Assistant Professor Irene Bloemraad is an alumna of McGill University, where she received a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Sociology, and a graduate of Harvard University where she completed a Ph.D in Sociology. She joined the Sociology faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. Her research focuses on the intersection of immigration and political studies, with particular emphasis on citizenship, participation and the impact migrants have on nationalism and state ideologies. She is currently working on her first book, an examination of naturalization, advocacy and electoral success among Vietnamese and Portuguese populations in Boston and Toronto. Recently published articles on naturalization, dual citizenship and ethnic organizations have appeared in International Migration Review and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is currently teaching courses on immigration and research methods and design in the Department of Sociology.

Professor Mike Hout earned a B.A. in History and Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Indiana University. He taught at the University of Arizona for eight years before moving to Berkeley in 1985. He teaches courses on inequality and data analysis. In his research, Mike uses demographic methods to study social change in inequality, education, religion, and other sociological topics. He and Claude Fischer are currently writing a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States that exemplifies this approach. A couple of illustrative papers include "The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change" (Am. J. of Soc., Sept. 2001) and "How 4 Million Irish Immigrants Came to be 40 Million Irish Americans" (with Josh Goldstein, Am. Soc. Rev., April 1994). He wrote a book on Irish social mobility called Following iin Father's Footsteps (Harvard Univ. Press 1989) and, with five Berkeley colleagues, Inequality by Design (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996). In 2003 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Mike Hout is chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography.

Associate Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks received her BA from Berkeley
(1994) and her PhD from Northwestern (2000), both in Anthropology. She
joined the Berkeley department in 2000. Johnson-Hanks works on the
relationships between culture, institutions, and demographic change.
Particular interests include kinship, reproduction/fertility, and theories
of action. Her first book, Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an
African Crisis, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.
Teaching areas include Fertility (220), Household and Family in
Comparative Perspective (165), and Anthropology and Demography (189).
Johnson-Hanks enjoys gardening and cooking.

Professor Ronald Lee holds an M.A. in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He spent a postdoctoral year at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED, France). After teaching for eight years at the University of Michigan in the Economics Department and working at the Populations Studies Center, he joined Demography at Berkeley in 1979, with a joint appointment in Economics.

He has taught courses here in economic demography, population theory, population and economic development, demographic forecasting, population aging, indirect estimation, and research design, as well as a number of pro-seminars. Honors include Presidency of the Population Association of America, the Mindel C. Sheps Award for research in Mathematical Demography, the PAA Irene B. Taeuber Award for outstanding contributions in the field of demography. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Philosophical Society and a corresponding member of the British Academy . He has chaired the population and social science study section for NIH and is a former chair of the NAS Committee on Population. He has served on the National Advisory Council on Aging and currently serves on the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council. Professor Lee is the founding Director of the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley, funded by the National Institute of Aging. He has received MERIT awards from NIA for two projects.

His research projects include modeling and forecasting demographic time series, population aging and intergenerational transfers, evolutionary theory, and public pensions. He is married to Melissa L. Nelken and has three daughters. He enjoys tennis and hiking.

Associate Professor Samuel R. Lucas, completed his B.A. in Religion at Haverford College. He obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology with a minor in Econometrics and Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of interest are social stratification, sociology of education, research methods, and research statistics. He continues work on stratification in high schools in the United States, and his work on effects of discrimination in the U.S. He teaches in the Sociology Department and is an affiliate of the University of California's Survey Research Center.

Kristin Luker is Professor of Sociology and a professor in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (Boalt Hall School of Law) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of many scholarly articles, as well as three books: Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (1975), Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984) and Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996). She is currently at work on her fourth book, tentatively entitled Bodies and Politics, which is about sex education controversies in the United States.

Professor Luker has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Sociological Research Association, and was invited to the White House by President Clinton to discuss issues of politics and social policy. She has been awarded grants from the Spencer and Ford Foundations, as well as the Commonwealth Fund, and has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography core faculty, Demography affiliated faculty, Goldman School of Public Policy

Office Phone: (510) 642-0399, 642-3475

E-Mail: jmauldon@berkeley.edu

Personal Webpage:
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Jane Mauldon earned her undergraduate degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and her Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where she studied demography and public policy. Her substantive interests are in welfare policy and child and adolescent health, including disabled children and adolescent pregnancy. Her teaching interests include health policy and economics, poverty and public policy, demography, and quantitative methods. She recently evaluated the teen-parent component of California's welfare reforms.

She has worked as a coordinator for Advocates for Abused Women in Carson City, Nevada and as an economic developer at the McDermitt Indian Reservation in Nevada. She has also worked as a researcher at the RAND Corporation in Southern California and was a teacher of English in Laos. Currently, she is serving as the chair of UC Berkeley's Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects.