Interdisciplinary demographic training and research at CDE is supported by a longstanding ethos of collaborative research across departments or colleges at UW–Madison.
CDE’s training faculty consists of a diverse and highly productive collection of population scholars from 21 different departments on campus. The training faculty’s diverse array of disciplinary backgrounds expose predoctoral students to multiple substantive areas and methodological approaches within population research.
All training faculty participate in the demography training program by offering instruction relevant to the training mission and advising, mentoring and serving on trainees’ dissertation committees.
Additionally, training faculty lead large-scale, funded research projects that support trainees as research assistants and collaborators. Training faculty members are highly productive researchers with active funding support. Check out some of their ongoing research projects here.
Lawrence M. Berger
Position title: Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Social Sciences, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Social Work
Jennifer Dykema
Position title: Associate Professor, Sociology; Faculty Director of the UW Survey Center
Tiffany Green
Position title: Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research
Sarah Halpern-Meekin
Position title: Professor, Human Development & Family Studies and the La Follette School of Public Affairs
Jenny Higgins
Position title: Bissell Professor of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director, UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity
David Kaplan
Position title: Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods, Educational Psychology
Timothy M. Smeeding
Position title: Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs & Economics, Hilldale Professor Emeritus
