susan E. short Phone: (401) 863-6184
Office: Cabinet 308
email: Susan_Short@brown.eduTitle: Associate Professor, 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
Background
Susan E. Short is Associate Professor of Sociology. She holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research, which draws on survey as well as ethnographic data, focuses on social welfare and its articulation with social change. Two on-going projects illustrate this interest. The first explores the implications of China's one-child policy for family life and individual well-being; the second examines family disruption and reorganization in the context of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and associated implications for child well-being. In support of this research, Short has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Selected Publications:
- Susan E. Short and Fengyu Zhang. 2004. "Use of Maternal Health Services in Rural China." Population Studies. 58(1):3-19
- Berna Miller Torr and Susan E. Short. 2004. "Second Births and the Second Shift: A Research Note on Gender Equity and Fertility. Population and Development Review 30(1):109-130
- Susan E. Short and Rongjun Sun. 2004. "Grandmothers, Formal Care, and Educational Advantage in China." Research in Sociology of Education. 14:7-31