People

Faculty

Margot Jackson

Director of the PSTC | Sociology

Children and families, Health, Inequality and poverty

Andrew Foster

Associate Director of the PSTC | Economics

Development, Education, Empirical microeconomics, Environment, Fertility, Health, Households, Human capital, Institutions, Labor economics, Marriage

Cancer Prevention, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Intersectionality, LGBTQ+ health, Patient-provider interactions, Sexual and Reproductive health, Social determinants of health, Social Epidemiology, Structural discrimination, Women's health

Anna Aizer

Economics

Child health, Child support, Domestic violence, Medicaid, Poverty, Welfare

Dany Bahar

Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs

Economic gains from migration and refugees, knowledge and technology diffusion, innovation, entrepreneurship, structural transformation, economic growth and development

Sandra Lynn Barnes

Sociology

Sociology of Religion; Inequality and Poverty; Urban Sociology; Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality; Black Youth Education; African American Studies

Courtney Boen

Sociology

Structural, institutional, and sociopolitical determinants of health inequities

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Benjamin P. Brown

The Warren Alpert Medical School

Reproductive and sexual health; Bioethics in policy development

Jesse Bruhn

Economics

Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Economics of Crime

Stephen Buka

Epidemiology

Behavioral and psychiatric disorders, Birth complications, Environmental hazards, Maternal and child health, Substance use

Jennifer Candipan

Sociology

Stratification, Inequality, Urban sociology, Education, Neighborhoods and schools, Neighborhood change, Race/Ethnicity, Residential mobility, Policy, Quantitative methods, Spatial analysis

Kenneth Chay

Economics

Community health, Labor and health economics, Microeconomics

Donghyun (Danny) Choi

Political Science

Intergroup Relations, Immigration, Identity Politics, Political Parties, Elections, Africa

Alexandra B. Collins

Epidemiology

Substance use; built environment and neighborhood change; gender inequities; social and structural determinants of health; harm reduction; drug policy; HIV and drug use; qualitative and community-based research

Terry-Ann Craigie

Economics

Child wellbeing, Criminal justice reform, Family formation, Mass incarceration, Race and gender discrimination

Pedro Dal Bó

Economics

Experimental economics, Game theory, Political economy

John M. Eason

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Community, Crime, Ethnography, Health Equity, Race, Punishment, and Rural/urban processes

Kevin Escudero

American Studies

Community engagement, Comparative ethnic studies, Critical refugee studies, Immigration and citizenship, Social movements

Alison Field

Public Health

Eating disorders, Nutrition, Obesity, Public Health

Linford D. Fisher

History

Atlantic World, Colonial American, and Native American history, Forced migration and mobility, Religion, Slavery

Andrea Flores

Education

Adolescence and early adulthood, Anthropological demography, Citizenship, Education, Immigration and migration

Rachel Franklin

Geography

Migration, Population diversity and composition, Population loss/decline, Spatial analysis, Spatial Demography

Rachel Friedberg

Economics

Economics of immigration, Jewish social science, Labor economics

John Friedman

Economics

Education, Healthcare, Political economy, Public economics, Retirement, Taxation

Elizabeth Fussell

Population Studies and Environment and Society

Migration, Environmental Change, Disasters, and Social Inequality

Omar Galárraga

Public Health

Conditional economic incentives, economic evaluation and economic efficiency of health programs, HIV, Social Health Insurance

Oded Galor

Economics

Evolutionary economics, Growth and development, Population economics

Diana Grigsby-Toussaint

Public Health

Social and environmental determinants of health, Social epidemiology, Sleep, Obesity, Food environments and health, Green space and health

Abigail Harrison

Public Health

Fertility and family planning, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Qualitative research

Patrick Heller

Sociology

Comparative political economy, Democratization, Development, Political sociology, Social movements

J. Vernon Henderson

Economics

Urban and regional economics

Joseph Hogan

Public Health

Behavioral medicine, Causal inference, HIV/AIDS, Longitudinal data analysis, Missing data

Dennis P. Hogan

Sociology

Disability, Family lives, Fertility and family planning, Transition to adulthood

Chanelle Howe

Epidemiology

Causal inference; quantitative methods; study design; health disparities; racial/ethnic health disparities; resilience; HIV; infectious diseases; social determinants of health; social epidemiology; neighborhoods

Peter Hull

Economics

Education (Middle/high school quality), Healthcare (Hospital / insurance plan quality), Discrimination (especially in employment / lending / healthcare / criminal justice), Applied econometrics

Nina Joyce

Public Health

Built environment and access to health care, End of life care, Long-term care, Mental health, Palliative and hospice care, Pediatric pharmacoepidemiology

Aditya Khanna

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Computational Epidemiology; Simulation and Computational Modeling for Public Health Planning; Social Network Analysis; Incarceration; Addiction

Matthew Kraft

Education

Economics of education, Education policy analysis, School organizational capacity, Teacher effectiveness and evaluation, Teacher-parent communication

Lorenzo Lagos

Economics

Labor economics and development economics

Jessaca Leinaweaver

Anthropology

Adoption, Aging, Anthropological demography, Caregiving, Childhood, Family, Gender, Migration, Reproduction

David P. Lindstrom

Sociology

Contraception, Fertility, Migration, Reproductive health

John Logan

Sociology

Family, Immigration, Migration, Political sociology, Race and ethnicity, Spatial analysis, Urban sociology

Laura López-Sanders

Sociology

Immigration, Organizational and institutional processes and outcomes, Public policy, Race and ethnic relations, Social Inequality

Eric Loucks

Public Health

Biomarkers, Coronary heart disease, Education, Epidemiology, Health

Glenn C. Loury

Economics

Cognitive theories of racial stigma, Dysfunctional social identity, Race and inequality, Racial affirmative action, Status transmission across generations

Mark Lurie

Public Health

Antiretroviral therapy, HIV/AIDS, Infectious diseases, Mathematical modeling, Migration

Elisa Macchi

Economics

Development and behavioral economics; determinants of health behavior, especially related to nutrition and exercise, and mental health

Ananda Martin-Caughey

Sociology

Gender, work, organizations, race/ethnicity, inequality, mobility

Katherine A. Mason

Anthropology

Anthropological demography, Bioethics, Global health, Health equity, Infectious disease, Mental illness, Migration, Population health, Postpartum period

Stephen McGarvey

Public Health

Global health, Human population biology, Non-communicable diseases, Nutrition transition

Stelios Michalopoulos

Economics

Culture, Development, Economic growth, Ethnicity, Folklore, Inequality, Institutions, Islam, Religion

Kevin Mwenda

Director of S4 | Population Studies

Population Health and Environment, Spatial analysis, Spatial demography

Emily Oster

Economics

Development economics, Health

John Papay

Education

Consequences of state tests, Postsecondary education choices, Teacher career growth, Teacher hiring and evaluation practices

Christina Paxson

Economics

Aging, Child health and well-being, Health, Inequality, Labor economics, Life course

Matthew Pecenco

Economics

Labor economics, development economics, entrepreneurship in the Global South

Louis Putterman

Economics

Comparative economic development, Human interaction, Income inequality, Inter-ethnic interactions, Social norms and institutions

Zhenchao Qian

Sociology

Family demography, Immigration, Race and ethnicity, Social Inequality

David Rangel

Education

Educational inequality, Race and ethnicity, Social psychology, Social stratification

Emily Rauscher

Sociology

Stratification, Education, Health, Demography

Jonathan Roth

Economics

Econometrics, Labor Economics, Algorithmic Fairness

David A. Savitz

Public Health

Fertility, Health risks from environmental exposures, Pregnancy

Andrew Schrank

Sociology

Migration, Health, Education and Training, Latin America

Susan E. Short

Sociology

Population Health; Reproductive Justice; Gender; Families; Institutions, Inequalities, and Social Change

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Michael Silverstein

School of Public Health

Mental health services for children and families; 'Medicalization' of social phenomena; Benefits and limitations of the healthcare system's ability to deal with health related social needs

Daniel Jordan Smith

Anthropology

Anthropological demography, Corruption, HIV/AIDS, Medical anthropology, Migration, Pentecostal Christianity, Political culture

Maria Steenland

Population Studies

Maternal and child health, Econometrics, Family planning, Impact evaluation

Bryce Steinberg

Economics

Development, Education, Health, Labor, Urban economics

Neil Thakral

Economics

Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets

Matthew Turner

Economics

Cities, Climate change, Transportation infrastructure, Urbanization

Leah VanWey

Sociology

Environment and development, Land change development, Migration, Population and environment

David Weil

Economics

Economic growth, Health, Population aging

Michael J. White

Population Studies

Demography, Environment, Immigration, Population distribution, Social policy, Urban sociology

Meghan Zacher

Population Studies

Health; Health disparities; Aging; Cognitive health and ADRD; Biomarkers; Genetics; Education; Sex/gender and women’s health; Disasters

Han Zhang

Sociology

Social Movements; Digital Surveillance; Computational Social Science; Statistical Methodology

Postdoctoral Fellows

Alyssa Basmajian

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Adolescent/Young Adult Developmental Transitions, HIV Interventions, Health Inequities, Reproductive Justice

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Alexandra Cooperstock

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Social stratification, the sociology of education, community and urban sociology

Ting Deng (Grazia)

PSTC | Postdoctoral Fellow

Transnational migration, Intercultural dynamics, Social inclusion/exclusion, Urban encounters, Migration and health, Chinese diaspora, Italy

Elly Field

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Stratification and inequality; school and neighborhood racial segregation; segregation dynamics; poverty

Eunah Jung

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Placemaking, Public Space, Neighborhood Change, Urban and Spatial Inequality, Environmental Justice, Quantitative/Spatial Analytics, Data Science

Han Liu

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Social Stratification, Demography, Population Health

Carlo Medici

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Labor Economics, Political Economy, Economic History, Immigration, Labor Unions, Public Sector Organizations

Greer Mellon

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

School Racial Composition and Parents’ School Preferences, School District Governance, Gender Inequality in the High-Skilled U.S. Labor Market

Tiziano Rotesi

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Political Economy, History, Discrimination, Media, Networks, Experiments, Narratives, Attitudes toward immigration

Sonia Rupcic

PSTC | Postdoctoral Fellow

Legal anthropology, Medical anthropology, Gender, Ethnicity, Violence, Humanitarianism, Criminal justice, Legal pluralism

Daniel Schleith

PSTC/S4 | Postdoctoral Fellow

Urban and transportation geographies, Accessibility, Commuting, Geographic Information Science, Spatial statistics, Big data

Pablo Seward Delaporte

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Migration, Urban Risk, Vulnerability, Care, Race, Gender, Space and Place, Subjectivity, Phenomenology, Latin America, Ethnography

John Sullivan

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Residential segregation, Residential mobility, Age structure, Aging and environment

Carlos Alberto Tello Barreda

PSTC | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Andean festivities, Indigenous and mestizo identities, Cultural anthropology, Gender and sexuality, Performance

Jongho Won

Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)

Scholarly Interests: Urban and Spatial Inequality, Residential Segregation, Affordable Housing Policy, Neighborhood Change, Community Development, Built Environment

Predoctoral Trainees

Staff

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