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Congratulations 2026 CSSS Track Grads!

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences is proud to recognize students nineteen students who have completed the respective PhD tracks in their Graduate Programs. Letters of recognition were presented at the CSSS seminar on Wednesday, June 3rd. 

  • College of Education 
    • Yale Quan 
    • Yijie Wang
  • Department of Sociology 
    • Ihsan Kahveci
  • Department of Statistics 
    • Juejue Wang 
  • Department of Political Science 
    • Candela Arias Perez 
    • Hassan Aziz 
    • Cody Little 
    • Kayla Morton 
    • Tongtian Xiao 
  • Evans School of Public Policy and Governance 
    • Mark Nepf
  • Global Health Metrics and Implementation Science
    • William Garcia 
  • School of Nursing 
    • Zih-Ling Wang 
    • Jessica Ziemek
  • School of Social Work 
    • Brittany Jones-Cobb 
    • Tess Abrahamson-Richards 
  • Urban Design and Planning 
    • Shiqi Ding 
    • Keith Leung  
    • Hoseok Sa 
    • Paul Shema 

The tracks typically involve completing at least 4 advanced CSSS courses and attending weekly CSSS seminars for a minimum of one quarter. Based on our 2023 CSSS survey, 73% of CSSS grads are currently employed in an academic capacity, with the remaining 27% working in government, industry, or NGO positions. 

You can find the full list of all CSSS alums by year and home department at this link. 

Picture of 2026 CSSS PhD Track Graduates