Keera Allendorf

Keera Allendorf

Keera Allendorf is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana. Her research interests fall in the intersections of demography, gender, and family in South Asia. Much of her work has explored the determinants and consequences of women's agency. Currently, she is focusing on family relations, household structure, and family formation, including examining how these structures are changing over time and their links to well-being.













Recent Pub

Melegh, Thornton, Philipov, Young-DeMarco. "Perceptions of societal developmental hierarchies in Europe and beyond: A Bulgarian Perspective." European Sociological Review.

Reading History Sideways

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

Recent Pub

Arland Thornton, "International Family Change And Continuity: The Past And Future From The Developmental Idealism Perspective." in Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families.

Recent Pub

Thornton, Ghimire, Mitchell. The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal. Population Studies.

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Developmental Idealism
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan