Professor
College of Agricultural & Life Sciences | Department of Community & Environmental Sociology
Hometown: Northeastern Montana
Dr. Katherine J. Curtis is Buttel-Sewell Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and the Director of the Center for Demography & Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work is centered in demography and extends to spatial, environmental, rural, and applied demography. Curtis’ research focuses on how social and ecological forces intersect to shape population health and well-being.
Talks:
Population & Environment: Interplay of environment, demographic, social, and economic factors
Humans shape and are shaped by the contexts in which they live. This talk presents a place-based interdisciplinary perspective that considers how social and environmental forces intersect to influence population health and well-being.
Net Migration Estimates: Migration patterns and their use in community development
Migration is one of the fastest pathways through which a county can change. At any given time, people are moving into a county and, at the same time, others are leaving the county. Net migration varies dramatically across Wisconsin counties. This presentation describes net migration for all Wisconsin Counties during the 2010s drawing comparisons between age groups and earlier decades.