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Department of Demography

Students and Trainees: Current and Recent



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Earlier graduates will found on our Alumni and Friends web page. Links to actively maintained student websites are also included in the directory.




Kehinde Ajayi
Office Phone: E-Mail: kajayi@berkeley.edu
Current Economics student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Demography, Labor Economics.
Catherine Barry
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: catherineb@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: International migration; stratification; military sociology; research methods.
Mark BorgSchulte
Office Phone: E-Mail: mark@econ.berkeley.edu
Current Economics Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Demography.
Personal Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/markborgschulte/
Noli Brazil
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: nolib@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Spatial demography and the interaction of demographic processes and education outcomes.
Nora Broege
Office Phone: E-Mail: nbroege@berkeley.edu
Current Sociology Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: education, race and ethnicity, quantitative methods.
Rita Chudnovskaya
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: mch@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography student.
Research Interests:
Pil Chung
Office Phone: E-Mail: pchung@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology and Demography student, current NIA Trainee.
Research Interests:
Sarah Cowan
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: sarahc@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: http://www.sarahkcowan.com/
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Health; stratification; political sociology.
Shari Eli
Office Phone: E-Mail: shari@econ.berkeley.edu
Current Economics student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Economic History and Labor Economics.
Margaret Frye
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: maggief@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student, current NICHD Trainee.
Alison Gemmill
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: alisong@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Infertility/subfecundity, voluntary childlessness, alternative paths to parenthood, maternal mortality
Julia Goodman
Office Phone: E-Mail: juliagoodman@berkeley.edu
Current Public Health student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests:
Reid Hamel
Office Phone: E-Mail: reidh@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Central Asia, marriage markets, economic demography, fertility, intrahousehold allocation.
Amal Harrati
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: amalh@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student, former NIA trainee.
Peter Hepburn
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: pshepburn@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology and Demography student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Civil society, sociology of religion, Latin America
Savet Hong
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: saveth@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student, Demography librarian.
Research Interests:Cambodia, family, child well-being, and mortality.
Po-chun Huang
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: bddstevely@hotmail.com
Current Sociology and Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests:Education; fertility; quantitative methods; stratification.
Futoshi Ishii
Office Phone: E-Mail: futoshii@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Mathematical demography, mortality.
Jeffrey Kang
Office Phone: E-Mail: jjkang@econ.berkeley.edu
Economics student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests:
Sooyoung Kim
Office Phone: E-Mail: sooyoungk@demog.berkeley.edu
Recent Demography student.
Emmanuel Letouzé
Office Phone: E-Mail: emmanuell@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography student.
Research Interests: Migration, fiscal policy and transfers, poverty, conflict.
Sara Lopus
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: saral@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography PhD student, current NIA trainee.
Research Interests: Rural poverty; land-use strategies and malnutrition; Lusophone Africa; intra-household resource allocation.
Elli Mokyr-Horner
Office Phone: E-Mail: emokyr@berkeley.edu
Public Policy student, current NIA trainee.
Research Interests:
Maia Sieverding
Office Phone: E-Mail: maias@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography MA student, current Sociology and Demography PhD student.
Research Interests: Marriage adn family, labor markets, gender, stratification, Middle East.
Melissa Sills (Mia Bird)
Office Phone: E-Mail: msills@berkeley.edu
Former Demography M.A. student, current Ph.D. student, Public Policy
Romesh Silva
Office Phone: (510 642-9009 E-Mail: romeshs@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~romeshs/
Current Demography Ph.D. student, Current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Mortality and health, demography of armed conflict, indirect estimation methods.
Webb Sprague
Office Phone: E-Mail: webbs@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography PhD. student.
Research Interests: Subjective conceptualizations of the transition to adulthood, sharing of these imaginings in culture, and effects of these ideas in individual demographic outcomes and aggregate demographic rates.
Sarah Staveteig
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: s_stave@uclink.berkeley.edu
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~sarahs/
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Age structure, fertility, economic demography, war and genocide, sub-Saharan Africa, human rights.
Chris Sullivan
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: cbsully@berkeley.edu
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Sociology of China, Science Studies, Development and Globalization, Demography, Research Methodologies, Social Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Social Theory .
Carol Tomás
Office Phone: E-Mail: mctomas@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Labor market, social stratification and inequality, transition to adulthood, family and marriage, time allocation, Brazil.
Jan Vandenberg
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: janvdb@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography PhD student.
Research Interests:
Alma Vega
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: almav@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Aging, retirement, migration
Justin White
Office Phone: E-Mail: jswhite@berkeley.edu
Current NIA trainee; current Health Services and Policy Analysis/Economics PhD student.
Research Interests: Health, behavioral economics, economic demography.
Fiona Willis
Office Phone: E-Mail: fionaw@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~fionaw/
Current Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Fertility in Latin America, below-replacement fertility, 'familism', population and development, history of population politics, the evolution of Demographic Transition and "Second Demographic Transition" concepts.
Siyu Yu
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: syyu@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: https:sites.google.com/site/siyuberkeley/
Future Sociology and Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Social demography, inequality, stratification, experimental soßciology
Yi Zhou
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: yizhou@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage:
Current Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Economic demography, aging and retirement, demographic dividend.