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Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs
Associate Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Ph.D., 1994, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
Specialization areas: Social demography, environment, development
and globalization, gender.
Sara Curran joined the faculty of the
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
in 2005. Prior to that she was an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology,
Princeton University, where she was also a faculty associate in the Office of
Population Research, and in the Center for International Studies. She holds degrees
from the University of Michigan (B.S., natural resource management), North Carolina
State University (M.S., sociology and economics), and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D., sociology).
Curran researches internal migration in developing
countries, globalization, family demography, environment
and population, and gender. She is writing a book, Shifting Boundaries,
Transforming Lives: Globalization, Gender and Family
Dynamics in Thailand, which analyzes how migration
and education transformed Thai society between 1984-2000. She
received the outstanding faculty advising award from the
Princeton Sociology majors in 2002 and 2004. She
has authored work that has appeared in
Demography, Population and Development Review, Social
Science Research, Teaching Sociology, Journal of
International Women's Studies, and Journal of Marriage
and the Family. She serves on several national and
international advisory committees and boards.
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Recent hardback book now available as print-on-demand paperback
The Global Governance of Food, Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke, Andrew Schrank, (2009), is available as a print-on-demand paperback book from the Routledge paperbacks direct program at http://www.routledge.com. The direct link to the book is here.
Curran and the Global Washington Initiative in the news
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/321554_globalwa28.html
Curran recently completed directing the research for the Global Washington Initiative, a
statewide collaborative effort to identify and promote the innovations and efforts around the state
that benefit global sustainable development. For more information, please visit the Global Washington
Initiative homepage
http://www.globalwa.org
New Grant
Curran and Massey received
funding from NSF for a project entitled Collaborative Research: Migration &
Social Dynamics – Unpacking The Black Box of Cumulative Causation.
New Report
Curran directed a Jackson School Task Force in the spring of 2006 ~
Trafficking
in Persons – Spotlight on Washington. The report was presented publicly and some of the work
was adopted by the International Rescue Committee.
Ongoing Projects
Sara Curran and her colleagues from Brandeis
University and Wellesley College have
just been awarded a prestigious grant in
the field of religious studies from the Templeton Foundation for
a project entitled:
Comparing Spiritual and Other Forms of Social Capital:
Lessons from the Immigrant Experience
Curran and Sanjeev Khagram (Evans School) received
funding from The Gates Foundation for a project
entitled:
Mapping and Empowering Public Health Networks
in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia
Curran and colleagues at Princeton University (Miguel Centeno),
Netmap Analytics (John Galloway), and UCLA
(Abigail Cooke) are building the research infrastructure to study
global transactions.
Visit their website:
www.princeton.edu/~mapglobe/HTML/home.html
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