Welcome Back Fall 2019 News & Events

We have an exciting lineup planned for the upcoming year and look forward to reconnecting with students, postdocs, faculty, and visitors from across campus. Best wishes for a great start to the 2019-20 academic year—a nd see you soon! Kelly Musick , CPC Director
Welcome Reception: September 5, 3:30-5pm, CHE Commons

Join CPC , the Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) , and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in celebrating new and on-going initiatives in the social sciences on Thursday, September 5, 3:30-5pm in the College of Human Ecology Commons.
Upcoming Seminars and Events
Differential Privacy in the 2020 US Census with   John Abowd (US Census Bureau and Cornell), Andrew Beveridge , (Queens College, CUNY), Abraham Flaxman (University of Washington), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University), and moderated by Matthew Hall (PAM). Co-sponsored by Policy Analysis and Management (PAM). September 20, 12-1:30pm in Mann 102.
This year's Upstate Population Workshop will be hosted by the Center for Aging and Policy Studies at Syracuse University . This joint initiative with CPC and SUNY at Albany’s Center for Social and Demographic Analysis and School of Public Health brings together population scholars across upstate New York to discuss work-in-progress and common challenges and opportunities in population research. November 1, 10am-4pm in 312 Lyman Hall .
CPC hosts the Innovations in Population Science seminar series with co-sponsorship from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS), CSI, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR). Talks are Fridays, 12-1:15pm in Mann 102. On October 4, Carmen Gutierrez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will present Health Care Beyond the Gates: The Affordable Care Act’s Effects on Health-related Outcomes Among Recently Incarcerated Men .

This year's series also includes Kathleen Cagney (University of Chicago), Emilio Zagheni (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), Amanda Stevenson (University of Colorado Boulder), and Giovanna Merli (Duke University).

New Affiliates and Members
Seth Sanders (Economics) joins us from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. His research focuses on four lines of study: the trends of race and gender in relation to earnings among the highly educated; the effects of extreme economic changes on workers and families; the performance of gay and lesbian families within the economy; and the economic consequences of teenage childbearing.

Sarah James (Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton) is CPC's newest Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow . Her research examines disparities in health behaviors and their implications for broader patterns of inequality with the ultimate goal of identifying opportunities for interventions that enhance health and reduce inequality. 

CPC's Advisory Committee welcomes new members: Erin York Cornwell (SOC), Peter Enns (GOV, CCSS, Roper), Filiz Garip (SOC, Center for the Study of Economy and Society), Seth Sanders (ECON), and Sharon Sassler (PAM).
Faculty Spotlights
Matt Hall (PAM), Filiz Garip (SOC, CSES), and Shannon Gleeson (ILR) edited a collection of articles first presented at the 2017 immigration conference held jointly by CPC and CSI. How the State Criminalizes Immigrants and to What Effect: A Multidisciplinary Account was published in the American Behavioral Scientist . See also a recent feature on Hall's research, Mass Deportation, Counterproductive? .
Vida Maralani (SOC), CPC Graduate Training Co-Director, has been named Chair of PAA's Committee on Government and Public Affairs (GPAC) . GPAC does critical work on behalf of — and with the help of — the population and social science community to ensure the integrity of our statistical data infrastructure.
CPC Demography Training Updates

 CPC was awarded funding to support training in professional and leadership development from the College of Human Ecology's Amy Jupiter '80 and Donald Motschwiller '80 Dean's Discretionary Fund for the Leadership Initiative & the Deborah Gerard Adelman '71, MS '74 Dean's Discretionary Fund .

CPC's first demography training session will focus on preparing abstracts for PAA 2020. Predocs and postdocs welcome. Friday, August 30, 12-1:15pm in Mann 102 (lunch will be served) . See the full training schedule here .

All postdocs in the social sciences are invited to participate in monthly meetings of the Postdoctoral Social Scientists' Working Group , co-sponsored by CPC, the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR), CCSS, and CSI. The welcome reception will be held on Thursday, August 29, 5-6:30pm at Ithaca Beer Company .
Postdoctoral Fellow Spotlight
Hope Harvey (Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard) addresses questions related to poverty, families, housing and neighborhoods, and access to social programs. Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: Housing Search Logics and Residential Selection (with Kelley Fong, Kathryn Edin, and Stefanie DeLuca) was just published in Social Forces .
Graduate Student Spotlight
Emily Parker (Ph.D., PAM, expected May 2021) was selected as a 2019 Fahs-Beck Scholar to support her research Health Without Wealth: The Historical, Social, and Spatial Context of the Community Health Center Program . Parker uses a mixed-methods approach that draws on historical, administrative, and archival data, as well as in-depth interviews with patients and providers.
Undergraduate Student Spotlight
Keith Acosta is a senior pre-medical student in Global & Public Health Sciences with a minor in Demography. He has been working with the Seguin Research Group since the spring of his sophomore year and hopes to pursue a medical career in primary care focusing on diverse populations.

CPC Demography Minors & Postdocs on the Job Market 

Jocelyn Fischer , Ph.D., Sociology (expected 2020); gender, family, work and the labor market, and social stratification.

Alyssa Goldman , Ph.D., Sociology (expected 2020); sociology of health, social networks, aging, and social stratification.

Hope Harvey , Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy (Harvard University, 2018); PAM Postdoctoral Fellow; doubled-up households, poverty and inequality, family complexity, residential decision-making.

Cassandra Robertson , Ph.D., Sociology (Harvard University, 2018); Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow ; social mobility.

Youngmin Yi , Ph.D., Sociology (expected 2020); family, children, policy, inequality .
 
Call for Applications 

Coming soon —l ook out for CPC's call for applications for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship .

Two postdoctoral programs at Cornell are accepting applications from broad areas of research: the Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows (applications due September 2) and the inaugural Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship (applications due October 15). CPC encourages applications from scholars working in social demography.
Affiliate Highlights
Steven Alvarado (SOC) has new work, The Indelible Weight of Place: Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage, Timing of Exposure, and Obesity Across Adulthood , just published in Health & Place .
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan (PSYCH) received the Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology .
Don Kenkel (PAM) was named Chief Economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, specializing in health economics and cost-benefit analysis. Read more in The Wall Street Journal .
Pauline Leung (PAM) was awarded a President's Council of Cornell Women Affinito-Stewart grant for State Responses to Federal Matching Grants: The Case of Medicaid .
Karl Pillemer (CHE Associate Dean, HD, Weill Cornell) and his team on the WHO study, Interventions to Reduce Ageism Against Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis , have shown for the first time that it is possible to reduce ageist attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle , NY Times , and Science Daily .
Mildred Warner (AAP) and co-investigator  Elaine Wethington (HD) were awarded a $500,000 USDA grant for the project, Age-friendly Rural Communities – Linking Economy, Planning, Services and Health. Read article in the Cornell Chronicle .
Lindy Williams (DSOC) has new work, How Statelessness, Citizenship, and Out-migration Contribute to Stratification among Rural Elderly in the Highlands of Thailand with Amanda Flaim and Daniel Ahlquist, forthcoming in Social Forces.
Katherine Wen (Ph.D. Candidate in PAM) received NIH funding to study the effects of policies for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Adverse-Opioid Related Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Hospitalizations .
Population Studies in Practice: The New York Minute 
The New York Minute is published every other month and highlights NYS trends and data sources on varying community development topics. Read the most recent edition, How do NYers Travel to Work? Differences by Age by Jan Vink and Robin Blakely-Armitage.



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