Recently Hired


Lacey Moore

PhD Date: May 2024
Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LaGrange College, a private liberal arts college in LaGrange, Georgia

Daniel J. Boches

PhD Date: May 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, McDaniel College, a private liberal arts college in Westminster, MD

Ashley Crooks-Allen

PhD Date: Aug 2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan

Jeff Patterson

PhD Date: Aug 2022
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Texas Tech University

Megan Steele

PhD Date: May 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control in the Division of Reproductive Health

Malissa Alinor

PhD Date: Aug 2021
Accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University. She will begin an Assistant Professor position in the School of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill in Fall 2023

Arialle Crabtree

PhD Date: Aug 2021
Lecturer of Gender Studies at Mississippi State University

Brittany T. Martin

PhD Date: Aug 2021
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Western Kentucky University

Eric T. Klopack

PhD Date: Dec 2020
Postdoctoral fellowship at University of Southern California

Timothy G. Edgemon

PhD Date: Aug 2020
Upon graduation, Dr. Edgemon accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cincinnati's Corrections Institute. Dr. Edgemon is now an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham (England)

Chelsea Rae Kelly

PhD Date: Aug 2020
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Jeff S. Shelton

PhD Date: May 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Psychology, Wayne State College in Nebraska

Jamie L. Palmer

PhD Date: Aug 2018
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Nevada State College

Elizabeth Culatta

PhD Date: May 2018
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work at Augusta University

Bryan Cannon

PhD Date: May 2018
Accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College

Kristen Clayton

PhD Date: May 2018
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oglethorpe University, a private liberal arts school in Atlanta.

Tara E. Sutton

PhD Date: May 2018
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mississippi State University

Rebecca Boylan

PhD Date: Aug 2017
Upon graduation, Dr. Boylan accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Purdue University. She is now a research Scientist at the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute at the University of Texas in Austin.

Jeffrey Gardner

PhD Date: May 2017
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University

Ashleigh McKinzie

PhD Date: May 2017
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University

Jun Zhao

PhD Date: May 2017
Dr.Zhao completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Program in Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College, where she was also a Resident Scholar in Sociology. Dr. Zhao is now an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of

Rebecca Hanson

PhD Date: Dec 2016
Assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at University of Florida

Tim Gill

PhD Date: Aug 2016
Assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee