Welcome to DeWaard Lab, an online source of high-level information on Jack DeWaard's research, teaching and mentoring, and leadership and service activities.
Research
My research is focused on human migration and covers three overlapping areas:
Migration systems and networks
Climate and environmental migration and displacement
Inequality and incorporation
Some of my recent and selected publications and activities include:
DeWaard J, Fussell E, Curtis KJ, Whitaker SD, McConnell K. Price K, Soto M, Anampa Castro C. 2023. "Migration as a vector of economic losses from disaster-affected areas in the United States." Demography 60:173-199.
DeWaard J, Hauer M, Fussell E, Curtis KJ, Whitaker SD, McConnell K. Price K, Egan-Robertson D, Soto M, Anampa Castro C. 2022. "User beware: Concerning findings from the post 2011-12 U.S. Internal Revenue Service migration data." Population Research and Policy Review 41:437-448. Among other inquiries and audiences, I had the opportunity to discuss this paper with researchers from the:
Statistics of Income Division in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Teaching and Mentoring
I was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota where I regularly taught three graduate courses and three undergraduate courses. Of these six courses, three (denoted by a * below) were new courses that I developed and taught from scratch.
Sociology 3507 - Immigration to the United States: Beyond Walls.*
Sociology 3511/3511 Honors - World Population Problems.
Sociology 3801 - Sociological Research Methods.
Sociology 8607 - Migration and Migrants in Demographic Perspective.*
Sociology 8890 - Sex, Death, and Mobility: Population Modeling (initially called Advanced Demographic Methods).*
Public Affairs 5301 - Population Methods and Issues for the United States and Global South.
I am highly committed to and intentional about mentoring and my approach to mentoring. Using a mentee-centered mentoring model that I adopted and adapted from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, my past and current mentees include early career colleagues, post-doctoral students, doctoral students, masters students, and undergraduate students.
Leadership and Service
In my current position as Scientific Director of Social and Behavioral Science Research at the Population Council, an international research non-governmental organization (NGO), I am responsible for cross-divisional scientific and technical leadership, divisional leadership and management, strategic initiative--especially the Population, Environmental Risk, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) initiative--development and support, and cross-divisional and institutional coordination and support.
My leadership and service work spans the academic and NGO/non-profit sectors and includes many and diverse contributions to different sectors and geographies, disciplines and areas, institutions and units, and stakeholders and publics.