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Susan Cotts Watkins

Visiting Research Scientist, CCPR

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Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

She is a Visiting Research Scientist at CCPR..

 
Ph. D., Princeton University
(Demography; Historical and Comparative Sociology, Social Change and Modernization)
 
CURRICULUM VITAE
 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: 310-206-7566
E-mail: SWatkins@ccpr.ucla.edu
 
Office: 4284F Public Policy Bldg.

 

Mailing Address:


California Center for Population Research
4284 Public Policy Bldg

PO Box 951484
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1484
 

Fax: 310-825-8762

RESEARCH

My work has focused on large-scale demographic and social change, specifically  1) fertility transitions in historical Europe and the U.S. and in contemporary Africa; 2) the AIDS epidemic in Africa; 3)  the role of social networks in these changes . In pursuing these interests, I and colleagues organized two longitudinal survey projects, one in Kenya (www.Kenya.pop.upenn.edu) and more recently a larger project in Malawi (www.malawi.pop.upenn.edu).
 

PUBLICATION (Selected)

*“Ties of Dependence: AIDS and Transactional Sex in Rural Malawi. 2007 Studies in Family Planning 38 (3): 147-162 (with A. Swidler).

*“Social Networks and HIV/AIDS Risk Perceptions. 2007 Demography 44(1):1-33 (with H.P. Kohler and J.R. Behrman).

*“Sex in Geneva, Sex in Lilongwe, Sex in Balaka. 2007 Social Science & Medicine 64(5):1090-1101 (with Linda Tawfik).

*“Sex without Birth or Death: A Comparison of Two International Humanitarian Movements. In Social Information Transmission and Human Biology, eds. J.Wells, S. Strickland, & K.Laland, pp. 205-221.

 

*The Key Lesson of Family Planning Programmes For HIV/AIDS Control. 2006. AIDS 20:1-3 (with John Cleland).

 

* “The Evolution of Population Policies in Kenya and Malawi.” 2005. Population Research and Policy Review 24 (1): 83-104, (with Eliya Zulu and Chiweni Chimbwete).           

 

*“Perceptions of Risk and Strategies for Prevention: Responses to HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi.”  2005. Social Science and Medicine 60: 649-660 (with Kirsten Smith).

 

*“Navigating the AIDS Epidemic in Rural Malawi.” 2004. Population and Development Review 30(4): 603-705.

 

* “Repentance and Hope among Christians and Muslims in Rural Malawi”. 2004. Religion in Malawi 11 (1-13) (with Chiweni Chimbwete).

 

* “Giving Care to People with Symptoms of AIDS in Rural Malawi.” 2004.AIDSCARE 16 (7): 795-807 (with Angela Chimwaza).

 

* “Assessing the Potential for Condoms to Prevent the Spread of HIV: A Case Study from Rural  Malawi”. 2004 . Studies in Family Planning 35(1): 48-64 (with Michael Bracher and Gigi Santow).

 

“Cultural Change, Fertility Transitions.” 2004. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. UK: Elsevier.

 

*Social Interactions and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi (Ed). 2003. Demographic Research (www.demographic-research.org, Special Collection #1)  (with Eliya Zulu, Hans-Peter Kohler and Jere Behrman)

 

* “How Do We Know We Need to Control for Selectivity?”. 2003. Demographic Research (www.demographic-research.org, Special Collection #1) (with Ina Warriner).

 

* “Moving and Marrying: HIV Infection Among Newly-weds in Malawi.” 2003.  Demographic Research (www.demographic-research.org, Special Collection #1) (with Michael Bracher and Gigi Santow).

 

* “AIDS and Older Persons: An International Perspective.” 2003. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 33:S153-S165 (with John Knodel and Mark VanLandingham).

 

“Social Networks.” 2003. Encyclopedia of Population, Revised Edition, V. II, Eds. Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, pp.909-10.  New York: Macmillan Reference.

 

* “Reactions of Developing Country Elites to International Population Policy.”  2002. Population and Development Review 28(4): 707-733 (with Nancy Luke). 

 

* “Social Networks and Changes in Contraceptive Use over Time: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Rural Kenya.” 2002.  Demography 39(4): 713-737 (with Jere Behrman and Hans-Peter Kohler).

 

* “Disobedient Distributors: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Would-Be Patrons in Community-Based Family Planning Programs in Rural Kenya.” 2001. Studies in Family Planning 32(3): 254-269 (with Amy Kaler).

 

* “Husband-Wife Survey Responses in Malawi.” 2001. Studies in Family Planning 32(2): 161-174. (with Kate Miller and Eliya M. Zulu).

 

Density of Social Networks and Family Planning Decisions: Evidence from South Nyanza District, Kenya.” 2001. Demography 38(1):  43-58  (with Hans-Peter Kohler and Jere Behrman).

 

* “Accuracy, Stability and Reciprocity in Informal Conversational Networks in Rural Kenya.” 2000. Social Networks 22: 337-355 (with Kevin White).

 

* “Local and Foreign Models of Reproduction in Nyanza Province, Kenya, 1930-1998.” 2000. Population and Development Review 26(4): 725-759.

 

* “Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs: Nonlinearities and their Implications.” 2000. Demographic Research [Online] 1. Available http://www.demographic‑research.org/volumes/vol3 (With Jere R. Behrman and Hans-Peter Kohler).

 

“Gender and Population.” 2000. In Gender and Society: The Herbert Spencer Lectures, Colin Blakemore and Susan Iversen, eds., pp. 13-53.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

*The Buzz Outside the Clinics: Conversation and Contraception in Nyanza Province, Kenya. 1997.  Studies in Family Planning 28(4): 290-307 (with Naomi Rutenberg).

 

“Orderly Theories, Disorderly Women.” 1997.  The Continuing Demographic Transition, edited by G.W. Jones, R.M. Douglas, J.C. Caldwell and R.M. D=Souza, pp. 213-245 (with Naomi Rutenberg and David Wilkinson). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

* “Feminists and Neo-Malthusians: Past and Present Alliances.” 1997.  Population and Development Review 23(3): 469-523 (with Dennis Hodgson).

 

* “Social Interactions and Contemporary Fertility Transitions.” 1996.  Population and Development Review 22(4): 639-682 (with John Bongaarts).

 

“Social Science and Social Science History.”  1995.  Presidential address, Social Science History 19(3): 295-311.

 

*After Ellis Island: Newcomers and Natives in the 1910 Census.  Editor.1994. Russell Sage. Author of Preface, "Introduction" and Background: The 1910 Census"; coauthor of "Generating Americans (with S. Philip Morgan and Douglas Ewbank), and tabular appendix (with Arodys Robles).

 

*Personal Names and Cultural Change: A Study of the Naming Patterns of Italians and Jews in the U.S. in 1910.  1994.  Social Science History 18(2):169-209 (with Andrew S. London).

 

*Childhood Healthcare Practices among Italians and Jews in the United States, 1910-1940.  1994.  Health Transition Review 4(1):45-62 (with Alice Goldstein and Ann Spector).

 

*Cultural and Economic Approaches to Fertility: Proper Marriage or Mésalliance? 1993.  Population and Development Review 19(3): 467-496 (with Robert Pollak).

 

*If All We Knew About Women Was What We Read in Demography, What Would We Kow? 1993.  Demography 30(4):551-577. 

 

*From Provinces Into Nations: The Demographic Integration of Western Europe, 1870‑1960. 1991.  Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press.

 

*From Local to National Communities: The Transformation of Demographic Regimes in Western Europe, 1870-1960. 1990.  Population and Development Review 16(1): 241-272.

 

Volumes, chapters and articles

* = refereed publication

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GRANTS

NIH/NICHD: Religious Organizations, Local Norms, and HIV in Africa P.I. 4/01/05-3/31/08.  RO1-HD050142-01

 

NIH/NICHD: Gender, Conversational Networks and Dealing with STDs, P.I. 1/01/2002-12/31/2006, RO1-HD41713

 

NIH/NICHD: Social Interactions and Reproductive Health, P.I. 9/30/00-7/31/02, RO1-HD372-276

 

NIH/ORA:   University of Pennsylvania Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), P.I.  7/1/99‑6/30/00

 

NIH/NIA: Supplement to the Center on the Demography of Aging, AMicrosimulation of HIV Transmission Across the Life Cycle in sub‑Saharan Africa", P.I. 8/1/02‑6/30/04, AG12836-S3.

 

NIH/NIA: University of Pennsylvania Center on the Demography of Aging (PARC), P.I. 7/1/99-6/30/00

 

Rockefeller Foundation: Diffusion and Ideational Change, P.I. 1994-1998

 

Rockefeller Foundation: Ideational Transformation Across International, National, and Local Levels (for Amy Kaler), 7/1/98‑6/30/00

 

Mellon Foundation: Fellowship in Anthropological Demography (for Mike Mtika), 8/1/00-7/31/01

 

Mellon Foundation: Fellowship in Anthropological Demography (for Pamela Feldman-Savalsberg), 8/1/00‑7/31/01

 

Transnational Cooperation Foundation, Government of Germany: Co-P.I. Fertility and Social Networks, 6/1/99-5/31/2001

 

Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania: Reproductive Health in Malawi, P.I. 1999

 

Mellon Fellowship in Anthropology and Demography for academic leave 1994-95.

 

Carolina Population Center/USAID Evaluation Project, P.I. grant to study the impact of informal networks on the impact of family planning programs, 1992

 

Mellon Foundation, grants to study fertility change in Africa, 1990, 1991, 1992

 

Rockefeller Foundation, grant to study value change and the fertility transition, 1992-93

 

National Institutes of Health Traineeship in Demography, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 1975‑77.

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AWARDS/ACTIVITIES

Irene Taeuber Award for exceptionally sound and innovative research, Population Association of America,  2005

 

Steering Committee, Mellon Foundation Southern African HIV/AIDS Node, 2001--

   

Gifford Distinguished Scholar Lecture, University of California-Davis, 1999

 

Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford University, 1995

 

Sociological Research Association, Elected Member 1994.

 

First Annual Otis Dudley Duncan Award for distinguished scholarship in social demography, awarded by the Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, for From Provinces to Nations, 1992.

 

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, award for research leave 1992-93.

 

Hewlett Foundation Graduate Training Grant, 1992-1997, $750,000.

 

American Council of Learned Societies, award for research leave 1988-89.

 

Research Foundation awards, University of Pennsylvania, 1989, 1991.

 

Visiting Fellow, Australia Family Project, Australian National University, June-August 1988.

 

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. 1984-85.

 

Visiting Fellow, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, August‑­September 1984.

 

Yale Junior Faculty Fellowship, awarded for academic leave, 1981‑82.

 

Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, highest honor of the Graduate School of Princeton University, 1978‑79.

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