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Sociology professor
Susan Short
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scientific career
ThesisBirth planning, sterilization, and the care of children in China (1997)

Susan E. Short is the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies at Brown University who is known for her work on how gender, family, health and well-being are effected by social and political environments.

Education

Short received her B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1986. She earned a Master's (1994) and a Ph.D. (1997) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Career

After receiving her PhD in 1997, Short began in her role as assistant professor at Brown University. Short served as a visiting scholar at the National University of Lesotho from 2003 to 2004 studying the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, she was a visiting scientist at Harvard School of Public Health from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2014, Short was Director of Graduate Studies for the Sociology Department at Brown University. In 2022, she was named the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies at Brown University.

Research

Short's research highlights changing social and political environments and their implications for family dynamics, gender, health, and well-being. Her research examines a variety of issues, including, economic reform and the one child policy in China, the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Lesotho, and changes in the organization of women's work and parenting in the United States.

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2016, Short was elected to the Sociological Research Association. Short was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020.

References

  1. ^ "Short, Susan". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  2. Short, Susan E. (1994). "China's economic reforms and household structure". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  3. Short, Susan E. (1997). "Birth planning, sterilization, and the care of children in China". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  4. ^ https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/s/sushort_cv.pdf
  5. sm37@brown.edu (2018-06-06). "Susan Short". Sociology | Brown University. Retrieved 2019-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. Short, Susan E.; Fengying, Zhai (1998). "Looking Locally at China's One-Child Policy". Studies in Family Planning. 29 (4): 373–387. doi:10.2307/172250. ISSN 0039-3665. JSTOR 172250. PMID 9919631.
  7. Parker, Erin M.; Short, Susan E. (2009). "Grandmother Coresidence, Maternal Orphans, and School Enrollment in Sub-Saharan Africa". Journal of Family Issues. 30 (6): 813–836. doi:10.1177/0192513X09331921. ISSN 0192-513X. PMC 3505141. PMID 23180901.
  8. Torr, Berna Miller; Short, Susan E. (2004). "Second Births and the Second Shift: A Research Note on Gender Equity and Fertility". Population and Development Review. 30 (1): 109–130. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2004.00005.x. ISSN 0098-7921.
  9. "2020 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council". Science. 370 (6520): 1048–1052. 2020-11-27. Bibcode:2020Sci...370.1048.. doi:10.1126/science.370.6520.1048. ISSN 0036-8075. S2CID 240657197.
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