PSTC Faculty

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

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.

Peter Brandon Home Department: PSTC Research Interests: Disability

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

Calvin Goldscheider Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Comparative demographic, family, stratification

Frances Goldscheider Home Department: Sociology Research interests: Households and Family

Matthew Gutmann Home Department: Anthropology Research interests:Change, particularly that related to gender, ethnicity, and health in the Americas (especially in Mexico and among Latinos in the United States).

Craig Hadley Home Department: PSTC Research interests: biological anthropology, behavioral ecology, and nutritional anthropology

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

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.

Leiwen Jiang Home Department: International Relations Research Interests: household projection modeling; population migration and land degradation in China; the impact of demographic changes on energy consumption and climate change

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.

Naresh Kumar Home Department: PSTC email: Naresh_Kumar@brown.edu

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

Brian O'Neill Home Department: International Relations and Environmental Studies Research interests: Global climate change, population-environment interactions, and links between the science and policy of environmental issues.

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.

Nancy Qian Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Economic determinants of family size, educational attainment of women in China

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

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.

Wenquan Zhang Home Department: Sociology Research interests: longitudinal studies of immigrants in the U.S, GIS methodologies

 

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