1. Reanne Frank is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. Her research examines the ways in which demographic outcomes are influenced by the migration process, with specific attention to the case of the U.S.-Mexico migration flow. Current projects focus on the role of changing immigrant settlement patterns and different social contexts in influencing the health and well-being of first-, second-, and later-generation immigrants in the United States. More recently, her research has...
2. Magdalena Cerdá is a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan. She is currently investigating the ways in which local social and economic environments influence youth risk-behavior trajectories, particularly violence and substance use. She is also interested in exploring how local contexts influence the probability of transition between behaviors at key developmental turning points, such as entries into middle school, high school, and young adulthood. She is conducting...
3. Maria Rendón is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University. She is currently conducting field research for her dissertation in Los Angeles. Her study focuses on young adult male children of Mexican immigrants and their outlooks and decisions regarding school and work as they transition into adulthood. She is also conducting research for the Three-City Ethnographic Study of the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program, where she has analyzed the relationship between...