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Kenneth Chew
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Senior Lecturer SOE (tenured)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 824.6990
Office: Social Ecology Bldg I, room 218F
Research and Teaching Interests
My research focuses on the demographic foundations of community and of public health. My earlier work addressed a variety of issues at the nexus of population, community, and public health, including (1) the extent to which population aging and racial diversification have eroded political support for public education, and (2) the risk factors of homicide and suicide, and of child abuse. More recently I have been using historical demography to reconstruct the communal life of Chinese Americans on the 19th century U.S. frontier.
My favorite undergraduate course is "California's Population," a whirlwind demographic tour of the State's 58 counties, from Alameda to Yuba. My favorite graduate course is "Demographics for Planning and Policy," concerning the uses of population in foretelling the future.
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Selected Publications
- Chew, Kenneth and John M. Liu 2004. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Global Labor Force Exchange in the Chinese American Population of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries." Population and Development Review 30 (1): 57-78.
- Chew, Kenneth S.Y. and Richard McCleary, 1994. "A Life Course Theory of Suicide Risk." Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior 24(3):234-244.
- Chew, Kenneth S.Y., 1992. "The Demographic Erosion of Political Support for Public Education: A Suburban Case Study." Sociology of Education 65(4):280-292.
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Department of Planning, Policy, and Design
202 Social Ecology I
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California 92697-7075
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