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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Nancy Landale
Director, Population Research Institute Professor of Sociology and Demography 713 Oswald Tower |
EDUCATION
1987 Ph.D. University of Washington (Sociology) 1981 M.A. University of Washington (Sociology) 1979 B.A. University of Washington (Sociology)
1977 B.A. Evergreen State College (Interdisciplinary Social Science)
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Professor Landale's research focuses on family patterns and health outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. She has written extensively about the roles of migration and assimilation in the family patterns and infant health outcomes of Puerto Ricans. Recent articles have focused on selective migration and infant mortality; the role of assimilation in health behaviors and stress; the financial and non-financial contributions of fathers; and racial self-identification. Professor Landale teaches in the areas of social demography and the family.
REARCH GRANTS
Insitutional Grants
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Population Research Institute." July 2006-June 2011. Principal Investigator.
External Grants
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Family Formation in an Era of Family Change." August 2004-July 2008. Principal Investigator.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Project." August 1994-July 2000. Principal Investigator.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "The Demography of Puerto Rican Household Structure." December 1989-May 1995. Principal Investigator.
ASA/NSF Problems of the Discipline Grant. "Class, Caste and Context: Marriage Patterns of Southern Black and White Men at the Turn of the Century." October 1988-September 1989. Co-principal Investigator.
Internal Research Grants
Children, Youth and Families Consortium, Pennsylvania State University. "Family Formation in Emerging Adulthood." June 2002-May 2003. Principal Investigator.
Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Internal Award, College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University. "Migration, Context and Infant Health among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans." January 2001-June 2001. Principal Investigator.
Research and Graduate Studies Office (RSGO) Internal Award, College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University. "Spatial Variation in Child Poverty among Non-Latino Whites, Blacks and Latinos." January 1994-December 1995. Principal Investigator.
University of Chicago Social Science Divisional Research Grant. "Family Formation Patterns of Puerto Ricans." July 1989-June 1990. Principal Investigator.
University of Chicago Social Science Divisional Research Grant. "Labor Market Characteristics and Family Formation: Puerto Ricans." July 1988-June 1989. Principal Investigator.
University of Chicago Biomedical Research Grant. "Demographic and Social Causes of Female Headship Among Puerto Ricans." April 1988-March 1989. Principal Investigator.
University of Chicago Social Science Divisional Research Grant. "Economic Change in the U.S. in the Late Nineteenth Century." July 1987-June 1988. Principal Investigator.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Member, Panel on Transforming Our Common Destiny: Hispanics in the U.S., National Research Council, The National Academies. 2003-2005
Distinction in the Social Sciences Award, College of Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, 2001
Board of Overseers, General Social Survey, 1999-2003
Council Representative (Population Section), American Sociological Association, 1998-2000
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1998-2000
Board of Directors, Population Association of America, 1996-1998
Member, Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Families and Children, National Research Council, 1996-1998
Dorothy Thomas Award Committee, Population Association of America.1993-1996 (Chair 1996)
Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology, 1987-1990.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Oropesa, R.S., Nancy S. Landale, and Merideth Greif. 2008. "From Puerto Rican to Pan-Ethnic in New York City." Ethnic and Racial Studies 21 (forthcoming).
Schoen, Robert, Nancy S. Landale, and Kimberly Daniels. 2007. "Family Transitions in Young Adulthood." Demography 44:807-820.
Landale, Nancy S. and R.S. Oropesa. 2007. “Hispanic Families: Stability and Change.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 381-405.
Landale, Nancy S., R.S. Oropesa, and Cristina Bradatan. 2006. "Hispanic Families in the United States: Family Structure and Process in an Era of Family Change." Pp. 138-178 in Marta Tienda (ed.) Hispanics and the Future of America. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Landale, Nancy S., Bridget K. Gorman, and R.S. Oropesa. 2006. "Selective Migration and Infant Mortality among Puerto Ricans." Maternal and Child Health Journal 10: 351-360.
Landale, Nancy S. and R.S. Oropesa. 2005. "What Does Skin Color Have To Do With Infant Health? An Analysis of Low Birth Weight Among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans." Social Science and Medicine 61: 379-391.
Oropesa, R.S. and Nancy S. Landale. 2005. "Equal Access to Income and Union Dissolution among Mainland Puerto Ricans". Journal of Marriage and Family 67: 173-190.
Oropesa, R.S. and Nancy S. Landale. 2004. "The Future of Marriage and Hispanics." Journal of Marriage and Family 66:901-920.
Oropesa, R.S., Nancy S. Landale and Tanya Kenkre. 2003 “Income Allocation in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: The Case of Mainland Puerto Ricans.” Journal of Marriage and Family 65: 910-926.
Landale, Nancy S. and R.S. Oropesa. 2002. “White, Black or Puerto Rican? Racial Self-Identification among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans.” Social Forces 81: 231-254.
Landale, Nancy S. and R.S. Oropesa. 2001. “Father Involvement in the Lives of Mainland Puerto Rican Children: Contributions of Nonresident, Cohabiting and Married Fathers.” Social Forces 79: 945-968.
Landale, Nancy S. and R.S. Oropesa. 2001. “Migration, Social Support and Perinatal Health: An Origin-Destination Analysis of Puerto Rican Women.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42: 166-183.
Landale, Nancy S., R.S. Oropesa, and Bridget K. Gorman. 2000. “Migration and Infant Death: Assimilation or Selective Migration Among Puerto Ricans?” American Sociological Review 65: 888-909.
Oropesa, R.S. and Nancy S. Landale. 2000. “From Austerity to Prosperity?: Migration and Child Poverty Among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans.” Demography 37(3): 323-338.
Landale, Nancy S., R.S. Oropesa, Daniel Llanes, and Bridget K. Gorman. 1999. “Does Americanization Have Adverse Effects on Health?: Stress, Health Habits, and Infant Health Outcomes Among Puerto Ricans.” Social Forces 78: 613-642.
Singley, Susan and Nancy S. Landale. 1998. "Incorporating Origin and Process in Migration-Fertility Frameworks: The Case of Puerto Rican Women." Social Forces 76(4): 1437-1464.
Landale, Nancy S. and Susan M. Hauan. 1996. "Migration and Premarital Childbearing among Puerto Rican Women." Demography 33(4): 429-442.
Landale, Nancy S. 1994. "Migration and the Latino Family: The Union Formation Behavior of Puerto Rican Women." Demography 31(1): 133-157.
Landale, Nancy S. and Stewart E. Tolnay. 1993. "Generation, Ethnicity and Marriage: Historical Patterns in the Northern United States." Demography 30(1): 103-126.
Landale, Nancy S. and Stewart E. Tolnay. 1991. "Group Differences in Economic Opportunity and the Timing of Marriage: Blacks and Whites in the Rural South, 1910." American Sociological Review 56(1): 33-45.
Landale, Nancy S. and Avery M. Guest. 1990. "Generation, Ethnicity, And Occupational Opportunity in Late 19th Century America." American Sociological Review 55(2): 280-296.