Announcements
New Faculty Member: The Berkeley Department of Demography is delighted to announce that Joshua R. Goldstein will join us beginning 1 January 2013. He will initially split his time between Berkeley and his current position as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock Germany, but very soon he will be in Berkeley full time.
Graduate student Alma Vega has been featured in a Graduate Division article on Berkeley's NSF grant recipients. (fall 2012)
We are pleased to note that Investopedia's Financial Edge sees a graduate degree in Demography as a worthy investment of time and money.
Note that recent Brown Bag presentations can now be viewed at UCTV.
Professor John Wilmoth and graduate students Nobuko Mizoguchi, Sarah Zureick and Reid Hamel have contributed to the new World Health Organization publication, Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008. This report can be downloaded at the link provided.
Demography faculty, students, staff, visitors, alumni: it is now possible to update your directory listing online (that is, you update it online, we take this information and change the directory as time permits).
Special Announcement: Effective immediately, the Department of Demography and the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography have implemented a biennial admissions cycle for all graduate programs (including the MA and the PhD in Demography and the PhD in Sociology and Demography). Applications are NOT being accepted for the Fall 2010 round of admissions. Interested applicants are invited to apply in one year for entry in Fall 2011. This change is a direct result of the recent reduction of funds for higher education in California. The Department hopes to return to an annual admissions cycle in future years pending anticipated faculty recruitment.
We have updated our alumni directory recently and included a message to alumni regarding the Demography Department.
Read Mike Hout's article in The American Prospect on the current state of America's colleges and universities.
In spring 2009 Demography/Economics 175 was made available to the general public via webcast. Look for Economics 175, spring 2009. Also note, Ronald Lee's recent write-up in the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Bulletin.
November 2008, Demographers in the news: On Sunday November 2, Sarah K. Cowan, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, has had some of her findings published in the New York Times as an Op-Art piece, How Much is Your Vote Worth?. The piece demonstrates how American law and demography result in votes having different levels of influence on the Presidential election.
Now added to the Demography website: Campus emergency phone numbers, web pages, information systems.
March 2008: We've recently heard from two members of "cohort 1" and hope to hear from more, see the Alumni page for updates. We have also updated our Health and Safety page.
Hot off the press: Gene Hammel's unexpurgated History of Demography at Berkeley (pdf).
We now have a link to the Berkeley Population Center (opens in new window), an interdisciplinary group of scholars at Berkeley and beyond conducting research on themes such as demographic theory, labor and family demography, immigration, and population health.
We now have a link to a listing of students and trainees who are on the job market.
Please return to this page each time you visit to keep up with us!