A Peculiar People Revisited: – Demographic Foundations of the Iowa Amish in the 21st Century
Elizabeth Cooksey
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2005 at 3:30 pm – Gold Room, Memorial Union:
Elizabeth Cooksey is an expert in the area of adolescent fertility patterns and has been active in the development of a highly regarded National Longitudinal Study of Youth). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. Dr. Cooksey holds degrees from Oxford University and Brown University where she received her Ph.D. in 1988. This lecture is sponsored by the College of Consumer and Family Sciences, the Miller Endowment Fund, the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, and the Department of Sociology.
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