Where Are They Now?
Former employees and staff of CSR
Randolph Atkins, Jr.
Research Analyst, 1998-2001
Randy is a Research Scientist at The
Walsh Group, P.A.
Dawn M. Baunach
Graduate Research Analyst, 1991-1993
Dawn is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her research is primarily on gender
inequalities in the labor market, including labor force participation, wage
inequality, occupational segregation, affirmative action, and sexual
harassment. She has recently published
in Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research and Gender
Issues, and has articles forthcoming in Sociological Inquiry and Sociological
Spectrum. Her co-edited book
entitled Sex and Society will be published by Allyn and Bacon in 2004. Dawn enjoys teaching graduate and
undergraduate classes in statistics, gender, and sexuality. Recently she has created a graduate seminar
on the Sociology of Food.
Erin Bell
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2001
Erin is the CATI Supervisor at Price
Waterhouse Cooper.
Marian J. Borg
Research Analyst, 1992-1993
Marian is an Associate Professor of
Sociology at the University of Florida at Gainesville. She joined the faculty of UF in August 1994
after completing her PhD at the University of Virginia. She teaches undergraduate courses in
criminology and deviance, and a graduate seminar in the sociology of social
control. She also services as the
department’s Undergraduate Coordinator.
Marian’s research focuses on studying various processes of conflict management,
including the death penalty, mediation, confrontation and surveillance. Her publications have appeared in Law and
Society Review, Criminology, Deviant Behavior, and Homicide Studies. Marian lives in Gainesville with her
husband, Michael, an attorney and their two-year old daughter, Emma Rose.
Sy Miin Chow
Graduate Research Analyst (2000-2002)
Sy Miin is a one year post doctorate
in the Department of Psychology at Notre Dame where she will be an Assistant
Professor of Psychology in the fall of 2005.
Joanne Cohoon
Assistant Operations Manager (1994-1995), Acting
Operations Manager (1995-1996)
and Assistant Researcher (1996-1997)
Joanne is a Research Assistant
Professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy at the
University of Virginia. Currently she
is conducting a national research study of female under-representation in IT
and gender segregation in higher education.
Her project is funded through a $537,132 grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Stephanie Costo
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2001-2002
Stephanie is an Economist at the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Lea Cunningham
Survey Operations Manager, 1993-1996
Charles Denk
Associate Director, 1991-1996
Charles is currently a Research
Scientist in the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program at the New
Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. Current projects include: impact of maternal smoking on low birth
weight; norms for birth weight by race/ethnicity; reliability of medical risk
information on birth certificates; municipal assessment of maternal and child
health; hospital policies and breastfeeding initiation.
Meg Finley
Research Assistant
Meg is current a full-time graduate
student at the Northeastern University where she is working on her Ph.D.
Stephen Finkel
Co-Founder, Associate Director (1989-1993) and
Board Member
Steve is a Professor in the
Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. His research
projects focus on political participation and voting behavior in the United
States and in cross-national perspective. He is the recipient of National
Science Foundation and German Academic Exchange Service grants. He is the
author of Causal Analysis with Panel Data as well as numerous articles
in political science journals, including the American Political Science
Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of
Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science.
John Fries
Graduate Research Analyst, 1995-1999
John works on quality control issues
for SIR.
Valerie Fuller
Graduate Research Analyst, 1999-2000
Dr. Fuller received
her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Virginia in 2000. She is currently a Study Director at the
McLean, VA office of Synovate, Inc., a multinational survey and market research
firm. In this capacity, she writes
government proposals, manages large-scale telephone and Internet surveys, and
conducts non-response analyses. Her current clients include the Food and Drug
Administration and the Department of Defense. Valerie’s areas of expertise include experiment and survey design,
data collection, multivariate data analysis, and report preparation. Before joining Synovate in 2004, Dr. Fuller
conducted survey research at the Office of Educational Assessment at the
University of Washington. She also spent several years as a usability engineer
for Microsoft Corporation, where she used cognitive interviewing techniques to
improve the user-friendliness of Windows XP and MSN.com. Dr. Fuller’s research in graduate school,
which investigated people’s perceptions of conscious will, was published in the
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology.
Jeff Gulati
Graduate Research Analyst, 1992-1995
Jeff Gulati is an Assistant
Professor of political science at Wellesley College. A member of the faculty since 2001, Professor Gulati teaches
courses in American politics, Congress, political representation, and research
methods and statistics. He also is serving as Co-Director of the College¹s
Wellesley in Washington Internship Program.
Professor Gulati's current research is about the implications that
cultural and socio-economic diversity have for the development of political
parties, campaigns and elections, and legislative decision-making.
Ryan Hubbard
Senior Research Analyst, 2003-2004, Research
Analyst, 1998-2003
Ryan resides in Washington, D.C. and
is working as a Survey Design Specialist at Westat, located in Rockville MD.
His current projects include the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), a
CAPI rotating panel study of roughly 15,000 medicare recipients. Ryan is
responsible for the instrument design and evaluations of usability for new
"browser based" interviewing software which will be used in the
future to field the MCBS.
Jennifer Joseph
Project Assistant, 1999-2000
Jen received her M.A. in survey
methods from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in May 2002. She presented a paper on teenage nonresponse
at the annual meeting of the American Association of Public Opinion Research in
2002.
Mark Jendrysik
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 1995-1996
Mark is an assistant professor in
the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University
of North Dakota. Prior to his appointment at UND he held visiting positions at
Bucknell University and the University of Mississippi. He also held a
post-doctoral appointment at the Center for Survey Research of the University
of Virginia. He likes to say that he was seeing America one college at a time.
His book Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries
was published in 2002 by Lexington Books. In addition to his interest in
seventeenth-century English political thought, he has published and presented
papers on public opinion methodology, on ethnic politics in the United States,
and on the intersection of technology and politics. He is currently researching
a book on the idea of decline in modern America. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. from Providence
College.
Doug Loyd
CATI Lab Director (1993-1994), Technical Director
(1987-1996)
Doug was Technical Director of CSR
for its first ten years, from 1987 until 1996. Throughout this time, he also
provided computer support and network administration for two departments in the
College of Arts & Sciences. His
position was redefined in 1996 to focus exclusively on computer support in the
Department of Sociology and the Department of Government & Foreign Affairs. In 2000 he moved into a new position with the
Department of Information Technology and Communications (ITC), where he serves
as the Technical Resources Coordinator within the Departmental Computing
Support group.
Janetta Lun
Graduate Research Analyst, 2002-2003
Janetta is a Ph.D. track graduate student
in the social psychology program of the Department of Psychology. Her thesis is
entitled: "Implicit self-stereotyping and its implications on
self-esteem."
Jean S. McSween
Graduate Research Analyst, 2001-2002
Jean completed her Ph.D. in the Department
of Politics and is now a research analyst at the General Accounting Office in
Washington, D.C.
Brian J. Meekins
Senior Research Analyst, 1997-2002
Brian is a methodologist with the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Renelle Motos
Undergraduate intern, webmaster, 1998-1999
Renelle is a Technical Writer for
Enterprise Engineering.
Rena Morse
Project Assistant, 2003-2004
Rena is an editor at Silverchair
publishing in Charlottesville, VA.
Paul Schroeder
Research Analyst, 2000-2003
Paul is currently a Study Manager at
Westat, located in Rockville MD. He works with the National Cancer Institute on
epidemiologic studies that focus on the etiology of various types of cancer.
Jennifer Schocklin
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2002-2004
Jen Schocklin is now working towards
a Master's Degree in International Relations at The American University in
Washington, D.C.
Kevin Schanning
Research Assistant, 1994-1998
Kevin is an Associate Professor of
sociology at Northland College in Wisconsin. His current research examines of
the Social Carrying Capacity of large predators, such as wolves, in the upper
Great Lakes region.This project includes data gathering through survey research
of individual attitudes towards predators.
Joseph Spear
Graduate Research Analyst, 1993-1996
Joe is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Sociology at James Madison University.
Frances Stephenson
Fiscal Technician, 1994-1996
Frances is currently working as the
Business Manager for the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of
Virginia.
Amy K. Stewart
Graduate Research Analyst, 1999-2000
Upon leaving CSR, Amy began work as
a Survey Specialist at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the
University of Chicago. There, she
participated in projects regarding Small Business Owners for the Federal
Reserve, Child Development for the Department of Labor, and the Florida
Presidential Ballot Recount for a consortium of networks and newspapers. In April 2001, she began work as an Analyst
for the General Accounting Office (GAO) at its Chicago Field Office. Since joining GAO, she has worked on
projects regarding Air Traffic Controller Attrition, Ethanol Use in California,
and Security at Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors. Also during this time, she has continued to pursue her doctorate
in American Government from UVA.
Jennifer Wainright
Graduate Research Analyst, 2002-2004
Jen received her Ph.D. in Psychology
and is now a Senior Research Analyst working for a research firm in Richmond,
VA.
Kuawa Williams
Graduate Research Analyst, 1999-2000
Kuawa is a Methodologist at
Statistics Canada.
Former
employees: Feel free to contact us to update your information!
Updated on June 26, 2002.