Faculty & Staff

CIDR is comprised of affiliates from many of the 23 CUNY campuses. Building on the presence of more than 30 demographers CUNY-wide, the City University of New York hired nine new faculty members in the field during the past few years.

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

Cho, Soyeon

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Services, New York City College of Technology
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2006
Research Fields: mental health and caregiving, aging, depression in older Korean American caregivers

DelaCruz, Juan

Associate Professor, Economics & Business, Lehman College
Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 2008
Research Fields: health economics; HIV/AIDS and its effects on human capital

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

Hsin, Amy

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Queens College
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
Research Fields: sociology of the family; social stratification; demography; race/ethnicity

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

Ortega, Francesc

Associate Professor, Economics, Queens College
Ph.D., New York University, 2004
Research Fields: immigration; international trade; labor economics

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

Wegge, Simone

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

Wilder, Esther

Associate Professor, Sociology, Lehman College
Ph.D., Brown University, 1997
Research Fields: quantitative reasoning; healthcare and disability; racial, ethnic and religious inequality and identification

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

Peh Hsia

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

James D. Howell

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