PhD Alumni Placements

Education Policy

• Adam Alvarez, Assistant Professor, Rowan University
• Emily Koren, Postdoc, University of Southern California, erk68@pitt.edu, (just finished)
• Kakenya Ntaiya, founder and director of the Kakenya Center for Excellence. (Kenya)
• David E.K. Smith, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Idaho

At the time these students completed the program, it was called Social and Comparative Analysis in Education.

Exercise Physiology

• Abdullah Alansare—Assistant Professor, King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
• Ronald Jackson—National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Melissa Jones—Assistant Professor, Oakland University
• Andrew Kubala—Sleep Research Scientist, U.S. Naval Health Research Center (San Diego, California)
• Tyler Quinn—Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

Language, Literacy, and Culture

• Erika Abarca Millán – Senior Research Director Metro Center, New York University, Center for Policy, Research and Evaluation
• Hyeju Han – Assistant Professor, National Louis University
• Francis Troyan – Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
• Vivian Mihalakis – Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Kristin Davin – Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• James Chisholm – Associate Professor, University of Louisville

Special Education

• Seth King – Associate Professor, University of Iowa
• Alicia Mrachko – Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University
• Rachel Schles – Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
• Kim Zebehazy – Professor, University of British Columbia
• Justin Kaiser – Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
• Rebecca Renshaw – Executive Director of the Lavelle School for the Blind: