Migration and Immigrant Processes

Dr. Julie Park is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and the Asian Americans Studies Program at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 2008, she was a research assistant professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Associate Director of the Population Dynamics Research Group at the University of Southern California.

Collin Mueller's program of research is conceptually grounded in life course, critical race, and cumulative advantage / disadvantage approaches. Mueller specializes in mixed methods research design, team-based ethnographic and in-depth interviewing techniques, and quantitative methods for analyzing longitudinal survey data. Dr.

As a family demographer working in Africa, Dr. Sangeetha Madhavan has made substantial contributions to our understanding of extended family systems, parenting, household dynamics, and child and adolescent well-being. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for an NICHD R01 project that seeks to understand the interactional effects of marriage and kinship support on young children’s development in poor urban communities in Nairobi, Kenya.

My research uses rigorous quantitative evidence to evaluate and inform education policies at the national, state, and local levels, with the goal of improving learning opportunities for historically marginalized students in urban areas. My work broadly engages with critical policy issues including student absenteeism, exclusionary discipline, educator’s labor market, and school reform.

Dr. Kleykamp is a demographer whose research focuses on the role of military service and veteran's status on labor market outcomes. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 2007, she taught at the University of Kansas and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Kleykamp also worked as a researcher with the RAND Corporation from 2003 to 2004.

Recent Accomplishments
Member, National Initiative Management Team, Financial Security in Later Life, United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Research Education and Extension Service.
Leader, Maryland Saves Coalition
Director of Research, National Institute for Personal Finance Employee Education, Virginia Tech.
Co-editior, Personal Finances and Worker Productivity, Virginia Tech.
Conducted and published research in the area of workplace financial education and financial well-being.

Sandra Hofferth, Professor Emerita, School of Public Health, and Research Professor, Maryland Population Research Center, is a former Director of the Maryland Population Research Center (2008-2012) and a former co-Director of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1994-2001). In 2010 she served as Vice President of the Population Association of America. Her research interests include American children's use of time and later health outcomes, work and family, fathers and fathering, and family policy.

Professor Hellerstein received her PhD from Harvard University in 1994 and joined the Maryland faculty in 1996. She is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The focus of much of her research is labor market outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity.

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Dr. He's current research focuses on longitudinal data analysis, time-to-event data analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, as well as applications in clinical trials, epidemiology, and other public health related studies.

Over the past seven years, Haltiwanger has been actively engaged in development of new longitudinal matched employer-employee databases at the Census Bureau. As part of the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) program, he has linked household and business level datasets at the micro level. The core of the methodological approach is to use administrative data for the universe of businesses and households as a crosswalk between Census household and business level data.