Douglas L. Anderton Associate Dean for Research Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute

Education and Interests

(Ph.D., Utah 1983)

Historical and Mathematical Population Studies, Statistics, Environmental Health and Policy.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

• The Potential of Using Breast Milk as a Tool to Study Breast Cancer and Breast-Cancer-Risk. Kathleen Arcaro and Douglas Anderton, Future Oncology 2008 4(5):595-597.
• Neighborhood Poverty and American Indian infant death: are the effects identifiable?, P. J. Johnson, J. M. Oakes and D. L. Anderton, Annals of Epidemiology 2008 18:552-559.
• Medication Use and Gender in Western Massachusetts: Results of a Household Survey, C. M. Obermeyer, K. Price, M. Schulein, L. L. Sievert, and D. L. Anderton, Health Care for Women International (in press).
• Demography: The Study of Human Population 2nd Edition. David Yaukey, Douglas L.  Anderton and Jennifer Lundquist, Waveland Press, Chicago: IL, 2001 (3 rd Edition forthcoming 2007).
• Public Sociology: Michael Burawoy and His Critics , ed. D. Clawson, R. Zussman, M. Burawoy, J. Misra, N. Gerstel, R. Stokes, and D. Anderton, (forthcoming University of California Press, 2006).
• Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century, J. K. Beemer, D. L. Anderton and S. I. Hautaniemi, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2005 60(1):42-72.
• Grammars of Death: An Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory, Douglas L.  Anderton and Susan I Hautaniemi, Social Science History 2004 28(1):111-143 .
• The Log-Linear Model.  Douglas L.  Anderton and Eric Chaney, in The Handbook on Data Analysis , ed. Alan Bryman and Melissa A Hardy, Sage of London 2003. 
• Demographics of Dumping II: A National Environmental Equity Survey and the Distribution of Hazardous Materials Handlers, Pamela Davidson and Douglas L. Anderton, Demography , 2000 37(4):461-466.
• Mill Town Mortality: Consequences of Industrial Growth in Two 19th Century New England Towns, Susan I. Hautaniemi, Alan Swedlund and Douglas L. Anderton, Social History 23(1) Spring 1999. 
• Population of the United States , with R. C. Barrett and Donald J. Bogue, Free Press, 1996.
• "Environmental Equity: The Demographics of Dumping," with Andy B. Anderson, J. M. Oakes and M. Fraser, Demography, 1994, 31(2):221-240. 
• Readings in Population Methodology, eds. Donald Bogue, Eduardo Arriaga and Douglas L. Anderton, UNFPA/SDC, 1993, 8 volumes. 
• The Polygynous Life-Course: Sexual Competition versus the Stock of Progeny, Douglas L. Anderton and Rebecca Emigh, The American Journal of Sociology 1989 94(4):832-55.
• Birth Spacing and Fertility Limitation: an analysis of a Nineteenth Century Frontier Population. Douglas L. Anderton and Lee L. Bean, Demography 1985 22(2):169‑183, reprinted in Issues Surrounding Childbirth, ed. Philip K. Wilson, Garland Publishing Inc., 1995.
• Adaptation and Innovation: Fertility on the American Frontier , with Lee L. Bean and Geraldine P. Mineau, xiii+295 pp., University of California Press, 1990. 

Current Funded Projects

• Environmental Impacts on Epigenetics: Bisphenol A and Promoter Methylation, with David Reckow (Co-I) and Kathleen Arcaro (Co-I), Rays of Hope Baystate Foundation.
• Descriptive Biomarkers for Assessing Breast Cancer Risk, with Kathleen Arcaro (PI) and Sarah Lenington (Co-I), Department of Defense.
  
• Role of Pregnancy and Lactation in Inhibiting Age-Induced Promoter Hypermethylation, with Kathleen Arcaro (PI), Avon Foundation.
• Nanoparticle Models and New Analytical Methods to Study the Bioavailability and Toxicity of Nanomaterial, with Richard Vachet (PI) and others National Science Foundation/CHM.
• NSEC: Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (Nanotechnology), Tom Russell and Mark Tuominen (PIs), National Science Foundation.