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CPC Postdoctoral Scholars
Academic Year 2009-10
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- Matt Bradshaw, Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
- Email: mbrad@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-4446
401G CPC East
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- Research focus:
- Biodemography; health; gene-environment interplay; religion; personality; and quantitative methods.
CPC Faculty Preceptor:
Dr. Glen Elder, Sociology
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- Sergio Chavez, Ph.D.
Development Sociology, Cornell University, 2007
- Email: schavez@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-4445
304 CPC South |
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- Research focus:
- Internal and international migration; sociology of labor markets; race relations; ethnography.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Jacqueline Hagan and Ted Mouw , Sociology
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Selected recent publications:
Sergio Chavez. (In press, 2009). "The Sonora Desert's Domestic Bracero Program: Institutional Actors and the Creation of Labor Migration Streams." International Migration.
Sergio Chavez. (2005). "Community, Ethnicity, and Class in a Changing Rural California Town." Rural Sociology 70(3):28-49.
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- Claudia Geist, Ph.D.
Sociology, Indiana University, 2008
- Email: cgeist@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-2154
501 CPC East
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- Research focus:
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The intersection of gender, family, and social stratification in comparative perspective
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs.
Philip Cohen and Lisa Pearce, Sociology
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Selected recent publications:
Geist, Claudia (2009) "One Germany, Two Worlds of Housework? Examining Employed Single and Partnered Women in the Decade after Unification." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 40(3):415-437.
Geist, Claudia, Patricia A. McManus (2008) "Geographical Mobility over the Life Course: Motivations and Implications." Population, Space, and Place 14(4): 283-303.
Geist, Claudia (2005) "The Welfare State and the Home: Regime Differences in the Domestic Division of Labour." European Sociological Review 21(1): 23-41.
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- Mariaelisa Graff, Ph.D.
Nutritional Epidemiology, Emory University, 2006
- Email: migraff@unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-6784
408B CPC East
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- 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
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- David Nolin, Ph.D.
Anthropology, University of Washington, 2008
- Email: dnolin@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-5969
502 CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Historical family demography and family reconstitution; delay of marriage, celibacy, and adult sibling allocare; fertility transitions; human behavioral ecology; social network analysis.
CPC Faculty Preceptor:
Dr. Paul Leslie, Anthropology
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- Liana Richardson, Ph.D.
Health Behavior Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
- Email: ljrichar@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-0252
303 CPC South |
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- Research focus:
- The intersection of race, class, gender, and health over the life course; life course approaches to understanding racial/ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes and the development of chronic disease risk during childhood and adolescence.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Jon Hussey, Maternal and Child Health
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- Robin Shura Ph.D.
Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2009
- Email: rshura@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-2578
301 CPC South
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- Research focus:
- Sociology of age and the life course; structural age-related inequality,
dependency, and vulnerability; health disparities; intercountry adoption; and long-term care
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Peter Uhlenberg, Sociology
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Selected recent publications:
Dannefer, Dale, and Robin Shura. (2009). Experience, social structure and later life: Meaning and old age in an aging society. In Peter Uhlenberg (Ed.), International handbook of population aging (pp. 747-755). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
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- Victor Wang, Ph.D.
Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009 - Email: vw@unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-5891
401B CPC East |
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- 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
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- Nathalie Williams, Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Michigan, 2009
- Email: natw@umich.edu
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- Research focus:
- Armed Conflict, migration, social change, aging, HIV/AIDS, South and Southeast Asia
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Barbara Entwisle, Sociology
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Selected recent publications:
Williams, Nathalie (2009) "Education, Gender, and Migration in the Context of Social Change." Social Science Research, in press.
Williams, Nathalie, John Knodel, Kim Sovan Kiry, Sina Puch, and Chanpen Saengtienchai (2008) "Overlooked Potential: Older-age Parents in the Era of ART." AIDS Care 20(10): 1169-1176.
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