January 2019
Gillian Stevens
University of Alberta Department of Sociology 5-21 HM Tory Building Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4 Canada
Email: [email protected] Mobile: (780) 918-2491
Sociology office: (780) 492-4377 Sociology main office: (780) 492-5234
CITIZENSHIP
Canada & the United States
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. 1982.
Areas of Specialization: Social Stratification & Social Demography Minor: Epidemiology.
M.A., Sociology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 1977.
B.A. Honours, Sociology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 1976.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Guest Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, October 2017 – December, 2017.
Executive Director, Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, July 2009 – June 2015, July 2016 – March 2017.
Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, July 2015 – June 2016.
Professor, Department of Sociology. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, July 2009 – present. (On leave, July 2013 – June 2014).
Guest Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, January – June, 2014.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. September – December, 2013.
Editor, British Journal of Sociology, London School of Economics, London, UK, 2008–
2012.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 2007 – 2008.
Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1982–2009 (on leave 1996–1997, 1998–1999, Spring 2005, and 2007–
2008).
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 2000–2004, 2005–2007.
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Spring 2005.
Associate to Full Professor, Department of Advertising, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 2000–2005.
Visiting Research Scholar, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1998–1999.
Associate to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1996–1997.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990–1996.
AWARDS AND HONORS
KU-Leuven and the Embassy of Canada, Belgium
Invited Speaker: Coping with Conflict, Controversy and Competition: What Can We Learn from Canada. Leuven, Belgium. November, 2017.
University of Alberta.
Canada 150 Expert List: Survey Methods. 2017.
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Panel Member, Research Evaluation of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, April 2014.
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Presenter, Charles B. Nam Lecture, Spring 2007.
American Sociological Association.
America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity, Focus of an “Authors Meet Critics” session, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.
American Sociological Association.
Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography, for America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity (with Frank D. Bean), August 2003.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Included on “The Incomplete List of Instructors Rated as Excellent by their Students”
“Professionalization Seminar” (graduate), Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2003, Spring 2001, Fall 2000;
“Demography” (graduate), Spring 2000, Spring 1996, Fall 1994.
“Sociology of Mortality and Morbidity” (graduate & undergraduate), Fall 1994;
“Demographic Methods” (undergraduate), Spring 1996, Fall 2008.
University of Toronto.
Ranked “Excellent Instructor” by students
“Introduction to Social Statistics” (undergraduate), Academic year 1996-1997.
University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Outstanding Undergraduate Adviser Award, 1992–1993
Outstanding Undergraduate Adviser Award, Honorable Mention, 1991–1992.
Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC.
“The Great Discussant” at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America. Unofficial PRB Award, 1993.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Post-doctoral fellowship, 1982–1983 (declined) Doctoral scholarships, 1977–1981.
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
B.A. Honours, granted with First Class Honours, 1976.
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS
(AS DIRECTOR OF POPULATION RESEARCH LABORATORY,UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA) July 2016 - March 2017. Twelve research projects funded by various government
agencies and academic scholars, $630,000.
July 2014 – June 2015. Eighteen research projects funded by various government agencies and academic scholars, $868,000.
July 2012 – June 2013. Twenty-two research projects funded by various government agencies and academic scholars, $1.0 million.
July 2011 – June 2012. Twenty-eight research projects funded by various government agencies and academic scholars, $850,000.
July 2010 – June 2011. Twenty-one research projects funded by various government agencies and academic scholars, $800,000.
July 2009 – June 2010. Twenty-four research projects funded by various government agencies and academic scholars, $1.2 million.
RESEARCH GRANTS (PRINCIPAL OR CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
KIAS, University of Alberta. ($7,500). Unlocking, Compiling and Evaluating Sources of Data on Ukrainians in Canada. Principal Investigator, 2018-2019.
World University Network. ($10,000). Labour Force Outcomes of Highly Skilled Migrants in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the United States.
(with 5 co-investigators). 2015-16.
American Educational Research Association ($18,000), AY 2008–09 (Dissertation Fellowship, M. M. McKillip). Dissertation Research Chair.
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Washington DC. August 2004–2006.
“Trajectories of English Acquisition among Immigrants in the United States.”
($147,000). Principal Investigator.
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Washington DC. August 2000–2005.
Individual National Service Award (F31, M. White). ($80,000) Sponsor.
Educational Statistics Services Institution/American Institutes for Research. 2005.
Language Minority Children Analysis Project (H. Ishizawa). ($6,055) Sponsor.
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. 1991–92.
“The Linguistic Adaptation of U.S. Immigrants and Their Children.” ($37,500).
Principal Investigator.
Department of Public Aid, State of Illinois, Springfield IL & Federal Department of Labor, Washington DC. 1988–1989.
Social Research Evaluation. ($40,000). Principal Investigator.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Stevens, Gillian and Lei Chai. “English Proficiency, Linguistic Distance and Age at Migration among Asian Immigrants in the United States.” In progress.
Waring, Jennifer, Mary Ingraham, Ross Waring, Aleena Amjad Hafeez, and Gillian Stevens. "Pathways to a Life in New Music: A Survey of Canadian Composers and Those Who Create with Music or Sound." In progress.
Stevens, Gillian. Sponsors of Refugees in Canada. In progress.
Stevens, Gillian, Jars Balan, Roman Petryshyn, Oleh Wolowyna, Svitlana Polyakova, and Peter Baskerville. Unlocking, Compiling and Evaluating Sources of Data on
Ukrainians in Canada. In progress.
PUBLICATIONS
Research Monograph
Bean, Frank D. and Gillian Stevens. 2003. America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. Rose Series in Sociology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 309 pp.
(Paperback edition published Fall 2005.)
Reviewed in: Population Studies (2004, 58(1): 127–28), Contemporary Sociology (2004, 33(4): 401–4), Population and Development Review (2004, 30(4): 769–71), American Journal of Sociology (2004, 110:256–57), Social Forces (2004, 83(2): 871–
74), Rhetoric & Public Affairs (2004, 7(3):432–34), International Migration Review (2005, 39(1):281–84).
Edited Collection
Wright, Richard, Frances Heidensohn, Claire Moon, Gillian Stevens, and Fran Tonkiss, (eds.). 2010. The Best of the British Journal of Sociology: Shaping Sociology over 60 Years. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Company. Available online:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118492688/home.
Research Articles and Book Chapters
Ishizawa, Hiromi, Kazuyo Kubo and Gillian Stevens. 2019. "International Adoptions and the Making of Interracial Families: Trends over Time." Adoption Quarterly. In press.
DeKeyser, Graziela and Gillian Stevens. 2019. "Maintaining One Language while Learning Another: Moroccan Children in Belgium." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 49(4): 148-163. (Available online:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01434632.2018.1493115) Stevens, Gillian, Hiromi Ishizawa and Douglas Grbic. 2015. “Measuring Race and
Ethnicity in the Censuses of Australia, Canada, and the United States: Parallels and Paradoxes.” Canadian Studies in Population (1-2): 13-34.
Stevens, Gillian. 2015. “Trajectories of English Acquisition among Foreign-born Spanish-Language Children in the United States.” International Migration Review 49(4): 981-1000. (Available online:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imre.12119 and https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imre.12119).
Vallance, Jeff K., Dean T. Eurich, Paul Gardiner, Lorian M. Taylor, Gillian Stevens, and Steven T. Johnson. 2014. “Utility of telephone survey methods in population-based health studies of older adults: An example from the Alberta Older Adult Health Behavior (ALERT) Study.” BMC Public Health 14:486-495. (May 22).
Stevens, Gillian, Dave Odynak, Jasmine Brazil and Tim Hartnagel. 2013. “Demographic Trends and Crime in the Province of Alberta.” International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 1(1): 24-41.
Stevens, Gillian and Hiromi Ishizawa. 2013. “Considering Time in the Investigation of Migration.” Pp. 522-529 in International Handbook of Migration Research edited by S. Gold and S. Nawyn. London and New York: Routledge.
Stevens, Gillian. 2012. “Age and Second Language Acquisition among Immigrants.”
Chapter 12 in Handbook of US Immigration and Education edited by E.L.
Grigorenko. Springer.
Stevens, Gillian, Hiromi Ishizawa and Xavier Escandell. 2012. “Marrying into the American Population: Pathways into Cross-Nativity Marriage.” International Migration Review 46(3):739-858.
Ishizawa, Hiromi and Gillian Stevens. 2011. “Who Arrived First? The Timing of Arrival among Young Immigrant Wives and Husbands.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Available online at: DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2010.545267.
Stevens, Gillian. 2010. “The British Journal of Sociology in the 1980s: A Decade of Eclecticism.” In Wright, R., F. Heidensohn, C. Moon, G. Stevens, and F. Tonkiss, (eds.). The Best of the British Journal of Sociology: Shaping Sociology over 60 Years.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Company. Available online:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118492688/home.
McKillip, Mary E.M., Gillian Stevens, and Jorge Chapa. 2008. “The Latino Effect? The Difficulty of Passing Tax Referenda in Illinois School Districts with High
Concentrations of Latinos.” Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Urbana IL. Occasional Paper #2. Reprinted June, 2011.
Ishizawa, Hiromi and Gillian Stevens. 2007. “Non-English Language Neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois: 2000. Social Science Research 36(September): 1042-1064.
(doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.06.005)
Stevens, Gillian and Hiromi Ishizawa. 2007. “Variation Among Siblings in the Use of a Non-English Language.” Journal of Family Issues 28(8): 1008-25. URL:
http://jfi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/8/1008.
Stevens, Gillian. 2006. “The Age-Length-Onset Problem in Research on Second Language Acquisition among Immigrants.” Language Learning 56(4): 671–692.
URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/lang/56/4.
Ishizawa, Hiromi, Catherine T. Kenney, Kazuyo Kubo and Gillian Stevens. 2006.
“Constructing Interracial Families through Intercountry Adoption.” Social Science Quarterly 87(5):1207–1224.
Stevens, Gillian, Hiromi Ishizawa and Mary M. McKillip. 2006. “Intermarriage and the Second Generation: Choosing between Newcomers and Natives.” Migration Policy Institute (October). URL: http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/
display.cfm?id=444.
Printed in: “The Second Generation in the United States: Migration Information Source, Special Issue.”
Reprinted in Immigration Daily, 12/18/2006. http://www.ilw.com/articles/2006,1218–
stevens.shtm
Reprinted in Kromkowski, John A. (ed.). 2007. Annual Editions: Race & Ethnic Relations. New York: McGraw Hill.
Stevens, Gillian, Kinam Jin and Hyun Jong Song. 2006. “Short-Term Migration and the Acquisition of a World Language.” International Migration 44(1):167–180.
Bean, Frank D. and Gillian Stevens. 2004. “Assimilation Redux.” Contemporary Sociology 33(4):404–407 (review essay).
Stevens, Gillian. 2004. “Using Census Data to Evaluate the Critical-Age Hypothesis for Second Language Acquisition.” Psychological Science 15(3):215–216.
Stevens, Gillian and Michael K. Tyler. 2002. “Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New Regimes.” Pp. 221–243 in N.A. Denton and S.E. Tolnay (eds.), American Diversity. A Demographic Challenge for the Twenty-First Century.
Albany, NY: SUNY-Albany Press.
Stevens, Gillian. 2002. “Life Tables in Demography.” Charting Advances in Social Science and Humanities Computing, edited by O. V. Burton, D. Herr, and T.
Finnegan. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Stevens, Gillian. 2002. “Life tables.” [program and templates] Charting Advances in Social Science and Humanities Computing, edited by O.V. Burton, D. Herr, and T.
Finnegan. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Stevens, Gillian. 2002. “The Inclusion of Language Minority Populations in National Studies.” In Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section. American Statistical Association: Alexandria, Virginia.
Stevens, Gillian. 2000. “U.S. Immigration Policy and the Language Characteristics of Immigrants.” Pg. 177–191 in L.F. Tomasi (ed.), In Defense of the Alien. Center for Migration Studies, New York.
Stevens, Gillian. 1999. “Age at Immigration and Second Language Proficiency Among Foreign-born Adults.” Language in Society 28(December): 555–578.
Stevens, Gillian. 1999. “A Century of U.S. Censuses and the Language Characteristics of Immigrants.” Demography 36(August): 387–397.
Stevens, Gillian and Nancy Garrett. 1997. “Migrants and the Linguistic Ecology of New Jersey.” Pp. 395–422 in T. Espenshade (ed.), Keys to Successful Immigration:
Implications of the New Jersey Experience. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Swicegood, Gray, Gillian Stevens, and Allan Parnell. 1995. “Demography and Ethnic Conflict.” Research in Human Social Conflict 1: 1–23.
Stevens, Gillian. 1994. “Immigration, Emigration, Language Acquisition, and the English Language Proficiency of Immigrants in the U.S.” Pp. 163–186 in B. Edmonston and J. Passel (eds.), Immigration and Ethnicity: The Integration of America’s Newest Arrivals. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.
Table 2 reprinted in National Research Council, 1997. The New Americans:
Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, DC:
National Academy Press.
Liao, Tim and Gillian Stevens. 1994. “Spouses, Homogamy, and Social Networks.”
Social Forces 73(December): 693–708.
Parnell, Allan M., Gray Swicegood, and Gillian Stevens. 1994. “Nonmarital Pregnancy and Nuptiality in the United States.” Social Forces 73(September): 263–288.
Stevens, Gillian. 1992. “The Social and Demographic Context of Language Use in the United States.” American Sociological Review 57(April): 171–185.
Stevens, Gillian. 1992. “Mortality and Age-Specific Patterns of Marriage.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15(March): 112–115.
Stevens, Gillian. 1991. “Propinquity and Educational Homogamy.” Sociological Forum 6(December): 715–726.
Stevens, Gillian, Dawn Owens, and Eric C. Schaefer. 1990. “Physical Attractiveness and Education in Marriage Choices.” Social Psychology Quarterly 53(March): 62–70.
Stevens, Gillian and Robert Schoen. 1988. “Linguistic Intermarriage in the United States.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 50(February): 267–279.
Stevens, Gillian. 1987. “A Note on Journal Stature and Citation Impact.” Social Science Quarterly 68(June): 418–419.
Stevens, Gillian and Gray Swicegood. 1987. “The Linguistic Context of Ethnic Endogamy.” American Sociological Review 52(February): 73–82.
Jin, Ki-nam and Gillian Stevens. 1987. “Occupational Sex Segregation in Korea: 1960–
1980.” Sociology and Social Research 71(January): 99–103.
Stevens, Gillian and Elizabeth Hoisington. 1987. “Occupational Prestige and the 1980 U.S. Labor Force. Social Science Research 16(March): 74-105.
Stevens, Gillian. 1986. “Sex Differences in Language Shift in the United States.”
Sociology and Social Research 71:31–36.
Stevens, Gillian. 1986. Sex-Differentiated Patterns of Intergenerational Occupational Mobility. Journal of Marriage and the Family 153-63.
Stevens, Gillian and Joo Hyun Cho. 1985. “Socioeconomic Indexes and the New 1980 Census Occupational Classification Scheme.” Social Science Research 14(June):
142–168.
Appendix partially reprinted in Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement. (5th revised edition) by D.C. Miller. Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications (1996).
Appendix data added to National Survey of Families and Households data file records produced by Center of Demography & Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison and disseminated by ICPSR.
Stevens, Gillian. 1985. “Nativity, Intermarriage, and Mother-Tongue Shift.” American Sociological Review 50 (February): 74-83.
Featherman, David L. and Gillian Stevens. 1982. “A Revised Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status: Application in Analysis of Sex Differences in Attainment.” Pp.
141–181 in R. M. Hauser, D. Mechanic, A. O. Haller, and T. S. Hauser (eds.), Social Structure and Behavior: Essays in Honor of William Hamilton Sewell. New York:
Academic Press.
Reprinted in M. Powers (ed.), 1982, Measures of Socioeconomic Status: Current Issues. AAAS Selected Symposia Series. New York: Westview Press.
Stevens, Gillian and David L. Featherman. 1981. “A Revised Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status.” Social Science Research 10(December): 364–393.
Appendix partially reprinted in H. Choldin, 1985, Cities and Suburbs: An Introduction to Urban Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Stevens, Gillian. 1981. “Social Mobility and Fertility: Two Effects in One.” American Sociological Review 46(October): 573–585.
Reprinted in J. Kasarda, J.O.G. Billy, and K.B. West, 1986, Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Response to Social Mobility and Educational Opportunity.
New York: Academic Press.
Stevens, Gillian and Monica Boyd. 1980. “The Importance of Mother: Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility of Women.” Social Forces 59(September): 186–199.
Honorable Mention, Marion Porter Prize, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), Halifax, Canada 1981.
Encyclopedia Articles
Parnell, Allan and Gillian Stevens. 2014. “Diversity.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism edited by J. Stone, R. Dennis, P. Rizova, A.
Smith, and X. Hou. Blackwell Publishing.
Stevens, Gillian and Dave Odynak. 2014. “The Alberta Survey.” In Encyclopedia of the Quality of Life and Well-being Research edited by Alex C. Michalos. Springer.
Stevens, Gillian. 2011. “Diversity.” The Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by G. Ritzer and M. Ryan. Blackwell Publishing.
Stevens, Gillian. 2009. “Migration, Adulthood.” Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. Gale Group Inc.
Stevens, Gillian and Heather Downs. 2006. “diversity.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by G. Ritzer. Blackwell Publishing. (pp. 1197–1199)
Stevens, Gillian and Jennifer Ortman. 2006. “immigration and language.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by G. Ritzer. Blackwell Publishing. (pp. 2258–
2262).
Reprinted in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism edited by J. Stone, R. Dennis, P. Rizova, A. Smith, and X. Hou. Blackwell Publishing.
Stevens, Gillian. 2004. “Demographic Methods.” Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, edited by M. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman, and T. F. Liao. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications. (10 pp.)
Stevens, Gillian. 2004. “Life Tables.” Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, edited by M. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman, and T. F. Liao. Thousand Oaks, Sage
Publications. Vol. 2, pp. 570–572.
Stevens, Gillian. 2004. “Population Pyramids.” Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, edited by M. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman, and T. F. Liao. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications. Vol. 2, pp. 835–836.
Book Reviews
Marriage Vows and Racial Choices by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos. [New York: Russell Sage Foundation.] Canadian Studies in Population 45: 1-2. (2018).
Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Mobility in the U.S. by Donald J. Bogue, Gregory Liegel, and Michael Kozloski. [Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA, USA. 2009, Edward Elgar Publishing Co.] Contemporary Sociology. 40(2): 156-157.
(2011).
Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America by Richard D. Alba. [New Haven:
Yale University Press. 1990.] Social Forces 70 (September): 277–279.
Israel’s Changing Society. Population, Ethnicity, and Development by Calvin
Goldscheider. [Boulder, CO: Westview Press.] Contemporary Sociology 26: 609.
Immigration, Language, and Ethnicity: Canada and the United States edited by Barry R.
Chiswick. [Washington DC: The AEI Press.] Contemporary Sociology 23: 273–274.
Population and Society: A Sociological Perspective by Carl F. Grindstaff. [West Hanover, MA: Christopher Publishing House. 1981.] Contemporary Sociology 12:
182–183.
MAJOR RESEARCH REPORTS
Stevens, Gillian. Alberta Speaks: 2017. Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, January 19, 2017.
Stevens, Gillian. 2015. Métis Settlements Census 2015: Demographic Overview and Membership Status. Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, June 15, 2015.
Stevens, Gillian and Dave Odynak. 2015. Evaluation of the Capital Region Population and Employment Projections. Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, February 2015.
Stevens, Gillian. 2012. Highlights of the 2012 Métis Settlements General Census.
Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta. October, 2012.
Stevens, Gillian. 2012. Post-Enumeration Evaluation of the 2012 Métis Settlements Census, 2012. Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta. August, 2012.
Stevens, Gillian. 2012. Evaluation of the Transportation and Parking Survey Fielded by the Travel Coalition in November, 2011. Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta. March 4, 2012.
Stevens, Gillian. 2012. Métis Settlements Census 2012: Demographic Overview and Membership Status. Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, June 15, 2012.
Stevens, Gillian, Dave Odynak, Jazz Brazil and Tim Hartnagel. 2011. Demographic Trends and Crime in the Province of Alberta. Centre for Criminology and Justice Research, Mount Royal University. (70 pp.)
Stevens, Gillian. 2000. “An Overview of the Linguistic Demography of the United States.” National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda MD.
41 pp.
Stevens, Gillian and Susan Gonzo. 1999. “The 1998 Survey of Incoming UIUC
Freshmen: Race/Ethnicity and Language.” The Office of the Provost, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 27 pp.
Stevens, Gillian. 1993. The Linguistic Adaptation of U.S. Immigrants and their Children.
Washington, DC: National Science Foundation. 143 pp.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
"Maintaining One Language while Learning Another: Moroccan Children in Belgium."
(with Graziela DeKeyser). Presented at the International Conference on Language and Social Psychology. Edmonton, Canada, June 2018.
"Refugees in Canada: Negotiating Responsibilities and Expectations." Presented at Canada Day, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. November 2017.
“English Proficiency, Linguistic Distance and Age at Migration among Asian Immigrants in the United States” (with Lei Chai). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Population Association of America. Chicago, USA, April 2017.
“Intercountry Adoption and the Formation of Interracial Families” (with Hiromi Ishizawa and Kazuyo Kubo.) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle WA, August 2016.
“English Acquisition among Asian Migrants in the United States.” Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, June 2016.
“A Comparative View of Ethnic Endogamy and Cross-Nativity Marriages in the United States.” FaPos, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, February 2015.
"Ethnic Endogamy in Cross-Nativity Marriages." Presented at the European Population Conference. Budapest, Hungary, June 2014.
“Measuring National Identity: The Canadian Case.” KU Leuven, Institute for Media Studies (IMS) and Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC). KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 2014.
“Trajectories of English Language Acquisition among Foreign-born Children in Spanish- Language Homes.” FaPos, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, February 2014.
“Trajectories of English Language Acquisition among Foreign-born Children in Spanish- Language Homes.” Migration Working Group, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Urbana, IL, October 2013.
“The Rise of Canadian Identity in Canada's Censuses, 1981-2006.” Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America. New Orleans LA.
April 2013.
“Trajectories of English Language Acquisition among Foreign-born Children in Spanish- Language Homes.” Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Urbana, IL, November 2013.
“How Details of Survey Methodology and the Marketing of Beer Created Millions of Canadians in Canada’s Censuses, 1981 to 2006”. Presented at the School of Business, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. November 2012.
Discussant: “Relationship Formation” Committee on Family Research, International Sociology Association. KU-Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. September 2012.
“‘I am Canadian’: The Rise of Canadian Identity in Canada's Censuses, 1981-2006.”
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Consumer Association.
Vancouver, BC October 12-16, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “Multilingual America.” School of Business, University of Wisconsin.
Madison, WI. April 22, 2011.
Invited Participant. “Developing a Future Research Agenda for English Language Learners.” National Academy of Sciences. Washington, DC. April 4, 2011.
“Race and Ethnicity in the Censuses of Australia, Canada, and the United States:
Parallels, Paradoxes, and Progressions” (with H. Ishizawa and D. Grbic). Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings. Vancouver, BC. August 4, 2010.
Invited Speaker, “The 2010 Decennial Census and the American Community Survey and Their Impact on Legal Services Advocacy.” 2010 Litigation and Advocacy Directors Conference. Chicago, IL. June 2010.
Invited Speaker, “Language and Ethnicity in the 2010 Census Marketing Campaign.”
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, DC. December 2009.
Invited Speaker, “The Language Research Program in the U.S. Census Bureau.” U.S.
Bureau of the Census. Washington, DC. April 2009.
Invited Speaker, “Immigration and Multi-lingual America.” Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 2009.
Invited Speaker, “Menstruation and School Attendance among Ghanaian Teenagers: A Social Demographic Perspective.” University of Oxford. Oxford, UK. January 2009.
Session Organizer, “International Migration.” Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans. April 2008.
Invited Speaker, “Is Younger Quicker? Age at Migration and English Acquisition among Immigrant Children.” University of California, Irvine, CA. April 2008.
Invited Speaker, “Trajectories of English Acquisition among Children in Spanish-
Language Households,” State University of New York, Albany, NY. February 2008.
Invited Speaker, “Trajectories of English Acquisition among Immigrant Children.”
Columbia University, New York, NY. January 2008.
Keynote Speaker, “The Three Ms of Transnational Marriage: Marriage Agencies, the Military, and Migration.” Women’s Studies Week, Caldwell College, New Jersey.
October, 2007.
Invited panelist, “Marriage Patterns among Immigrants.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Montreal Canada. August 2006.
Invited panelist, “Immigrant Intermarriage and Incorporation.” Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America. Los Angeles CA. March 2006.
“Trajectories of English Language Acquisition among Spanish Speaking Children in the United States.” Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles CA. March 2006.
Session Discussant, “Immigrant Adaptation,” the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America. Los Angeles CA. March 2006.
Invited Panelist. “Citizenship and English Acquisition for the Illinois New Americans Policy Council.” The State of Illinois and the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Chicago IL. February 2006.
Invited presentations:
American Association for Applied Linguistics, Annual Meetings American Association for Public Opinion Research, Annual Meetings American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings
American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Legal Policy
Arbeitsstell Interkulturell Konflikte und Gesellschaftliche Integration, Berlin Germany
Brown University, Providence, RI
Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Columbia University, New York, NY Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Washington, DC National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, Washington DC
National Science Foundation, Woods Hole, MA
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, NY Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ SUNY – Albany, Albany, NY University of California, Irvine, CA University of California, San Diego, CA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada University of Western Ontario, London, Canada University of Wisconsin, Madison
Urban Institute, Washington, DC U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught:
Audience Analysis (senior undergraduate)
Demographic Methods (undergraduate & graduate) Demography Seminar (graduate)
Ethnicity in America (undergraduate honors seminar) Immigration and Immigrants in the U.S. (undergraduate) Introduction to Population Studies (undergraduate) Introduction to Social Statistics (undergraduate)
Introduction to Sociological Methodology (undergraduate) Introduction to Sociology (undergraduate)
Introduction to Survey Research (undergraduate) Population Problems (undergraduate)
Professionalization Seminar (graduate) Sociology of Language (graduate)
Sociology of Mortality and Morbidity (graduate) Quantitative Analysis (graduate)
Additional Teaching Interests:
Immigration
Sociology of Language
DIRECTOR/CHAIR OF DISSERTATIONS AND THESES
(WITH GRADUATE’S FIRST PROFESSIONAL POSITION IN BRACKETS)
Kubo, Kazuyo. 2009. Race in the Construction of Families: The Case of International Adoption.
Visiting Professor, Redlands University, California.
McKillip, Mary M. 2009. The Context of Changing Schools: A Life Course Perspective on Elementary School Mobility. (American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Fellowship, AY 2008-09.)
Assistant Research Scientist, College Board, Newton PA, August 2009.
Ortman, Jennifer. 2008. Shift Happens, but When? The Timing of Language Shift in Immigrant Generations.
Demographic Analyst, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington DC, January 2009.
Ishizawa, Hiromi. 2006. Diversity and Dynamics in Minority Language Communities:
Changes over Time and Space.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Minnesota Population Research Center, Minneapolis, MN 2006-08;
Assistant Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC, August, 2008.
Downs, Heather. 2006. Putting the Pieces Together. Scrapbooking and the Lives of Women.
Assistant Professor, Jacksonville University, FL, Fall 2009
Escandell, Xavier. 2005. The Effects of Context on Europeans’ Attitudes Towards Immigrants.
Visiting Research Fellowship (predoctoral), Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2003–04.
Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa, 2005.
Wu, Maryalice. 2004. The Use of Technology by Midwives in Free-Standing Birth Clinics and Hospitals.
Computer Instruction Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ishizawa, Hiromi. 2003. “Minority Language Use among Grandchildren in Multigenerational Households.” (MA Committee Chair).
Calderon, Alvin Sayoc. 1999. Race, Subjectively-Assessed Health and Visits to Doctors.
Physician, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, 2000.
Garrett, Nancy A. 1997. The Effect of Community Context on Intergenerational Spanish Maintenance and English Proficiency among Latina and Latino Children.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Administration (outside of Sociology Departments and the Population Research Laboratory)
American Sociological Association,
O.D. Duncan Award Committee (1992–1994, chair 1994–1995).
University of Alberta —
Chairs’ Council (2015-2016)
Council of Deans, Department Heads and Directors (2009–present).
Research Ethics Board (Board 2) (2011– 2014) Re-envisioning the PRL (Co-chair, 2017) University of Alberta, Faculty of Arts —
Research Committee (2010–present) Dean’s Search Committee (2010–11)
McCalla Fellowship Award Committee (2010–11) Roger S. Smith Award Committee (2011)
Committee to Review Department Heads and Chairs (2010–11).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—
Center for Advanced Study: Interdisciplinary Initiative on Immigration Steering Committee (2006–2010)
Council on Undergraduate Education (1992–95)
Graduate College Behavioral and Social Sciences Area Subcommittee (1994–96) Instructional Awards Committee (1992–1993)
Illinois Articulation Initiative Baccalaureate Panel on Sociology (1999–2001) Migration Reading Group, Co-Director (2006–2007)
Task Force on Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (chair 1993–95) Women in International Development Council (1990–93)
Women’s Studies General Council (1992–2002).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Communications — College Executive Committee (2004–2005)
Promotion and Tenure Committee (2001–2002, 2004–2005).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences — Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Board (1991–93, chair 1993–94)
Ad-hoc Committee to Review the Head of the Department of Sociology (1992) Advisory Committee for Computing Research and Education in the Social
Sciences (2001–2002).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Office of the Provost —
Designed, fielded, analyzed, and reported the results of a survey of 6,000 first- year UIUC students, Summer 1998.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC —
Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations (2006–2012) Scientific Advisory Committee (2010–present).
Consultant —
Institute for Public Policy, Pepperdine University, CA National Immigration Forum, Washington DC
Department of Welfare, State of Illinois
Department of Labor, U.S. Federal Government.
Consulting Editor —
American Journal of Sociology (1993–1995).
Council Member —
Canadian Population Society (2013-2015).
External Examiner PhD Candidates—
Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Vic, Australia.
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
External Reviewer of Faculty Candidates for Promotion — McGill University, Montreal, Canada
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
University of Texas, Austin, TX Western University, London, Canada Public Service —
Interviews for Washington Post, Voice of America, National Geographic, National Public Radio, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Harper’s Index, The Economist, The Current (CBC).
Reviewer —
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Academic Journals: American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review;
Canadian Journal of Sociology; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;
Demography; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Youth and Adolescence; Gender and Society; Gerontology-Social Sciences; Historical Methods; International
Migration; International Migration Review; Journal of Marriage and the Family;
National Academy of Science; National Research Council; National Science Foundation (Sociology & Linguistics); National Institutes of Health (NICHD);
Population and Development Review; Population Research and Policy Review;
Russell Sage Foundation; Social Biology; Social Forces; Social Science Quarterly;
Social Science Research; Sociological Forum; Sociological Methodology;
Sociological Quarterly; Sociology of Education.
University of Illinois Research Board Student Paper Award Committee Member
Canadian Population Society, Spring 2015.
