Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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Gondon DeJong
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
Director, Graduate Program in Demography 506 Oswald Tower |
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1963
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
Professor De Jong=s scholarship is in social demography, immigration and internal migration, population aging, and the demography of Pennsylvania. Current research projects focus on the impact of U.S. welfare reform policies on the migration decisions of poor families, and on Dominican immigration to new destination metropolitan areas in the U.S. Over his career Professor De Jong has conducted research projects on internal and international migration in Peru, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Israel, The Philippines, Thailand, Romania, and currently South Africa. He has secured a cumulative total of 35 years of training grant funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Aging, and the Hewlett Foundation to support graduate students education in social demography at Penn State. He frequently provides briefings on demographic trends and their impact on public policy for state of PA government officials, including the governor, office of general counsel, house and senate committees, and state departments and agencies.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Chair, American Sociological Association Sociology of Population section, 2002-2003
Elected council member, American Sociological Association International Migration section, 1998-2001
Director (founder), Graduate Program in Demography, Pennsylvania State University, 1987
W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award, Pennsylvania State University, 1997
Visiting Faculty, Netherlands Graduate School in Demography, summer 1994
Member, Clifford C. Clogg Award Committee of the Population Association of America, 1996-1999
Provosts Award for Excellence in Collaborative Teaching, Pennsylvania State University, 1994
Editor, Demography, 1987-1990
Senior Fellow, East-West Population Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1978-1979
Co-founder and Director, Population Issues Research Center (now Population Research Institute), Pennsylvania State University, 1974-1976, 1982-1988
Twenty-seven competitive external grants from governmental agencies and foundations to support multiple research projects and training activities. Currently have NICHD and NSF grants to study the impact of "Welfare Reform on the Migration of Poor Families," and a NICHD award for "Interdisciplinary Training in Demography".
Supervised 27 Masters and 27 Ph.D. students in their graduate programs in demography and sociology.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (since 1990):
DeJong, G.F. (2003) "Paradigms for Graduate Training in Population Studies." PAA Affairs Spring, 2003: 3-4.
DeJong, G.F. and M. Steinmetz (2004), "Receptivity Attitudes and Occupational Attainment of Male and Female Immigrant Workers." Population Research and Policy Review 23:91-116.
DeJong, G.F., D. R. Graefe, T. St. Pierre. (2005) "Welfare Reform and Interstate Migration of Poor Families." Demography 42 (August).
For Better, For Worse: Life Satisfaction Consequences of Migration.@ International Migration Review 36 (2002):838-863.
A Double Disadvantage? Minority Group, Immigrant Status, and Underemployment in the U.S.@ Social Science Quarterly 82(2001):117-130.
Expectations, Gender, and Norms in Migration Decision-Making.@ Population Studies 54(2000):307-319.
Choice Processes in Migration Behavior.@ in K. Pandit and S. D. Withers (eds.), Migration and Restructuring in the U.S. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
Job Mismatch Among Asians in the United States: Gender and Ethnic Group Comparisons.@ Social Science Quarterly 78(1997):524-542.
Migration in Market and Democracy Transition: Migration Intentions and Behavior in Romania.@ Population Research and Policy Review 15(1996): 437-457.
Gender, Values, and Intentions to Move in Rural Thailand.@ International Migration Review 30(1996):748-770.
Motives and the Geographic Mobility of Very Old Americans.@ Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 50(1995):S395-S404.
Family Migration in a Developing Country.@ Population Studies 45(1991)221-232.
Internal Migration in the United States.@ in C. B. Nam, W. J. Serow, and D. F. Sly (eds.) International Handbook on Internal Migration. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.