A New Research Brief by Child Trends and the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis

Lewis Mumford/CSDA Welcomes New Secretary

In February 2008, CSDA hired a new secretary, Christine Young. Christine's office is in BA-B10.

Second Generation Initiative

CSDA and Lewis Mumford Center Joint Mapping Project --- 2000+

A principal Public-Infrastructure Core activity continues with the ongoing development of 2000+, CSDA's web-based GIS project designed to provide easy access to the most up-to-date social, economic, and demographic characteristics of U.S. counties, including the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Surveys. A complement to 2000+ is our creation of a web-based GIS for post-2000 changes in metropolitan area boundary definitions. This project is slated for release in 2008.

CSDA Associates In the News

• Richard Alba, along with co-PIs Nancy Denton and Donald Hernandez, received funding for a major NICHD grant titled The Social Contexts of Children of Immigrants in the U.S. This four-year project is part of Richard's current focus on comparative studies of second-generation incorporation. Richard Alba was the first sociologist to deliver the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard University. Richard presented his lectures, titled Blurring the Color Line: Possibilities for Ethno-Racial Change in Early 21st Century America, on three consecutive days. Harvard University Press usually publishes the Huggins Lectures as a volume, and Richard expects the book based on his lectures to appear in 2009.
• Tom Brutsaert, along with co-PI Timothy Gage, received a new grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development titled Fetal Programming and Human Physical Performance.
• Angie Chung published a book titled Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics. The publisher is Stanford University Press.
• Nancy Denton was elected Secretary of the Association of Population Centers. She was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America.
• Timothy Gage was appointed to serve as a member of the Center for Scientific Review's Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.
• Mary Gallant was elected Chair of the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior in the School of Public Health.
• Don Hernandez received funding for three new research initiatives. The first is titled English Language Acquisition and Linguistic Isolation in Immigrant Families (Annie E. Casey Foundation). The second is titled Creating Child-Based Extract Data Sets for PK-3 Database (Foundation for Child Development). The third is titled A Statistical Portrait of Children in Migrant Families in Selected Rich Countries (UNICEF). Don has also been an invited plenary panel speaker at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Chicago and the University of Guelph in Canada.
• Hayward Horton was appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the University at Albany. Hayward also traveled to China and presented workshops at the People's University of Beijing and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The workshops were titled An Introduction to Critical Demography.
• Zai Liang received a two-year grant from NSF titled Migration and Transformation of Rural China. He also received a new grant from the Spencer Foundation titled A New Approach to Study Education of Migrant Children in China. He was recently interviewed by The New York Times concerning how changes in Chinese cuisine in New York City are related to patterns of Chinese immigration to the United States. Finally, he was interviewed by a reporter from Harper's Magazine about the recent trend in international migration from Asia to the United States.
• John Logan is a candidate for the office of Vice President-Elect of the American Sociological Association in the 2008 elections.
• Marilyn Masson received a new grant from the National Science Foundation for her work in Mayan archaeology. Her project is titled Urban Administration at Mayapan.
• Steve Messner was named a 2007 Collins Fellow at the University at Albany's commencement ceremonies. He has also been elected Vice-President of the American Society of Criminology (2007-2008).
• Scott South received a new grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development titled Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Effects. Scott has also been appointed to the editorial board of City and Community and re-appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Marriage and Family.