People

Members of the Developmental Idealism Studies group at this time include:

Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, University of Tehran

Keera Allendorf, University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana

William Axinn, University of Michigan

Jennifer Barber, University of Michigan

Judy Baughn, University of Michigan

Georgina Binstock, Population Studies Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Yih-yan Chen , National Cheng-Chi University, Election Study Center, Taiwan

Mick Cunningham, Western Washington University

Shawn F. Dorius, University of Michigan

Dirgha Ghimire, University of Michigan

Arjan Gjonça, London School of Economics

Wang Guangzhou, Chinese Academy of Social Science

Rukmalie Jayakody, Pennsylvania State University

Julie de Jong, University of Michigan

Serap Kavas, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Qing Lai, University of Michigan

Ron Lesthaeghe, Free University of Brussels, Emeritus

Sohair Mehanna, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo

Attila Melegh, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

Colter Mitchell, Princeton University

Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University

Dimiter Philipov, Vienna Institute of Demography

Qiang Ren, Peking University

Arland Thornton, University of Michigan

Linda Young-DeMarco, University of Michigan

Kathryn Yount, Emory University

Yu Xie, University of Michigan

Stalls of women's headscarves for sale in the Roxy/Heliopolis markets of Cairo, 2007

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Developmental Idealism Studies
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

Recent Events

Symposium on Globalization of Modernization Theory: Clashes of Modernities and Moralities, June 8-10, 2010, U of M

New Publication

A. Thornton et al. "Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas About Development and Family Life." In Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts, J. Harkness, M. et al (eds.) 2010.

New Book

Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad (eds), Family in the Middle East: Ideational change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia. Routledge. 2008

Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton


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