[Cohort40] Fwd: [Community] Fall welcome

[Carl MASON]

Hi Mallika and Maria --

I'm forwarding this message to you just in case you have not yet been
properly added to the various lists.
Please alert David Murphy if you did *not* get a copy of this message from
Jenna  addressed to "community at demog.berkeley.edu

See you Wednesday

--Carl


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From: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks <johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:27 AM
Subject: [Community] Fall welcome
To: <community at demog.berkeley.edu>, <alumni at demog.berkeley.edu>


Dear Friends of Berkeley Demography,



Welcome to the fall semester 2019! We are in the midst of many
anniversaries worth celebrating. The building in which we dwell—2232
Piedmont Avenue—was built 110 years ago this fall, and the first Graduate
Group in Demography at Berkeley was established by Judith Blake and others
55 years ago. It was 40 years ago this fall that Gene Hammel brought Ron
Lee and Ken Wachter to Berkeley as Professors of Demography, and 30 years
ago that John Wilmoth joined them.  All of this comes in a time of campus
commemorations as well: the University of California turned 150 in 2018,
and in 2020 we will celebrate 150 years that women have been admitted to
the University on equal terms as men. Much to celebrate, and much to
remember: we are part of a long and honorable history, and responsible for
carrying that history into the future.



And our future looks bright indeed. This fall we welcome a new faculty
member, *Ayesha Mamhud*, whose workfocuses on how demography, the
environment, and social systems interrelate to produce observed patterns of
infectious diseases. Her work draws on classical demography, but also
contributes to conversations in public health, disease ecology, data
science, and the effects of climate change. Ayesha earned her BA in Physics
and Economics at Carleton College in 2009, then worked for three years at
two well-respected social science research centers, NORC and NBER. She
earned her PhD in Demography and Social Policy at Princeton in 2017, and
was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health
and the Harvard University Center for the Environment before arriving here
this summer.  Welcome Ayesha!



We also welcome a new cohort of graduate students. After last year’s
unusually large cohort, this one is unusually small. *Mallika Snyder *graduated
from Harvard University in 2017 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. Her
senior thesis explored the impact of the Great Recession on intimate
partner violence in the United States. Since 2017, she has worked at the
Center for Global Development in Washington DC. She is interested in
studying the family in contexts of historical demographic and economic
change. *Maria Osborne *graduated from the University of Washington in 2018
with Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and English. Through the
interdisciplinary honors program at the University of Washington, she
studied the intersection of national identity and sexuality in Romania and
Georgia. Since 2015, she has worked as a Scientific Programmer for the
Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Welcome Mallika and Maria!



We are also happy that Ben Domingue, Assistant Professor from Stanford,
will be visiting for the year, and Luisa Cardoso Guedes de Souza will
remain with us through the fall. We are also looking for people to teach
this spring, if you are in the area and potentially interested.



We are always happy to see friends of the department, and encourage you
visit if you can. Brown Bag talks are still Wednesday at noon, and cookies
and tea are still provided. Our back-to-school social will be Friday,
September 6thfrom 1 to 3 pm. Please come!



Yours sincerely,

Jenna




Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Chair and Professor of Demography
Professor of Sociology
University of California Berkeley
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
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