Colter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and a Population Studies Center trainee at the University of Michigan. Currently his research focuses the relationship between attitudes, values and beliefs on family, religious and educational behavior both within the United States and internationally. One aspect of his dissertation looks at Developmental Idealism's connection to modernization theory across the domains of wealth, development and education.
A survey concerning developmental idealism is currently being conducted in Nepal.
A. Thornton, D. Philipov. "Sweeping Changes in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing in Central and Eastern Europe: New Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." Recently published in European Journal of Population.
Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad (eds), Family in the Middle East: Ideational change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia. Routledge. 2008
The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.
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