Teaching
Teaching Interests
- Demography: demographic techniques and methods; demography of aging
- Medical Sociology: sociology of health and illness; social behavior and social biology of health; health and the life course.
- Statistical methods in social sciences: Generalized Linear Mixed Models; longitudinal data analysis; Bayesian methods.
Courses Scheduled or Taught
University of Notre Dame
SOC 63940:SOCI 422:
Time, Change, and Population Processes: Theory and Methods for Aging andCohort Analysis. A graduate seminar of introduction to theoretical frameworks and methodological tools in recent life course and aging research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SOCI 469:
Health and Society: an undergraduate course on introduction to sociology of health and illness.
SOCI 825 / EPID 799c:
The Life Course and Aging: Theories and Methods in Social and Epidemiologic Research: a graduate seminar cross-listed in Sociology and Epidemiology.
SOCI 422:
Sociology of Mental Health and Illness: an undergraduate course on social epidemiology of mental health.
University of Chicago
Social Science Inquiry II–III (SS 13200-13300):
Undergraduate core courses on the process of making scientific arguments and introduction of quantitative methods in social and behavioral sciences that can inform the democratic processes and policy.
Social Behavior and Health (SOCI 20160/30160/BIOS 29312):
An undergraduate and graduate introduction course on medical sociology and social epidemiology.
Basic Demographic Analysis (SOCI 40101/PPS 43900):
A graduate introduction course on basic concepts, methods, and materials of demographic analysis with a focus on life tables.
Cohort Analysis and Social Change (SOCI 50058):
A graduate seminar course on new developments in age-period-cohort models.