PSTC Faculty Associates at Brown

Director Michael J. White Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Population and the environment, ethnic residential segregation, migration, historical infant mortality, and immigration

Associate Director Daniel Jordan Smith Home Department: Anthropology and Population Studies Research interests: The relationship between socio-cultural and demographic processes; rural-urban migration; medical anthropology; HIV/AIDS; reproductive health and behavior

Other Associated Faculty at Brown:

Anna Aizer Home Department: Economics Research interests: Economic determinants of domestic violence.

Susan Allen Home Department:Center for Gerontology & Health Care Research Research interests: Health, Disabilities

Roger Avery Home Department: PSTC and Sociology Research Interests: Fertility, Mortality, Disability, and Migration

Nathaniel Baum-Snow Home Department: Economics Research Interests:Trends in the spatial distribution of population and employment in U.S. metropolitan areas.

Kenneth Chay Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Labor and health economics, micro-economics

Rosa Cho Home Department: Education

Bianca Dahl Home Department: Anthropology

Pedro Dal Bo Home Department: Economics

Andrew Foster Home Department: Economics Research interests: Household and family economics, health economics, economic development, and economic demography

Rachel Friedberg Home Department: Economics Research interests: Economics of Immigration

Oded Galor Home Department: Economics Research interests: Evolution and growth, the demographic transition and the take-off from stagnation to sustained economic growth, fertility and growth, and inequality and growth.

Abigail Harrison Home Department: PSTC Research interests: HIV prevention and reproductive health in southern Africa, gender, sociocultural responses to the HIV epidemic, adolescent and young adult sexuality and prevention

Megan Klein Hattori Home Department: PSTC

J. Vernon Henderson Home Department: Economics Research interests: Microeconomics, Regional Economics

Dennis P. Hogan Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Interrelationships of the family lives of individuals and their social environments; measurement of disability; family consequences of disability; transition to adulthood; family and community factors in fertility and family planning in Ethiopia

Joseph Hogan Home Department: Center for Statistical Sciences, Department of Community Health Research interests: Methods for longitudinal data, missing data, causal inference. Applications in HIV/AIDS, obstetrics & gynecology, behavioral medicine.

Marida Hollos Home Department: Anthropology Research interests: The population of developing countries, especially fertility, migration, and the status of women.

James Hull Home Department: ECI Research Interests: Causes and consequences of out-migration at the place of origin, and the effects of social distance and spatial proximity on the processes of mechanization, intensification, and land use and land cover change

Margot Jackson Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Social stratification, health, and child well-being

David I. Kertzer Home Department: Anthropology Research interests: Anthropological demography, social organization, politics and symbols, political economy and family systems, age structuring, European historical demography, Italian social history, and contemporary Italian society and politics.

Jessaca Leinaweaver Home Department: Anthropology Research interests: Social organization, gender, and childhood in Latin America

Crystal Linkletter Home Department: Community Health

David P. Lindstrom Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Determinants and consequences of out-migration and return migration in migrant communities of origin; determinants of contraceptive use and fertility change in developing countries.

John Logan Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Urban Sociology, Race & Ethnicity, Migration & Immigration, Family, Political Sociology

Glenn Loury Home Department: Economics Research interests: Economic theories of race and inequality, racial affirmative action; dysfunctional social identity; status transmission across generations; and cognitive theories of racial stigma.

Nancy Luke Home Department: Sociology Research interests:Social aspects of reproductive health, including sexual behavior, HIV/AIDS, and domestic violence; women's empowerment and gender relations in developing countries; marriage, work, and family.

Mark Lurie Home Department: Community Health Research interests: The impact of migration on the spread of HIV, social and behavioural determinants of sexually transmitted infections, social epidemiology, public health impact of antiretroviral therapy.

Stephen T. McGarvey Home Department: Community Health Research interests: Human population biology and international health, specifically modernization-induced biobehavioral changes, tropical medicine, and environmental health.

Kaivan Munshi Home Department: Economics Research interests: Economic Development, Population and Demography, Economic Analysis of Institutions with a particular emphasis on Community-Based Institutions in Developing Countries

Sriniketh Nagavarapu Home Department: Economics Research interests: Applied microeconomics, development and growth in Brazil

Mark M. Pitt Home Department: Economics Research interests: Economic demography issues in the developing world including intrahousehold resource allocation, fertility, child mortality and health, and program evaluation.

Michelle Poulin Home Department: PSTC Research interests: Social change, social demography, marriage and the family, sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Malawi

Yona Rubinstein Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Labor economics, economics of terrorism, influence of non-cognitive skills on earnings

Susan E. Short Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Interrelationships between social context, family/household processes, and individual well-being; Reproductive behaviors; Integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in demographic research.

Nicholas Townsend Home Department: Anthropology Research interests: Social reproduction, families and social structure, men's lives in political-economic context, spatially dispersed social groups, the United States and Southern Africa.

John Tyler Home Department: Education Research interests: Educational outcomes in different populations, prison-based education programs

Leah Van Wey Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Migration, land use, and livelihoods, specifically in Brazil; use of mixed-methods approaches.

David Weil Home Department: Economics Research interests: Demographic issues such as health, population aging, and fertility transitions, as well as conventional economic subjects including growth.

Other PSTC Faculty Associates

Calvin Goldscheider Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University American University Center for Israel Studies Research interests: Comparative demography, family, stratification

Frances Goldscheider Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland Research interests: Households and Family

Craig Hadley Department of Anthropology, Emory University Research interests: biological anthropology, behavioral ecology, and nutritional anthropology

Naresh Kumar Department of Geography, University of Iowa Research interests: geospatial analysis and health

Seth Spielman Associate Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) Initiative, Brown University Research interests: geospatial analysis, neighborhood effects on health

Wenquan (Charles) Zhang Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University Research interests: spatial analysis, residential segregation, assimilation

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