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Curriculum Vita
Gretchen A. Condran
Department of Sociology
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215 204-1440
EDUCATION:
Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA
Sociology B.A. 1965
University of Wisconsin, Madison WS
Sociology M.S. 1969
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Demography Ph.D. 1974
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:
Taste Formation Variables and the Economics of Fertility, 1974, Richard A. Easterlin, Advisor
POSITIONS HELD:
1994- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University.
1989-1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University.
1987-1989 Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. Funding from The National Institute on Aging and The National Library of Medicine.
1985-1987 Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Institute on Aging.
1984-1985 Managing Editor, Demography.
1979-1984 Research Associate, Philadelphia Social History Project, University of Pennsylvania.
1977-1979 Visiting Lecturer, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
1974-1977 Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology and Social Sciences, Cook College, Rutgers University.
1965-1967 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin.
PUBLICATIONS:
Journal Articles
Klugman, Joshua, Gretchen Condran, and Matt Wray. “The Role of Medico-Legal Systems in Producing Geographic Variation in Suicide Rates.” Social Science Quarterly 94:2 (June 2013)462-489.
Gretchen A. Condran and Jennifer Murphy, “Defining and Managing Infant Mortality: a Case Study of Philadelphia, 1870 to 1920.” Social Science History 32:4 (Winter 2008) 473-513.
Gretchen A. Condran. “The Elusive Role of Scientific Medicine in Mortality Decline: Diphtheria in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Philadelphia” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63:4 (October 2008) 484-522.
Gretchen A. Condran, “Commentary: History in the Search of Policy,” International Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 34:3 (June 2005) 525-526.
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Gretchen A. Condran and Harold R. Lentzner, “Early Death: Mortality among Young Children in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXIV: 3 (Winter 2004) 315-354.
Gretchen A. Condran and Frank F. Furstenberg, "Evolution du Bien-etre des Enfants et Transformations de la Famille Americaine," Population 6 (1994) 1613-1638.
Gretchen A. Condran, "What Fatal Years Tells Us That We Did Not Already Know." The Bulletin of the History of Medicine Spring 68:1 (Spring 1994) 95-104.
Christine L. Himes, Samuel H. Preston, and Gretchen A. Condran, “A Relational Model of Mortality at Older Ages in Low Mortality Countries." Population Studies 48 (1994) 269-291.
Gretchen A. Condran and Ellen A. Kramarow, "Child Mortality among Jewish Immigrants in to the United States." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 22:2 (Autumn 1991) 223-254.
Gretchen A. Condran, Christine L. Himes and Samuel H. Preston, "Old-Age Mortality Patterns in Low-Mortality Countries: An Evaluation of Population and Death Data at Advanced Ages, 1950 to the Present." Population Bulletin of the United Nations, 31 (1991) 23-60.
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Gretchen A. Condran, "Family Change and Adolescent Well-being," pages 117-156 in Andrew Cherlin, ed., The Changing American Family and Public Policy (Washington D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1988) 117-155.
S. Philip Morgan, Diane N. Lye, and Gretchen A. Condran, "Sons, Daughters and Risk of Marital Disruption” American Journal of Sociology 94:1 (July 1988) 110-129.
Gretchen A. Condran, "Decline in Mortality in the United States in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," Annals de demographie historique (1988) 119-141.
Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton, and Gretchen A. Condran, "The Effect of Residential Segregation on Black Social and Economic Well-being," Social Forces 66:1 (September 1987) 29-56.
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Gretchen A. Condran, Henry Williams, and Rose A. Cheney, “The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1930: The Role of Municipal Services," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1984) 153-177. Reprinted in Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., Sickness and Health in America, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986) 422-436.
Gretchen A. Condran, "An Evaluation of Estimates of Underenumeration in the Census and the Age Pattern of Mortality, Philadelphia, 1880," Demography 21:1 (February 1984) 53-70.
Eileen M. Crimmins and Gretchen A. Condran, "Mortality Variation Among U.S. Cities in 1900: A Two-Level Explanation by Cause of Death and Underlying Factors” Social Science History 7:1 (Winter 1983) 31-59.
Gretchen A. Condran and Rose A. Cheney, "Mortality Trends in Philadelphia: Age-and Cause-Specific Death Rates, 1870-1930," Demography, 19:97-123, 1982.
Gretchen A. Condran and Jeff Seaman, "Linkage of the 1880-81 Philadelphia Death Register to the 1880 Manuscript Census: Procedures and Preliminary Results," Historical Methods Newsletter 14:2 (Spring 1981) 73-84.
Jeff Seaman and Gretchen A. Condran, "Nominal Record Linkage by Machine and Hand: An Investigation of Linkage Techniques Using the Manuscript Census and Death Register, Philadelphia, 1880," 1979 Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (1981) 678-683.
Gretchen A. Condran and Eileen Crimmins, "Mortality Differential between Rural and Urban Areas of States in the Northeastern United States, 1890-1900," Journal of Historical Geography 6:2 (1980) 174-202.
Gretchen A. Condran and Eileen Crimmins, "A Description and Evaluation of Mortality Data in the Federal Census: 1850-1900," Historical Methods Newsletter, 12:1 (Winter 1979) 1-23.
Gretchen A. Condran and Eileen Crimmins-Gardner, "Public Health Measures and Mortality in U.S. Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century," Human Ecology 6:1 (March 1978).
Gretchen A. Condran, "The Demographics of Disease" in Health and Human Values. Supplement Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 22, 1988.
Richard A. Easterlin, George Alter, and Gretchen A. Condran, "Farms and Farm Families in Old and New Areas: The Northern States in 1860in Tamara K. Hareven and Maris A. Vinovskis, eds. Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978). 22-84.
Richard A. Easterlin and Gretchen A. Condran, "A Note on the Recent Fertility Swing in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, and the United States," 139-151 in Hamish Richards, ed., Population, Factor Movements and Economic Development: Studies Presented to Brinley Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976) 139-151.
Book Chapters
Gretchen A. Condran, "Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City." in David Rosner, ed. Hives of Sickness (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995) 27-41.
Gretchen A. Condran and Samuel Preston, "Child Mortality Differences, Personal Health Care Practices, and Medical Technology: United States, 1900-1930," in Lincoln C. Chen, Arthur Kleinman and Norma C. Ware, eds. Health and Social Change in International Perspective (Boston: Harvard School of Public Health, Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1994).
Other Publications
Gretchen A. Condran, "The Demographics of Disease" in Health and Human Values. Supplement Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 22, 19
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PAPERS IN PROGRESS:
“A Reassessment of the Role of Water Improvements in the Urban Mortality Decline in the United States, 1900-1930” with Chuck Galli (Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Boston, May 2014.
The Effects of ‘Improvements’ in the Water Supply on the Mortality of Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the Population Association of America. April 2004.
“Changing Patterns in Baseball Attendance in the New Era of North American Stadium Construction.” (With graduate student, Jennifer McGovern, and Kevin Delaney) Being revised for submission to Journal of Sport and Social Issues.
“Modernizing Death: A Study of the Bureaucratization of Cause-of-Death Reporting and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Philadelphia”
“The Bureaucratization of the Medical Profession, Philadelphia, 1850 to 1930.”
“Spatial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Nineteenth Century Mortality: Philadelphia, 1880.” (Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, March 2007.
Selected PRESENTations:
“A Reassessment of the Role of Water Improvements in the Urban Mortality Decline in the United States, 1900-1930” with Chuck Galli (Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Boston, March 2014.
“Tracking Cause of Death Data over Time” Robert wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, January 2011.
“Mortality Data in Historical Context: Evaluating Public Health Activities in Philadelphia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Citywide History of Public Health Course, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, February 12, 2010
“Understanding the Mortality Transition” Robert wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program University of Pennsylvania, October 2008.
“Spatial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Nineteenth Century Mortality: Philadelphia, 1880.” (Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, March 2007.
Death in the Time of Cholera: The Epidemiological and Mortality Transitions in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia” Drexel University, September 27, 2007
“The Effects of ‘Improvements’ in the Water Supply on the Mortality of Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston April 2004.
“Early Death: The Construction and Uses of the Infant Mortality Rate in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth century Philadelphia.” Paper presented at the annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, March 2001.
“‘Explaining’ the Mortality Transition: A Comparison of Disciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Demographic Past.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, March 1999.
"The Role of Medicine in Mortality Decline: The Case of Diphtheria at the End of the Nineteenth Century." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington D.C. March 27-29, 1997
"Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City. Introductory Address at the Symposium, Museum of the City of New York, September, 1995.
"Public Health and the Demographic Revolution in Philadelphia: The Case of Diphtheria in the 1890s (With Ed Morman). Paper presented at the meetings of the American Association for the History of Medicine. May 1987.
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"Changing Impact of Ethnicity, Class, and Segregation on Mortality: Philadelphia, 1880 and 1930," paper presented at the meetings of American Statistical Association, Philadelphia August, 1984.
"The Study of the Mortality of Ethnic Populations in Philadelphia, 1880 to 1980," IASSIST meetings, Philadelphia, May, 1983.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Sociological Association
Population Association of America
Social Science History Association
TEACHING:
Courses taught.
Undergraduate
Sociology 3521—International Health
Soc 3240 – Demography: Global Health
Soc C067 – Social Statistics
Soc 252 – Health and Disease in American Society
Soc 2552-Health and Disease in American Society
Soc 0825- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Graduate
Soc 850 – Department Seminar in Contemporary Institutions
Soc 817 – The Sociology of Health and Disease
Soc 452 – Sociology of Medicine
Soc 8011 – Logic of Inquiry
Soc 890 – Research Seminar
Soc 694 – Departmental Seminar
Soc 8391-Medical Sociology
Soc 9382-Independent Study
Doctoral Committees
Chair of the following PhD committees:
Lin Zhu (to be conferred Feb 2017
Chuch Galli
Danielle Johnson (conferred 2016)
Joanna Cohen (conferred 2013)
Debra Tupe (conferred 2010)
Jennifer Murphy (conferred 2008)
Rosemary Feeley (conferred 2008)
Wendy Crawford (conferred 2001)
Tae Ok Kauh (conferred 1995)
Louise Duhamel (conferred 1994)
Member of the following PhD committees:
James Boukalik
Linda Laughlin (conferred 2006)
Lisa Bond (conferred 2003)
Kelly Nelson (conferred 1997)
Graduate Student Advisor
Chuch Galli
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Chair Local Arrangements, Annual meeting of the Population Association of America 2005
Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Committee, Eastern Sociological Association, 2003
Managing Editor, Demography, 1984-85.
Discussant for session: Immigrant Adaptation and Health Outcomes
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, 2007.
Review of articles for the following journals:
Plos
American Sociological Review
Demography
American Journal of Public Health
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Social Science History
American Historical Review
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Review grant proposal NSF 2011
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SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Representative Faculty Senate 2006-2008, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013.
Educational Planning and Policy Committee, 2006
Development of Quantitative Literacy Course-General Education 2006-2007.
Core Subcommittee on Humanities and the Social Sciences- 2002
Educational Planning and Policy Committee. 2001-2002
Committee on the Status of Women- 1992-1994
Committee on Core Math Requirements- 1989-1990.
Development of the Professionalism course for first and second year medical students. 2006-2008.
SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE
Committee on Instruction-2011- present, chair 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015-2016
Committee on Instruction-2002-2005. chair– 2004/2005.
Committee on Instruction— 1997- 2001, chair— 1998/1999.
Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate Committee— 1994- 1995.
Ad hoc committee on Batchelor of Liberal Arts Program, 2013-14
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT
Three Year review Committee, Lu Zhang 2013-2014
Graduate Committee 2013-present
Petitions Committee 2012-2013
Graduate Committee 2011-2012
Graduate Admissions committee 2010-2011
Tenure review committees: M. Wray (2010)
Co-chair, department colloquium committee 2009-20010
Undergraduate Chair- 2002-2007
Tenure review committees: K. Goyette (2007)
Director of Sociology Major Health Track, 2002-2005
Developed the Health Track in the Sociology major, 2002
Member, Faculty Search Committee, 2001, 2007
Academic Advisor 1998-2007
Undergraduate Committee, 1997-2007
Executive Committee,1991-1992, 1997-1998, 2001-2007, 2009/2010
Ad Hoc Committee on the Graduate Curriculum 1990.
Petitions Committee 1989/1990.
Qualifying Examination Committee, 1990 1994 and 1998
Ad Hoc Committee to Review Graduate Theory/Methods Courses, 1991
Committee on Graduate Education— 1992-1997
Qualifying Paper Committee- chair, 1999/2000
Preliminary Examination Committees (Medical, Family, Urban, Gender)
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