Gray Swicegood
Associate Professor
Office: 221 Lincoln Hall
Phone: (217) 333-6100
Email: swice@illinois.edu
Field of Study: Demography, Family, Race and Ethnicity
PhD: University of Texas, Austin
CV: pdf
Gray Swicegood, studies the sociology of the life course and population dynamics. He is the co-author of two books and twenty-five articles and chapters, many of the latter appearing in the top general and specialty journals of the sociology and demography. His current research interests include family formation dynamics among immigrant populations in the United States, the relationship between housing consumption and life-course decision-making, and the demographic underpinnings of the diffusion of new technologies.
Swicegood is the principal investigator on a three-year, National Institutes of Health award to study the effects of immigration on U. S. childbearing that began June 1, 2001 (total costs $716,000). He has led the sociology component of an interdisciplinary engineering-social science collaboration, to study social factors associated with the design and diffusion of mobile computing technologies and applications. This project has received support from Hewlett-Packard (including assistantships for graduate students). HP has already committed $500,000 in equipment in support of the project, in a competition amongst research universities across the nation. This project articulates well with the University's cross-campus initiative on Carbon, Silicone and Culture. .
Professor Swicegood’s recent publications and activities include the following:
"Logistic Regression." In Lewis-Beck, M., A. Bryman, and T.F. Liao, co-editors. Forthcoming 2003. Encyclopaedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (with Shin-Kap Han).
“Immigrant Fertility.” Forthcoming. In N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier, 2001. (with F.D. Bean) First author
“Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials.” In Nancy Denton and Stewart Tolnay (eds.), American Diversity. SUNY-Albany Press, 2002 (with S. P. Morgan). First author.
Professor Swicegood is currently a member of the College of Communication Executive Committee, and he is serving as a member of the University's Survey Research Laboratory's Faculty Advisory Committee. He also chairs the Campus Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society’s Scholarship Committee.