SoDA Graduate Faculty

The SoDA Graduate Faculty are those Penn State faculty who may serve as the SoDA chair or co-chair of committees for SoDA dual-title students, and as the SoDA representative member of committees for SoDA doctoral minor students. The official list of SoDA Graduate Faculty is maintained by the Graduate School here.

Appointment to the SoDA Graduate Faculty is made by the SoDA Program Head in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Program Committee. Faculty wishing to be appointed to the SoDA Graduate Faculty should contact the SoDA Program Head, Burt Monroe.

SoDA Graduate Faculty in Dual-Title PhD Programs

Each faculty member is listed once. Many have joint or graduate faculty appointments in other departments and programs.

Human Development & Family Studies

  • Timothy Brick
  • Linda Collins
  • Stephanie Lanza
  • Peter Molenaar
  • Zita Oravecz
  • Nilam Ram

Informatics

  • Guoray Cai
  • Chao-Hsien Chu
  • Lee Giles
  • Vasant Honavar
  • Kenneth Huang
  • Jessie Li
  • Prasenjit Mitra
  • Sarah Rajtmajer
  • David Reitter
  • Frank Ritter
  • James Wang
  • Shomir Wilson
  • Amulya Yadav
  • John Yen
  • Luke Zhang

Political Science

  • Bruce Desmarais
  • Pete Hatemi
  • Marie Hojnacki
  • Suzanna Linn
  • Burt Monroe
  • Kevin Munger
  • Michael Nelson
  • Eric Plutzer
  • Christopher Zorn

Psychology

  • Jonathan Cook
  • Rick Gilmore
  • Michael Hallquist
  • Frank Hillary
  • James Lebreton
  • Rustin Meyer
  • Bradly Wyble

 

Sociology

  • Duane Alwin
  • Corina Graif
  • Daniel Dellaposta
  • Diane Felmlee
  • Melissa Hardy
  • Derek Kreager
  • Stephen Matthews
  • Charles Seguin
  • Ashton Verdery
  • Scott Yabiku

Statistics

  • Le Bao
  • Murali Haran
  • David Hunter
  • Jia Li
  • Runze Li
  • Maggie Niu
  • Sesa Slavkovic
  • Lingzhou Xue

 

Graduate Faculty in Other PhD Programs

 

  • Communications (Bellisario)
    • Bu Zhong
  • Communications Arts & Sciences
    • Lijiang Shen
    • Rachel Smith
  • Computer Science
    • Daniel Kifer
    • Wang-chien Lee
    • Kamesh Madduri
    • Rebecca Passonneau
  • Geography
    • Guido Cervone
    • Christopher Fowler
    • Alexander Klippel
    • Alan MacEachren
    • Anthony Robinson
  • Industrial Engineering
    • Soundar Kumara
    • Conrad Tucker
  • Recreation, Parks, & Tourism Management
    • Bing Pan
  • Rural Sociology
    • Guangqing Chi

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