CSDE Affiliate Mienah Sharif and co-author Dr. Neda Maghbouleh (Univ. of Toronto, Sociology) recently collaborated on a paper published in Health Promotion Practice entitled “COVID-19 Disparities Among Arab, Middle Eastern, and West Asian Populations in Toronto: Implications for Improving Health Equity Among Middle Eastern and North African Communities in the United States“. In this paper, with data from Toronto Public Health, the authors document the stark disparities between Arab, Middle Eastern, and West Asian Populations compared to white residents of Toronto. They draw on the Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) to support ongoing, transdisciplinary and community-based efforts calling on the disaggregation of data, in the United States, in order to highlight the inequities Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities face here.
*New* The American Council of Learned Societies Opens Fellowship Opportunities (Due 3/15/2023)
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the fifth competition for Leading Edge Fellowships, made possible by the generous support of the Mellon Foundation. The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society.
In 2023, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 22 two-year fellowships partnering recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs with organizations advancing social justice and equity in communities across the United States. The fellowships are designed to draw on the humanistic skills, capacities, and frameworks developed in the course of earning the PhD and provide a range of networking and career-building opportunities.
This year, ACLS is partnering with 22 nonprofit organizations including the Campaign for Southern Equality (Asheville, NC), Gender Justice (Saint Paul, MN), and Strategic Action for a Just Economy (Los Angeles, CA).
ACLS is now accepting fellowship applications, with submissions due by 9:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
Each Leading Edge Fellow will receive a $66,000 stipend in year one, and $70,000 in year two, as well as health insurance, professional development funding, and mentorship. Fellows will contribute to initiatives and projects advancing the rights of immigrant workers and students, promoting strategic social change through the arts, and advocating for reproductive justice in communities like Saint Paul, MN and Dallas, TX. The fellows also will participate in a variety of professional development and networking activities designed to help translate the experiences of their two-year placements into post-fellowship career opportunities.
The Leading Edge Fellowship program welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds including historically underrepresented groups such as Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaskan Native scholars, first generation college students, scholars from low-income backgrounds, formerly incarcerated scholars, queer and trans scholars, and scholars with disabilities.
Sign Up for First Annual All-UC Demography Conference at UC Irvine! (Due 2/6/2023)
The University of California, Irvine’s Center for Population, Inequality and Policy invites submissions to present at the inaugural All-UC Demography Conference. This meeting will highlight current demographic research and provide a venue for making connections across UC campuses, with a keynote talk by Ronald Lee. The conference will be held May 4th and May 5th in person at University of California, Irvine. The plan is to hold faculty paper sessions with discussants, as well as an additional graduate student poster competition, with awards and a reception. The submission deadline for both papers and posters is Monday, February 6th, 2023, 11:59pm. Presenters will be notified by early March. Limited travel award support will be available for graduate students with accepted posters. For more information, please visit the conference website here.
Applications Available for Junior Scholar Intensive Training! (Due 2/8/23)
Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth (CRW) and the Center for Financial Security (CFS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison annually conduct the Junior Scholar Intensive Training (JSIT) Summer Workshop. This week-long workshop, from June 12 – 16, 2023 , held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, brings together PhD students, newly graduated PhD researchers, and junior faculty who are interested in topics related to disability and retirement research in the United States. Applications are due February 8th – click here for more detail about applications.
Formal Demography Working Group: Matt Hauer on Climate Migration & Demographic Amplification (1/26/23)
The next meeting of the Formal Demography Working Group will be Thursday, January 26, 10PM ET (Toronto time, which is 4pm Vienna/Denmark time). Matt Hauer will present ‘Climate Migration, Demographic Amplification, and multiregional population projections’.
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81659687554
Meeting ID: 816 5968 7554
Passcode: eulerlotka
Links:
– Here is our website.
– Meetings are recorded for those who are unable to join us. Previous recordings can be found here.
– If you are interested in presenting at a future meeting, fill out this form.
Register Now for PAA 2023!
Registration is now open for PAA 2023 in New Orleans, LA. CSDE is offering Travel Grants that can cover PAA registration, PAA membership, trave, food, or lodging up to $500 to CSDE trainees. Applications for the travel grants are due January 25th, 2023.
Important Dates and Deadlines:
- January 31, 2023: Last day the early-bird rate is available.
- February 15, 2023: Deadline for all presenters to register.
- February 1 – March 31, 2023: Regular registration rates will be in effect.
CSDE students who are presenting at PAA 2023 can apply here for registration and/or travel support.
Bustan Gives Lecture to Celebrate 100 Years of Social and Behavioral Science Research on Immigration (1/27/23 @11am Pacific)
Princeton University Professor, Leah Bustan, will deliver a lecture on “Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success” for The Social Science Research Council’s 100th Anniversary. For more details visit here.
Join the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seminar Series for Chloe Krakauer on P-Values (1/25/2023)
Please join CSSS for their next speaker in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. On Wednesday, January 25 at 12:30 pm, Chloe Krakauer, Biostatistician at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, will give a seminar titled, “Toss the bathwater, keep the baby: how p-values can still be useful.” This seminar will be offered as a Hybrid session. Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or on Zoom.
Despite wide distribution of the American Statistical Association’s (ASA’s) cautionary statement about misuse and abuse of p-values from null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) in publications and policy decisions in 2016, their (mis)use remains ubiquitous. The persisting need to modify inappropriate use of p-values is made evident by the special edition of The American Statistician (TAS) in 2019 led by the executive director of the ASA focusing on this topic. The edition highlights both existing and novel methods to combat egregious scientific conclusions using p-values, ranging from simple measures to accompany p-values to paradigm shifts in default scientific inference to embracing subjectivity—in place of claimed objectivity—as the solution. The question remains, why are these tools not used more, particularly by individuals already educated about them?
This talk will be constrained to circumstances requiring a binary decision, initial use of NHST, and reporting of p-values. It will be presented in three parts. First, select existing accompaniments to p-values to aid in their interpretation will be summarized, including a novel decision-theoretic method (joint work with Ken Rice, UW Biostatistics) along with recent examples of their implementation either in initial data analysis or critiques of reported results. Second, I’ll review why these changes are so difficult to implement, mostly summarizing the TAS 2019 special edition, adding some personal experience as a “boots on the ground” collaborative biostatistician. Finally, I’ll show how even if these tools are not directly used, lessons from these tools in the form of “rules of thumb” and altering inherent understanding of p-values may be applied immediately.
This seminar will be located at 409 Savery Hall
*New* Issue Published from the Journal On Migration And Human Security!
The Journal on Migration and Human Society has released its newest issue with research on democratizing data, under counting of undocumented residents in the American Community Survey, and Impact of Armed Conflicts on Forced Crises in Nigeria and Mali. Make sure to check out this new issue as soon as you get the chance!
Join UW International Security Colloquium (UWISC) on Their First Talk of 2023!
Join UWISC on Friday, January 27th at 3pm.They will be hosting Naima Green-Riley for a paper entitled “Winning Hearts Without Changing Minds: The Limits of Broadcast Diplomacy.” The study analyzes how the United States uses broadcasted public diplomacy messaging to persuade foreign audiences. The project takes as its focus the emerging competition between the United States and China, and it relies on a nationally-representative, face-to-face survey experiment fielded in Morocco. Naima Green-Riley’s work is both methodologically and substantively rich, and it should make for a fascinating presentation and discussion. Feel free to attend in person or register online for zoom here!
Biography of Presenter
Naima Green-Riley is an Instructor in the Department of Politics and at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and will be converted to the role of Assistant Professor in Fall 2023. Her research, which focuses on U.S. and Chinese foreign policy, has been featured in the Journal of Experimental Political Science and various other outlets, including the Monkey Cage Blog at the Washington Post, the Emerging Voices on the New Normal in Asia Series of the National Bureau of Asian Research, The Diplomat, and The Root. Her forthcoming book, The China Questions II (Harvard University Press), compares U.S. and Chinese models of foreign audience engagement in public diplomacy.
The talk will be from 3:00–4:30pm on Friday, January 27th in Gowen 1a. If you plan to attend remotely, please use the following Zoom link and password.