Population and Society An Introduction to Demography

Authors

• Dudley L. Poston Jr., Texas A & M University

  Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Sociology, held positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University and, most recently, Texas A & M University. Here, he held the Abell Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts. He was also an adjunct professor at three universities in China. He has coauthored or edited twnety-four books and has authored or coauthored more than 400 journal articles, book chapters and opinion pieces on various sociological and demographic topics.

• Teresa A. Sullivan, University of Virginia

  Teresa A. Sullivan taught demography courses at the University of Chicago, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia. She was President of the University of Virginia, Provost of the University of Michigan, and Vice President and Graduate Dean at the University of Texas-Austin. She chaired the National Academies panel on the accuracy of the 2020 Census, publishing a separate book on the 2020 Census. Her demographic specialty is labor force and related issues, and she has applied her knowledge in books analyzing consumer bankruptcy, work and labor force, and underemployment.