Research Analyst, 1998-2001
Randy is a Research Scientist at The Walsh Group, P.A.
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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.
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CATI Lab Supervisor, 2001
Erin is the CATI Supervisor at Price Waterhouse Cooper.
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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 daughter, Emma Rose.
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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.
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Assistant Operations Manager, 1994-1995,
Acting Operations Manager,1995-1996
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.
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CATI Lab Supervisor, 2001-2002
Stephanie is an Economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Survey Operations Manager, 1993-1996
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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.
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Research Assistant
Meg is current a full-time graduate student at the Northeastern University where she is working on her Ph.D.
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Co-Founder, Associate Director,1989-1993
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.
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Graduate Research Analyst, 1995-1999
John works on quality control issues for SIR.
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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.
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Graduate Research Analyst, 1992-1995
Jeff Gulati is a 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Senior Research Analyst, 1997-2002
Brian is a methodologist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Undergraduate intern, webmaster, 1998-1999
Renelle is a Technical Writer for Enterprise Engineering.
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Project Assistant, 2003-2004
Rena is an editor at Silverchair publishing in Charlottesville, VA.
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Research Analyst
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Graduate Research Analyst, 1993-1996
Joe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at James Madison University.
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Fiscal Technician, 1994-1996
Frances is currently working as the Business Manager for the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Virginia.
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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.
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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.
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Assistant Supervisor
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Graduate Research Analyst, 1999-2000
Kuawa is a Methodologist at Statistics Canada.
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Senior Research Analyst
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Research Assistant