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Joan
Kahn
Associate
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 1985
Office:
2103 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:301 405-6390 (Sociology Graduate Office)
Email: jkahn@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Demography; Gender, Work & Family
Additional Research Interests:
Aging and the Life Course, Health Inequalities,
Immigration and Ethnicity, Fertility
Joan
Kahn
received
her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of
Michigan (1985). She joined the University of
Maryland in 1987 after spending 2 years as a post-doctoral
fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. She is currently the Director of Graduate
Studies as well as a faculty associate of the
Maryland Population Research Center.
Kahn’s main areas of interest
are in the fields of social demography, aging
and the life course, and work-family dynamics.
Much of her earlier work examined different aspects
of fertility behavior in the United States. She
has studied trends in teenage childbearing and
its proximate determinants such as sexual behavior
and contraceptive use. She has also studied the
fertility of immigrant women, focusing on patterns
of adaptation over time. Her interest immigrants
and ethnic minorities extend to work on the interplay
between women’s employment and fertility
as well as economic assimilation more generally.
In recent years, Kahn has developed
an interest in the demography of aging and the
life course, with a focus on the health and well-being
of older Americans. She has been working with
Leonard Pearlin on an NIA-funded study of Aging,
Stress and Health among older Americans. Guided
by the stress process conceptual framework within
the life course perspective, the study considers
both the potentially debilitating impact of stressors
as well as the potentially protective effect of
personal resources, with the goal of better understanding
the persistence of health inequalities by race
and social class. Kahn's interest in the project
focuses on the cumulative impact of disadvantage
over the life course, both in terms of financial
and employment strains as well as family disruptions
and dislocations.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology 411: Demographic
Techniques
Sociology 611: Advanced
Demographic Techniques
Sociology 635: Social Aspects
of Fertility
Sociology 699C/498C: Introduction
to Computing for Sociology
Other Links:
Maryland
Population Research Center
University
of Maryland Stress and Health Program
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