Douglas L. Anderton is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, a professor of sociology, Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and was recently elected to the Sociological Research Association. His research emphasizes quantitative-historical analysis of population and environment interactions. He is the author of over fifty journal articles and has co-authored several books, including: Demography: Study of Human Populations (2007), Population of the United States (1998), Fertility on the Frontier (1993) and an edited series, Readings in Population Research Methodology (1997). He is currently editor of the journal Social Science History. His most recent research projects include a study of the Grammars of Death (NIH) and changing precision in death classification over the mortality transition in emerging industria communities in nineteenth-century New England, and Decision-Making for Emergent Technologies (NSF-Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing), examining the influences on public reaction in cases of extreme uncertainty.

Curriculum Vitae:

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Current Grants:
2009-12. Baystate Health Foundation. Environmental Impacts on Epigenetics: Bisphenol A and Promoter Methylation. PI. Co-investigators: Kathleen Arcaro and David Reckhow.

2009-12. Baystate Health Foundation. Analysis of SKP2 and Associated Proteins in Estrogen-Receptor Negative Breast Cancers. Co-Investigators: Christopher Otis, Kathleen Arcaro and Katerina Fagan-Solis.

2009-10. Avon Foundation. The Presence, Prevalance and Impact of Intracellular Chlamydia in Cells from Breast Milk. Co-investigators: Kathleen Arcaro and Elizabeth Stuart.

2007-10. Baystate Medical Center. Gene and Protein Expression of Paralemmin in Breast Cancer. PI: Christopher Otis. Co-Investigator: Kathleen Arcaro.

2009. Town of Amherst/Council on Aging.Survey of Amherst Senior and Midlife Population. Co-investigator: Randall Stokes.

2008-10. Department of Defense. Biomarkers for Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Increased Breast Cancer Risk. Co-PI. PI: Kathleen Arcaro.

2008-09. NSF. Characterization of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Human Breast Milk. Collaborator: Kathleen Arcaro.

2008-09. CHM/NSF. Nanoparticle Models and New Analytical Methods to Study the Bioavailability and Toxicity of Nanomaterials. Collaborator. PI: Kathleen Arcaro. Co-Investigators: Richard Vachet, Vincent Rotello, and Julian Tyson.

2007-09. Avon Foundation. Role of Pregnancy and Lactation in Inhibiting Age-Induced Promoter Hypermethylation. Collaborator. PI: Kathleen Arcaro.

2006-11. NSF. STS Component of the NSEC: Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (Nanotechnology). Investigator. PIs: Mark Tuominen and Thomas Russell.

2006-11. Social Science History Association. Editorship of Social Science History.

Recent Grants:
2004-07. NIH. Grammars of Death: Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmus to Germ Theory. Co-PI: Susan Hautaniemi Leonard. Investigators: Alan Swedlund and Myron Gutmann.

2000-06. American Sociological Association. Editorship of the Rose Series in Sociology (with Robert Zussman, Naomi Gerstel, Joya Misra, Dan Clawson and Randall Stokes, eds.).

2000-04. NSF. Wealth and Health: Nineteenth-Century Mortality in Emergent New England Mill Towns. Co-PI. PI: Alan Swedlund.

Pending Grants:
Innovations in Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Longitudinal Death Data in 19th-Century New England. NSF (UMichigan, Prime).

Biomarkers for Increased Risk and Early Signs of Breast Cancer in African American Women. NIH. Co-PI. PI: Kathleen Arcaro.

Metric-based R&D Portfolio Management in the Presence of Uncertainty. NSF. Co-investigators: Senay Solak, Anna Nagurney and Jane Fountain.

Recent Publications:
"Medication Use and Gender in Western Massachusetts: Results of a Household Survey." Health Care for Women International (in press). With C. M. Obermeyer, K. Price, M. Schulein and L. L. Sievert.

Demography: The Study of Human Population, 3rd Ed. Chicago: Waveland Press, 2007). With David Yaukey and Jennifer Lundquist.

Public Sociology: Michael Burawoy and His Critics. University of California Press, forthcoming 2006. D. Clawson, R. Zussman, M. Burawoy, J. Misra, N. Gerstel, R. Stokes and D. Anderton (eds.).

"Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 60(1):42-72, 2005. With J. K. Beemer and S. Hautaniemi Leonard.

"Grammars of Death: An Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory." Social Science History, 28(1):111-43, 2004. With Susan I. Hautaniemi.

"The Log-Linear Model." In The Handbook on Data Analysis, Alan Bryman and Melissa A. Hardy (eds.), pp. 285-306, London: Sage, 2004. With Eric Cheney.