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Graduate Research Fellows

IRP conducts a rigorous training and mentoring program for the next generation of poverty researchers under the direction of Carolyn Heinrich, IRP Associate Director, Research and Training, and Professor of Public Affairs.

Students participating in the Graduate Research Fellows (GRF) Program are Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences who have an interest in poverty research and expect to complete a related dissertation.

Through a combination of university resources and IRP resources from the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, active IRP Graduate Fellows are also eligible to compete for financial support of their research training.

Visit our GRF Program Web pages for further details about the program.

Alphabetical Listing of GRFs

A       B       C       D       E       F       G       H       I       J       K       L       M       N      
O       P       Q       R       S       T       U       V       W       X       Y       Z      


A

Hong-Min Ahn
School of Social Work
130 School of Social Work Building
1350 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-6333
ahn1@wisc.edu

Hong-Min Ahn's research interests include: (1) social determinants of health inequalities in older adults, (2) the relationship between social support and health over the life course, and (3) health resilience in poor older adults.

B

Jill Bowdon
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
485 Educational Sciences
1025 W. Johnson Street
Madison , WI 53706
(608) 265-9483
bowdon@wisc.edu

Jill Bowdon’s research interests center on racial, ethnic, and economic stratification in the United States, especially as it pertains to education.

Sarah Bruch
IRP/Department of Sociology
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences
3415 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-7450
bruch@wisc.edu

Sarah Bruch’s research interests center on identifying and understanding the pathways through which social inequalities are exacerbated or ameliorated; how policies work as equalizers or stratification mechanisms; and how they shape access to and structure opportunities through their specific characteristics and design features especially for historically marginalized populations.

Brett Burkhardt
IRP/Department of Sociology
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-9476
bburkhar@ssc.wisc.edu

Brett Burkhardt is currently doing research on criminal justice, election laws, and child support payment.

Marguerite Burns
School of Medicine and Public Health
Population Health Sciences
634 WARF Building
(608) 265-3296
meburns@wisc.edu

Marguerite Burns’s research centers on health policy for low-income populations, program evaluation, and health economics.

C

Youseok Choi
Institute for Research on Poverty
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-9476
youchoi@wisc.edu

Youseok Choi’s research interests are in social welfare organizations and administration, comparative welfare state, and social policy evaluation.

Yi-Yoon Chung
Institute for Research on Poverty
3415 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-7450
yychung@wisc.edu

Yi-Yoon Chung’s area of interest lies in poverty policy, in particular policy for single-mother families. She is also interested in the effects of child support on the economic well-being of poor custodial mothers, noncustodial fathers, and their families.

Benjamin Cowan
Department of Economics
6413 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-4542
bcowan@wisc.edu

D

Richard Dunn
Department of Economics
6435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison , WI 53706
(608) 263-3873
radunn@wisc.edu

G

Francisco Galarza
Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
317 Taylor Hall, Henry Mall
427 Lorch Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-1242
fbgalarzaare@wisc.edu

Francisco Galarza’s research interests are in development economics, experimental economics, labor economics, and applied econometrics. His professional Web site is found at: www.aae.wisc.edu/galarza.

Malcolm Gold
Department of Economics
6435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3873
mcgold@wisc.edu

Cynthia Golembeski
Department of Sociology
7110 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706 (608)262-3569
golembeski@wisc.edu

Callie Gray
IRP/School of Social Work
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-9476
cegray@wisc.edu

H

Yoonsook Ha
IRP/School of Social Work
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-9476
yha@wisc.edu

Sarah Halpern-Meekin
Visiting Doctoral Fellow
Institute for Research on Poverty
3439 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-2287
s.halpernmeekin@gmail.com

Eun Hee Han
IRP/School of Social Work
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-7450
ehan3@wisc.edu

Jennifer Holland
Department of Sociology
7102 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3953
jholland@ssc.wisc.edu

J

Jessica Jakubowski
Department of Sociology
7109 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-7422
jjakubow@ssc.wisc.edu

K

Ko Eun Kim
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
School of Education
225 N. Mills Street, Rm. 528G
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-6883
kekim@wisc.edu

Ko Eun Kim’s research interests include early childhood education and child care policy that may especially affect poor and minority families and their children with the major research interest directed towards exploring the impact of recent changes in federal, state, and local policies and practices on Head Start programs that primarily serve children and families at the poverty level as the longest-lasting federal early childhood program.

L

Brian Lagotte
Anthropology and Educational Policy Studies
1000 Bascom Mall
221 Education Building
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3758
lagotte@wisc.edu

Brian Lagotte’s research is in a curriculum which promotes knowledge of the mechanisms to interrupt dominance and promote social justice--politically and economically.

N

Kisun Nam
Institute for Research on Poverty
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-9476
kisunnam@wisc.edu

P

Fabian T. Pfeffer
Department of Sociology
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
fpfeffer@wisc.edu

Fabian Pfeffer's research interests are in the area of social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, and international comparisons. His dissertation research focuses on the role of parental wealth in the process of intergenerational status transmission for the US and Germany. His professional website is at: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~fpfeffer/.

R

Jeong Hee Ryu
IRP/School of Social Work
3415 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-7450
ryu2@wisc.edu

Jeong Hee Ryu’s research interests are in the area of children and families in poverty and specifically in the impact of socioeconomic factors on physical health and well-being for low-income children.

S

Hilary Shager
Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER)
Mailing address: 3439 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-9388
hshager@wisc.edu

Hilary Shager’s research interests are in social welfare and education policy.

Kia Noel Sorensen
Department of Sociology
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-1426
ksorense@ssc.wisc.edu

Kia Noel Sorensen has a general interest in issues pertaining to inequality in education.

Hugette Sun
Institute for Research on Poverty
7230 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-1981
hasun@wisc.edu

Hugette Sun is interested in the effects of policy on household behavior--more specifically, she is currently analyzing the effect of child-support policy on divorce decisions. Her professional Web site is at: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~hsun/.

T

Nathan Tefft
Department of Economics
6435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3873
nwtefft@wisc.edu

Nathan Tefft's research interests include Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Public Economics. His job market paper adopts an instrumental variables approach to examine the effect of mental health changes on employment status. His professional web site is at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~ntefft/.

Y

Mi Youn Yang
IRP/School of Social Work
3439 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-2287
miyeon7@wisc.edu

Li Yao
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
1350 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-6333
lyao1@wisc.edu

Marci Ybarra
Institute for Research on Poverty
3435 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-9476<
Ybarra@wisc.edu

Marci Ybarra’s primary research interests include issues related to welfare reform for women of color, more specifically the following: (1) The impact of service delivery on clients, particularly clients of color in urban areas, (2) The role of caseworker discretionary decision-making on client program experiences, and (3)The role of agency variation in service delivery in client outcomes related to service usage and employment.

Anat Yom-Tov
Institute for Research on Poverty
8128 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-2921
ayom@ssc.wisc.edu

Anat Yom-Tov’s research interests are in stratification and labor market inequality, wage inequality, spatial effects, contextual effects, and race and gender disparities across jobs, space, and neighborhoods.


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Posted: 11 December, 2006
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