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New Faces at OPR
This year OPR welcomes a number of new faculty, postdoctoral fellows,
graduate students, visiting student research collaborators,
and research and technical staff.
Faculty
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Tod G. Hamilton.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Assistant Professor of Sociology. Interests: demography, migration, health, and social stratification |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Jennifer L. Carrano.
Ph.D., Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: effects of poverty on child and family well-being, gene-environment interactions in relation to human development, risk and protective factors contributing to adolescent risk behaviors, youth resilience in the face of adversity |
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Juanita J. Chinn.
Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Interests: social demography, human mortality, and health disparities in the United States |
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Rachel E. Goldberg.
Ph.D., Sociology, Brown University, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: social demography, family, health, migration, and life course |
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Chioun Lee.
Ph. D., Sociology, Rutgers University, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: medical sociology, aging and life course, biodemography, sociology of mental health, quantitative methodology |
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Michael J. McFarland.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: the interaction of social, psychological, and biological factors and their influence on physical and mental health across the life course |
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Bilesha B. Weeraratne.
Ph.D., Economics, City University of New York, 2012.
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Interests: unauthorized immigration in US, migration, demography, population economics, labor economics and development economics |
Graduate Students
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Cheng C Cheng,
Department of Sociology.
B.A., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 2012.
Interests: demography and aging |
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Angela R. Dixon,
Department of Sociology.
B.S., Psychology and Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011.
Interests: race/ethnicity, sociology of education, social stratification |
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Janeria A. Dunlap,
Department of Sociology.
B.A., Sociology and English, Duke University, 2011.
Interests: domestic and global stratification, social mobility, race and ethnicity, economic sociology |
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Caroline A. Holcombe,
Department of Sociology.
B.A., Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University, 2009.
Interests: sociology of the family, sociology of education, stratification |
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Sarah A. James,
Department of Sociology.
B.A., Sociology, Rice University, 2012.
Interests: demography, sociology of education, sociology of the family |
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Vanessa L. Lehner,
Population and Social Policy Program.
B.A., Human Sciences, Oxford University, 2012.
Interests: family formation trends, educational attainment in second- and third-generation migrants |
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Ayesha S. Mahmud,
Population and Social Policy Program.
B.A., Physics and Economics, Carleton College, 2009.
Interests: reproductive health and access to healthcare in developing countries |
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Visiting Scholars
Visiting Student Research Collaborators
Elena Marin Cassinello,
a graduate student in Migration Studies
at the University of Almeria in Spain,
is visiting OPR for the academic year 2012-2013
under the sponsorship of Doug Massey. Her research interests include: Migration related to the labor market: the effects of the economic crisis on the employment of both Spanish and foreigners, and also the occupational mobility of immigrants in Spain and USA.
Research Staff
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