Dirgha Ghimire Dirgha Ghimire

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003

M.A., University of Michigan, 2000

B. Sc., Tribhuvan University, 1986

Dr. Ghimire, is research investigator at Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan and Director of the Institute for Social and Environmental Research, Chitwan Nepal. He studies the relationship among social context, social change, family organization, marriage arrangement, and first birth timing in Nepal. His research also includes the inter relationship between population and environmental dynamics. He is a PI on the Developmental Idealism and Family and Population Dynamics in Nepal research project.

Dirgha Ghimire's Research Profile at the Population Studies Center












UN Award

Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi wins 2011 United Nations Population Award

Recent Events

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

Taeuber Award

Arland Thornton receives Irene B. Taeuber Award at 2011 PAA Annual Meetings

Reading History Sideways

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

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