The following table identifies the discipline, specialties, and affiliation of each proposed member of the group. Each member brings a unique combination of interests and specialties to the project. The interdisciplinary nature of the team is enhanced with the inclusion of the extension and community well-being interests brought by Colorado State, Washington State and CSREES in particular. The variety of disciplines, while not extensive, does provide a unique perspective on population change and will emphasize the spatial differentiation in various regions of the country.
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Name |
Discipline |
Specialty |
University or
Agency |
|
Migration,
community |
Utah State
University |
||
|
David Brown |
Sociology |
Population,
development |
Cornell University |
|
James Copp |
Sociology |
Agriculture,
community |
Texas A&M
University |
|
John Cromartie |
Geography |
Regional change,
community well-being |
USDA, Economic
Research Service |
|
Glenn Fuguitt |
Sociology |
Rural-urban
relations |
University of
Wisconsin |
|
Nina Glasgow |
Sociology |
Retirement
migration, social integration |
Cornell University |
|
Dean Judson |
Demographer |
Quantitative
methodology |
Bureau of the
Census |
|
William Kandel |
Sociology |
Migration,
education |
USDA, Economic
Research Service |
|
Ed Knop |
Sociology |
Community
well-being |
Colorado State University |
|
Sheila Knop |
Sociology |
Extension,
community development |
Colorado State
University |
|
John Michael |
Sociology |
Agricultural
systems, research |
CSREES |
|
Gundars Rudzitis |
Geography |
Migration,
regional development |
University of Idaho |
|
Michael B. Toney |
Sociology |
Social demography |
Utah State
University |
|
Alex Vias |
Geography |
Employment,
economic restructuring |
U of Northern
Colorado |
|
Paul Voss |
Sociology |
Population
modeling |
University of
Wisconsin |
E. Helen Berry is associate professor of
sociology at Utah State University and is a core member of the Population
Research Laboratory. Her research and
teaching focus on migration, race, health, community, and multivariate research
techniques, emphasizing population change in rural areas of the U.S. west. Dr. Berry is currently engaged in a USDA-NRI
competitive grant with co-PIs Michael B. Toney and John Cromartie examining
young and middle-aged migration. She is
also working with Michael B. Toney on a project examining the interactions of
health and community in Utah; and with the Western Regional Development Center
on a series of briefing papers on the interactions of race, age, migration, and
economic change in the west.
David L. Brown is Professor of Rural
Sociology and Director of the Polson Institute for Global Development at
Cornell University. Professor Brown
received his PhD in Sociology/Demography from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1974. He worked for the USDA for 15 years prior to joining
the Cornell faculty in 1987(for ERS, for CSREES, as principal demographer on
the National Agricultural Lands Study, and as a consultant to the White House
Domestic Policy staff). Professor Brown
current research projects include (a) rural population analysis in the U.S.
[USDA-Hatch], (b) social integration and wellbeing of older in-migrants to
nonmetro retirement destinations [USDA-NRI, co-PI Nina Glasgow], and (c) rural
household adaptation to the transition to state socialism in Central and
Eastern Europe. Publications during
2000-2001 have appeared in Rural Sociology, Social Problems, Population
Research and Policy Review, and The Journal of Rural Studies. He is
co-editing, with Louis Swanson, Challenges for Rural America in the 21st
Century (Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2002.
James H. Copp is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M
University. In addition, he has held
research and academic appointments at Kansas State University, University of
Wisconsin, Penn State University, and the Economic Research Service, USDA. He served as president of the Rural
Sociological Society and also as editor of Rural Sociology and Southern Rural
Sociology. His fields of research have
been the adoption of farm practices, farmer cooperatives, rural development,
and the impact of boom and bust cycles of oil and natural gas development on
rural communities. He is editor of two
books, Our Changing Rural Society: Perspectives and Trends (1964) and
(with John M. Wardwell) Population Changes in the Rural West, 1975-1990
(1997, based on W-118 research).
John Cromartie is a population geographer with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. As head of the population team, he oversees a program of research on rural migration, population distribution, and the effects of demographic change on rural well-being. He has published articles on regional demographic change, focusing on the West, the Great Plains, and the South. He also studies conditions and trends affecting rural minorities and new ways of defining rural and urban classifications. He serves as a consultant to the Office of Management and Budget on metropolitan area definitions and the American Community Survey. John received a Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina in 1989 and has been at the Economic Research Service since 1990.
Glenn V. Fuguitt is Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is affiliated with the UW-Madison Center for Demography and Ecology. He has devoted most of his career to the study of rural-urban relations, particularly metropolitan-nonmetropolitan population redistribution and migration. With others he has also examined residential preferences of the population, and nonmetropolitan commuting trends. Through a series of cooperative agreements with Calvin L. Beale of the U.S. Department of Agriculture beginning in 1970, Fuguitt and Beale have considered a number of aspects of these topics, most recently having completed a bulletin on the migration of blacks into and out of the nonmetropolitan South. He is also collaborating with Paul Voss and others on the production of 1990-2000 net migration rates by age and sex for all U.S. counties.
Nina Glasgow is a senior research associate in the Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University. Dr. Glasgow is a faculty affiliate of the Population and Development Program, the Cornell Gerontology Research Institute and the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center of Cornell University. Dr. Glasgow recently received funding (with David Brown, Co-PI) through USDA’s National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program to conduct a panel study of retirement migration and the process through which older in-migrants become socially integrated. This research investigates the consequences of newcomers’ social integration for their health and their retention in nonmetropolitan destination communities. Dr. Glasgow has published extensively in the sociology of aging. Her published research has focused on topics including determinants and consequences of nonmetropolitan retirement migration; work and retirement among older rural residents; rural elderly poverty; relationships among older rural residents’ transportation arrangements, their social integration and their health; and how the changing age composition of rural communities affects service needs and service delivery.
Dean H. Judson is a Statistician and Group Leader with the U.S. Census Bureau. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington
State University and conducted postdoctoral work as the Nevada State
Demographer at the University of Nevada.
There, he produced demographic forecasts and estimates and developed
specialized estimating and forecasting systems for migrant and seasonal
farmworker populations and for the uninsured. His current research focuses on
developing methods to identify and estimate populations for small areas of
geography (even as small as block level geography) using large administrative
record databases. He is also developing
synthetic estimation methods to improve estimates of uninsured persons at low
levels of geography.
William Kandel is a sociologist with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. He obtained his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago where his dissertation research examined impacts of temporary U.S. migration on Mexican children's educational attainment. He conducted postdoctoral work on international demography and income inequality at the Population Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. His current research focuses on the geographic dispersion of immigrants and minorities in rural areas and the role of industrial restructuring in demographic change.
Annabel R. Kirschner (formerly Annabel K. Cook) is currently Chair of the Department of Rural Sociology at Washington State University and has worked in that department since 1979 specializing in community development and issues related to state and local population trends in the Pacific Northwest. Her areas of interest include trends in single parent families, retirement migration, increasing racial and ethnic diversity, and the restructuring of timber-dependent areas. In addition to refereed journal articles, she has published newsletters on state and local population trends since 1980. In 1993, she received a $204,000, 3-year grant from the Northwest Area Foundation to research and publish Assessing County Change–a series of reports all 39 counties in Washington. The grant also included funds for substantial work with local communities to help them better understand local social and demographic change.
Edward Knop is a Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University. He has a background in Sociology and
Anthropology with a specialization in the interrelations of population, natural
resources, and community well-being, particularly in the context of
socio-cultural change. He continues at CSU, part-time, as the Associate
Director of the International Institute of International Development affiliated
with CSU’s Engineering Research Center and as a collaborator in their training,
development and outreach projects.
Sheila A. Knop is community and rural development specialist and coordinator for the
Center for Rural Assistance, Colorado State University Cooperative
Extension. She provides leadership for
the Center’s community and regional capacity-building efforts, CSUCE’s
“Engaging Communities in Transition” program area, and an initiative that
assists professionals with community-centered education on public issues. Dr. Knop supports several Colorado and
Western regional efforts which incorporate social capacity-building approaches
as localities and regions deal with interdependent topics such as population
and economic growth and decline, age and ethnic composition shifts, migration
and immigration, changing land use patterns, labor force issues, and
community-business-agency relationships.
She previously led population projects for Colorado and Western States’
postsecondary institutions and has working experience in Mexico and Egypt.
Gundars Rudzitis, is a Professor of Geography at the University of Idaho. He has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin and been a Visiting Professor at Boston University, Clark University and the University of New Mexico. His research interests include migration and regional development and environmental/resource policy in the American West and in the Post-Soviet Baltic countries. He is the author or co-editor of several books including most recently, Wilderness and the Changing American West, 1996, New York: John Wiley & Sons. He is currently completing The Ongoing Transformation of the American West which focuses on issues and conflicts rooted in the historical construction of an “Old West” rural landscape and its recent evolution into what has described as a “New West.”
Michael B. Toney is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Population Research Laboratory at Utah State University. He is a social demographer who has published
numerous articles on state, national, and international demographic
topics. He is a co-principal
investigator on a recently funded NRl project that will analyze the
relationships between migration and various social and economic factors for a
national sample of youth as they transit the young adult ages between 1979 and
2000. He is a member of the Utah
Governor's Population Estimates Committee in the Office of Planning and Budget
and collaborates on projects with the Utah Department of Health. He has published several articles on social
and demographic changes in the West.
Alexander Vias is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Northern Colorado. Effective summer, 2002, he will move to the University of Connecticut. He has completed national and regional (Rocky Mountain West) studies on employment and population interactions, rural population redistribution and migration, along with research on population change and economic restructuring in nonmetropolitan areas. Dr. Vias’ work relies on a large range of analytical tools including econometric models, classification techniques, multivariate and spatial statistics, and geographic information systems (GIS). His current research, funded through a USDA NRI grant, investigates the changing economic structure of the service and retail sectors in nonmetropolitan areas of the US over the past decade.
Paul R. Voss is professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also is affiliated with both the Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory and Center for Demography and Ecology. His research, teaching and graduate student mentoring focuses on small-area population dynamic modeling, including the development of small-area population estimation and forecasting models. He also works in the areas of population and environment interaction and specializes in spatial data analysis. Dr. Voss presently is principal investigator on several projects funded by the U.S. Forest Service including (1) the examination of “hotspot” analysis where population expansion on the landscape can be linked to ground cover changes, (2) the production of 1990-2000 net migration rates by age and sex for all U.S. counties, and (3) county and municipal population projections for states in the U.S. Midwest.