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CPC Postdoctoral Scholars

Academic Year 2011-12

Sandra Albrecht, Ph.D. Epidemiological Science, University of Michigan, 2011 Email: ssalb@live.unc.edu	Phone: (919) 843-6859 514 CPC East
Research focus: Cardiovascular health consequences of rapid social and environmental change; migration; social patterning of chronic disease; health disparities among U.S. Latinos; sociocultural context and biological expression CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Nutrition

Mariaelisa Graff, Ph.D. Nutritional Epidemiology, Emory University, 2006 Email: migraff@unc.edu	Phone: (919) 966-6784 408B CPC East
Research focus: Gene-environment interactions and metabolic risk factors: the influence of lifestyle and social factors with genotype CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Nutrition

Mosi Ifatunji, Ph.D. Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago, 2011 Email: ifatunji@email.unc.edu	302 CPC South
Research focus: TBD CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Ken Bollen, Sociology

Julia Jennings, Ph.D. Anthropology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2010 Email: julia.jennings@unc.edu	Phone: (919) 966-2578 301 CPC South
Research focus: Historical demography; household demography and adaptation; ecology of traditional European farming systems; comparative island population dynamics; quantitative methods; and agent-based modeling. CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Paul Leslie, Anthropology

Jennifer Buher Kane, Ph.D. Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011 Email: jbkane@unc.edu	Phone: (919) 843-4445 304 CPC South
Research focus: Fertility; marriage and cohabitation; development of health disparities across the life course; neighborhood environments; biosocial processes; father involvement; child support; quantitative and qualitative methods CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris, Sociology

Haeng-Shin Lee, Ph.D. Food and Nutrition, Sookmyoung Women's University, 2001 Email: haengsin@live.unc.edu	Phone: (919) 966-8274 305 CPC South
Research focus: The nutrition transition in Korea CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Barry Popkin, Nutrition

Ting Li, Ph.D. Quantitative Ecology, University of Washington, 2011 Email: tingli@email.unc.edu	Phone: 401A CPC East
Research focus: Mathematical modeling for mortality and disease patterns; quantitative methods for exploring the interactions between social & environmental factors and heath outcomes. CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Yang Yang, Sociology

Rosangela Alves Pereira, Ph.D. Public Health, National School of Public Health (Brazil), 2000 Email: rapereir@live.unc.edu	Phone: (919) 843-7947 201 CPC South
Research focus: Food intake and nutrition transition in Brazil CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Barry Popkin, Sociology

Carolina Perez-Heydrich, Ph.D. Infectious Diseases and Pathology, The University of Florida, 2010 Email: caroph@email.unc.edu	Phone: (919) 843-0252 303 CPC South
Research focus: Human-environment interactions on population health outcomes; infectious disease ecology; animal population health; environmental health; quantitative epidemiology CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Michael Emch, Geography and Amy Herring, Biostatistics

Liana Richardson, Ph.D. Health Behavior Health Education, UNC-CH, 2009 Email: ljrichar@email.unc.edu	Phone: (919) 966-7481 507 CPC East
Research focus: Social determinants of health disparities over the life course; intersectionality and health; qualitative and quantitative methods CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Ken Bollen, Sociology, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Sociology, and Jon Hussey, Maternal and Child Health

Claudia Solari, Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010 Email: csolari@unc.edu	521 CPC East
Research focus: Social stratification; neighborhood economic inequality and segregation; neighborhood environmental inequality; housing inequality; health disparities; homelessness; quantitative and demographic methods; geographic methods CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Paul Voss, Sociology

Jeremy Uecker, Ph.D. Sociology, The University of Texas-Austin, 2010 Email: uecker@unc.edu	Phone: (919) 966-5969 502 CPC East
Research focus: Family formation; marital quality and stability; religion and demographic processes; sexual behavior; and transition to adulthood. CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Lisa Pearce, Sociology

Edward Vargas, Ph.D. Public Affairs, Indiana University, 2011 Email: evargas@unc.edu	Phone: (919) 962-1600 302 CPC South
Research focus: Policy analysis; public finance; program evaluation; migration; youth development; and health disparities CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Krista Perreira, Public Policy

Lin (Victor) Wang, Ph.D. Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009 Email: vw@unc.edu	Phone: (919) 966-5891 401B CPC East
Research focus: Military service and the life course; stress and mental health; academic performance; gene-environment interaction; and quantitative methods. CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Glen Elder, Sociology

Nathalie Williams, Ph.D. Sociology, University of Michigan, 2009 Email: natw@email.unc.edu	504 CPC East
Research focus: Armed Conflict, migration, social change, aging, HIV/AIDS, South and Southeast Asia CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Barbara Entwisle, Sociology
Selected recent publications: Williams, Nathalie E. Forthcoming. "Coping with Conflict: Do Community Organizations Moderate the Effect of Armed Conflict on Migration?" Accepted for publication in Population Studies. Williams, Nathalie E., William Axinn, Dirgha Ghimire, Elyse Jennings, and Meeta Sainju-Pradhan. Forthcoming. "A Micro-Level Approach to Investigating Armed Conflict and Population Responses." Accepted for publication in Demography.