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Editor:
Tonya Allen
allen@pop.psu.edu
PRInformation
Fall 2004
Faculty Focus
Promotions
Dr. Mark D. Hayward, to Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, to Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography
Dr. E. Michael Foster, to professor of health policy and administration and demography
Dr. R. Salvador Oropesa, to professor sociology and demography
Dr. David Post, to professor of education and human development and family studies
Dr. Clancy Blair, to associate professor of human development and family studies
Dr. Andrea Piccinin, to associate professor of statistics
Dr. Mark D. Shriver, to associate professor of anthropology and genetics
Awards and Recognition
Dr. David Baker, associate director, Social Science Research Institute, and professor of education and sociology, has been appointed to a three-year term as the Harry and Marion Eberly Professor of International Research on Education.
Dr. George Farkas, professor of sociology, demography, and education, has been appointed to the editorial board of the American Sociological Review for a three-year term (2005-2007), and to the editorial board of the American Journal of Education.
Dr. Roger Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies, has been appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus/George Mason University Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, professor of agricultural and extension education, has been named Associate Editor, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2004-2009.
Dr. Mark Hayward, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, has been elected to the nominating committee for the Population Association of America.
Dr. Leif Jensen, director of PRI and professor of rural sociology and demography, has been appointed to the Research Council of the Rural Poverty Research Center based at the University of Missouri.
Dr. Peter Kemper, professor of health policy and administration, has been named a Fellow of the Social Research, Practice and Policy Section of the Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, was elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association's Family Section.
Dr. Stephen Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of geography, demography, and sociology, and director of the GIA Core, has been invited to join the editorial board of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine for a three-year term, and has been invited to be a member of the Center for Scientific Review's panel on Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB).
Dr. David Post, professor of education and human development and family studies, has been invited to be a member of an evaluation team to assess the compensatory programs employed by Mexico's educational development council (CONAFE) to promote equality of educational opportunity since 1992.
Dr. Elizabeth Susman, Shibley Professor of Biobehavorial Health and professor of human development and nursing, has been appointed to the editorial board of Psychological Bulletin.
Dr. Marylee Taylor, associate professor of sociology, has been named to the National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctorate Advisory Panel, 2004-2005.
Dr. Keith Whitfield, associate professor of biobehavioral health, is one of five Penn State faculty to be named a Fellow of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program.
Dr. Linda Wray, assistant professor of biobehavioral health, has been appointed to the Program Committee for the Behavioral and Social Science Section of the Gerontological Society of America; has been appointed for three years as Behavioral and Social Science representative to the Task Force on Women of the Gerontological Society of America; and has been elected as Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography and director, Graduate Program in Demography, presented an invited paper, "Receptivity of Immigrants by Citizens of the United States and Europe," at the International Education of Students Seminar on European Immigration, Paris, France; and "Writing Winning Research Grant Proposals," invited presentations at the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Francis Dodoo, professor of sociology and demography, presented "Sex and Survival: The Sexual Behavior of the Poor in Nairobi City" at the CICRED/UNDP Workshop on Inter-relations between Development, Spatial Mobility, and HIV/AIDS: Contribution to Policies and Programmes against HIV/AIDS, Paris, France, September 1-3, 2004; and "Cohabitation, Marriage, and Sexual Monogamy in Nairobi," University of Illinois, Center for African Studies Spring Colloquium on HIV/AIDS in Africa: Gender, Agency, and Empowerment, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 24, 2004.
Dr. Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and industrial relations and women's studies, made the following invited presentations: "Women and Minorities in Academic Leadership: Challenges, Solutions," at the Academic Leadership program, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Iowa City, IA, October 2004; "Work, Family and Life in the Academy: Challenges Facing Faculty and Opportunities for Change," Seminar for Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion program, University of Colorado, September 2004; "The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving: The Case of Academic Faculty," Seminar for the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne, Australia, May 2004; "Making Work-Life Research Work for Your Strategy," Work-Life Association Roundtable, Melbourne, Australia, May 2004. He was also moderator of "Feminism, Women & Work," 25th Anniversary Symposium, Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, April 2004.
Dr. George Farkas, professor of sociology, demography, and education, was Invited Discussant at the Session on "Jobs, Organizations, and Professions" at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 15, 2004, San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Roger Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies, presented "Demanding Doctrines and Organizational Innovations: Why 'Upstart' Sects so Often Win," sponsored by the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, April 6, 2004; "The Dynamics and Stability of Religious Economies," sponsored by the Dutch Association for the History of Religions and the Dutch School for Advanced Research in Theology and Religion, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 15, 2004; "Innovative Returns to Tradition: Using Core Religious Teachings as the Foundation for Innovative Accommodation," University of Nijmegen, Netherlands on May 17, 2004 and the University of Leiden, Netherlands on May 18, 2004.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography, was a panelist in the session on global income inequality at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2004.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, professor of agricultural and extension education, presented "Cross-National Research: Lessons for Policy from Between- and Within-Country Comparisons," a paper for the International Invitational Conference, Positive Development: Linking Individuals, Communities, and Social Policies, Weimar, Germany, October 2004.
Dr. Deborah Graefe, PRI research associate, and Dr. Pamela Farley Short, professor of health policy and administration and demography, were invited to present findings from their study "Evaluating Strategies to Fill Gaps in Health Insurance" at four regional meetings of Covering Kids and Families by the Southern Institute on Children and Families.
Dr. Deborah Graefe, PRI research associate, presented "Churn, Churn, Churn: Instability of Health Insurance in the United States" at regional meetings of Covering Kids and Families in Miami, San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago, May-July 2004.
Dr. Nezih Guner, assistant professor of economics, presented "Marriage and Divorce since WWII: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households," a joint presentation with Jeremy Greenwood, at the Department of Economics, UCLA, April 26, 2004; at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Research Department, May 20, 2004; and at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, July 22, 2004.
Dr. Mark Hayward, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, lectured on the connections between childhood and adult health at the Rand Summer Institute of the Economics and Demography of Aging, Johns Hopkins University Population Center, and Georgetown University's Center on Population and Health.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, presented "The Influence of Religion on Ties Between the Generations," an invited lecture at the conference on "Religion, Families, and Health in the United States" in April, 2004 at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. King was also invited to present "Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Well-Being" at the Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University, on September 20, 2004.
Dr. Stephen Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of geography, demography, and sociology, and director of the GIA Core, was invited to lead a workshop on GIS in Family Research at the Family Research Consortium IV conference held in Puerto Rico in July 2004.
Dr. Marylee Taylor, associate professor of sociology, gave an invited lecture entitled "Beyond Prejudice" at the Racial Prejudice Researchers meeting held during the Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 2004.
Dr. Linda Wray, assistant professor of biobehavioral health, with Dr. Duane F. Alwin and Dr. Ryan J. McCammon, presented "Do Behavioral Health Risks Mediate the SES-Health Link in Middle-Aged and Older Adults?", an invited talk at the Conference on Health Inequalities across the Life Course, The Pennsylvania State University, June 6-7, 2004.
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