NICHD Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Traineeships in Demography

This federally-funded traineeship program supports interdisciplinary demography education for predoctoral students at Penn State's Graduate Program in Demography and Population Research Institute. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and enrolled in either the dual-Ph.D. program in Sociology and Demography, Anthropology and Demography, or Human Development and Family Studies and Demography. Preference is given to candidates who have completed some population-related graduate work. The training faculty include 22 senior advanced-rank demography faculty mentors plus 15 additional demography training faculty in other departments. Distinctive specialty areas of interdisciplinary research and training include:

• Family demography and life course development
• Demography of children in low income settings
• Biodemography
• Family solidarity and divorce
• Community/spatial context and family/fertility
• Health over the life course
• Gender, race, class health disparities
• Aging, health, intergenerational relations
• Immigration and opportunity
• Children, families and educational outcomes
• Spatial modeling of population well-being
• Social welfare policy and population change

Applications for traineeship awards should be filed by January 15. The application should include a letter with a statement of your demography/population science research interests, a dissertation prospectus (if topic known), vitae, letter(s) of recommendation, and GRE and GPA scores. Traineeship awards currently have a government-determined stipend of $20,772 for a 12-month appointment.

To apply contact:

Gordon F. De Jong, Director
Graduate Program in Demography
Pennsylvania State University
601 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814)863-2277
Fax: (814)863-8342
Email: dejong@pop.psu.edu

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