CSDA Researchers

Click on a name to see a brief summary of the scholarship and recent activities of each person.

Associates

  • Richard Alba, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1974; race/ethnicity, immigration, urban sociology, policy.
  • Elise Andaya, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. New York University, 2007; Medical anthropology.
  • Tom Brutsaert, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. Cornell University, 1997; Biological anthropology, adaptation to high altitude, exercise and energetics, nutrition.
  • Shawn Bushway, School of Criminal Justice. Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1996; Desistance from crime and sentencing process.
  • Stacey Hsiangju Chen, Department of Economics. Ph.D. University of Rochester, 2001;  labor economics, applied econometrics, political economy.
  • Angie Y. Chung, Department of Sociology.  Ph.D.  University of California, Los Angeles, 2001; urban sociology and community studies, race and ethnicity, immigration, Asian American Studies, ethnography and qualitative methods.
  • Kirsten Davison, Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior, School of Public Health.  Ph.D.  Pennsylvania State University; Familial factors related to the development and consequences of childhood obesity.
  • Glenn Deane, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 1993; demography, stratification, methodology.
  • Nancy Denton, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University if Pennsylvania, 1984; demography, urban sociology, policy.
  • Diane M. Dewar, Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior, School of Public Health.   Ph.D. University at Albany, SUNY, 1993; health economics, health policy, insurance reforms, technology assessment.
  • Walter Ensel, Center for Demographic and Social Analysis. Ph.D. University at Albany, SUNY, 1979; medical sociology, health, life course, survey research.
  • Timothy Gage, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. Penn State University, 1982; human biology, demography, population genetics, mortality, methodology.
  • Mary Gallant, Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior, School of Public Health. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1995; health behaviors among older adults, chronic illness prevention and management, caregiving.
  • Donald Hernandez, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1976; children, demography, family, public policy.
  • Hayward Horton, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Penn State University, 1985; race, demography, rural sociology, development.
  • Youqin Huang, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 2001; migration, housing, urban space, gender, quantitative methods, spatial modeling, China.
  • Kecia Johnson, Department of Sociology, Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 2003; Crime and Deviance, Consequences of Incarceration, Race, Gender and Class, Earnings Inequality, Employment, Labor Markets.
  • John Bailey Jones, Department of Economics. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998; Macroeconomics.
  • Janine Jurkowski, Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior, School of Public Health. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003; Health disparities, community based research, aging adults, people with disabilities, chronic disease prevention, Latino health, social and cultural determinants of health, and health care utilization.
  • Joanne Kaufman, Department of Sociology. Ph.D., Emory University, 2001; Criminology, Deviance, Social Psychology.
  • Marvin Krohn, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Florida State University, 1974; juvenile delinquency, adolescent substance abuse, criminological theory.
  • Kajal Lahiri, Department of Economics. Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1975; econometric theory, applied econometrics, health and disability, forecasting.
  • Hamilton Lankford, Department of Educational Administration & Policy Studies. Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 1981; public economics, economics of education, applied econometrics.
  • Catherine T. Lawson, Department of Geography and Planning. Ph.D. Portland State University, 1998; travel behavior, freight, archived Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) data, community development, Spatial Analysis/Geographic Information System (GIS) Applications.
  • Zai Liang, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1992; internal and international migration, race and ethnic relations, immigration.
  • John Logan, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1974; urban policy, residential segregation, family relations.
  • Marilyn A. Masson, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1993; zooarchaeology, archaeology, ethnohistory and archaeology of Yucatan.
  • Louise-Anne McNutt, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Ph.D. University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1989; infectious disease epidemiology, violence prevention and health effects related to violence, epidemiologic methods.
  • Steve Messner, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1979; crime and deviance.
  • Hazel Prelow, Department of Psychology. Ph.D. University of North Texas, 1996.
  • George R. Robinson, Department of Biological Sciences. Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1989; plant community ecology, biological invasions, biodiversity and public policy, restoration ecology.
  • Lawrence Schell, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1980; biological anthropology, medical anthropology.
  • Kathryn S. Schiller, Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1995; sociology of education, educational policy and social stratification, adolescent behavior and academic success.
  • Benjamin A. Shaw, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2002; social determinants of health and aging.
  • Carolyn Smith, School of Social Welfare. Ph.D. University at Albany, SUNY, 1990; juvenile delinquency, adolescents.
  • Chris Smith, Geography and Planning. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1975; urban social geography, East Asian cities.
  • Scott South, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Texas, 1982; demography, urban, family.
  • Glenna Spitze, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1979; gender, families, aging.
  • David Strogatz, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 1983; epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, socioeconomic and racial comparisons in the occurrence of disease, applications of epidemiology in the evaluation of public health.
  • Kate Strully, Department of Sociology. Ph.D., New York University, 2005; Social Stratification, Health, Social Policy, Statistics and Methods.
  • Sapna Swaroop, Department of Sociology. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005; Urban Sociology, Race & Ethnicity, Social Demography.
  • Katherine Trent, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Texas, 1985; demography, family.
  • Russell Ward, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1974; aging.

Affiliates

  • Bridget Anderson, New York State Department of Health. Ph.D. University at Albany, 2003.
  • Donna Armstrong, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993; social epidemiology, coronary heart disease epidemiology, diabetes epidemiology, community interventions.
  • Christine E. Bose, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1974; stratification, labor market, gender studies.
  • Vajeera Dorabawila, Center for Human Services Research, University at Albany. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
  • Brian Fisher, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Ph.D. University at Albany, SUNY, 1991.
  • Timothy Hoff, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior. Ph.D. University at Albany, 1997; Organization Theory and Behavior; Health Management and Policy; Medical and Occupational Sociology.
  • Akiko S. Hosler, Department of Epidemiology. Ph.D. University at Albany, 1996.
  • Eunju Lee, School of Social Welfare. Ph.D. University at Albany, 2003; Child Welfare, Immigration, and Program Evaluation.
  • Lawrence Raffalovich, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Indiana University, 1987; stratification, statistics.
  • Piyusha Singh, School of Criminal Justice.  Ph.D.  Carnegie Mellon University, 2002; spatial analysis, Geographic Information Systems, youth violence and firearms, program evaluation, use of crime mapping and technology in policing.