Thank you for another great year! As we wrap-up here at CSDE, we look forward to our Summer projects and partnerships, which we will share more about over the next few weeks. With the slower pace, our newsletters will start going out every two weeks, but please keep sending us your exciting news stories, media mentions, publications, awards, events, job opportunities, and anything you would like to share with the CSDE community! Otherwise, enjoy the weather and stop by Raitt 206 to say hi!

We would also like to recognize CSDE Fellows and Trainees who are graduating, accepting jobs, and being recognized with a number of honors and awards:

• CSDE Trainee Christian Hess will receive a PhD in Sociology Summer 2019. He received the Society for Study of Social Problems Graduate Student Paper Award for Youth, Aging and Life-Course. He will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban Research and Education, in the Department of Public Policy and Administration, at Rutgers University-Camden.
• CSDE Trainee Alumnus Leah Isquith-Dicker received a PhD in Biological Anthropology Winter 2019. She will work in research or evaluation.
• CSDE Trainee Savannah Larimore will receive a PhD in Sociology Summer 2019. She will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis.
• CSDE Fellow Christine Leibbrand will receive a PhD in Sociology Summer 2019. She received the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Medal for Most Outstanding Graduate Student in the Social Sciences, and will be an Acting Assistant Professor of Sociology at UW.
• CSDE Trainee Max McDonald will receive an MPA Spring 2019. He was awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for this Summer from the Southeast Asian Center at the UW Jackson School.
• CSDE Trainee Alumnus Chiho Song received a PhD in Social Welfare Winter 2019. He is working on a collaborative project titled “longitudinal analysis of refugee resettlement cities.”

In addition,

• CSDE Trainee Brenda Gellner was a participant in the Institute for Research and Poverty’s and Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth (CRW) Dissertation Proposal Workshop in Washington D.C. Spring 2019.
• CSDE Trainee Erin Carll received the West Coast Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 2019) and the NSF Dissertation Improvement Award.
• CSDE Fellow Connor Gilroy received the UW Sociology Department Award for Outstanding Performance for the Master of Arts Degree.
• CSDE Trainee Bradley Kramer received an ITHS NIH TL1 Translational Research Training Program grant and is co-PI for a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Implementation award through Public Health-Seattle & King County.
• CSDE Trainee Charles Lanfear received the UW Sociology Department Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• CSDE Trainee Neal Marquez participated in the June 2019 Fifth Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, at UC-Berkeley, co-sponsored by the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Berkeley Population Center
• CSDE Trainee Yohan Min received the Clean Energy Institutes Graduate Fellowship 2019-2020.
• CSDE Trainee María Vignau Loría also participated in the June 2019 Fifth Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, at UC-Berkeley.

Congratulations to Christine Leibbrand, CSDE Fellow and Sociology PhD Candidate, on receiving the Dean’s Medal for Outstanding Graduate Student in the Social Sciences! This honor is givento outstanding students in each division of the College of Arts and Sciences for their impressive record of academic achievement. Christine intends to complete her PhD in August 2019. Her dissertation examines whether the economic returns to migration and the economic well-being of migrants and non-migrants have changed within the context of declining internal U.S. migration rates over the past few decades. She has recently published or currently has articles in press at the American Journal of Sociology, Social Science Research, Social Science History, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

CSDE Visiting Affiliate Amy Bailey and her co-author, University of Illinois-Chicago doctoral candidate Allison Helmuth, invite beta testers for a new ZIP Code crosswalk they have developed. The crosswalk covers the entire US and spans years 1990-2010. The beta test crosswalk is available via a Stata .do file and an Excel spreadsheet. You can request access here. In exchange for accessing the Crosswalk, the authors ask that you provide feedback about your experience, which will help them finalize the data tool for public distribution. Please contact Amy Bailey with any questions.

Bailey and Helmuth used a biweekly administrative publication circulated by the US Postal Service to identify changes affecting the spatial boundaries of 5-digit ZIP Codes, such as anytime a ZIP Code boundary is created, broken up, or merged with another, including the date of implementation. They then created spatial cluster codes to reference the smallest indivisible geographic unit that remained constant over each decade (1990-2000 and 2000-2010), allowing researchers to minimize the potential for measurement error in their analyses of ZIP Code level data.

Roughly 1,000 ZIP Codes are affected by these boundary changes each decade, challenging researchers’ ability to correctly link ZIP Code-referenced data with the appropriate aggregated social, economic, and demographic characteristics. These boundary changes tend to occur in places where populations are rapidly expanding or contracting. Bailey and Helmuth also identified hundreds of ZIP Codes that refer exclusively to P.O. Boxes, rather than a geographic area.

CSDE is co-sponsoring a conference that explores the historical, political, and social aspects of the US Census. The Keynote lecture (tomorrow, 6/5/2019, 6:30 PM) will feature G. Cristina Mora, Kim Williams, and Nazita Lajevardi on the historical and political impacts of the Census. On Thursday (6/6/2019, 4:30 PM), a number of panels will speak to specific challenges of the 2020 Census. CSDE Affiliate Kate Stovel, Sociology, is moderating a roundtable on “The Importance of Census Data” (10:30 AM), in which CSDE Director Sara Curran, Sociology and International Studies, will speak about differential privacy.

The goal of this conference is to not only learn, but to collaboratively find ways to speak back to the Census. Please register here. The Conference is at the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, and it is free and open to the public. Please bring food and toiletry items to support Any Hungry Husky. They meet a vital need in our community.

 

To all students – Please complete the short end-of-year survey on accomplishments and future plans asap! This may include graduation plans, defending your dissertation, awards, jobs, etc. We hope to share your accomplishments with the CSDE community (including at this Friday’s end-of-year reception) and need it for our reporting.

To students who qualify for the Demographic Methods Certificate – It’s not too late to submit your documentation and get a framed certificate at the end-of-year reception! Please follow the instructions and upload your documentation no later than June 5 by noon. If you will complete requirements at the end of the quarter and will graduate before the Fall, you can submit preliminary documentation now and update it later. Contact Aimée Dechter with any questions.