Karen Stein is Principal Associate and Lead Methodologist at the consulting and research firm Abt Associates. After leaving Rutgers, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and was a Senior Study Director at Westat. Her book based on her dissertation, Getting Away From It All: Vacations and Identity was published in 2019.

Neha Gondal's primary research interests lie in exploring the relationship between social networks and culture and its role in the production and maintenance of social inequalities. She employs cutting edge statistical techniques for modeling social networks including varieties of exponential random graph models (ERGM) and agent-based modeling (ABM) to study diverse contexts such as elite consolidation through money-lending ties in Renaissance Florence, inequalities in academic communities evident in citation and hiring networks, and the clustering of unhealthy outcomes in Boston’s public housing developments.

Niina Vuolajarvi received her Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers University in 2021. She is the New School Zolberg Institute of Migration and Mobility postdoctoral fellow for 2021-2022. Niina joins the London School of Economics as an Assistant Professor of International Migration in January 2022. Her interdisciplinary research is situated at the intersection of migration, feminist and socio-legal studies. Currently, Niina is working on her first book "Migration, Sex Work and the Feminist Politics of Care" based on her vast three-country ethnographic dissertation research among migrant sex workers in the Nordic region. Niina' s dissertation research was supported by the Mellon /American Council of Learned Societies and the Fulbright Foundation. In 2021, Rutgers School of Graduate Studies acknowledged her groundbreaking scholarship through the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Sexuality Research and Social Policy and recognized by the Law and Society Association and American Sociological Association.