Lisa D. Pearce

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology

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CPC Office: 522 CPC East
CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-7413

Campus Office: 204 Hamilton
Campus Phone Number: (919) 966-1450

Email: ldpearce@email.unc.edu

Lisa Pearce is a sociologist and demographer who primarily studies how religion shapes family formation, relationships, adolescent self-image, aspirations, and achievement. With ongoing research set in both the U.S. and Nepal, her current U.S. work focuses on how religious ideology, practice, and salience in youth relate to subsequent education-, career-, and family-related attitudes and behavior. In Nepal, she studies how religion is related to family formation and reciprocal relationships between household demographic change and environmental consumption and degradation. Pearce uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative data in her research.

Related CPC Signature Themes:

• Fertility, Families, and Children

• Life Course Perspectives

• Population and Environment

Current CPC Grants and Contracts:

• PIRE Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change

• Religion's Role in the Shaping of Self-Image, Aspirations, and Achievement in Youth

Information updated on 1/30/2013