I am Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University. I was a sociology/demography faculty member for over 49 years at three universities, University of Texas, Austin (1970-1988), Cornell University (1988-1992), and Texas A&M University (1992-2019). I was born and raised in San Francisco. I received my PhD from University of Oregon (1968). I now reside in San Antonio, Texas.
1. Amanda K. Baumle, D’Lane Compton, and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. 2009. Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation. New York: SUNY Press.
2. Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Leon F. Bouvier. 2017. Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography.2nd edition. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
3. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Rogelio Sáenz. 2017. “Majority to Minority: The Declining U.S. White Population” (“Quand la majorité devient minorité: le cas des blancs aux Etats-Unis"). N-IUSSP, the News Magazine of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, September 11.
4. Dudley L. Poston, Jr., D’Lane R. Compton, Qian Xiong, and Emily A. Knox. 2017. “The Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households from Different-Sex Households in Metropolitan USA, circa-2010.” Population Review 56, 2: 1-29.
5. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. (editor). 2019. Handbook of Population. 2nd edition. Cham: Switzerland: Springer Nature.
--President (2004-2005), President-Elect (2003-2004) and Vice-President (2002-2003), Southwestern Social Science Association
--President, North American Chinese Sociologists Association, 1995-1997
--President (1995-1999) and Member of Executive Committee (1999-2008), Research Committee 41 (Sociology of Population), International Sociological Association
--President (1975-77) and Member of Executive Committee (1974-75), Southern Demographic Association (formerly Southern Regional Demographic Group)
--President (1983-84), First Vice-President (1982-83), Second Vice-¬President (1981-82), and Member of Executive Committee (1977-79), Southwestern Sociological Association
--Chair and Chair-Elect (1982-84) and Member of Council (1980-82), Population Section, American Sociological Association
--Board of Directors (1980-81) and Member of Nominations Committee (1982¬83), Population Association of America
--Recipient, Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award, University of Oregon, 1991
--Recipient, Research Excellence Award of the Rural Sociological Society, 1994
--Recipient, Social Scientist of the Year Award, Southwestern Social Science Association, March, 2011.
--Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), elected November, 2014.
--Member, U.S. Census Bureau Scientific Advisory Committee, 2005-2011
--Chair, Section on Evolution, Biology and Society, American Sociological Association (2018-2019)
--Recipient, Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Texas A&M University, Spring, 1998
--Recipient, Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, Fall, 2000
--Recipient, Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Mentoring, Texas A&M University, Spring, 2009
--Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, "Racial and Ethnic Socioeconomic Attainment Patterns in New York and Northeast United States," 1989-1991, $4,375 each year, principal investigator.
--National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, "China's One Child Policy and Children's Outcomes," 1989-1992, $580,000 ($220,000 to Cornell University and Texas A&M University), co-principal investigator with T. Falbo.
--New York Lung Association, "Chronic Lung Disease Mortality in New York State," 1990-1992, $34,545, co-principal investigator with T. Hirschl.
--U.S. Department of Agriculture, (with R. Sáenz, J. Singelmann, and T. Slack), “Race and Place: Patterns and Dynamics of Poverty in the Texas Borderland and the Lower Mississippi Delta,”, $499,552.00; September 1, 2007 through 2011-2012.