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Kenneth C Land, John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology
Kenneth C Land
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John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology
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347 Soc-Psych |
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(919) 660-5615 |
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(919) 660-5623 |
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Mathematical Sociology,
Statistical Methods,
Demography,
Crime, Law and Deviance,
Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Measurement
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| I received my Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. After a year of
postdoctoral study in mathematical statistics at
Columbia University in New York City, I taught there
and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage
Foundation for three years. I then was successively a
member of the faculties of the University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin
before joining the Duke Sociology Department as
Chairman in 1986. I served as Chair of Sociology from January 1986 to August 1997. My main research interests are
contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes. I have done extensive research in each of
these areas and have been elected a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association (1978), the
Sociological Research Association (1981), the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(1992), the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1997), and the American Society of Criminology (2004). I teach Contemporary Social Problems (SOCIOL 111), Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis, and the Demography of Aging Proseminar (SOCIOL 750S). My other interests include tennis, jogging (10
kilometers), and music.
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Selected Publications/Recent
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- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Zeng Yi, Kenneth C. Land, Zhenglian Wang, and Danan Gu, Population and Household Projections at Sub-National Levels: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach,
Demography, vol. 49
(Accepted, 2013),
pp. forthcoming .
- William P. O’Hare, Mark Mather, Genevieve Dupuis, Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, and Qiang Fu, Analyzing Differences in Child Well-Being Among U.S. States,
Child Indicators Research, vol. 6
(Accepted, 2013),
pp. forthcoming .
- Patricia L. McCall, Kenneth C. Land, Cindy Brooks Dollar, and Karen F. Parker, The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle,
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
(Accepted, 2013) .
- Anatoliy I. Yashin, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Igor Akushevich, Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Eric Stallard, and Kenneth C. Land, The Quadratic Hazard Model for Analyzing Longitudinal Data on Aging, Health, and Life Span
(Submitted, 2013) .
- Hui Zheng, Yang Yang, and Kenneth C. Land, Increasing Mortality Dispersion in Developed Countries: Aging, Epidemiologic Transition, or Other Mechanisms?
(Submitted, 2013) .
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Sociology
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