Demography

Faculty

David P. Baker

worldwide education revolution’s impact on the historical rise of postindustrial society and global development

Jonathan Daw

Broadly speaking, I’m interested in how demographic, inequality, and biological processes combine to influence health and well-being.

Jennifer Glick

Demography, Family, Migration, Race/ Ethnicity

Steven A. Haas

social stratification, demography of health and aging

Melissa A. Hardy

Aging, labor force and older workers, retirement economics

John Iceland

Social demography, poverty, residential segregation, immigration

Valarie King

Inter-generational relations, family demography, life course and aging

Nancy Luke

Social demography; gender, marriage, and family; sexual, reproductive, and child health; migration and remittances; Africa and South Asia

Liying Luo

quantitative Methods, Demography, Life Course, Inequality, Health Disparities

Molly A. Martin

Family and adolescent obesity, inter-generational social class

Stephen A. Matthews

Spatial demography, population and environment, neighborhoods and families

Jennifer Van Hook

International immigration, immigrant health, living arrangements

Ashton M. Verdery

Social Networks, Computational Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Demography

Scott T. Yabiku

Demography, Family, Population and Environment, Migration

Department Head

Michelle Frisco

health and well-being of young people, obesity among youth and adolescents, health disparities, mental health, the ways that schools shape young people’s lives

Associate Department Head

Valarie King

Inter-generational relations, family demography, life course and aging

Emeritus Faculty

Duane Alwin

Paul R. Amato

Demography of life course, marital quality, divorce

Gordon De Jong

Social demography, migration & immigration, aging

Glenn Firebaugh

Global development, cohort analysis of social change

David R. Johnson

Marital instability, rural health, infertility

Nancy Landale

Immigration, infant health, adolescent transitions, fertility

Barrett Lee

Urban community, residential segregation, homelessness

R.S. Oropesa ("Sal")

Immigrant adaptation, minority families, infant health

Graduate Directors