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Editor:
Tonya Allen
allen@pop.psu.edu
PRInformation
Fall 2008
Faculty Focus
New Research Associates
Dr. Lori Burrington (PhD, Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2008), assistant professor of crime, law and justice. Research interests: multilevel analyses of determinants of crime, deviance, and health risk behaviors; racial, ethnic, class, and gender disparities in health and problem behavior; community social organization.
Dr. John Iceland (PhD, Sociology, Brown University, 1997), professor of sociology and demography. Research interests: social demography; poverty; residential segregation; immigration.
Dr. Mark Leach (PhD, Sociology, University of California-Irvine, 2007), assistant professor of rural sociology and demography. Research interests: immigration to the United States; Mexican migration and incorporation; immigrant households and families; social demography; quantitative methods.
Dr. D. Wayne Osgood (PhD, Psychology, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1977), professor of crime, law and justice and sociology. Research interests: delinquency and other problem behaviors during adolescence and early adulthood.
New Research Affiliates
Dr. Amy Glasmeier (PhD, City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley, 1986), professor of geography. Research interests: persistent poverty and social exclusion; renewable energy; globalization and uneven development.
Dr. Jeffrey Ulmer (PhD, Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993), associate professor of sociology and crime, law and justice. Research interests: the sociology of criminal justice; criminal and deviant behavior; social psychology; sociological theory; sociology of religion; organizations; the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Promotions
Dr. Marianne M. Hillemeier, to associate professor of health policy and administration and demography
Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin, to professor of rural sociology, sociology and demography
Dr. Linda A. Wray, to associate professor of biobehavioral health
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Paul Amato has been named the Arnold and Bette Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography; and has joined the editorial board of Contemporary Sociology.
Dr. Francis Dodoo, College of Liberal Arts Research Professor and professor of sociology and demography, has been named Associate, Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy, University of Southampton; is an Advisory Board Member of the Africana Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University; and has joined the editorial boards of Contemporary Sociology and Population Research and Policy Review.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography and College of the Liberal Arts Research Professor, is Member, Organizing Committee, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, professor of agricultural and extension education, is a 2008-2009 Spencer Foundation Fellow; and has received a Fulbright lecturing/research award for March-June, 2009, in Santiago, Chile.
Dr. Emily Greenman, assistant professor of sociology, was selected for the National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research.
Dr. Valarie King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, received an award "in recognition of exceptional service to the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2007" from the Editor and the National Council on Family Relations.
Dr. Bruce G. Lindsay, Willaman Professor of Statistics and Demography, was named Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Council, 2008-2011.
Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin, professor of rural sociology and demography, was elected Vice President of the Rural Sociological Association, 2008-2009.
Dr. Paul L. Morgan, assistant professor of education, received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship award for his project "Children's Psychopathology: Trajectories, Risk Factors and Effects of Services."
Dr. Suet-ling Pong, professor of education, sociology and demography, was elected Secretary/Financial Officer, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association.
Dr. Nilam Ram, assistant professor of human development and family studies, was Visiting Scientist, summer 2008, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin; and was named Research Affiliate, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
Dr. Kevin J. A. Thomas, assistant professor of African and African American studies, sociology and demography, won the inaugural award from the Minnesota Population Center for best paper using data from the IPUMS-International database written by a junior scholar; and was a winner of the Young Investigator's Grant Competition of the University of Kentucky's Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) for his project on the dynamics of poverty among children of Black immigrants in the US.
Dr. Jennifer Van Hook, associate professor of sociology and demography, was appointed to the Population Association of America's subcommittee to the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations (PAA/CACPA).
Dr. Linda A. Wray, associate professor of biobehavioral health, was appointed to the editorial board of Journal of Aging and Health.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Paul Amato, Arnold and Bette Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, presented "Divorce and Children's Well-Being: What Do We Know?" Department of Sociology, University of Oslo, September 22, 2008; "Can Genetic Factors Account for the Links between Divorce and Children's Well-Being?" European Divorce Network Meeting, Oslo, September 18, 2008; "New Developments in Family Research in the United States: A Focus on Genetics," Department of Sociology, University of Shanghai, September 10, 2008; and "A Comparison of Divorce Risk Models in China and the United States," World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai, September 8, 2008.
Dr. Francis Dodoo, College of Liberal Arts Research Professor and professor of sociology and demography, gave an invited presentation, "Does Marriage Confer More Power to Men? Responses from Young Adolescent Ghanaian Boys," at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, July 28, 2008.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography and College of the Liberal Arts Research Professor, presented a poster entitled "Does Your Neighbor's Income Affect Your Happiness?" at the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Stratification, Florence, May 2008.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, professor of agricultural and extension education, presented "Schools as Mini Polities: Nurturing Democratic Dispositions and Social Trust," International Conference on Political Socialization, Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Bruges, July 3, 2008.
Dr. Brian J. Grim, research affiliate, was invited to present "The Impact of Restricted Religious Freedom," U.S. Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom, Library of Congress, July 17, 2008; "China's Dynamic Religious Demographic Landscape," Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, June 11, 2008; and, with Mark O'Keefe, "The Plight of Iraq's Religious Minorities," Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Washington, DC, May 15, 2008.
Dr. Nilam Ram, assistant professor of human development and family studies, presented, with D. Gerstorf, "Aging and Dying: Time Metrics for Charting Late-Life Change in Well-Being," Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, Jacobs University, Bremen, July, 2008; with D. Gerstorf, "Late-Life Decline in Well-Being: Longitudinal Evidence for Links to Distance-to-Death," German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, July, 2008; and "Intraindividual Dynamics: Weaving through the Warp and the Woof" and "Selection and Selection Effects: Some Implications for Study Design," International Max Planck Research School (LIFE), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, June 2008.
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography, presented "Accelerating Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa," International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Seminar on Human Fertility in Africa: Trends in the Last Decade and Prospects for Change, Cape Coast, Ghana, September 18, 2008; and, with Tesfayi Gebreselassie, "Falling and Stalling Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa," Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, September 15, 2008, and IUSSP Seminar on Human Fertility in Africa, September 16, 2008.
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