[Brownbag] Special Demography Seminar: Christine Bachrach - October 10

[Monique Verrier]

Dear friends of Demography,

The Demography Department will have a special seminar this week. Please 
join us on Friday, October 10 from 1:30-3pm for Christine Bachrach's talk, 
"Assessing the Predictive Value of Fertility Expectations through a 
Social-Cognitive Model."

The seminar will take place in the Department of Demography Seminar Room 
at 2232 Piedmont Avenue.

An open reception will follow.

Chris Bachrach is a social demographer interested in the interplay of
biology and culture in the production of demographic outcomes. She has
focused on marriage and fertility, including recent iconoclastic work
on fertility intentions (joint with S. Phil Morgan), and violations of
rationality assumptions in fertility behavior. Bachrach’s career has
been one of scholarship and public service. She served for 20 years as
the Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at NIH,
the primary NIH organ for funding population research. From 2008 until
2010, Bachrach also served as the Acting Director of the NIH Office of
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), which is the central
office at the National Institutes of Health charged with coordinating
and stimulating behavioral and social science research throughout the
NIH. In 2012-2013, she served as the President of the Population
Association of America. And for a decade, she has served on the
National Advisory Committee for the Robert Woods Johnson Fellowships.
Throughout this time, Bachrach’s own scholarly research has been of
the highest caliber. She is the recipient of the Otis Dudley Duncan
Award from the American Sociological Association Population Section,
the Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America,
and the National Institutes of Health Merit Award, just to name a few.
Her talk expands on a set of ideas first set out in her Presidential
Address to the PAA in 2013.


Monique Verrier
Graduate Student Services Adviser
Department of Demography