Dennis P. Hogan Phone: (401) 863-6181
Office: Cabinet 204
email: Dennis_Hogan@brown.eduTitle: Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies
Departmental Affiliation(s): Sociology
Background Info:
Dennis Hogan, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, joined the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University in 1995 as its director, and served in that capacity until 2000. He holds an endowed professorship as the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies at Brown.
Dr. Hogan received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. He has taught at both the University of Chicago, where he acted as associate director of the Population Research Center, and Pennsylvania State University, where he served as director of the Population Research Institute.
Research Interests:
Interrelationships of the family lives of individuals and their social environments; measurement of disability; family consequences of disability; transition to adulthood; family and community factors in fertility and family planning in developing nations
Current Research:
Dennis Hogan is working on research in the field of child disability in collaboration with Peter Brandon (Carleton College), Michael Msall, MD (University of Chicago), and Mary Daly (Queens College, Belfast). This research examines the health and family situations of American children with disabilities, parents’ access to childcare for school-age children with disabilities, and the impact of children’s disabilities on parents, brothers and sisters, and families. He currently is developing a project to examine how the birth of children, particularly children with disabilities, affect the subsequent family transitions, child care decisions and employment patterns of mothers in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
With Kevin Leicht (University of Iowa), Dr. Hogan is investigating the impact of alternative state strategies for economic development on youth-to-adult transitions, including family formation and employment, and subsequent well-being.
Dr. Hogan also is involved in a major ongoing project (directed by David Lindstrom) for demographic training and research on reproductive health in Ethiopia. This is done in partnership with social scientists, medical doctors and experts in public health from Addis Ababa University and Jimma University. Project website: The Partnership in Improving Reproductive Health-The Brown University and Ethiopia Partnership
Selected Publications:
2007 "Family Developmental Risk Factors among Adolescents with Disabilities and Children of Parents with Disabilities." Dennis P. Hogan, Carrie A. Shandra, Michael E. Msall. Journal of Adolescence 30 (6) (2007): 1001-1019.2008 “Do Disabilities Hasten Ex-TANF Recipients Returns to Welfare?” Brandon, Peter D., Sandra Hofferth, and Dennis P. Hogan. Social Science Research 37(2) (2008): 530-543.
2008 "Developmental Epidemiology of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability.” Dennis P. Hogan, Michael E. Msall, Julia Ann Drew. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation 33 (2008): 233-245.
2008 Shandra, Carrie, Dennis Hogan. “School-to-Work Program Participation and the Post-High School Employment of Young Adults with Disabilities.” Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation 29 (2008): in press.
2009 Shandra, Carrie, Carrie Spearin, Dennis Hogan. "Parenting a Child with a Disability: An Examination of Resident and Nonresident Fathers." Journal of Population Research (2009): in press
