BIOGRAPHY
Hideki Morooka is originally from Japan but has lived and studied in the United States since his sophomore year in high school. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), where he received the C.G.S. in Demography and the M.S. in Biometry and Statistics. He received the B.S. in Mathematics from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His expertise is in the area of immigration. Specifically, his research projects include the effect of immigrant generation on health and occupational disparities among Asian Americans, residential segregation, socio-economic determinants of migration within China as well as from China to various international destinations, migration networks and destination choices, remittances, and the development of migrant-sending communities. |
TEACHING COURSES
SOCI 331-Social Statistics SOCI 333-Introduction to SPSS SOCI 430-Demography SOCI 503-Social Statistics SOCI 505-Applied Multivariate Statistics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Immigration Demography Race and Ethnicity Health |