Speaker Biography: Ronald Rindfuss

Dr. Ronald Rindfuss is a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Rindfuss is a social demographer whose work focuses on the timing and sequencing of cohabitation, marriage, childbearing, divorce, education, migration, and employment. He is also working on the relationship between population processes and the environment.

In collaboration with several CPC Fellows, Aphichat Chamratrithirong and others at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, he is examining migration and social change in Thailand. With two other CPC Fellows, Rindfuss is examining the determinants and consequences of child care patterns in the United States—the topic of one of his 1998 PAA papers. His second paper dealt with satellite data and social demographic research. Rindfuss is a member of the National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, the User Working Group for the National Aeronautic and Space Agency Socioeconomic Data Applications Center Distributed Active Archive Center, and the External Advisory Board, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University. A past president of the Population Association of America and former director of CPC, he has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1992.