Doctoral Alumni

Matthew E. Jans - Verbal Paradata and Survey Error:  Respondent Speech, Voice, and Question-Answering Behavior Can Predict Item Nonresponse (Co-Chairs:  Dr. Frederick Conrad and Dr. James Lepkowski)

Courtney K. Kennedy - Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Mobile Phone Surveys (Chair:  Dr. Michael Traugott)

Rachel Levenstein - Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Mixed Mode Designs (Chair:  Dr. James Lepkowski)

Kristen M. Olson - An Investigation of the Nonresponse - Measurement Error Nexus (Chair:  Dr. Robert M. Groves)

Andrey A. Peytchev - Participation Decisions and Measurement Error in Web Surveys (Chair: Dr. Mick P. Couper)

Emilia A. Peytcheva - Language of Administration as a Source of Measurement Error:  Implications for Sureys of Immigrants and Cross-cultural Survey (Chair:  Dr. Norbert W. Schwarz)

James R. Wagner - Adaptive Survey Deign to Reduce Nonresponse Bias (Chair:  Dr. Trivellore E. Raghunathan)

Mandi Yu - Disclosure Risk Assessments and Control (Chair:  Dr. Trivellore E. Raghunathan)

Sonja I. Ziniel - Cognitive Aging and Survey Measurement (Chair:  Dr. Norbert W. Schwarz)

Additional Program in Survey Methodology Alumni

Dr. Pam Campanelli

My first job after graduating with a B.A. in psychology was working for the ICPSR data archive. Here I discovered survey research and after archiving a number of studies, became very keen to be on the data collection side! This led to working with a health psychology survey team at the University of Michigan's Office for Educational Research and Resources and to starting Bob Groves' new masters programme in Applied Social Research on a part-time basis. I started with the second cohort of the programme in 1984. More >

Emily McFarlane

I was introduced to survey methodology during my summer internship with the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). The JPSM program stood out over other internship opportunities because it was the first program I saw that combined both of my undergraduate majors: social sciences and statistics. During the internship, I worked at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), where I was able to use my cognitive psychology background to learn more about the processes used by respondents to answer survey questions and I was able to use my statistics knowledge to analyze survey research in health and social sciences. I also took weekly seminars on survey research from Bob Groves at the University of Maryland, where I learned more about the survey methodology field. More >

Darby Miller Steiger

Darby Miller Steiger, M.A., M.P.P., is a Consultant for Gallup and the Director of Research of the Gallup Panel. Steiger’s role is to provide leadership and guidance on questionnaire design and qualitative research for clients and Gallup associates, and to lead quantitative and qualitative research studies for specific clients.  She also leads all research aspects of running and maintaining the Gallup Panel, which is a probability-based, multi-mode panel of U.S. households recruited through random-digit-dial and cell phone sampling.  More>

Noppadon Kannika

I was a student in Survey Methodology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and received my master's degree in 2004. I studied at the University previously at several of the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques sessions, where I earned certificates in survey sampling and focus groups before joining the master's degree program. More >