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Researcher of the Month

From Kentucky to Mississippi to Texas back to Mississippi and off to New York, Dr. Jeremy Porter’s research pursuits have led him across the United States. His journeys to Mississippi State University and the Social Science Research Center, however, began by chance while at the University of Louisville.

After completing his B.S. in sociology and being accepted into the graduate program at the University of Louisville, Jeremy concentrated in G.I.S. studies while in the master’s program and began to combine these new skills with his background in sociology in the research he conducted.  Jeremy, originally from Louisville, KY, made his way to MSU after earning his master’s from the University of Louisville. Moving from the Indiana/Kentucky border, where he had lived most of his life, to Mississippi was a big change for Jeremy, but one he made easily.

“I finished the M.A. program in December and was looking for a school that accepted new doctoral students in the spring. MSU had a program that allowed new students to enroll in January. I was offered an assistantship through the Survey Research Laboratory at the SSRC, and really just fell into it,” he says.