Participant Biographies

Participant Organization Biography
Alexandra Breslin Joint Program in Survey Methodology Alexandra Breslin is a second year PhD student at the University of Maryland's Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). Prior to joining JPSM, she worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs. There she project managed the Division's surveys including the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED). She received a BA in Business Economics from Loyola University Maryland and an MS in Economics from Stellenbosch University. 
Alexandru Cernat University of Manchester Dr. Cernat has a PhD in survey methodology from the University of Essex. His main research areas are around data quality in longitudinal studies and new forms of survey data.
Alian Kasabian University of Nebraska-Lincoln Alian Kasabian is the Assistant Director of the Methodology and Evaluation Research Core Facility (MERC) at UNL. As an applied sociologist and survey methodologist, she evaluates community and grant funded projects across a wide range of topics. She earned her BA in Psychology from Cal Poly Pomona, and her MA and PhD in Sociology with a minor in Survey Research and Methodology at UNL. Her research focuses on the quantitative measurement of gender in surveys, and issues of data quality and item nonresponse.
Allyson Holbrook University of Illinois at Chicago Allyson L. Holbrook is a professor of public administration and psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in psychology and political science from Dickinson College and her MA and PhD in psychology from the Ohio State University. Her research broadly addresses the social and psychological processes involved in participating in a survey (both the processes of deciding whether or not to participate and the process of answering survey questions themselves) and the processes by which people form, change, and act on their attitudes (particularly attitudes about political policies).
Angelica Phillips University of Nebraska-Lincoln Angelica Phillips is a first year master's student in the Sociology department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently researching the measurement and nonresponse implications of grids vs. item-by-item design in web and mail surveys.
Anna Wiencrot NORC at the University of Chicago Anna Wiencrot is a Senior Research Director in the Health Sciences Department at NORC at the University of Chicago, where she has worked in project management for field survey operations for over nine years. She currently serves as the Associate Project Director for the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a longitudinal, nationwide, population-based study of health and social factors. Anna has extensive experience overseeing training, data collection, and interviewer protocol development for large field projects including NSHAP, the Kentucky HEALTH Survey, and the National Children’s Study (NCS). She has co-authored papers and presentations on data collection topics such as household screening, training, and gaining cooperation. Anna holds a master’s degree in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Antje Rosebrock University of Mannheim Antje Rosebrock is a second year PhD student at the University of Mannheim and a research assistant at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). She holds a Master's degree from the University of Göttingen. Her current research focuses on the cognitive aspects of survey interaction and the perception of burden by the interviewer and the respondent.
Birgit Jesske Infas 1986, Diploma (graduation) at the University of Cologne, Faculty of Education, major: social sciences and methodology. Diploma thesis: Interviewer effects in telephone interviews.  A role-theoretic approach 1987 - 1988, Project Assistant Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin 1989 - 1990, Postgraduate at the University of Cologne, Faculty of Education. 1990 - 1998, Head of Field Department “Face-to-Face”, infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Bonn 1999 - 2011, Project Manager Social Sciences - responsible for surveys with complex survey designs, mixed-mode designs, large scale surveys and panel studies; since 2009 Project Manager “Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung (PASS)”, infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Bonn since 2012, Head of Department “Data Collection and Survey Methodology”, infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Bonn
Brad Edwards Westat Brad Edwards is a Westat vice president with more than 30 years of experience designing and managing large, complex surveys.  He is Westat’s project director for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey’s household component.  Research interests include multicultural issues, panel survey design, mobile devices, performance dashboards, and data collector training and management. He co-chaired the 2015 conference “Total Survey Error:  Improving Quality in an Era of Big Data,” and co-edited Total Survey Error in Practice (2017). He was also a co-editor of Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (2010) and Hard-to-Survey Populations (2015), and has authored or co-authored many book chapters, journal articles, short courses, and presentations at AAPOR, ESRA, and other conferences.
Brady West University of Michigan Brady T. West is a Research Associate Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Second Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2014), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by Chapman Hill in June 2017.  Brady lives in Dexter, MI with his wife Laura, his son Carter, his daughter Everleigh, and his American Cocker Spaniel Bailey. 
Celine Wuyts Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Belgium Celine Wuyts is a research assistant at the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Belgium. She is a member of the Core Scientific Team of the European Social Survey and is involved in the ESS quality assessment. Her research focuses on interviewer effects on measurement and nonresponse, and task-related interviewer characteristics.
Dana Garbarski Loyola University Dana Garbarski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Carolyn B. Farrell Endowed Assistant Professor at the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership at Loyola University Chicago. Her research interests comprise a mix of substantive and methodological issues related to social inequalities, health, and the life course, including complex longitudinal relationships between social factors and health; the measurement of health, gender, and sexual orientation; and interviewer-respondent interaction. Her work has been published in sociological, methodological, and public opinion research journals.
Daniela Ackermann-Piek GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Daniela Ackermann-Piek is a senior researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany. Daniela was involved in the implementation of several large survey programs in Germany until she finished her Ph.D. in the area of interviewer effects. Besides her research in the area of nonprobability online surveys, she is especially interested in interviewer-related topics, such as interviewer effects, interviewer training, and interviewer fieldwork monitoring.
David Biagas Bureau of Labor Statistics David Biagas is a research statistician in the Office of Survey Methods Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His research interests include cognitive sources of measurement error, interviewer effects, and questionnaire design. He completed his PhD in Sociology from the University of Iowa in 2015, and formerly served as a survey statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Erica Yu Bureau of Labor Statistics Erica is a research psychologist in the Office of Survey Methods Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology from University College London. Her research focuses on the cognitive aspects of survey interactions, including interviewer judgment and decision making, and respondent response processes, including perceptions of burden and recall from memory.
Evgenia Kapousouz University of Illinois at Chicago Evgenia Kapousouz is a PhD student in Survey Methodology in Public Administration Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests focus on whether respondents adequately comprehend survey questions and how they react. She is also concerned about how scholars report methodology. 
Fiona Pashazadeh University of Manchester Fiona Pashazadeh is a PhD candidate in Social Statistics and part of the Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research at the University of Manchester. She has an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from the University of Manchester. Her research concerns missing biological data in sample surveys and how information recorded during the collection process can help address this in both future surveys and secondary analysis of existing data.
Frauke Kreuter University of Maryland / University of Mannheim / IAB Frauke Kreuter, PhD, is Full Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, Full Professor of Statistics and Social Science Methodology at the University of Mannheim, and Head of the Statistical Methods Research Department (on leave) at the Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg. Her research focuses on sampling and measurement errors in complex surveys.  
Fred Conrad University of Michigan Fred Conrad is a Research Professor of Survey Methodology and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He directs the Program in Survey Methodology, a graduate educational program housed in the Institute for Social Research. Conrad’s research generally involves the application of ideas and methods from cognitive science and HCI to survey research in order to improve the quality of survey data. Examples include introducing ordinary conversational practices into standardized interviewing, specifically training interviewers to clarify meaning as needed even if this leads to non-standard wording (with Michael Schober); designing online questionnaires to interactively encourage satisfiers (specifically speeders) to respond more conscientiously (with Chan Zhang, Roger Tourangeau and Mick Couper); conducting interviews with text messaging to promote more thoughtful and disclosive responses (with Schober). Conrad co-authored The Science of Web Surveys (2013) with Tourangeau and Couper. He is currently investigating live video interviewing (with Schober and Brady West), integration of passively collected data on smartphones with self-reports (with Florian Keusch), and the potential for augmenting and even replacing survey responses with social media content (with Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Robyn Ferg and Schober). His PhD is from the University of Chicago.
Geert Loosveldt KU Leuven Geert Loosveldt is Professor at the Center for Sociological Research of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) where he teaches Social Statistics and Survey Research Methodology. His research focuses on evaluation of survey data quality with special interest in the evaluation of interviewer effects and the causes and impact of non-response error. He is a member of the core scientific team of the European Social Survey.
Grant Benson SRC/University of Michigan Grant Benson is the Director of Data Collection Operations in Survey Research Operations at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. Survey Research Operations has approximately 160 professional staff working on research projects across a variety of disciplines.  The University of Michigan currently employees 750 interviewers conducting surveys in all modes (i.e., Web, CATI, CAPI, IVR and paper) working from the centralized facility in Ann Arbor and out of their homes throughout the nation. The Center also collects physical measures, or biological specimens from respondents, systematic observations, as well as measuring cognitive function, and educational assessments. Grant started with the Survey Research Center 20 years ago while still trying to decide whether to complete his education in political science. The appeal of wading through lakes of raw survey data was overwhelming, and survey research won out. Grant has a particular interest in leveraging process data including contact records, keystrokes, open-ended call notes and other unstructured data sources to gain insights into project management, quality assurance, as well as staff recruitment and retention.
Heather Ridolfo NASS Dr. Heather Ridolfo is a survey methodologist in the Research and Development Division of the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Previously she was a survey methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics. Her areas of research include questionnaire design, measurement error, respondent burden, and respondent-interviewer interactions. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she focused on self-concept development. She co-authored a book based on her dissertation research titled “Mobility Impairment and the Construction of Identity.” She continues to apply her expertise in identity and self-presentation to understanding how respondents interact with survey questionnaires and the impact of those interactions on data quality.
Holly Fee US Census Bureau Holly has worked at the U.S. Census Bureau for four years. She currently works on the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) where her main job duties include analysis of paradata and development of instrument specifications.
Jamie Wescott RTI International Jamie Wescott is a program manager in the Center for Education Data Collection Management and Operations at RTI International, where she has worked since 2008. In this role, she manages instrumentation and data collection efforts for large-scale studies for the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), including the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) and the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). Prior to joining RTI, Ms. Wescott was a research technician at the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences (NACCAS). She earned a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from UNC-Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in Anthropology from The George Washington University, and a certificate in Survey Methodology from the Odum Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Jennifer Dykema University of Wisconsin Survey Center Jennifer Dykema is Distinguished Scientist and Senior Survey Methodologist at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center where she conducts research on questionnaire design, interviewer-respondent interaction, and methods to increase response rates. She advises a broad range of investigators across disciplines on all types of study design and data collection. Her research has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Official Statistics, Sociological Methodology,and the American Sociological Review, and edited volumes such as the Handbook of Survey Research. She serves as an Associate Editor of BMC Medical Research Methodology and has served on the editorial boards for Public Opinion Quarterly and the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. She has taught research methods at University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Summer Institute at the University of Michigan. She earned her B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of Michigan, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Wisconsin, she worked at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center.
Jerreed Ivanich Center for American Indian Health; Department of International Health, Social and Behavioral Interventions; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health As a member of the Metlakatla Indian Community (Tsimshian) of Alaska, Jerreed is dedicated to health research for North American Indigenous (Alaska Native, American Indian, First Nations) populations. His work meets at the intersections of prevention science, social network analysis, and youth development.
Jerry Timbrook University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jerry Timbrook is a Ph.D. student in Sociology with a minor in Survey Research and Methodology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research investigates behaviors that occur as a part of the interviewer-respondent interaction. Jerry is also interested in using computer science techniques like machine learning to aid in our understanding of total survey error.
Jessica Herzing University of Lausanne, Switzerland Jessica Herzing was a PhD student at the University of Mannheim, where she worked at the Collaborative Research Center “Political Economy of Reforms” in the team of the German Internet Panel (GIP). Jessica defended her PhD thesis in May 2018. Her thesis investigates the impact of technological change on survey nonresponse and measurement. In 2018, Jessica joined the University of Lausanne as a post-doctoral fellow. Her current projects include studies examining nonresponse and measurement error in push-to-web surveys, mobile and sensor data, and topics surrounding split questionnaire designs.
Jessica Daikeler University of Mannheim; GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Jessica is a Ph.D. student at the University of Mannheim and GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Mannheim and her dissertation is on evidence-based survey methodology. As part of her dissertation, she conducted a meta-analysis of the effects and methods of successful interviewer training. Furthermore, she is currently working on a project dealing with the impact of survey design on interviewer effects.
Jim Dahlhamer National Center for Health Statistics Jim Dahlhamer is a Senior Specialist in Survey Methods with the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics. Working on the National Health Interview Survey since 2001, his primary responsibilities include survey planning and outreach, questionnaire design, and methodological research. Current research activities focus on the use of survey paradata for assessing and monitoring interview performance and components of survey error, and improving measures of sexual orientation and gender identity, chronic pain, and prescription opioid use. Jim received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Delaware.
Joe Sakshaug IAB / University of Mannheim Joseph W. Sakshaug is Distinguished Researcher, Head of the Data Collection and Data Integration Unit, and Acting Head of the Statistical Methods Research Department at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, and Honorary Full Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim. His research focuses on data quality issues in complex surveys (e.g. nonresponse, measurement error), the integration of multiple data sources, and empirical research methods.
John Eltinge US Census Bureau John Eltinge is the Assistant Director for Research and Methodology at the United States Census Bureau.  Before moving to the Census Bureau n 2016, he served as the Associate Commissioner for Survey Methods Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for twelve years; and previously served as a senior mathematical statistician at BLS, and as an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University. He earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University; is a fellow of the American Statistical Association; is an associate editor for Journal of Official Statistics and for Survey Methodology Journal; and is a member of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. He previously gave the Roger Herriot Memorial Lecture on Innovation in the Federal Statistical System; and was previously the President of the Washington Statistical Society, the overall chair of the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings, an associate editor for The American Statistician, and an associate editor for the Applications and Case Studies Section of Journal of the American Statistical Association. His research interests include data quality; design optimization; integration of multiple data sources; imputation; time series; and small domain estimation. In addition, at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings, he presented the annual Deming Memorial Lecture, “Improving the Quality and Value of Statistical Information: 14 Questions on Management”.
Jolene Smyth University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jolene Smyth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Director of the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is co-author with Don Dillman and Leah Christian of “Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method” (2014), has published research articles in Field Methods, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Public Opinion Quarterly, Sociological Methodology, and Social Science Computer Review among other journals, and was award (with colleagues) the 2017 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovator’s Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research for her work on web-push mixed-mode methodologies. Her research broadly focuses on survey measurement and nonresponse. Her current projects focus on survey design and interviewer/respondent interaction in telephone surveys, mail survey recruitment material design and content, visual design, mixed-mode surveys, web survey design for mobile devices, question wording, and within-household selection techniques.
Joseph Rodhouse NASS and NISS Joseph holds a BA in Sociology from Whitman College (2010) and an MS in Survey Methodology (2017) from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland, and has experience working in federal statistics and in market research.
Julie de Jong Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Julie de Jong (M.S.) is a survey methodologist in the International Unit within the Survey Research Center, and holds a Master's Degree in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan. She has managed numerous mono-country surveys as well as several large cross-cultural surveys, with a focus on promoting survey research best practices, specifically in countries with limited survey research capacity and infrastructure. She has authored and co-authored numerous invited book chapters and journal articles, has conducted an external quality assessment for a large 3MC survey, and has contributed extensively to the Cross-cultural Survey Guidelines, an online resource for the design and implementation of international, multinational, multiregional, and multicultural surveys. She has also conducted complex analyses and co-authored several publications examining measurement error resulting from both interviewers and the interview setting in cross-national surveys.
Kim Ethridge ICF Kim Ethridge, M.S., Ed.S., is a Questionnaire Design and Implementation Specialist within the Survey Operations group at ICF, a global consulting firm. She has more than 15 years of qualitative and quantitative research experience working with higher education institutions, federal and state government, and corporations. Kim has worked on structured and unstructured interview studies as both a client and a vendor over her career. Having advanced degrees in Counseling, she’s particularly interested in the human interaction element of gathering insights through the interview method.
Kristen Olson University of Nebraska-Lincoln Kristen Olson is Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research examines interviewer effects, paradata, the intersection of nonresponse and measurement errors, within-household selection in self-administered surveys, and questionnaire design. Her research has appeared in journals including Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Sociological Methodology, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science Research, the Journal of Official Statistics, and Field Methods, among others. She also is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Olson has a B.A. degree in mathematical methods in the social sciences and sociology from Northwestern University, an M.S. degree in survey methodology from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. in survey methodology from the University of Michigan.
Linh Nguyen University of Essex/University of Mannheim Linh is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex and manages simultaneously a research project on financial inclusion of savings group in Zambia. Her PhD research draws on a panel survey of Zambian savings group members which bears some experimental features (e.g.interpenetrated assignment of interviewer). Linh has a keen interest in investigating interviewer effects in non-Western context, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa, which mainly stems from her prior work at World Bank Group and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit).
Lisa Lin-Freeman Independent Consultant Ms. Lin-Freeman has over fifteen years of survey methodology, data collection operations, and federal contract management experience. She has successfully overseen large-scale, multi-year, multi-site, complex research projects, where she has been responsible for managing project resources and timelines to ensure high-quality deliverables for clients such as the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS). Throughout her career, she has gained wide-ranging expertise in survey design and implementation, including development of systems for computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) and multi-mode surveys, as well as developing study protocols and refining questionnaire specifications. Ms. Lin-Freeman has served as Project Manager for several large-scale data collection projects, including the Job Corps National Data Collection Survey and as Project Director for the Evaluation of Medicare Part C and Part D Plan Sponsor’s Customer Service and Pharmacy Call Centers Project. Ms. Lin-Freeman earned a B.A. in Economics from Washington and Lee University, and an M.A. in Applied Sociology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Margaret Hudson SRC/University of Michigan Margaret Hudson is a Survey Director at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. Margaret has been with UM-SRC for 12 years, working with both decentralized and centralized interviewing teams as a production and project manager. She is currently the manager of the Survey Services Lab, UM-SRC's centralized telephone data collection facility.
Megan Ruxton Center for Social and Behavioral Research University of Northern Iowa Megan M. Ruxton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa, and joined the Center for Social and Behavioral Research (CSBR) as Assistant Director in the Summer of 2018. Previously she was a Survey Research Associate with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRISS) at Colorado State University, and has consulted for state and federal government agencies in the U.S. and Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2017 from Colorado State University, and her research often centers on environmental politics and policy.
Michael Schober New School Michael Schober is Professor of Psychology and Vice Provost for Research at The New School, a university in New York City.  From 2006-2013 he served as Dean of the New School for Social Research (the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science) at The New School. His academic training is in cognitive psychology (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990) and cognitive science (Sc.B., Brown University, 1986).   His survey methodology research, much of it in collaboration with Frederick G. Conrad, examines interviewer-respondent interaction, respondent comprehension of terms in survey questions, and how existing communication modes not yet widely used for survey data collection (text messaging, video mediated interviewing, interviewing by virtual animated agents) and more dialogue-like versions of existing modes (web surveys, spoken language systems) might affect data quality. His survey methods research connects with his studies of how people coordinate their actions and understand each other in other kinds of dialogue and in collaborative music-making (jazz, classical chamber music), the mental processes underlying that coordination, and how new technologies mediate coordination. From 2005-2015 he served as editor of the journal Discourse Processes. He has served on panels and workshops for the US Committee on National Statistics. Together with Fred Conrad, he co-edited the volume Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future (Wiley, 2008), and they were awarded the 2013 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Nancy Mathiowetz University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, retired Nancy Mathiowetz is Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to joining the faculty at UWM, she was Associate Professor, at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland/University of Michigan/Westat. Mathiowetz’s research focuses on survey methodology, specifically issues related to questionnaire design, mode of data collection, and measurement error.  She has served as President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (2007-2008) and was awarded the associations’ Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement in 2015.  In addition, she is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. From 2008-2012, Mathiowetz served as co-Editor, Public Opinion Quarterly. She received a B.S. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin and an M.S. in Biostatistics and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.
Nick Schultz University of Wisconsin Survey Center Nick joined the UW Survey Center as a CATI interviewer in 2005, going on to work as a CATI Shift Leader, transcription coder, and M&DE supervisor. His current role as a CAPI Supervisor entails training field staff to conduct computer assisted in-person interviews, as well as coordinating and supervising field teams throughout the country.
Nikki Gohring University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bureau of Sociological Research Nikki is a Project Manager at the Bureau of Sociological Research (BOSR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently managing the data collection operations for the Nebraska Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Nebraska Adult Tobacco Survey (ATS), and the Nebraska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). She received her Master’s in Survey Research and Methodology from UNL in 2014. Prior to her work at BOSR, she worked for a non-profit organization conducting satisfaction surveys for small hospitals, clinics, and home health agencies.
Nora Cate Schaeffer University of Wisconsin-Madison Nora Cate Schaeffer is Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology and the Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Her current research focuses on interaction when the sample member is recruited and during the interview and on instrument design issues. Her research has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Sociological Methodology, and Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.  She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research.  In 2018 she became president-elect of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Patrick Habecker University of Nebraska-Lincoln Patrick’s research interests focus on the measurement of hard-to-reach and hidden populations, substance use, and how social networks play a role in both areas. His current work focuses on substance use among people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico, access to drugs among Nebraskans, and using social network techniques to estimate prevalence of hidden and hard-to-reach groups in Nebraska.
Paul Beatty US Census Bureau Paul Beatty is Chief of the Center for Behavioral Science Methods at the U.S. Census Bureau. In that capacity he directs an interdisciplinary team of social and statistical scientists who conduct methodological research on quality of survey and social measurement, and apply methods such as cognitive interviewing, usability testing, and paradata analysis to evaluate censuses and surveys across the Bureau.  Prior to that, he was Chief of the Ambulatory and Hospital Care Statistics Branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, which conducted numerous surveys about health care in the U.S. He also served as a behavioral scientist in the Office of Research and Methodology, also at NCHS. His research interests focus on methods for testing questionnaires and evaluating survey quality, design of complex survey questions, and interviewing methodology. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology, an M.A. in Applied Social Research, and a dual B.A. in English Literature and Statistics, all from the University of Michigan.
Peter Miller Retired Peter V. Miller is professor emeritus at Northwestern University.  He has served as Senior Researcher for Survey Measurement and Chief of the Center for Survey Measurement at the U.S. Census Bureau.  He is former Editor-in-Chief of Public Opinion Quarterly and President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).  He launched the AAPOR Transparency Initiative in 2010.  He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a recipient of the AAPOR Award for distinguished lifetime achievement.  His recent research interests include methods for improving the quality and efficiency of survey data collection and the transparent disclosure of survey methods.
Rachel Stenger University of Nebraska-Lincoln Rachel Stenger is a first year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently researching data quality implications of using check-all-that apply vs. forced-choice formats in survey items across modes.
Robin Kaplan Bureau of Labor Statistics Robin Kaplan is a researcher at the Office of Survey Methods Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in Washington, DC, where she started in 2013. Her background is in social and cognitive psychology. Her main research areas include cognitive sources of survey measurement error, questionnaire design, respondent burden, and online testing.
Rodney Muilenburg University of Northern Iowa, Center for Social and Behavioral Research Rod Muilenburg is the Field Supervisor at the University of Northern Iowa's Center for Social and Behavioral Research (CSBR). He started at CSBR as a telephone interviewer in 1999. His primary responsibility is to coordinate and supervise the day-to-day activities in the telephone interviewing lab. He oversees WinCATI operations, programs questionnaires in Ci3, hires and trains telephone interviewers, and manages logistics for projects involving self-administered mailback surveys.
Rodney Terry US Census Bureau Rodney L. Terry is a research psychologist at the U.S. Census Bureau. Most of his research there focuses on how racial and ethnic identity impact the measurement of race and ethnicity. His interests also include interviewer-respondent interaction, coverage error, and the impact of race, ethnicity, language, and other cultural factors on survey design.
Ron Langley University of Kentucky Ronald E. Langley, Ph.D., joined the University of Kentucky Survey Research Center as the Research Development Coordinator in 1996 and has been the center’s Director since 1998. Prior to joining SRC, Dr. Langley was a faculty member in UK’s Department of Political Science and jointly appointed to the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration.  Dr. Langley earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State University and is married with two children. His research interests involve investigating the effects of public opinion on public policy, particularly macroeconomic and health policy, and he has published numerous articles and book chapters in scholarly journals such as Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Southeastern Political Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, and Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice. Dr. Langley was a founding member and past president of AASRO, served as chair of AAPOR’s Standards Committee, president of MAPOR, and as Principal Investigator on more than 100 projects at UK-SRC over the past 20 years.
Sabine Friedel Technical University of Munich (TUM) Chair for the Economics of Aging Munich ; Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy Sabine Friedel is a research associate at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, where she is as a team member of the German country team of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Germany with an emphasis on survey methodology. Her main area of interest is nonresponse and interviewer effects. She received an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Munich.
Sharan Sharma University of Michigan Until recently, Sharan Sharma was Senior Vice President of TAM India (a Kantar-Nielsen joint venture) and is now making a transition to an academic position. Sharan has a Ph.D. in Survey Methodology and a Master in Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Master of Management Studies and Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Mumbai. His research interests include interviewer measurement error with a focus on falsification, quality control, paradata, and modeling complex survey data. Sharan's management interests include developing research capability and capacity in developing countries.
Silvia Schwanhäuser IAB / University of Mannheim Silvia Schwanhäuser, MSc, is a Researcher at the Statistical Methods Research Department at the German Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg and part of the joint Graduate Programme of the Institute for Employment Research and the School of Business and Economics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She is pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Mannheim, focusing on interviewer falsification. She received her MSc in Survey Statistics and BA in Sociology from the University of Bamberg. Her research focuses on the development of interviewer falsification prevention and statistical detection methods in survey research.
Steve Coombs University of Wisconsin Survey Center Steve Coombs has served as the Field Director at the UW Survey Center for the last 17 years.  In this capacity he is responsible for the Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), Mail and Data Entry, Tracing, Coding, Transcription, and Hiring and Staffing departments.  The Center has 43 CATI stations with 17 additional multi-purpose stations usable either for telephone interviewing or other aspects of field operations.  The CAPI department employs a capable, veteran staff who conduct face-to-face interviews all over the country and are experienced in administering complex in-person interviews and collecting a wide range of biomarker data.  Steve is responsible for 20 full-time and 120-150 part-time staff in Field. During his tenure at the UWSC Mr. Coombs has led field operations during several waves of large scale longitudinal studies such as the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, and the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood study (CalYOUTH).  He has overseen data collection efforts on education studies such as the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the Study of Iowa High Schools, studies focused on poverty and inequality such as the Milwaukee Eviction Court Study (MECS), and assisted in developing UWSC capability to collect biomarker data including saliva, blood, and human microbiome samples.
Theresa Camelo SRC/University of Michigan Theresa Camelo is a Senior Survey Specialist at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. Theresa has been with UM-SRC for 11 years, working with both decentralized and centralized interviewing teams as a production and project manager. She currently serves as the Production Manager on the National Survey of Family Growth, and as the Project Manager on the Surveys of Consumers.
Tiffany Neman University of Wisconsin-Madison Tiffany S. Neman is a doctoral student in the sociology program at UW-Madison and a trainee at the Center for Demography and Ecology. Her research is largely focused on the link between survey respondents’ reported attitudes and their residential contexts, and her work is supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty. She is currently a research assistant for Nora Cate Schaeffer.
Tim Johnson University of Illinois at Chicago Timothy Johnson has been with the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for the past 30 years, and has served as its Director since 1996. He is also Professor of Public Administration at UIC, where he teaches courses in survey methodology and data analysis. Tim’s research focuses on cultural sources of measurement and nonresponse errors in surveys, as well as the social epidemiology of health behaviors. He has previously served as President of AAPOR (2017-18) and AASRO (2015-17).
Vidal Díaz de Rada Department of Sociology, Public University of Navarra-Spain. Visiting professor at the Department of Sociology in University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vidal Díaz de Rada has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Degree in Marketing Research. He has been involved in surveys and survey methods work since he started as a Research Associate at the University of Deusto in 1991. Later, he was a junior professor in Sociology in Public University of Navarra in 1994, lecturer in 2002 and accredited professor in 2012. He has worked with government, business, and academic clients and regularly teaches short courses. His main interests and publications are in the study of survey error and data quality issues, with a special emphasis on questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, survey non-response, mixed modes and survey sampling. Currently he is a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology in University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Yfke Ongena University of Groningen Dr. Yfke Ongena is lecturer Research Methods at the department of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She received her PhD in 2005 at the VU University Amsterdam, with her thesis " Interviewer and Respondent Interaction in Survey Interviews". In 2006 she was a post-doc at the Survey Research and Methodology Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and from 2007-2010 she was assistant-professor at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on interviewer-respondent interaction, both in conventional and calendar interviews.
Zeina Mneimneh University of Michigan Zeina Mneimneh is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Survey Methodology Program and the Director of the International Survey Unit within the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. She is also the director of the Data Collection Coordinating Center that supports the design and implementation of national mental health surveys in more than 35 countries. She is the chair of the executive committee for the International Comparative Survey Design Initiative (CSDI). Dr. Mneimneh has published more than 35 peer-reviewed publications and book chapter. Her research investigates factors affecting the reporting of sensitive information including interviewer, respondent, and question characteristics, and contextual factors related to the interview setting. Her recent work examines the use of pardata to monitor interviewer behavior and the use of social media data for social science research.