ISR Director’s Office
Kate Cagney
Director
Kate Cagney, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, started her role as the Director of the Institute for Social Research in September 2021. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Her general aim is to bring insights from urban sociological theory and methods to research on health.
Thom Madden
Managing Director
Thom Madden stepped into the role of ISR’s managing director in May 2022. He has extensive experience in higher education administration, guiding institutions in shaping their strategy on finance, research administration, and budgeting.
ISR Advisory Board
Susan B. Meister, PhD
Chair
Kerwin K. Charles, PhD
Daniel L. Doctoroff, JD
Alec D. Gallimore, PhD
Robert M. Groves, PhD
Sonja B. Plesset, PhD
Judith A. Seltzer, PhD
Matthew VanBesien
ISR Centers
Center for Political Studies
Michael W Traugott, Interim Director
Lauren Guggenheim, Research Associate Director
Catherine Seay-Ostrowski, Center Administrator
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Margaret Levenstein, Director
J. Trent Alexander, Associate Director
John Lemmer, Assistant Director
Population Studies Center
Sarah Burgard, Director
Research Center for Group Dynamics
Richard Gonzalez, Director
Catherine Seay-Ostrowski, Center Administrator
Survey Research Center
Pamela Davis-Kean, Director
Megan Patrick, Associate Director of Faculty Affairs
Robin Jacob, Associate Director of Faculty Development
Mary Mangum, Assistant Director
ISR Service Areas
Business Operations
Kurt Rigg, Director of Business Operations
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Communications
Katherine Pearson, Director of Communications
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Computing & Multimedia Technology
Marcus Blough, Director of Computing & Multimedia Technology
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Development
Facilities
Hannah Larsen, Facilities Manager
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Human Resources
Leigh Anne Cutcher, Director of Human Resources
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Research Administration
Kerri Cross, Director of Research Administration
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