People Type: PhD Students

Curriculum Vitae Download Youngchae(she/her) is a PhD student in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a project assistant at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP). Her research interests center on inequality in work and family, with a particular focus on two broad areas. One of her research …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography Interests: Child maltreatment prevention and intervention; parental decision making; early attachment relationships

Vincent Saxon is a PhD student in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. Their research interests center on the intersection of substance use and transgender health, with a particular focus on how structural conditions and state surveillance shape experiences of substance use within gender-minority communities. Vincent is a licensed clinical social worker and certified …

Research Interests: foster care, linked administrative data, placement stability, child maltreatment, mental health,  congregate care, child welfare policy, racial/ethnic disparities, transition age youth, LGBTQ+ Biography

Biography Interests:  Child maltreatment prevention and intervention; program evaluation; social policy; poverty; International social work

Curriculum Vitae Stulting_CV_July 2026 Taylan Stulting (they/them) is a doctoral student in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Health Policy Research Scholar at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their research uses abolitionist and decolonial frameworks to understand anti-trans violence as part of wider interpersonal, systemic, and …

Biography Mai Xiong/Maim Xyooj (she/her) is a Joint Master of Social Work (MSW) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Social Welfare student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work (SRSSW). Maim earned her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Maim is interested in …