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Miles Taylor
Contact Information:
| Office: | Pepper 232 |
| Phone: | 644-5418 |
| Fax: | 644-6208 |
| Email: | mtaylor3@fsu.edu |
Areas of Specialization:
Research:
- Aging and the Life Course
- Inequality and Health
- Population Health and Change
- Family Dynamics and Well-Being
- Quantitative Methods for Trajectory Analysis
Teaching:
- Quantitative Methods (Graduate and Undergraduate)
- Introduction to Sociology
- Aging Demography and Demographic Methods
Education and Recent Professional Experience:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
- Ph. D., Department of Sociology, Duke University, 2005
- M.A, Department of Sociology, Duke University, 2002
Selected Papers and Publications:
- Taylor, Miles G., Glen H. Elder Jr., Peter Uhlenberg, and Steven MacDonald “Revisiting the Grandparenting Role: Grandparents as Mentors in Adolescence and Young Adulthood” Forthcoming in From Generation to Generation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aging Families (Johns Hopkins Press).
- Lynch, Scott M., J. Scott Brown and Miles G. Taylor “The Demography of Disability." Forthcoming in International Handbook of the Demography of Aging. (Springer-Verlag).
- Elder, Glen H. Jr. and Miles G. Taylor. “Life Course Methods: Recasting Biographical and Historical Data to Study Lives in Time and Place” Forthcoming in The Craft of Life Course Research (Guilford).
- Kamp Dush, Claire, Miles G. Taylor and Rhiannon Kroeger. 2008. “Marital Happiness and Well-Being over the Life Course” Family Relations, Special Issue 57:211-226. READ
- Taylor, Miles G. 2008. “Timing, Accumulation, and the Black/White Disability Gap in Later Life: A Test of Weathering.” Research on Aging: Special Issue on Race, SES, and Health 30: 226-250. READ
- Morgan, S. Philip and Miles G. Taylor. 2006. “Low Fertility at the Turn of the 21st Century” Annual Review of Sociology, 32, 375-399. READ
- Taylor, Miles G. and Scott M. Lynch. 2004. “Trajectories of Impairment, Social Support, and Depressive Symptoms in Later Life.” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 59B, S238-S246. READ
Awards:
- 2006. Student Research Dissertation Award, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America
- 2005. Award for Best Poster, Population Association of America
- 2004. Award for Best Student Paper, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological Association, with Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
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