Roger c. Avery Title: Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Departmental affiliation(s): Sociology
Background info:
Roger Avery, Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology and the PSTC, has been a Research Associate at the Center since 1986. Avery holds a B.A. in History, and received his Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining the faculty at Brown, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. In addition to teaching courses on Population and development, Morbidity and Mortality, and Demographic Research Methods, Avery is busy instructing trainees in methodology and the use of census data.Research interests:
Fertility, Mortality, Disability, and Migration.Current research:
Avery is currently conducting research projects in the U.S. and in developing countries. His research focuses on fertility change, child health and mortality, disability, migration, methodological issues, elderly, and nestleaving. He is currently working on an Ethiopian census, is involved in a study of the demography of child disability and rehabilitation efforts, and is beginning a project on the demography of childhood mortality.