Demography Program
The Dual-Degree Demography Program includes over 45+ Faculty and approximately 70 Graduate Students spread across up to 10 departments and 5 colleges. The Demography program includes 40+ graduate-level courses. In the past three decades we have graduated over 300 Ph.D.s and thus have a large Alumni network.
For additional information on graduate student achievements, courses and course offerings, our alumni, announcements and other resources related to the Graduate Program in Demography please see the material here.
Training Program
NICHD-T32 Social Environments and Population Health
Training Directors: Dr. John Iceland, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography (email: jdi10@psu.edu), and Jenny Van Hook, Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography (email: jxv21@psu.edu)
T32 Faculty: Most of the training faculty are drawn from the five participating programs: Sociology, Human Development and Family Studies, Anthropology, Rural Sociology, and Health Policy and Administration.
Most recent alumni postdoctoral scholars: Dr. Léa Pessin (Penn State University), Cate McNamee (Queens University, Belfast, UK); Dr. Molly Dondero (American University).
Recent T32 pre-doctoral trainees: Megan Evans, Jesse Smith, Jane Lankes, Brianne Pragg, Cadhla McDonnell, Dr. Chanell Washington (U.S. Census Bureau), Dr. Lisa Boyd (Yale, Associate Research Scientist), Dr. Yeris Mayol-Garcia (U.S. Census Bureau), Dr. Aggie Yellow Horse (Arizona State University), Dr. Sarah Patterson (University of Michigan, Postdoc), Dr. Kyler Sherman-Wilkins (Missouri State University), and Dr. Ashley Larsen Gibby (Brigham Young University) .