Amy Bailey
Ann Bostrom
Diana Canzoneri – Diana Canzoneri is a Strategic Advisor in the City’s Office of Planning & Community Development and has served as the City’s Demographer for 16 years. Diana provides analysis to inform neighborhood planning, long range planning, and housing policy, with a focus on advancing racial and social equity and combatting displacement. She has been a regional affiliate of CSDE since 2018. Diana received her bachelor’s degree in Political Culture from Pomona College and her master’s from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy.
Cathea Carey
Sara Curran – Curran is director of the UW’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology. Recently Curran was selected to join the Executive Council of UW President Ana Mari Cauce’s new Population Health Initiative. This exciting endeavor provides an outstanding opportunity to amplify UW’s substantial health research, training, and applications across the entire campus on behalf of local and global healthy outcomes. Curran investigates how social contexts, social categories and social structures of power and hierarchies shape human behavior and how human behavior and human interactions reshape social contexts, social categories and social structures. She focuses these general investigations around migration, gender, family, demographics and ecological well-being in developing country settings, primarily in Southeast Asia and the U.S. Her methodological approaches include quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and program evaluation.
Katherine Curtis
Audrey Dorelién – Audrey Dorélien is CSDE’s Training Core PI and a faculty member in the University of Washington’s Department of Sociology. Previously she taught at the Humphrey School for 10 years. Dorélien’s research agenda strives to elucidate how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with environmental conditions to affect health. Her work describes demographic and health patterns and attempts to identify causal factors responsible for these patterns. The first strand of her research focuses on the effects of early life exposures (i.e., disease/nutrition/climate) on health both in the United States and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, she analyzes how human behavior and population dynamics affect the spread and severity of infectious diseases. Third, Professor Dorélien has conducted research on spatial demography/ urbanization with a focus on health and climate change vulnerability. Her research has appeared in Population Development Review, Demography, Population Health Metrics, Biodemography and Social Biology, Demographic Research, and PLoS ONE. Prior to joining the Humphrey School, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health. She earned her PhD in Public Policy from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, with a concentration in demography from the Office of Population Research.
Mark Ellis
Amon Emeka
Maddie Farris
Jill Fulmore – Jill Fulmore is the Graduate Certificate Advisor supporting the certificate students working towards the completion of the Certificate in Demographic Methods. She graduated from the UW with a BA in Philosophy and Communications. She has worked for the UW for over 25 years in the advising capacity.
Ryan Gabriel
Jessica Godwin – Jessica Godwin is a Statistical Demographer and the Training Director for the Demographic Methods Certificate Program with CSDE. In her role as a Statistical Demographer, she will support the research of CSDE Affiliates and Trainees via consulting and the organization and facilitation of CSDE Workshops. Dr. Godwin received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2021 and also completed CSDE’s Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods. She was also the recipient of two CSDE fellowships, one from NICHD and one from the Shanahan Endowment. Her dissertation work examined how to best estimate child mortality from various sources and to improve upon national and subnational estimates in places with sparse data. As part of that effort, she led a study with CSDE Affiliate Jon Wakefield published in Statistics in Medicine that developed space-time modeling techniques for subnational child mortality estimates in low and middle-income countries. Subnational estimations of child mortality for 22 countries developed in collaboration with UN IGME can be found at https://childmortality.org/. Her broad research interests are demography, Bayesian spatiotemporal methods, survey statistics, and the places where all of those things overlap. She was born and raised in Alabama and received her M.S. in Statistics at Auburn University. Her thesis, titled “Group lasso for functional logistic regression”, was advised by Nedret Billor. She also received a B.S. in Actuarial Science. To read more about Dr. Godwin, visit her website: https://jlgodwin.github.io/
Steve Goodreau – Steven Goodreau’s research has two related themes: how does the complex biobehavioral ecology of HIV produce disparities in disease burden within and between populations; and how can we make more statistically sound use of social network data to understand the structure of populations and the flow of infections or other entities within them?
Since joining the UW faculty seven years ago, he has published on these topics in Demography, AIDS, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Genetics, Social Networks, the Journal of Infectious Disease, AIDS and Behavior, and eight others. Goodreau currently has five ongoing projects. The first, part of NIH’s Modeling Prevention Packages Program (MP3), aims to identify ways to better package and target HIV prevention interventions for men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Americas. Within this large multidisciplinary team, Goodreau is director of the modeling group, which is analyzing data on sexual behavior, demography, testing, and treatment among MSM in the US, Peru and Brazil; and using these data to parameterize dynamic HIV transmission network models to explore the potential impact of a host of biological and behavioral intervention packages. The second project, funded by the Gates Foundation, entails extending this analysis to MSM in India and Kenya, to begin developing a more refined comparative understanding of the nature of MSM HIV epidemics globally. The third project, Metromates, integrates behavioral data on post-HIV-diagnosis behavior change among MSM with virological data on acute infection into network models to explore the potential impact of different HIV testing strategies on reduction in risk behavior at the point when men are most infectious. The fourth project, just beginning, extends the work that the Social Network Modeling Group (also including Martina Morris at UW; Mark Handcock at UCLA, Carter Butts at UC-Irvine, and Dave Hunter at Penn State) have done over the past decade on developing user-friendly statistically grounded models and tools for social network analysis. The group’s current R packages (www.statnetproject.org) will be expanded to incorporate additional dynamics, forms of missing data, and epidemic modeling tools; the project also has a strong emphasis on providing training in these tools. The final project, A Kenya Free of AIDS (Martina Morris, PI), is a capacity-building grant for HIV prevention in Kenya; Goodreau’s role is to train African scholars in epidemic modeling so as to be better consumers of the literature that plays a major role in determining prevention and care priorities in sub-Saharan Africa, using a variety of novel pedagogical approaches that he and Dr. Morris have developed.
Jamie Goodwin-White
Patrick Greiner
Jennifer Hook – Jennifer L. Hook (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2006) is the Florence Everline Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her research areas include gender stratification, family demography, work-family policy, and comparative sociology. Her research examines how social contexts affect gendered divisions of work and care in the US and Europe, including women’s employment, fathers’ time with children, and the division of household labor. Her recent publications appear in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and the European Sociological Review, amongst others. In 2025-2027 she is serving as President of the Work and Family Researchers Network, an international and interdisciplinary organization of work and family researchers. She served as Vice President in 2023-2025. Hook’s research has won mutiple awards. Her work has twice (2021 and 2006) been a finalist Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (one of five finalists chosen from over 2500 research articles published in the interdisciplinary field of work and family research internationally). Another paper was awarded the 2022 IPUMS Time Use Research Award and another the 2015 Aldi J.M. Hagenaars Memorial Award. Her book (co-authored with Becky Pettit of the University of Texas – Austin) Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (Russell Sage Foundation 2009) was selected as a Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 2010. And her 2006 paper was awarded two ASA Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awards (Sociology of the Family and Sociology of Sex and Gender). She was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2023. Hook’s work has been funded by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Sloan Foundation, and the Center for Poverty Research at UC-Davis. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. In AY 2018-19 she was a fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center. She has served on editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, Social Problems, and Sociological Perspectives. From 2015-2018 and 2020-2022 she served as Director of Graduate Studies of the Sociology Department, and in 2022-2023 she served as Vice Chair. Hook is an award-winning teacher and mentor. She has been awarded the Dornsife General Education Teaching Award (2014) and the USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students (2020). She regularly teaches Soci 169 Changing Family Forms, Soci 464 Gender & Work, Soci 651 Social Stratification, and Soci 680 Writing for Publication in Sociology.
Nicki Jamet
Rob Kemp
Kim Korinek
Shelly Lundberg
Rebeccah Maskin
Laina Mercer
Giovanna Merli
Mike Mohrman
Martina Morris
Michelle O’Brien
Maria Rodriguez
Jeanie Santaularia
Sameer Shah
Amy Spring – Dr. Spring is a demographer and urban sociologist whose research centers on families, communities, neighborhoods, and the environment. She joined the Sociology Department in 2015 after completing her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and a research fellowship at UW’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. She is particularly interested in studying residential mobility and internal migration within the context of family networks. She is also interested in the geography of family networks and in family support systems over the life course. Her findings show that family networks are very influential in determining who moves (Demography; Journal of Marriage & Family) and explaining racial/ethnic disparities in residential mobility (Social Science Research). Further, she finds that familial locations play a key role in residential mobility following divorce, health problems, and other adverse life events (Population, Space, and Place; Social Science Research). Her research also explores residential mobility and neighborhood context among sub-groups, including older adults (The Gerontologist), multiracial couples (Demography), and same-sex households (Population Research and Policy Review; Demography, highlighting how residential experiences intersect with social statuses and identities. In current projects, she is investigating the geography of family networks for older adults with disabilities, and the influence of family locations on migration following climate-induced natural disasters. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Spring is a faculty affiliate in the Urban Studies Institute and the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University. She also serves on the editorial board of City & Community and Demography. Dr. Spring teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology, environmental sociology, sociology of neighborhoods, statistics, and research methods.
David Swanson
Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan
Tim Thomas – Tim Thomas is a professional researcher and research director at Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project (UDP) specializing in urban sociology, demography, and data science. His research focuses on how neighborhood change, housing disparities, policies, and displacement affects household socioeconomic stratification and mobility by race and gender in the United States. His research at the UDP centers on developing open-source tools to measure displacement and gentrification as well as a national housing precarity risk model measured through the risk of eviction, displacement, and unemployment. Tim is also the director for the Eviction Research Network, a multi-institution collaboration that analyzes household and neighborhood drivers of eviction using census data, text mining court records, and linking eviction data to administrative records. Tim’s research agenda is marked by an intellectual foundation in policy-relevant research operationalized through civic and academic collaborations that address real-world problems and advances scholarly research. His team’s work on eviction and housing precarity has provided empirical evidence to help pass tenant protections laws in several states across the country, informed the CDC eviction moratorium extension during the pandemic, and advised the White House and HUD on eviction trends in the United States.
Mark Vanlandingham – Mark J. VanLandingham, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Tulane University. His recent and ongoing research focuses on rural-to-urban migration within Southeast Asia; disaster recovery; and acculturation, health and well-being among Vietnamese immigrants in the United States. His recent book, Weathering Katrina, focuses on these latter two topics.
June Yang – June Yang is a research scientist at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and the eScience Institute. As a Computational Demographer, June focuses on applying Natural Language Processing methods to the study of population family formation processes, gender disparity, and demographic inference. She is expanding her skillset by using Large Language Models in text data annotation and measurement development. A second strain of her current research focuses on complex survey analysis, particularly using network-based samples to study vulnerable, hard-to-reach populations. June also has extensive experience working with administrative data sources. June received her PhD in Sociology from UW with concentrations in Demographic Methods and Social Statistics. Before starting a PhD at the UW, she worked as a research analyst at the Development Data Group of the World Bank.
Cai Yong