SUSAN E. SHORT

Susan E. Short is a sociologist and demographer. Her research focuses on gender, fertility and reproductive health, child development, work-family issues, and methods of social research. She addresses these topics in the U.S., China, and Africa.

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Biography

Susan E. Short is Associate Professor of Sociology. She holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a sociologist who specializes in demography with an emphasis on family and health. Recent research includes population-level analyses of changes in the composition of households of mothers of young children; women's work and its intersection with fertility and child care; and the relationship between policies, prenatal care, and fertility. Short's NIH and NSF funded research includes projects in China, Lesotho, and the U.S. With a recently awarded Mellon New Directions Fellowship, Short is expanding her research on inequalities in family and health to incorporate genetics. Short has served as Associate Director of the NICHD-funded Population Studies and Training Center at Brown and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America.

Areas of Interest: Social Demography, Families and Households, Reproductive Health, Inequality, Methods.

SUSAN E. SHORT
Associate Professor
Sociology
Phone: +1 401 863 2056
E-mail: Susan_Short@Brown.EDU

Susan E. Short's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Susan_E._Short

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