CSDE Welcomes Back Former T32 Trainees & Fellows as External Affiliates

Posted: 10/17/2024 ()

CSDE is pleased to welcome back some of our former T32 trainees and fellows as External Research Affiliates! Delaney Glass (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) focuses on cultural and ecological contributions to the timing and pace of human growth, development, and puberty. Anwesha Pan (Assistant Professor, Utah State University) researches the association between environmental stressors (e.g., poverty, famine) and female reproductive health. Hanjie Wang’s (Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University) current work focuses on the comparative analysis of electric vehicle policies in China, the U.S., and India, alongside the underlying politics of global EV trade and investment policies. Aasli Abdi Nur (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford) researches the use of individual-level modeling approaches to study gender, fertility, and family dynamics across the life course, and epistemic inequalities in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and their impact on demographic research.

• Delaney Glass – Delaney Glass is a mixed-methods, biocultural anthropologist and human biologist working primarily with Arab communities in North America and Jordan. She examines biocultural drivers and population health consequences of early life adversity and social inequalities on child and adolescent linear growth/body size, pubertal development, mental health, and wellbeing. She uses frameworks and methods from medical anthropology, evolutionary biology, and qualitative health research. She is an Assistant Professor of Biocultural Medical Anthropology at The University of Toronto. Much of her prior research, including her dissertation, has been focused on cultural and ecological contributions to the timing and pace of human growth, development, and puberty. This area of her research is concerned with the ways early life adversities (psychosocial, nutritional, energetic) shape puberty and adolescent development, especially in global contexts of forced displacement, migration, and social inequality. Current directions in this area are focused on maximizing longitudinal observational data from Vietnam, The United States and Argentina, data science techniques, and anthropological knowledge to understand drivers of puberty. She welcomes students who are interested in these broad topics and related topics (e.g., philosophical / history of science approaches about the social consequences of early puberty).

 

• Anwesha Pan – Anwesha Pan is a biological anthropologist working primarily with the populations in South Asia and the United States. Her research focuses on the association between environmental stressors (e.g., poverty, famine) and female reproductive health. She uses theories and methods from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and demography to understand environmental adversity throughout the life course and disparities in reproductive health.

 

• Hanjie Wang – Hanjie Wang is a Political Scientist with research and teaching interests in international and comparative political economy, environmental politics, and Chinese politics. Her current work focuses on the comparative analysis of electric vehicle policies in China, the US, and India, alongside the underlying politics of global EV trade and investment policies. She has a broad interest in the role of governments in facilitating green technological transitions and in the interactions between trade and environmental policies. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington and will commence her role as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center starting August 2024. Hanjie has received training in demographic methodology from the UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) in 2024, and she is interested in examining how population changes influence environmental impacts.

 

• Aasli Abdi Nur – Aasli Abdi Nur, PhD, MPH, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford specializing in Computational Demography. She currently works on the Connecting Generations project with Professor Ridhi Kashyap, studying demographic changes and their implications for kinship and intergenerational overlap, care, and support. In addition to her departmental appointment, she is also a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. Aasli’s research uses computational and demographic methods explore two main areas of interest. The first focuses on the use individual-level modeling approaches to study gender, fertility, and family dynamics across the life course. The second examines epistemic inequalities in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and their impact on demographic research. Prior to joining Oxford, Aasli worked as a Research Scientist in the Institute for Disease Modelling at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington, where she served as a graduate fellow with the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. Aasli holds an MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been published in the Journal of Global Health, BMJ Global Health, Women and Birth, and the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.