Blalock Fellowships awarded by the CSSS

CSSS awards Hubert M. Blalock Fellowships every year to new graduate students entering one of the departments with CSSS-related Ph.D. fields, minors or tracks (Anthropology, the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, Political Science, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics). Candidates are nominated by their department's graduate advisor, and awards are decided by the CSSS Graduate Committee. The Fellowship is named for Hubert M. Blalock, a former leading sociological methodologist who was Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Washington and a former President of the American Sociological Association.

Blalock Fellows are notified of the award in late winter, and prospective students who are interested in statistical methodology for the Social Sciences are encourage to mention their interest when they apply.

Blalock Fellows

2007 - 2008

Danielle Fumia holds a Masters Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007) and is a graduate student in the Evans School of Public Affairs.

Mark Wheldon holds a Masters Degree in Statistics from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (2006) and is a graduate student in the department of Statistics.

2006 - 2007

Jennifer Chunn holds a BS degree in Biometry & Statistics from Cornell University (2002) and is a graduate student in statistics.

2005 - 2006

Richard Callahan holds a B.A. in Mathematical Social Science from Dartmouth College (2003) and is a graduate student in sociology.

Gail Potter holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and is a graduate student in statistics.

2004 - 2005

Leontine Alkema holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2003) and is a statistics graduate student. She is working with Sam Clark and Adrian Raftery on probabilistic population projections in demography.

Tyler Corwin holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Point Loma Nazarene University, CA (2004) and is a sociology graduate student.

2003 - 2004

Amanda Cox holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from St. Olaf College. She graduated with an M.S. in Statistics in 2005 and is now a Graphics Editor at the New York Times.

Krista Gile holds a M.S. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech (2000) and also a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselar Polytechnic Institute (1998). She is a graduate student in the Statistics Department and is working with Mark Handcock and Martina Morris on social network analysis.

2002 - 2003

Ryan Admiraal holds a B.S. in Mathematics and English from Calvin College and is a graduate student in the the Statistics Department. He is working with Mark Handcock on constrained maximum likelihood estimation.

Eric Aldrich graduated with an M.S. in statistics in 2005 and is now an economics Ph.D. student at Duke University.

Rachel Kuller entered the Sociology department as a graduate student in 2002 after obtaining a B.S. in Engineering from Harvard University. She graduated with an M.A. in Sociology in 2004, and now works as a senior analysis for Doxus, a market research consultancy specializing in the high tech market.

Nicholas Pharris-Ciurej holds a B.A. in Sociology from Seattle University and is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.

2001 - 2002

Susan Shortreed holds a B.S. in statistics from the University of Michigan and is a graduate student in the Statistics Department. While in Michigan she worked on statistical methods for ensuring confidentiality in social science data at the Institute of Survery Research with Professor Trivellore Raghunathan. At Washington she has worked on social network analysis with Mark Handcock and is now working on cluster analysis methods with Marina Meila.

Jason Thomas holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Washington (2000), and is a graduate student the the Department of Sociology.