Recruiting the next generation of scholars in population research
@ Cornell | Population and Public Policy
Connecting population research and public policy “to do the greatest good,” central to the mission of Cornell University, the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, and the Cornell Population Center
NextGenPop is an undergraduate program in population research that aims to increase the diversity of the population field and nurture the next generation of population scientists. The program includes a 2-week, on-campus summer experience and subsequent virtual components focused on research and professional development, as well as opportunities for mentorship and networking at the annual meeting of the Population Association of American (PAA). It provides a stipend, room, board, and travel support.
Summer program sites share a common core curriculum on population perspectives, research methods, and professional development. Each site also features a signature theme that reflects their cutting-edge research and expertise. The summer 2023 program will be hosted by Cornell University June 4-18, with a focus on population and public policy. The inaugural 2022 summer program was hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and future years will be hosted by Duke University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Minnesota.
NextGenPop activities are coordinated by PAA and supported by an expert Advisory Committee and consortium of population research centers from universities across the United States. Funding comes from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (R25 HD105602, PIs Marcy Carlson and Kelly Musick). For additional information on the NextGenPop program, 2022 Fellows, and upcoming program sites, visit: http://nextgenpop.org.
NextGenPop @ Cornell | Summer Experience June 4-18, 2023
The 2023 summer program at Cornell University is a two-week, intensive, in-person learning experience. NextGenPop Fellows study population composition and change through the lens of pressing contemporary issues, including race and income inequalities, health disparities, immigration, family change, and the life course.
The program includes five key components: 1) classroom instruction on core population topics; 2) hands-on applications with population data; 3) case studies on population and public policy; 4) mentored research development; and 5) professional development. Each day of the summer program rotates through a subset of these components, making for a full day of classroom-, hands-on, and group-based learning, in addition to community meals, local outings, and social activities.
See our full program for NextGenPop @ Cornell 2023. NextGenPop Fellows and program participants can also log into the NextGenPop course website on canvas.
NextGenPop @ Cornell | Faculty
NextGenPop @ Cornell is bringing together expertise from CPC, the Brooks School of Public Policy, and external partners to lead substantive, data, and professional development seminars on pressing policy and population topics.
Temilayo Adeyeye
Research Scientist, New York State Department of Health’s Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Research interests: climate-related health risks, health equity, and health disparities
Asad Asad
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at Stanford University
Research interests: social stratification, race/ethnicity, citizenship and legal status, immigration enforcement and health
Colleen Barry
Inaugural Dean, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: mental health, addiction policy, policy communication
Kendra Bischoff
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at Cornell University
Research interests: social stratification and inequality, sociology of education, urban sociology
Nakeisha Blades
Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute
Research interests: abortion, contraceptive use, access to family services
Jamie Budnick
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at Cornell University
Research interests: gender, sexuality, feminist studies
Marcy Carlson
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests: demography of inequality, fertility, families, households
Jamein Cunningham
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: economics of crime, urban economics, labor economics, applied micro econometrics, demography
Sam Friedman
Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany
Research interests: residential segregation, urban sociology, immigration, housing
Angel Alfonso Escamilla Garcia
Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at Yale University (Fall 2023-)
Research interests: immigration, indigenous people, gender, sexuality
Matt Hall
Director, Cornell Population Center, Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, and Program on Applied Demographics; Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: immigration, inequality, residential segregation, population redistribution, spatial demography
Chris Hess
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University
Research interests: residential segregation, housing inequalities, computational methods, spatial demography
Mosi Adesina Ifatunji
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research interests: race/ethnicity, inequality, methodology
Nick Jones
Director and Senior Advisor of Race and Ethnic Research and Outreach, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau
Research interests: race/ethnicity, interracial families, demography
Sadé Lindsay
Provost’s New Faculty Postdoctoral Associate
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University (July 2023-)
Research interests: racial inequality, prison reentry and employment, women’s incarceration, drug use and policy
Vida Maralani
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at Cornell University
Research interests: inequality, demography, health, education, gender, quantitative methods
Ann Meier
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Research interests: family and life course, adolescent and younth adult development, gender
Kelly Musick
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: family demography, social inequality, social policy
Adriana Reyes
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: family demography and health disparities across the life course, particularly as adults grow older
Carol-Ann Swain
Director, Bureau of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology, New York State Department of State
Research interests: HIV/AIDS, women’s health, epidemiology
Bryan Sykes
Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (and, by courtesy, Sociology and Public Health) at the University of California Irvine
Research interests: demography, criminology, population health, quantitative and mixed methods
Seth Sanders
Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: labor economics, econometrics, population research
Laura Tach
Director of Graduate Studies in Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University
Research interests: poverty and public policy, family demography, neighborhood inequality
NextGenPop @ Cornell | Regional Partners
We are collaborating on programming for our 2-week summer program with the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at University of Albany and the Guttmacher Institute.
NextGenPop @ Cornell | Institutional Support
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