Where to Next? Outgoing IQSS graduate affiliates share plans

May 20, 2024

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by IQSS Staff

The IQSS community includes a cohort of graduate students in programs all across Harvard University and active in a wide range of social science research. The end of the academic year always brings with it the departure of some of those graduate students as they finish their Harvard programs and while it is a bittersweet time for us, we are excited to see what our graduating affiliates have waiting for them on the next steps of their journeys. Below is a collection of updates from some of those affiliates going on to continue their work beyond Harvard.

2024 Outgoing Graduate Student Affiliates

	Caterina Chiopris (Political Economy & Government) This fall, Caterina will be an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. In 2025, she will start at Columbia University as an assistant professor.
	Jorge Cuartas (PhD, Human Development, Learning, and Teaching) Jorge will start a new appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU, where he will continue his research agenda on the developmental consequences and prevention of violence against children, the links between climate change, parenting, and child development, and program and policy design and evaluation.
	Jorge Encinas (PhD, Education Policy & Program Evaluation) Jorge will be starting work as an economist at Amazon, based out of Boston.
	Peter Hickman (PhD, Economics) Peter will be a research fellow at the foundation Open Philanthropy. There, his job will be to draw on findings and methods from economics to determine what types of programs will yield the most social benefits per dollar spent, helping the foundation maximize its impact. He adds, "I'm very excited to help translate research into real-world impact!"
	Drew Johnston (PhD, Economics) Drew will be working at Meta as a postdoctoral research scientist and staying on at Opportunity Insights as a research affiliate. He continue to work on a number of the projects from his time in grad school, studying social capital and migration patterns.
	Eleanor Krause (PhD, Public Policy) This fall, Eleanor joins the faculty at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics, as an assistant professor of economics.
	Mary Laski (PhD, Education Policy & Program Evaluation) Mary will be working as a research assistant professor at Arizona State University. She is working with the Center on Reinventing Public Education to study educator workforce innovations.
	Emma Rackstraw (PhD, Public Policy) For the 2024-5 academic year, Emma will be a Social Science Research Council Criminal Justice Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow, based at the Quattrone Center at Penn's Carey Law School. In the fall of 2025, she will begin as assistant professor of economics at Swarthmore College.