David Lindstrom
Office: Cabinet 208
email: David_Lindstrom@brown.eduTitle: Associate Professor of Sociology
Departmental affiliation(s): Sociology
Background info:
David Lindstrom received his PhD degree in sociology with specializations in demography and statistics from the University of Chicago in 1995. He is an associate professor of Sociology, a core faculty associate of the Population Studies and Training Center, and former director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown. He has had research grants from NIH, NSF, the Packard Foundation, the Compton Foundation and RAND.
David Lindstrom has published his research in Demography, Population Studies, Social Forces, International Migration Review, Studies in Family Planning and Social Sciences and Medicine, among other journals. He is currently working on two books: Population Dynamics in a Society in Crisis: The Resilient Families of Ethiopia (David P. Lindstrom and Dennis P. Hogan, eds.); and Straddling Borders: Mexico-U.S. Migration and the Bifurcation of the Life Course (David P. Lindstrom and Emilio Parrado, and others).Research interests:
My research examines the determinants and consequences of migration in economically developing societies, the transition into adulthood, and the changing dynamics of reproductive health and behavior. In Mexico and Guatemala I study the interrelationship between migration and stages of the family life cycle, and the role of migration in the diffusion of urban reproductive norms and behavior back to rural places of origin. In Ethiopia I examine the social and demographic determinants of fertility, and the influence of the social and cultural context on early life course transitions.View the Project website:
The Partnership in Improving Reproductive Health-The Brown University and Ethiopia Partnership
