Don't Miss our DUPRI Spring 2021 Seminar Series

Don’t Miss our DUPRI Spring 2021 Seminar Series

DUPRI  Seminars will be held via Zoom, generally from 3:30 to 5:00 PM PM on Thursdays during the semester as indicated below.  To obtain Zoom Link, please email: laura.satterfield@duke.edu

1/21/2021       Demography of Health and Aging Seminar (*) Ruth Wygle and Anna Hollerman, Predoctoral students Department of Sociology, TBD

1/28/2021       Jerome Reiter,  Department Chair and Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, “Providing Access to Confidential Research Data”

2/4/2020          Demography of Health and Aging Seminar (*), TBD

2/11/2021       Hedwig Lee, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and equity, Washington University in St. Louis, TBD.

2/18/2021       V. Joseph Hotz, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics, Duke University, "The Add Health Parent Study: Overview & Initial Findings"

2/25/2021       Avshalom Caspi, Edward M. Arnett Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, “Charting Mental Disorders from Childhood to Midlife”

3/4/2021          Allison Aiello, Professor of Epidemiology, the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, “Immune Response to Cytomegalovirus and Cognition in the Health and Retirement Study”

3/11/2021       Noreen Goldman, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs, Harvard University  and Theresa Andrasfay, PhD, Princeton University, “Racial and Ethnic Differentials in COVID-19 Mortality”

/18/2021       Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education, Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, ”Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative” 

3/25/2021       Herbert Smith, Professor of Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania, “Population Aging:  On the Future of a Delusion”

4/1/2021          Demography of Health and Aging seminar (*).  Lindsay Xu, Predoctoral student, Department of Sociology, “Mate Preferences in Online Dating: Evidence from a Chinese Online Dating Website”

4/8/2021          Mario Small, Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, “Financial Institutions, neighborhoods, and racial inequality.”  

4/15/2021       Kenneth Ferraro, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Director, Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University,  “Early Social Origins and Mediators of Biological Risks in Later Life”

(*) Demography of Health and Aging (DOHA) Seminars are predoctoral student led seminars