CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR)

Faculty Associates and Affiliates

Alba, Richard

Distinguished Professor, Sociology, Graduate Center
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1974
Research Fields: immigration; race & ethnicity; urbanization

Balk, Deborah

Professor, Public Affairs, Baruch College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Research Fields: urbanization; development; population & environment; spatial demography

Bennett, Neil G.

Professor, Public Affairs, Baruch College
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981
Research Fields: demography of the life course; mathematical demography; indirect demographic estimation

Beveridge, Andrew

Professor, Sociology, Queens College
Ph.D., Yale University, 1973
Research Fields: the demography of New York City; spatial demography; immigration; race & ethnicity

Dowd, Jennifer

Assistant Professor, Public Health, Hunter College
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004
Research Fields: biodemography; health inequality; life course; research design

Edwards, Ryan

Assistant Professor, Economics, Queens College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Research Fields: aging; mortality

Gornick, Janet

Professor, Political Science, Graduate Center
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994
Research Fields: female labor force participation; family demography; social policy

Grossman, Michael

Distinguished Professor, Economics, Graduate Center
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970
Research Fields: health; obesity

Heiland, Frank

Assistant Professor, Public Affairs, Baruch College
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2002
Research Fields: family demography; fertility; economic demography; obesity

Hernandez, Donald

Professor, Sociology, Hunter College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Research Fields: family demography; immigration

Horiuchi, Shiro

Professor, Public Health, Hunter College
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1981
Research Fields: mortality; mathematical demography; formal demography

Jaeger, David

Professor, Economics, Graduate Center
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995
Research Fields: immigration; demography and conflict

Joyce, Theodore

Professor, Economics, Baruch College
Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center, 1985
Research Fields: fertility & family planning; investments in children; social policy; research design

Korenman, Sanders

Professor, Public Affairs, Baruch College
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989
Research Fields: investments in children; family demography; social policy

Maantay, Juliana

Associate Professor, Geography, Lehman College
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2000
Research Fields: population geography; urban environmental health; spatial demography

Mollenkopf, John

Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Graduate Center
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974
Research Fields: urban politics, public policy, comparative urbanism

Porter, Jeremy

Assistant Professor, Finance and Business Management & Children Studies Program, Brooklyn College
Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 2008
Research Fields: racial health disparities, racial segregation, poverty, education

Reed, Holly

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Queens College
Ph.D., Brown University, 2008
Research Fields: immigration; urbanization; social networks; forced migration; population & development

Reimers, Cordelia

Professor (Emerita), Economics, Hunter College
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1977
Research Fields: female labor force participation; immigration; retirement

Romero, Diana

Associate Professor, Public Health, Hunter College
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002
Research Fields: reproductive health policy; social policy; poverty and maternal and child health

Song, Shige

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Queens College
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
Research Fields: obesity; health; life course; China

Talih, Makram

Associate Professor, Public Health, Hunter College
Ph.D., Yale University, 2003
Research Fields: statistical methods; urban public health

Wegge, Simone

Associate Professor, Economics, College of Staten Island
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Research Fields: immigration; historical demography

Yin, Na

Assistant Professor, Public Affairs, Baruch College
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008
Research Fields: disability; aging

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Palermo, Tia

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009
Research Fields: health disparities; maternal and child health; gender inequity

Research Associates

Todd, Megan

A.B., Harvard University, 2003
Research Fields: spatial demography; urban health; biodemography

Administrative Staff

Neil G. Bennett

Director
Phone: (646) 660-6779
Neil.Bennett@baruch.cuny.edu

Deborah Balk

Associate Director
Phone: (646) 660-6762
Deborah.Balk@baruch.cuny.edu

Dominic Esposito

Administrative Director of Operations and Research
Phone: (646) 660-6813
Dominic.Esposito@baruch.cuny.edu

James D. Howell

Computing Director
Phone: (646) 660-6713
James.Howell@baruch.cuny.edu