Welcome!
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and affiliate with the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on migration, global and local, as a central aspect of social organization. How populations are composed and change has implications for how societies are structured, the distribution of resources, and the accumulation and concentration of disadvantage. My research thus investigates the dynamics of and linkages between migration, population composition and change, and racial and ethnic stratification, inequality and integration.
Highlights
Below is a sampling of what I am up to lately:
- I am working on my dissertation, "The temporal dynamics of international migration and linkages to anti-foreigner sentiment," directed by Theodore Gerber (chair), Katherine Curtis and Jenna Nobles.
- A forthcoming paper (with Keuntae Kim and James Raymer), "Migration systems in Europe: Evidence from harmonized flow data," is forthcoming in Demography in August 2012.
- Another paper (with James Raymer), "The temporal dynamics of international migration in Europe: Recent trends," has been revised and resubmitted for publication in Demographic Research.
- A third, solo-authored paper, "Compositional and temporal dynamics of international migration in the EU/EFTA: 2002-2007," is presently under peer review.
- I am also a part-time instructor at Madison Area Technical College where I teach both Social Problems and Race, Class and Gender.