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Kenneth C Land

John Franklin Crowell Professor of Sociology and Fac. Dir. Ctr for Population Health and Aging

Office Phone: (919) 660-5615
Office Fax: (919) 660-5623
E-mail Address: kland@soc.duke.edu
Location: 347 Soc-Psych
Website: http://www.soc.duke.edu/dept/faculty/kland.html
Mailing Address: 268 Soc-Psych Box 90088
CV: Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

Fall 2013

SOCIOL 111.01 SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Research Summary

I received my Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. After a year of postdoctoral study in mathematical statistics at Columbia University in New York City, I taught there and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage Foundation for three years. I then was successively a member of the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Duke Sociology Department as Chairman in 1986. I served as Chair of Sociology from January 1986 to August 1997. My main research interests are contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes. I have done extensive research in each of these areas and have been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1978), the Sociological Research Association (1981), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1997), and the American Society of Criminology (2004). I teach Contemporary Social Problems (SOCIOL 11), Basic Demographic Methods and Materials (SOCIOL 215), and Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis (SOCIOL 216). My other interests include tennis, jogging (10 kilometers), and music.

Publications (More Publications)

Zeng Yi, Kenneth C. Land, Zhenglian Wang, and Danan Gu (2013) Population and Household Projections at Sub-National Levels: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach Demography
William P. O’Hare, Mark Mather, Genevieve Dupuis, Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, and Qiang Fu (2013) Analyzing Differences in Child Well-Being Among U.S. States Child Indicators Research
Patricia L. McCall, Kenneth C. Land, Cindy Brooks Dollar, and Karen F. Parker (2013) The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle Journal of Quantitative Criminology