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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.




Catherine Barry
Office Phone: (510) 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/
Sarah Bradley
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: sarahb@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage:
Current Demography PhD student, current NICHD Trainee
Research Interests: International public health; data collection/survey methods; family planning; unintended pregnancy; HIV/AIDS; infant and child mortality.
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.
Paulette Cha
Office Phone: (510) E-Mail: paulette«dot»cha«at»berkeley.edu
Current Health Service and Policy Analysis student, current NIA Trainee.
Research Interests: Migration and health, chronic disease prevention, applied economics.
Apurba (Apu) Chakraborty
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: apu@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography MA student.
Research Interests:
Aaron Chalfin
Office Phone: (510) E-Mail: apu@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography MA student.
Research Interests:
Esther Cho
Office Phone: (510) E-Mail: esther.cho@berkeley.edu
Current Sociology student.
Research Interests:
Pil Chung
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: pchung@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology and Demography student, current NIA Trainee.
Research Interests: Paul Chung's research interests lie primarily in the social psychology and public health implications of population aging. In particular, he seeks to understand how changes in the number of children and the age gap between parent and child might affect old-age independence and the experience of disability.
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, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Health; stratification; political sociology.
April Falconi
Office Phone: (510) E-Mail: april.falconi@berkeley.edu
Current Demography/Health Service and Policy Analysis student.
Research Interests:
Margaret Frye
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: maggief@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology/Demography Ph.D. student, former NICHD Trainee.
Alison Gemmill
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: alisong@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: maternal and child health; family planning; life course approaches to aging and mortality; work and family.
Julia Goodman
Office Phone: E-Mail: juliagoodman@berkeley.edu
Current Public Health student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: I am interested in how stress during pregnancy affects gestational, birth, and early life outcomes. I am also interested in the effects of family policy on fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
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 PhD student, current NIA Trainee.
Research Interests: Stratification, class analysis, culture, and fertility.
Savet Hong
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: saveth@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography Ph.D. student.
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.
Pamela Jimenez-Fontana
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: pjimenezf@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography MA student.
Research Interests:
Jeffrey Kang
Office Phone: E-Mail: jjkang@econ.berkeley.edu
Economics student, current NIA Trainee.
Research Interests:
Emmanuel Letouzé
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: emmanuell@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography PhD 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, former 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, former NIA Trainee.
Research Interests:
Robert Pickett
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: rpickett@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography PhD student, current NICHD Trainee.
Research Interests: Quantitative methods, complex systems and agency/structure interaction.
Joanne Rodrigues
Office Phone: (510) 642-9009 E-Mail: joannerodrigues@berkeley.edu
Demography MA student, current Political Science student.
Research Interests:
Maia Sieverding
Office Phone: E-Mail: maias@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Sociology and Demography PhD student.
Research Interests: Marriage adn family, labor markets, gender, stratification, Middle East.
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, former 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.
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) E-Mail: janvdb@demog.berkeley.edu
Current Demography PhD student.
Research Interests:
Alma Vega
Office Phone: (510) 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 Health Services and Policy Analysis/Economics PhD student former NIA Trainee.
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) 642-9009 E-Mail: syyu@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: https:sites.google.com/site/siyuberkeley/
Sociology and Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Social demography, inequality, stratification, experimental soßciology
Yi Zhou
Office Phone: (510) 643-9710 E-Mail: yizhou@demog.berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage:
Current Demography Ph.D. student.
Research Interests: Economic demography, aging and retirement, demographic dividend.