cohort II (1995-1997)

• Karen M. Booth, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Curriculum in Women's Studies
  University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Jonathan B. Oberlander, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Social Medicine, and Health Policy Administration
  School of Medicine
  University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Mark Carl Rom, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
  Georgetown University
  Washington, DC
  
  
• Michael L. Schoenbaum, Ph.D.
  Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology, and Economics 
  Division of Services and Intervention Research
  National Institute of Mental Health
  Bethesda, MD

Cohort I (1994-1996)

• Kelly J. Devers, Ph.D.
  Senior Fellow
  Urban Institute
  Washington, DC
  
  
• Susan M. Giaimo, Ph.D.
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  Marquette University
  Milwaukee, WI
  
  
• Ruth S. Given, Ph.D.
  
  
• John D. Wilkerson, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor and Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy
  Department of Political Science
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA