Thomas J. Espenshade
Professor of Sociology
Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research
 

Thomas J. Espenshade is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research. His past research has concentrated on social demography, with a particular emphasis on population economics, mathematical demography, family and household demography, and contemporary immigration to the United States. His current research is focused on diversity in higher education.

He served as Chair of the Department of Sociology at Princeton from 1999-2003 and as director of sociology's undergraduate program from 1998-2001. Espenshade received his B.A. degree in economics from The College of Wooster in 1965, a Master of Arts in Teaching in mathematics from Yale University in 1966, and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1972. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1988, he held teaching or research positions at the University of California (Berkeley), Bowdoin College, Florida State University, The Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.), and Brown University.

Other web pages:
Office of Population Research
Sociology

 


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Read the abstract to a recent paper on college admission which has been published in Sociology of Education, "The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context, Class Rank, and Elite College Admission, Sociology of Education, October 2005, 78(4):269-293. (with Lauren Hale and Chang Chung).

 

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