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CSDE Computational Demography Group

The next meeting of the CSDE Computational Demography Group will be this Thursday, May 25th, at 12 noon in Raitt 114.

Daniel Promislow and Ben Harrison (http://www.promislowlab.org/) will share their experience with data and methods that they use in the context of a systems biology perspective on biodemography.

As usual, everyone is welcome, and pizza/light refreshments will be served.

Instructor in Social Work/Sociology

Nassau Community College (NCC), a member of the State University of NY (SUNY) system of Colleges and Universities, is a diverse and multi-cultural campus. NCC provides equal employment opportunity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital, or veteran status. NCC promotes positive efforts in recruitment to achieve equity and inclusion and is conducting a search to fill anticipated staff and administrative vacancies. All vacancies are filled pending budget approval.

Sociology/Social Work Instructor:Full timeposition. College teaching experience required. We are seeking a person to teach Human Services and Sociology courses. CASAC is also preferred.

Michelle O’Brien Publishes Research on Russian Migration and Ethnic Nationalism

Michelle O’Brien, CSDE Funded Fellow and doctoral student in Sociology at UW, recently published a paper in Migration Studies examining ties between ethnic migration and sociopolitical pressure in Russia. O’Brien argues that push factors from anti-minority nationalist parties have encouraged greater out-migration among ethnic minorities. Her studies suggest that ethnic minorities are not inherently inclined to migrate more than majority groups–they are simply pressured into doing so by political sentiment.

You can read the full publication by logging in with your UW NetID below.

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Eastern New Mexico University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Anthropology position beginning August 2017. We seek a cultural anthropologist whose areas of focus may include some of the following: ecology, human behavioral ecology, ethnobotany, transnationalism, Southwest border issues, and North American indigenous ethnography. We prefer someone with an active research agenda and online teaching experience; a background in qualitative methods, digital methods, or GIS would be desirable. The successful candidate must be willing to run a summer field school on a rotational basis. Preference will be given to candidates who have completed their Ph.D. by August 2017. Our program has a strong graduate component, and candidates must be prepared to help supervise Master’s students.

Call for Papers: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences Symposium

SocArXiv will host the inaugural O3S: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences symposium on October 26 and 27, 2017 at University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will (a) highlight research that uses the tools and methods of open scholarship; (b) bring together researchers who work on problems of open access, publishing, and open scholarship; and (c) facilitate exchange of ideas on the development of SocArXiv.

Submissions on the following topics are welcomed:

  1. Research on any topic that includes open scholarship components. This may entail a demonstration case showing how to do an open scholarship project, providing data and code for results, working with collaborators, or other examples of open scholarship in practice.
  2. Research about open scholarship itself. This may include mechanisms for making data and code public, workflow processes, publication considerations, citation metrics, or the tools and methods of open scholarship.
  3. Research about replication and transparency. This includes both replication studies and research about replication and reproducibility issues.

For more information about submitting papers, visit the page below.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aging, Care, and Well-being

Working under the direction of Dr. Bruno Arpino, the post-doctoral fellow will undertake research on ageing, care and wellbeing using longitudinal and cross-national data sets. The selected applicant will investigate how multiple roles influence health and wellbeing of older people and the moderator effects of policies and other contextual factors. This position is linked to the multi-national research project titled “Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes (CREW).” More information of the CREW project can be found at https://crew-more-years-better-lives.org/.

To view position requirements and apply, visit the page below. Additional opportunities within CREW can be found here.

René Flores and India Ornelas Honored with Latinx Faculty Awards

CSDE Affiliates Professor René Flores (Sociology) and Professor India Ornelas (Health Services) were both recognized with Latinx Faculty Awards by the UW’s Latino Center for Health for their distinguished scholarly accomplishments, advocacy, and leadership this year on behalf of Latina/o communities and needs. Award recipients either were promoted to associate professor or professor, published an article in a high-impact journal, published a book, secured a major grant, or are retiring during or near the end of the academic year. Congratulations to both!

You can read more about the honors and the work of the Latino Center for Health below.

Call for Abstracts: International Population Geography Conference

Professors Mark Ellis and Suzanne Withers invite abstracts from CSDE students who are interested in presenting a paper at the International Population Geography Conference to be held on the UW campus from Thursday June 29 – Saturday July 1, 2017.

The conference website provides some information on the conference and its history.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, the registration fee will be waived. Send Professor Ellis your title and abstract–he will kindly connect you with the UW conference coordinator, who will enter you into the registration system without a fee. To take advantage of this fee waiver, submit your materials by the morning of Friday, May 26.

Brown-bag Talk with Dan Goldhaber: Tracing the Evolution of Teacher Quality Gaps in U.S. Public Schools

Abstract: There is mounting evidence of substantial “teacher quality gaps” (TQGs) between advantaged and disadvantaged students, but practically no empirical evidence about their history. We use longitudinal data on public school students, teachers, and schools from two states—Washington and North Carolina—to provide a descriptive history of the evolution of TQGs in these states. We find that TQGs exist in every year in each state and for all measures we consider of student disadvantage and teacher quality. But there is variation in the magnitudes and sources of TQGs over time, between the two states, and depending on the measure of student disadvantage or teacher quality. This points to the importance of future work focused on disentangling the factors that contribute to these TQGs.

Dan Goldhaber is the Director of the Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR), Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, and a CSDE Affiliate. His work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, the broad array of human capital policies that influence the composition, distribution, and quality of teachers in the workforce, and connections between students’ K-12 experiences and postsecondary outcomes.

CSDE Highlights from PAA 2017

CSDE is pleased to provide travel scholarships for a number of its Certificate Trainees and training grant Fellows in order for them to present their research to the national community. One of the key meetings for our students is the Population Association of America meeting, held this year in Chicago on April 27 – 29, 2017. Here are some stories from several of our students who attended. If you would like to help CSDE support travel to upcoming conferences, you may make a donation to the travel fund here.

Mike Esposito

  • Co-Author: Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, Physical Attractiveness, and Socioeconomic Status in the United States
  • Co-Author: Is Race in the Eye of the Beholder?: Using Interviewer-Recorded Race to Assess the Relationship Between Self-Identified Race, Observed Race, and Health
  • Co-Author: Interracial Couples and the Association Among Marriage and Health

PAA 2017 was, as it always has been, a rewarding, productive conference. This year, I was part of three projects—one session presentation, and two posters. The session presentation went well: my co-authors and I received great feedback which we’ve already incorporated into our project. The poster sessions were also productive and—I’ll admit it—fun. During these presentations, I met a number of well-regard population-health scholars, as well as promising graduate students. It was nice to chat with like-minded individuals about research, and to build interpersonal connections over everything else.

Victoria Sass

  • First Author: The Effects of Air Pollution on Individual Psychological Distress

This year I was fortunate enough to be able to present my first, first-authored work at a poster session on Health and Mortality at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. This work comes out of an ongoing collaboration with several current and former CSDE affiliates including Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Kyle Crowder, Anjum Hajat, and David Takeuchi. I received a good deal of interest from fellow scholars looking at the potential negative health implications of exposure to high levels of air pollutants. From this feedback I have already begun working to incorporate their suggestions to improve the current paper as well as other papers in the earlier stages of development. It was an invaluable experience to be able to share my work, present it to a receptive and highly knowledgeable audience, and receive opportunities to further develop my research ideas. Additionally, it was extremely fulfilling to engage with fellow researchers in paper sessions as well as the formal CSDE reception. Catching up with new and returning affiliates in an atmosphere where everyone was still buzzing about the research they presented or had the opportunity to discover was a highlight of the week.

Jessica Godwin

PAA is my favorite conference I have attended. It is always a good mix of socializing and research. The quality of research is much better than some other conferences (including the main conference in my own discipline). The social events also make it easy to meet people (students and faculty alike). Going to PAA is the one time in the year I meet new people who work in areas that interest me. It is also invaluable experience to speak at PAA with discussants (something that also rarely exists in my discipline).

Chris Hess

  • Author: Neighborhood Change After Light-Rail Transit Investment

This was my first year attending the Population Association of America meetings, and the funding from CSDE gave me an opportunity to present my Master’s thesis work in a panel on Urbanization and Urban Growth. I gave my first conference presentation, so I was a little nervous about the whole thing. Thankfully, the session went well and I even received some great feedback regarding the work I presented. Beyond that, my trip to Chicago for the PAA meetings gave me a chance to talk about work and discuss professional goals with colleagues in the Center and in my department (sociology). The whole experience was valuable to me since I gained insights on how to improve my research, I met CSDE affiliates old and new, and we were even fortunate to get a respite from all the rainy weather we were having in Seattle!

Angela Bruns

  • Author: The Third Shift: Multiple Job Holding and the Incarceration of Women’s Romantic Partners

“I attended the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America to present a paper from my dissertation titled, “The Third Shift: Multiple Job Holding and the Incarceration of Women’s Romantic Partners.” I presented in the session on Incarceration and Family Life, and several scholars whose work I had read and cited were in attendance. Thus, in addition to receiving feedback on the paper, this session also provided an opportunity to meet scholars in my area and expand my professional network. I attended several sessions on gender, employment, and social inequality, where I learned about the latest research, met new people, and ran into several researchers I had met at previous meetings. I also attended a meeting I had scheduled in advance with an established researcher whose work on low-wage employment aligns with my own. We talked about our shared research interests, and he helped me think through the framing for a paper I am currently writing. Overall, PAA was a wonderful opportunity to share my work and connect with scholars with similar research interests.”

Maria Vignau Loria

  • Author: The Health of Returned Migrants in Mexico
  • Co-Author: Determinants of Modern Contraceptive Use: A Systematic Literature Review
  • Co-Author: A New Approach to Measuring and Explaining Trends in Contraceptive Prevalence Rates: The Case of India, 1992–2005

“My experience at PAA was great in many ways. I had the chance to meet lots of new scholars and form new professional connections. I also had the chance to present my research at a bigger forum for the first time, both in poster and presentation formats. I felt particularly prepared for the poster presentation thanks to CSDE’s own poster session in December 2016. That first opportunity allowed me to feel confident in my research and to understand what a good poster should look like. I was fortunate to receive an award for that poster presentation.”

Michelle O’Brien

“At this PAA, I acted as the discussant at the panel called Forced Migration, which was chaired by one of my CSDE faculty mentors, Nathalie Williams. I also presented one chapter of my dissertation (“The Long-Term Consequences of Armed Conflict on International Migration”) as a poster. I had a great experience as discussant, and really enjoyed the opportunity to discuss four great papers that were so close to my own research interests. At the poster session, I was able to talk to a wide range of demographers about my dissertation project and received a great deal of feedback. As I intend to apply for postdocs in the fall, this was an important PAA for me, and I felt like I got the exposure and comments I need to continue progressing on my dissertation.”