Staff
Thomas M. Guterbock, founding director of CSR received extensive training in quantitative, multivariate methods and has applied these in CSR research, publications and his applied work. In his role as senior project designer and project director for the Center, he has originated and implemented numerous studies, including many that involve either complex sampling, complex questionnaire protocols, or complex analysis strategies.
Dr. Guterbock is also Professor of Sociology, and Research Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he teaches survey research methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Ms. Bebel, Assistant Director at CSR, came to the Center in 2004 with 16 years of experience in survey research at Northern Illinois University’s Public Opinion Laboratory. As Director of Field Operations there, she was involved in all phases of project development and execution for local, state and national studies covering a wide range of topics and methodologies. She has focused her work on data quality issues, including effective question design, sampling and interviewer training.
Jim Ellis joined CSR as its Director of Research in 2007 after 20 years at Virginia Commonwealth University's Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory. He holds Master's degrees in Mass Communications and Survey Methodology and is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Research and Evaluation at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education.
A member of CSR’s full-time staff, Mr. Holmes is the Survey Operations Manager and a staff research analyst. He has a Master’s degree and is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics. His research interests include comparative economic development, comparative politics and polling, as well as oil-based development. At CSR Mr. Holmes has worked as acting senior research analyst, and project coordinator for several surveys, including studies of North American Research Libraries and Attrition from Computing Majors. He is charged with programming CSR's telephone and website-based surveys and manages tracking, data entry, and oversees the fielding of CSR's web, mail and telephone surveys.
A native of the area, Ila brings several years of office and accounting experience to her position with CSR. She's the one to contact if you're an employee with a question about pay or expense reimbursement, or if you're a client with a question about bills or payments. (And she cheerfully handles a lot of other types of questions, too!) Her duties include: Payroll, Client Billing and Internal Account Maintenance, and Accounts Payable.
Trung Kien Le, Staff Research Analyst (tkl7b@virginia.edu)
Deborah Lynn Rexrode, Staff Research Analyst (dlr3r@virginia.edu)
Debby Kermer, Research Analyst (dk5h@virginia.edu)
Young Kim, Research Analyst (yk2a@virginia.edu)
Bo Wei, Research Analyst (bw2u@virginia.edu)
Jillian Tschamler, Research Analyst
Katherine Asbury, Research Analyst
Yuanda Chen, Research Analyst
Kathy Coker, Project Support (kjc5f@virginia.edu)
Elliot Toms, Technical Support
Peter Elliott, Intern (pje2h@virginia.edu)
Julie Mills, Senior CATI Supervisor
Linnea Hilzheimer, Assistant Supervisor
Gare Galbraith , Assistant Supervisor
Chris Payne, Assistant Supervisor
Lisa Brown, Lead Interviewer
Leonard Arnold, Lead Spanish Interviewer
We remember:
Alison J Meloy
Survey Operations Manager,
1998-2000
Larry Hollen
Associate Supervisor
1988-2008