Where Are They Now?
Ilknur Akyildiz Saribas
Research Analyst, 2005-2007
Ilknur received a PhD in Instructional Technology at UVa.
Randolph Atkins, Jr.
Research Analyst, 1998-2001
Randy has over 20 years of experience in applied social science research with an
emphasis on survey research. Currently he is a Social Science Researcher for the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at the U. S. Department of
Transportation, focusing on behavioral research on drug- and alcohol-impaired driving,
distracted driving, speeding, and traffic safety. Prior to NHTSA, Randy worked as Senior
Research Scientist at The Walsh Group, a private research firm specializing in issues
related to substance abuse and public policy. He has served as Principal Investigator, CoPI, and Project Manager on numerous government funded projects; designing research
protocols and data collection instruments, collecting and analyzing data, writing grant
applications and project reports, publishing study results in peer-reviewed journals and
presenting data in professional and other public forums. He conducted similar research at
UVa where he also taught undergraduate courses in sociology. His strengths include
writing, research design, survey research, data analysis, course design and instruction,
and project management.
Dawn M. Baunach
Graduate Research Analyst, 1991-1993
Dawn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State
University in Atlanta. She has recently published in Public Opinion Quarterly, Social
Science Quarterly, Social Science Research and Gender Issues and has articles
forthcoming in Sociological Inquiry and Sociological Spectrum. Her current research is
primarily on gender inequalities in the labor market, including labor force participation,
wage inequality, occupational segregation, affirmative action, and sexual harassment. Her
co-edited book entitled Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader has been
published by Allyn and Bacon. 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 currently a Senior Manager with DirecTV.
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 UVa. She
teaches undergraduate courses in criminology and deviance, and a graduate seminar in
the sociology of social control. She also serves 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.
JoAnne Cheatham
Research Assistant, 2004
JoAnne is a Coordinator for the UVa Health Plan Administration at the University of
Virginia.
Sy Miin Chow
Graduate Research Assistant, 2000-2002
Sy Miin is in the Department of Psychology at Notre Dame where she has been a
Research Assistant Professor of Psychology since the fall of 2005. She has also acted as a
visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin,
Germany. Dr. Chow’s research focuses on the development and adaptation of modeling
and analysis tools that are suited to evaluating linear and nonlinear dynamical systems
models, including longitudinal structural equation models and state-space modeling
techniques. Her current work involves using Kalman filter approaches and dynamical
systems models to represent the dynamics of emotion regulation. Her longer term aim is
to develop a broader repertoire of data-driven tools tailored toward analyzing the kinds of
longitudinal data typically available in the social and behavioral sciences.
Greg Clumpner
Project Assistant, 2005
Joanne McGrath-Cohoon
Assistant Operations Manager, 1994-1995
Acting Operations Manager, 1995-1996
Assistant Researcher, 1996-1997
Joanne McGrath-Cohoon is the Associate Professor in the Department of Science,
Technology, and Society at UVa. She has also been Research Assistant Professor in the
Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at UVa since 2000. Dr. Cohoon
researches, publishes, and speaks on women’s under-representation in IT and gender
segregation in higher education. Her projects have been funded through a $537,132 grant
from the National Science Foundation. Her research interests include technology and
gender, education and gender, higher education, and organizations. Dr. Cohoon is
currently a member of the National Center for Women in IT Social Science Network, the
Georgia Tech College of Computing Diversity Advisory Board, the PROACT Advisory
Board, and has recently been appointed to the Working Committee on Women in
Computing of ACM-W.
Curtis Copeland
Project Assistant, 2007-2008
Curtis was enrolled in an organized Health Care Education and Training Program during
his tenure at CSR.
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.
Stephanie Costo Denton
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2001-2002
Stephanie is currently an Economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Office of
Employment and Unemployment Statistics.
Abdoulaye Diop
Senior Research Analyst, 2005-2009
Abdoulaye is Head of Research at Qatar University’s Social and Economic Survey
Research Institute (SESRI). Dr. Diop holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and a
Masters of Survey Research from the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining SESRI,
Abdoulaye worked as Senior Research Analyst at CSR as a Senior Project Manager at the
University of Connecticut Center for Survey Research and Analysis (CSRA) and as Data
Analyst at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. He also served as a faculty
member at the National School of Applied Economics (ENEA) in Dakar, Senegal. At
UVa, University of Connecticut, as well as at the National School of Applied Economics,
Dr. Diop was involved in all phases of project development and execution for local, state
and national studies covering a wide range of topics (socio-economic, health, education,
immigration) and methodologies (sampling designs, non-response and coverage errors,
cell phone RDD, weighting cell phone and traditional RDD survey data).
Kat Draughton
Project Assistant, 2004
Caroline Dyar
Research Analyst, 2004
David Filer
Technical Support, 2012
Katantula Filer
Research Intern, 2012
Stephen Finkel
Co-Founder, Associate Director, 1989-1993 and Board Member
Steve is a Professor in the Department of Politics at UVa. 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.
Meg Finley
Research Assistant
Meg received her PhD in Sociology in 2008 from Northeastern University and currently
teaches at Simmons College.
Edith Fischer
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2003-2007
John Fries
Graduate Research Analyst, 1995-1999
John is the Director of Tracking Research at AARP. He previously held research
positions at Southeastern Institute of Research at Allan Newman Research in Richmond,
VA.
Valerie Fuller (DiPaula)
Graduate Research Analyst, 1999-2000
Dr. Fuller received her PhD in social psychology from UVa 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 largescale 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 experimental 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.
Peter Andrew Furia
Project Manager, 2011-2012
Peter is a Lecturer in Politics and Director, Politics Distinguished Majors Program.
Much of Peter Furia's research addresses public opinion and comparative foreign policy
and utilizes survey data to test claims about group identity and inter-group enmity in
international relations. His other interests include mass-elite relations in democracies, the
patriotism-cosmopolitanism debate and the history of international political thought. His
research articles have appeared in Global Society, International Interactions, International
Studies Quarterly and Polity and he has also published over a dozen book chapters, book
reviews and shorter articles. He is co-editor (with Richard Sobel and Bethany Barratt) of
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War (Potomac
2012).
Anton Gardner
Consultant, 2005
Girish (Jeff) Gulati
Graduate Research Analyst, 1992-1995
Girish J. “Jeff” Gulati is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Bentley University
who earned his PhD from UVa. Dr. Gulati’s research areas are telecommunications
policy, e-government, political communication & the news media, campaigns &
elections, and representation in theory and practice. Additionally he has designed studies
assessing higher education programs and policies, election polls, and surveys for nonprofits, interest groups and local governments. Dr. Gulati also is a member of the
Regional Working Group on Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking at the Carr
Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and serves on
the editorial boards of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics and Journal of
Political Marketing. He has previously taught at Wellesley College and the Ralph
Bunche Summer Institute.
David Hartman
Acting Assistant Director, 2003-2009
Dr. Hartman has been a member of the University of Virginia faculty serving from July
2001 to May 2003 and again from 2004 to the present time as the Senior Research
Director for CSR and for a time as the Acting Assistant Director. Before that, he served
as a Visiting Professor in the Eli Broad Graduate School of Business at Michigan State
University and as an Assistant Professor in the McIntire School of Commerce and
Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. His teaching
assignments included classes in consumer behavior, marketing strategy, and marketing
research. His research interests have focused on customer satisfaction. He has had his
articles published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retail
Banking, Journal of Advertising, Proceedings of the Marketing and Public Policy
Conference, and Virginia Review. Dr. Hartman has conducted marketing management
seminars for executives at Masco, Inc., Steelcase, Inc., Amway, Inc., Michie Company
Law Publishers, Market Facts, Inc., and Charlottesville/Albemarle Chamber of
Commerce. From 1963 to 1984, Dr. Hartman worked in the banking industry. He
received a Ph.D. in marketing in 1989, a M.S. in economics in 1963, and a B.A. in social
science in 1958 from Michigan State University.
Mark Hertzog
Graduate Research Assistant
John Lee Pratt Holmes
Survey Operations Manager, 2002-2012
Acting Senior Research Analyst, 2004-2005; 2009-2012
John Lee Pratt Holmes joined SESRI in October 2012 to manage SESRI’s new Computer
Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) calling center. This is a return to the region for
him as two decades earlier he worked and studied Arabic in Jordan after completing his
M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. His graduate studies included
comprehensive exams in Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Comparative Politics,
International Relations, International Political Economy and a Master’s thesis on Saudi
Arabia’s Oil Policy before specializing in survey research methodology. Prior to joining
SESRI, Mr. Holmes was at the University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research for
12 years moving up from Research Analyst and CATI lab supervisor to become Survey
Operations Manager, overseeing all phone, web and mailing surveys at the U.Va Center.
A member of their senior management from 2005-2012, he also simultaneously served as
Acting Senior Research Analyst for over four years during that time. Mr. Holmes took
the lead role developing protocols for handling cell phone calling, including devising the
cell phone-specific disposition codes and interviewer protocols, and co-authored
publications regarding that research. In 2010 he was recognized by U.Va’s Equal
Opportunity Program for “leadership qualities that result in notable contributions to the
cause of social justice and equal rights. At SESRI Mr. Holmes is charged with overseeing
the new CATI lab’s operations, assisting with other research activities, web surveys and
publications at the Center as well as supporting SESRI's teaching role.
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 and
Senior Study Director at Westat, an employee-owned research corporation consulting in
statistical design, data collection and management, and research analysis work. It is
recognized as one of the foremost research and statistical survey organizations in the
country. 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.
Mark Jendrysik
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 1995-1996
Mark Stephen Jendrysik is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public
Administration. He has been a faculty member at the University of North Dakota since
1999. He received his M.A. and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. His B.A. is from Providence College. He is proud to share Chicopee, Massachusetts
as his hometown with famed utopian author Edward Bellamy. Prior to his appointment at
UND he held visiting positions at Bucknell University (1996-98) and the University of
Mississippi (1998-99). He also held a post-doctoral appointment at CSR (1995-96). He is
the author of Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries
(Lexington, 2002) and Modern Jeremiahs: Visions of Decline in Contemporary America
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Professor Jendrysik’s teaching interests include ancient
and modern political thought, utopian political ideas, ethics, public opinion, and
American government.
Jill Nicole Jones
Project Assistant, 2008
Jill is currently employed by Hanover Research as a Senior Research Analyst with a
specialty in questionnaires. Prior to her current occupation, she worked as a Graduate
Research Assistant for the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning in
Higher Education with Karen Inkelas, and as a Graduate Research Assistant for the
Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the Curry
School of Education. Jill has an M.A. in Higher Education from the University of
Maryland and a B.S. in Management, Organizational Behavior from Case Western
Reserve University. Additionally, she is a board member for the Association for the
Study of Higher Education. Her research focuses on the policies, organizational climates,
and socialization processes that allow graduate students and faculty members to realize
success in their careers.
Flora Jones
Project Assistant, 2008
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 for Public Opinion Research in 2002.
Deborah Kermer
Research Analyst, 2004-2008
Deborah is currently a Research Consultant with the Data Services Library at George
Mason University.
Young Kim
Research Analyst, 2007-2008
Young is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion in Waco,
Texas.
Melisa Kimmel
Research Analyst, 2007-2008
Mikaela Kingsley
Project Assistant, 2007-2008
Kien Trung Le
Staff Lead Research Analyst, 2008-2009
Graduate Research Analyst, 2004-2008
Kien is a research associate at Qatar University’s Social and Economic Survey Research
Institute (SESRI). Before joining SESRI, Dr. Le was a lead research analyst at the Center
for Survey Research at UVa. He performed a variety of survey work from computer
programming (e.g.,CATI programming, Visual Basic macros, SPSS scripts) to sampling
and statistical analysis (simple and complex sampling, data weighting, hypothesis tests,
parametric and non-parametric regression). He also worked as a World Bank consultant
in the Vietnam Living Standard Surveys 1997-98. His research areas are survey
methodology, applied microeconomics, applied statistics and econometrics.
Jae Lee
Project Assistant, 2008-2010
Jae is married to Professor Shige Oishi at UVa.
Yue Li
Project Assistant, 2010-2011
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
served as the Technical Resources Coordinator within the Departmental Computing
Support group.
Xin (Dennis) Luang
Graduate Research Analyst, 2010-2012
Janetta Lun
Graduate Research Analyst, 2002-2003
Janetta received her PhD from the University of Virginia in August 2007. She is
presently a post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Maryland at College Park following a teaching assignment as an Instructor
at Saitma University in Japan. She has authored or co-authored many publications in the
fields of Culture and Psychology, School Psychology and Intergroup Attitudes and
Relations.
Anna MacIntosh
Graduate Research Analyst, 2003-2004
Staff Lead Research Analyst, 2004-2005
Anna is currently Vice President, Marketing Research Manager at JP Morgan Chase.
Brice McKeever
Research Analyst, 2011-2012
Brice is a Research Associate with the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. The Institute
builds knowledge about the nation’s social and fiscal challenges, practicing open-minded,
evidence-based research to diagnose problems and figure out which policies and
programs work best, for whom, and how. Brice recently co-authored a Research Brief
titled The Impact of the Great Recession on the Number of Charities.
Jean S. McSween
Graduate Research Analyst, 2001-2002
Jean completed her PhD in the Department of Politics and is now a Senior Social Science
Analyst with the Applied Research and Methods Team at the General Accounting Office
in Washington, D.C.
Brian J. Meekins
Senior Research Analyst, 1997-2002
Brian is a methodologist with ResearchGate at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has had
over eleven years of research in survey methodology in academic, private, and
government settings. His specialties include survey research methodology, latent variable
models, and quantitative estimation of measurement error and telephone survey
methodology.
Paul Miller
Graduate Research Analyst, 2004-2005
Julie Mills
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2005-2010
David Sullivan Morris
Research Analyst, 2009-2010
Rena Morse
Project Assistant, 2003-2004
Rena is Director of Semantics at Silverchair Information / Systems publishing in
Charlottesville, VA. Silverchair has consistently worked with some of the most
accomplished names in scientific, technical, and medical information, spanning the
worlds of publishing, professional societies and associations, governmental agencies, and
academic medical centers.
Renelle Motos
Undergraduate intern, webmaster, 1998-1999
Renelle is a Technical Writer for Enterprise Engineering which applies the knowledge
and methods of systems engineering to the design of enterprises.
Tatiana Omeltchenko Tatarchevskiy
Project Assistant, 2004-2006
Tatiana received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia and teaches at
Sacred Heart University.
Mark Parker, II
Research Assistant, 2011-2012
Mark is a Quantitative Analyst with the Insight Strategy Group in New York which is a
research and strategy firm that inspires its clients to build innovative and impactful
experiences for their consumers.
Sara Resnick
Acting Fiscal Technician, 2005
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.
Jennifer Schocklin
CATI Lab Supervisor, 2002-2004
Jen Schocklin completed a Master's Degree in International Relations at The American
University in Washington, D.C. and is now working at Westat, an employee-owned
corporation known for the quality of its statistical design, study management, data
collection, data management and analysis.
Paul Schroeder
Research Analyst, 2000-2003
Paul is currently Vice President of the Transportation Safety Group with Abt SRBI in
Washington, DC. He focuses on transportation safety issues, working with the
Department of Transportation to reduce deaths and injuries on US highways. He has
extensive experience managing studies for the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and U.S. Department of Transportation. Recent work includes the 2012
National Survey of Bicyclist and Pedestrian Attitudes and Behavior, the 2012 National
Survey of Distracted Driving Attitudes and Behavior, and the 2011 National Survey of
Speeding Attitudes and Behavior.
David Shreve
Consultant, 2008-2011
Dave is the Executive Director at Wintergreen Adaptive Sports, a Nelson County,
Virginia-based non-profit dedicated to providing outdoor sports and recreation
opportunities for persons with disabilities, of all ages and all types of disability. Within
the next year, Dave hopes to see the publication of his book on recent US economic
history, American Promise: The Great Society and the Keynesian Revolution.
Joseph Spear
Graduate Research Analyst, 1993-1996
Joe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at James Madison
University.
Frances Stephenson
Fiscal Technician, 1994-1996
After leaving CSR, Frances worked 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.
Huili Tang
Research Analyst, 2010-2011
Linda Tournade
Research Consultant
Research Associate, 2005-2006
Jillian Tschamler
Graduate Research Analyst, 2010
Jillian is a Procedure Nurse in the Interventional Neuroradiology department at New
York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Hospital in Manhattan.
Jennifer Wainright
Graduate Research Analyst, 2002-2004
Jen received her PhD in Psychology and is now a Senior Research Analyst working for a
research firm in Richmond, VA. While at the University of Virginia she co-wrote a study
with Charlotte Patterson and doctoral student Stephen T. Russell examining the
development of teenagers of same-sex parents.
Kuawa Williams
Graduate Research Analyst, 1999-2000
Kuawa is a Methodologist at Statistics Canada. She is the coauthor of the “Statistics
Canada International Symposium Series: Proceedings – Non-response in a random digit
dialing survey” which aims to monitor the characteristics of and major changes in
Canada's social structure.
Monnica Terwilliger Williams
Graduate Research Assistant, 2003
Monnica is an Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Associate
Director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities. She coordinates several research
projects at the CMHD and provides research and clinical training to students. She
received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia working with Dr.
Eric Turkheimer, and spent four years at the University of Pennsylvania working with
Drs. Edna Foa and Marty Franklin before arriving in Louisville in July 2011. Dr.
Williams is a licensed psychologist who provides cognitive-behavioral treatment for
adults and adolescents with OCD, PTSD, and other anxiety disorders. She specializes in
treatment of the most severe cases of OCD and hoarding using Exposure and Ritual
Prevention (Ex/RP) at the Behavioral Wellness Counseling Clinic. Dr. Williams provides
supervision and training to other clinicians and has published several didactic articles on
treatment issues. She has provided clinical lectures for mental health professionals at
local organizations and national conferences (ABCT and IOCDF).
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