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Editor:
Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Fall 2006
Faculty Focus
New Research Associates
Jennifer Lynn Hook (PhD, Sociology, University of Washington, 2006), assistant professor of sociology. Research interests: the intersection of gender, family, stratification, demography, and comparative sociology. Dr. Hook was a 2004-2005 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo, and recently completed a Population Research Training Fellowship at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington. Her dissertation work, published in the American Sociological Review, focused on the relationships between national context and men's housework and childcare in 20 countries. She is continuing work on this project, and has just begun a new project exploring the relationships between context and fatherhood in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway.
Michael Massoglia (PhD, Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2005), assistant professor of sociology and crime, law and justice, and faculty associate, Center on Population Health and Aging. Research interests: crime and deviance, research methods, and life course studies, mental and physical health. His current projects include an examination of whether some of the racial disparities in mortality and morbidity can be attributed to differential incarceration rates. Dr. Massoglia recently received funding from Penn State's Social Science Research Institute for his grant, Mental Health, Incarceration, and Race: The Lasting Impact of Incarceration on Mental Health.
New Research Affiliates
Brian J. Grim (PhD, Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005), senior research fellow, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and Manager for International Data, Association of Religion Data Archives. Research interests: international religion. Dr. Grim's recent work includes the creation of religious demography reports for 10 countries surveyed by the Pew Forum in summer 2006 (Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, parts of India, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, South Korea, South Africa, and the United States). The reports will be featured in a number of Forum publications and subsequent reports, and are available at http://pewforum.org/surveys/pentecostal/. Religious demography reports for additional countries will be released in the future. Data from this project will eventually be made available through Penn State's Association of Religion Data Archives (www.TheARDA.com).
Promotions
Dr. Douglas A. Granger, to professor of biobehavioral health.
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology, demography, and family studies, received the 2006 Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of the Family.
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology, demography, and family studies, was elected as a member of the Sociological Research Association.
Dr. Ann C. Crouter, professor of human development and family studies, has been appointed director of Penn State's Social Science Research Institute, and director of the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium.
Dr. Francis Dodoo, College of Liberal Arts Research Professor and professor of sociology and demography, has been appointed Professor and Director, Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana.
Dr. Francis Dodoo, College of Liberal Arts Research Professor and professor of sociology and demography, was awarded the "Grand Medal" of the Republic of Ghana (one of the nation's highest distinctions) in 2006.
Dr. Jill Findeis, professor of agricultural, environmental and regional economics and demography, has been named Harbaugh Faculty Scholar by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, is serving a one-year term on the ASA Family Section's Goode Book Award selection committee (2006-2007).
Dr. Nancy S. Landale, professor of sociology and demography, has been appointed director of the Population Research Institute.
Dr. Bruce G. Lindsay, Willaman Professor of Statistics and director, Center for Likelihood Studies, has been appointed head of the Department of Statistics.
Dr. Robert Schoen, Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, was appointed to the Panel to Review the U.S. Natality Statistics Program by the Director of the National Center for Health Statistics.
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography, received Penn State's 2006 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology, demography, and family studies, delivered the following invited addresses: "Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Policy," Department of Policy and Management, Cornell University, April 11, 2006; "Marriage and Poverty Reduction," Conference on Policies to Reduce Poverty, The Brookings Institute, Washington, DC, April 17, 2006; "Family Change and Child Well-Being," International Day of the Family, United Nations, New York, NY, May 11, 2006; "Family Structure, Marriage Promotion, and Children's Well-Being: A Focus on Poverty," Conference on Determinants of Children's Success, Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California, Davis, June 2, 2006; "Strengthening Marriage as a Context for Child Development: The Potential of Recent Interventions in the U.S.A.," International Academy of Family Psychology, 5th Conference, Cardiff, Wales, June 11, 2006; and "Children and Divorce: What We Know and What We Need to Know," International Conference on Children and Divorce, Norwich, England, July 24, 2006.
Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography and director, Graduate Program in Demography, presented "Revitalizing Internal Migration Studies," an invited paper at the NICHD-sponsored The Moving Americans Conference, Seattle, WA, May 4-6, 2006; and "Demographic Trends Affecting Public Policy in Pennsylvania," invited presentation for the Governor's "Pennsylvania 2020 Vision" project task force, Harrisburg, PA, May 31, 2006.
Dr. Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and employment relations and women's studies, presented "Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events" for the annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Sydney, for the Department of Economics seminar series, Monash University, Melbourne, and for the Melbourne Institute's workshop series, Melbourne University, Melbourne, July 2006; "The Care Gap," Congressional Seminar sponsored by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Senators Clinton, Kennedy and Obama, June 2006; "Work Hours Mismatch in the U.S. and Australia," for the Sloan Conference on "Why Workplace Flexibility Matters: A Global Perspective," University of Chicago, May 2006; the "Release of the Work and Family Bill of Rights," Congressional Briefing, Capital Building, Washington, DC, May 2006; and "The Coaching and Gender Equity Project," NCAA Gender Equity and Issues Forum, Cleveland, OH, May 2006.
Dr. George Farkas, professor of sociology, demography, and education, presented "The Education Sciences and Policymaking: What Role for Sociology?" as invited speaker, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 12, 2006.
Dr. Roger Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies and director, Association of Religion Data Archives, presented "Religious Freedom, Religious Persecution, and Religious Violence: New Data and Findings from the Association of Religion Data Archives" at University of Memphis Colloquium Series, March 31, 2006, and at George Mason University Center for the Economic Study of Religion and the Mercatus Center, April 6, 2006; "The Demographics of Religion," Knight Center for Specialized Journalism seminar on Religion in American Life, University of Maryland, April 17, 2006; and "Faiths That Don't Fit: Classifying and Reporting On the 'Other' Churches," Religion Newswriters Association Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 8, 2006.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography and College of the Liberal Arts Research Professor, was organizer and discussant, session on "Wealth and Income Inequality," International Sociological Association's International Meeting in Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006; and organizer, session on "Inequality in a Global Context," American Sociological Association meeting, August 2006, Montreal.
Dr. Melissa Hardy, professor of human development and family studies and sociology and director, Gerontology Center, presented "Changes in Firm Practices and Federal Policy for Early Retirement in the US" at the World Demographic Association's World Ageing and Generations Congress, St. Gallen University, St Gallen, Switzerland, September 27-29th, 2006.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, presented "Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Well-Being" as an invited keynote speaker at the International Conference on Children and Divorce, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, July, 2006.
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