Researcher

• My research, which is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, is focused on three overlapping areas of human migration:

  • Migration systems and networks

  • Climate and environmental migration and displacement

  • Inequality and incorporation

• Some of my recent and selected peer-reviewed publications include:

  • O'Connell HA, Curtis KJ, Mikulas A, DeWaard J, Lee J. 2024. Timing is everything: Identifying how the legacy of slavery relationship changed over time. Demography.

  • 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.

  • Levesque C, DeWaard J, Chan L, McKenzie MG, Tsuchiya K, Toles O, Lange A, Horner K, Ryu E, Boyle E. 2023. Crimmigrating narratives: Examining third-party observations of U.S. detained immigration court. Law & Social Inquiry .

  • DeWaard J, Hunter LM, Mathews MC, Quiñones EJ, Riosmena F, Simon D. 2022. Operationalizing and identifying populations trapped in place by climate and environmental stressors in Mexico. Regional Environmental Change. 

  • 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. Among other inquiries and audiences, I had the opportunity to discuss this paper with those from the:

    • Statistics of Income Division in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service

    • U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

    • National Council of Applied Economic Research

Educator

• 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 (see " * " 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 strongly committed to and intentional about training and mentoring, including my approach to training and mentoring. Using a mentee-centered mentoring model from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, my past and current trainees and mentees include early career colleagues, post-doctoral students, doctoral students, masters students, and undergraduate students.

Servant Leader

• 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 servant leadership 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.

Contact information

• Contact me at dewaardlab@gmail.com for more information about me and my work, including to request my curriculum vitae and/or resume.