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CPC Postdoctoral Scholars

Academic Year 2009-10
Matt Bradshaw, Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Email: mbrad@email.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 843-4446
401G CPC East 		Matt Bradshaw
Research focus:
Biodemography; health; gene-environment interplay; religion; personality; and quantitative methods.

CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Glen Elder, Sociology
Sergio Chavez, Ph.D.
Development Sociology, Cornell University, 2007
Email: schavez@email.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 843-4445
304 CPC South		 Sergio Chavez
Research focus:
Internal and international migration; sociology of labor markets; race relations; ethnography.

CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Jacqueline Hagan and Ted Mouw , Sociology

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.

Claudia Geist, Ph.D.
Sociology, Indiana University, 2008
Email: cgeist@email.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 966-2154
501 CPC East 		Claudia Geist
Research focus:
The intersection of gender, family, and social stratification in comparative perspective

CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Philip Cohen and Lisa Pearce, Sociology

 
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.

Mariaelisa Graff, Ph.D.
Nutritional Epidemiology, Emory University, 2006
Email: migraff@unc.edu

Phone: (919) 966-6784
408B CPC East 		Mariaelisa Graff
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

 

Maria Monserud, Ph.D.
Sociology, Washington State University, 2008
Email: monserud@email.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 966-0368
401A CPC East 		Maria Monserud
Research focus:
Associations between intergenerational relationships in the family, life course transitions, adult roles, and gender

CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Glen Elder, Sociology

 
Selected recent publications:
Monserud, M. A. (2008). "Intergenerational Relationships and Affectual Solidarity Between Grandparents and Young Adults". Journal of Marriage and Family, 70(1): 182-195.
David Nolin, Ph.D.
Anthropology, University of Washington, 2008
Email: dnolin@email.unc.edu

 Phone: (919) 966-5969
502 CPC East		 David Nolin
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
Liana Richardson, Ph.D.
Health Behavior Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
Email: ljrichar@email.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 843-0252
303 CPC South		 Liana Richardson
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

 
Robin Shura Ph.D.
Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2009
Email: rshura@email.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 966-2578
301 CPC South 		Robin Shura
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
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.

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		 Victor Wang
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@umich.edu


Nathalie Williams
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 (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.