Distinguished Lecturer: Mark J. VanLandingham, Ph.D.
Thomas C. Keller Professor
Director, Center for Studies of Displaced Populations
Tulane University
Presentation: Culture and Resilience: Insights from the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans
Biography
Mark J. VanLandingham, PhD, is the Thomas C. Keller Professor at Tulane University. His research focuses on a wide array of topics related to demography, sociology, and public health. He has led recent major projects focusing on the antecedents and consequences of large-scale rural-to-urban migration within Southeast Asia and acculturation, health, and well-being among Vietnamese immigrants in the United States. One major project underway investigates Health and Demographic Disparities in Long-term Recovery from Hurricane Katrina, funded by Program Award P01 from the NIH. He co-leads this team of researchers from Tulane, Harvard, New York University, Brown, and the University of Michigan with Mary Waters and David Abramson. This project is based at Tulane’s new Center for Studies of Displaced Populations, which he directs. An enduring interest is community resilience within immigrant communities, and he has a recent book on this topic published by the Russell Sage Foundation: Weathering Katrina (2017). Regarding teaching, he co-leads (with Katherine Andrinopoulos) the International Health and Development Section and Program within the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. For teaching and student mentoring, Dr. VanLandingham recently has received the school’s Teaching Excellence Award (2013) and the school’s award for Outstanding Long-term Commitment to Student Needs (2018).
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