Dennis P. Hogan Phone: (401) 863-6181
Office: Cabinet 204
email: Dennis_Hogan@brown.eduTitle: Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies
Departmental affiliation(s): Sociology
Background info:
Dennis Hogan, Professor of Sociology, joined the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University in 1995 as its director, and served in that capacity until 2000. He holds an endowed professorship as the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies at Brown.Dr. Hogan received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. He has taught at both the University of Chicago, where he acted as associate director of the Population Research Center, and Pennsylvania State University, where he served as director of the Population Research Institute.
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 EthiopiaCurrent research:
Dennis Hogan is currently working on research in the field of child disability with support from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the William T. Grant Foundation.Dr. Hogan also has a major ongoing project (in collaboration with David Lindstrom) for demographic training and research on reproductive health in Ethiopia. This is done in partnership with social scientists, medical doctors and experts in public health from Addis Ababa University and Jimma University. Funding for this activity is provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Compton Foundation.
View the Project website:
The Partnership in Improving Reproductive Health-The Brown University and Ethiopia PartnershipSelected publications:
2003 “The Proximate Determinants of the Decline to Below Replacement Fertility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” (Amson Sibanda, Zewdu Woubalem, Dennis P. Hogan, and David P. Lindstrom), Studies in Family Planning 34 (2003): 1-7.
2003 “Family Life with Children with Disabilities: The Key Role of Rehabilitation.” (Michelle L. Rogers and Dennis P. Hogan), Journal of Marriage and Family. 65 (2003): 818-833.
2004 “What Happens after the High School Years among Young Persons with Disabilities?” (Thomas Wells, Gary D. Sandefur, and Dennis P. Hogan), Social Forces 52(2) (2004): 803-832.
2004 “Social Identity and Community Effects on Contraceptive Use and Intentions in Southern Ethiopia.” (Dennis P. Hogan and Belay Biratu) Studies in Family Planning 35(2) (2004): 79-90.
2004 “Impediments to Mothers Leaving Welfare: The Role of the Maternal and Child Disability.” (Peter D. Brandon and Dennis P. Hogan). Population Research and Policy Review 23 (2004): 419-436.
