Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Contact Me

ewf@umn.edu
612-624-7602

Sociology .
1156 Social Science Building
267 19th Ave S

Affiliations

• Sociology
• Graduate School: Minnesota Population Center

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• B.A.: Sociology, New York University, 2006.
• M.A.: Philosophy, New York University, 2007.
• Ph.D.: Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014.

Curriculum Vitae

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar: 2014 - 2016

Outreach

• Public science writing for Edge.org: Essays in response to the Edge.org Annual Question: "Linking the Levels of Human Variation"; "Length-Biased Sampling", 2016 - 2017

Publications

• "Mortality Crossovers from Dynamic Subpopulation Reordering," with Felix Elwert. 2016. Pp. 177-199 in Dynamic Demographic Analysis, edited by Robert Schoen. NY: Springer.
• "Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model." 2014. Demography 51(1):51-71.
• "Mortality Deceleration is Not Informative of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Open Groups." 2013. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 11:15-36.

Awards

• Kathryn DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year Award, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
• Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award, Social Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
• Clifford Clogg Award, American Sociological Association, Methodology Section, 2012
• Gunther Beyer Award, European Association for Population Studies, 2010
• Poster Award, Population Association of America, 2016,2013,2010,2009
• Fellowships and Traineeships: NICHD (2013-2014); Institute for Research on Poverty (summer 2013; 2012-2013, declined); Ford Foundation (2012-2013); National Science Foundation (2009-2012); University Prize Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007-2009); Richard A. and Jeanette L. Hoffman Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006-2007), 2006 - 2014