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Editor:
Tonya Allen
allen@pop.psu.edu
PRInformation
Fall 2004
New External Research Funding
Children's Socialization, Gendered Orientations, and Sexual Behavior
Dr. Francis Dodoo, professor of sociology and demography, and Dr. Aaronette White, assistant professor of women's studies, received an 18-month seed grant from The Pennsylvania State University Africana Research Center and the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium. Relying on survey and interview data from Ghana, this research examines constructions of masculinity (and, by definition, femininity) and the reproduction and contestation of patriarchal notions and behaviors among young people and their parents/guardians in two communities in Ghana.
Family Formation in an Era of Family Change
Dr. Nancy Landale, professor of sociology and demography, Dr. Paul Amato, professor of sociology and demography, Dr. Alan Booth, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Human Development and Family Studies, and Demography, Dr. David Eggebeen, associate professor of human development and family studies, sociology and demography, Dr. Susan M. McHale, professor of human development and family studies, and Dr. Robert Schoen, Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, received funding for three years from NICHD to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the family formation behavior of young men and women in the contemporary United States. Using data from Waves I, II, and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health), the study will examine cohabitation, childbearing (nonmarital and marital), and marriage up to the age of 25.
Family Resource Allocation in Urban and Rural Communities
Dr. Linda Burton, professor of human development and family studies, sociology and demography, Dr. Stephen Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of geography, demography, and sociology, and director of the GIA Core, and Dr. Debra Skinner, University of North Carolina, have received two years of funding from NSF to study family resource allocation in diverse contexts. This study will use geo-ethnography (the integration of GIS and ethnography) and will analyze longitudinal ethnographic data on low income families (including GIS data on their spatial and temporal use of resources) from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study and from the Family Life Project (P.I. Dr. Ann C. Crouter, director, Center for Work and Family Research, and professor of human development and family studies, in collaboration with Dr. Martha Cox and Dr. Lynne Vernon Feagans at the University of North Carolina).
GIS Training Program for Population Scientists
Dr. Stephen Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of geography, demography, and sociology, and director of the GIA Core, has been awarded an R25 grant for GIS Training for Population Scientists from NICHD. The grant is in collaboration with the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) at UC Santa Barbara (co-P.I.'s Dr. Michael Goodchild and Don Janelle). Part of the PRI/CSISS collaboration is to generate a state-of-the-art two-week curriculum focusing on GIS and spatial issues that explicitly retains a strong demographic focus and to make available on-line and tailored resources for GIS instruction for demographers. Four workshops will be offered over two years to a total of 100 graduate students, post-doctoral students and young faculty. A project website (housed at CSISS and mirrored at PRI) will provide continued access to training materials and resources. The Summer 2005 workshops are scheduled for May 29 - June 11 (Penn State) and June 19 - July 2 (UCSB). Additional details about these workshops and application forms will be posted on websites at both PRI (www.pop.psu.edu) and CSISS (www.csiss.org) and will be advertised widely via newsletters, listserves, etc.).
Menstrual Health Disparities & Low SES African-Americans
Dr. Patricia Koch, associate professor of biobehavioral health and women's studies, Dr. Linda Burton, professor of human development and family studies, sociology and demography, Dr. David R. Johnson, director, Survey Research Center and professor of sociology, human development and family studies and demography, and Dr. Phyllis K. Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education and director, TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health, have received funding from NIH for a two-year pilot project to evaluate data collection methods and strategies for recruitment and retention of African-American and White women (ages 30-45) of low socioeconomic status for inclusion into the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health (TREMIN) in order to examine disparities in menstrual health of aging women. Begun in 1934, TREMIN is the world's oldest longitudinal study of menstruation throughout women's lives.
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