Keywords

  • community
  • demography
  • development
  • eastern europe
  • labor markets
  • migration
  • migration and population redistribution
  • post-socialism
  • rural development
  • rural policy
  • social demography
  • sociology
  • urbanization

Brown, David L

Professor
My scholarship is motivated by an interest in explaining the determinants of spatial inequality in more developed nations. In particular, I am interested in how processes of uneven national development shape opportunity structures and life chances of people living in various types of areas. Space and locality are organizing principles in my work, and I view them as contingent social structures which effect social behavior, modifying overall social relationships. My work is focused in the U.S., Western Europe, and in Central and Eastern Europe.

research

research and scholarship focus

My projects all consider some aspect or another of spatial inequality. My current projects include: (a) social integration among older in-migrants to rural retirement destinations in the U.S. (b) the political economy of rural and regional development in ex-socialist eastern Europe, (c) commuting behavior among rural in-migrants in England, the United States and Hungary,and (d) the process through which areas become destinations for older in-migrants and through which they maintain that status over time.

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research areas

international geographic focus

domestic geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

member of advisory group

teaching

teaching focus

My teaching focuses on social demography and community sociology. Similar to my research program, my teaching considers these two areas separately, but is also concerned with the intersection of demographic processes and local social organization. I teach at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In the demographic realm,I teach the introduction to social demography as well as an advanced undergraduate/graduate course on internal and international migration. In the realm of community sociology, I teach a course focused on rural areas in metropolitan societies, and a graduate seminar on community sociology.

service

outreach focus

I am co-director of the Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute. This applied research/extension institute seeks to produce and disseminate evidence-based information on rural devleopment in order to enhance the capacity of local leaders to plan for and manage social, institutional, and economic change in rural communities in upstate New York and in the US more generally.

background

educational background

  • B.A., Miami Univ (Ohio), 1967
  • M.A., Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969
  • Ph.D., Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Brown, David L. "Rural America as Seen Through a Social-Demographic Lens." Ch. 13 in Junjie Wu, Paul Barkley and Bruce Weber (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordecht, Netherlands: Springer. 2007
  • Glasgow, Nina and David Brown. Retirement Migration and the Road to Rural American. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 2007
  • Kandel, William and David L. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 2006
  • Brown, David L. and William Kandel. "Rural America Through a Demographic Lens. " Ch. 1 in William Kandel and David L. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordecht, Netherlands: Springer. 2006
  • Glasgow, N. and D.L. Brown. "Social integration Among Older In-Migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties: Establishing New Ties. Ch. 8 in W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.) Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht: Springer. 2006
  • Brown, David L., Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Laszlo Kulcsar, and Csilla Obodavics. "Post-Socialist Restructuring and Population Redistribution in Hungary." Rural Sociology, Vol. 70, No.3: 336-359. 2005
  • Brown, David L. "Post-Socialist Transformation at the Rural Periphery. " Pp. 67-75 in Miecyslaw Adamowicz (ed.), Agrarian Issues in Poland and in the World. Warsaw, Poland: Warsaw Agricultural University Press. 2005
  • Brown, David L., John Cromartie, Laszlo Kulcsar. "Micropolitan Areas and the Measurement of American Urbanization." Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 23, No. 3. 2004
  • Brown, David L. and Kai Schafft, "Social Exclusion in Rural Areas of East-Central Europe During Post-Socialism. " Eastern European Countryside, Vol. 9: 27-45. 2003
  • Schafft, Kai and David L. Brown. "Social Capital, Social Networks and Social Power." Social Epistemology, Vol. 17, No. 4: 329-342. 2003
  • Brown, David L. and Louis E. Swanson (eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2003
  • Brown, David L. and John Cromartie. "The Nature of Rurality in Post Industrial Society." Pp. 269-284 in Tony Champion and Graeme Hugo (eds.), New Forms of Urbanization. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2003
  • Brown, David L. and Louis E. Swanson, "Rural America Enters the New Millennium. " Pp. 1-15 inDavid L. Brown and Louis W. Swanson (eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2003
  • Swanson, Louis E. and David Brown. "Challenges Become Opportunities: Trends and Policies Shaping the Rural Future. " Pp. 347-406 in David Brown and Louis Swanson (eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2003
  • Brown, David L. "Migration and Community: Social Networks in a Multilevel World. " Rural Sociology, Vol. 67, No. 1:1-23. 2002
  • Brown, David L. and Kai Schafft. "Population Deconcentration in Hungary During the Post-Socialist Transformation " Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 18:233-244. 2002
  • Brown, David L. and Laszlo Kulcsar. "Household Economic Behavior in Post-Socialist Rural Hungary. " Rural Sociology, Vol. 66, No. 2: 157-180. 2001
  • Rayer, Stefan and David L. Brown. "Geographic Diversity of Intercounty Migration in the United States 1980-95. " Population Research and Policy Review 20:229-252. 2001
  • Schafft, Kai A. and David L. Brown. "Social Capital and Grassroots Development: Roma Self-Governance in Hungary. " Social Problems, Vol. 47, No. 2: 201-219. 2000
  • Brown, David L. and Ana Bandlerova. "Research Needs for Rural Development in Central and Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Century. " Eastern European Countryside, Vol. 6.: 149-159 2000
  • Brown, David L. and Laszlo Kulcsar. "Rural Families and Rural Development in Central and Eastern Europe. " Eastern European Countryside, Vol. 6: 5-23 2000
  • Brown, David L. and Anna Bandlerova (eds.), Rural Development in Central and Eastern Europe. Nitra: Slovak Agricultural University. 2000

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Keywords: community, demography, development, eastern europe, labor markets, migration, migration and population redistribution, post-socialism, rural development, rural policy, social demography, sociology, urbanization