Areas of teaching experience:
Areas of Research Interest:
Professional Affiliations:
Honors/Fellowships:
Ford Foundation Award for Graduate Studies, 1975-77.
East-West Population Institute Fellowship, June 11-July 13, 1979.
ESCAP/WHO Fellowship, Seminar on Social and Psychological Research in Family Planning,
1980.
IUSSP Fellowship to participate in the XIX General Conference in Manila, 1981.
Association of Development Research and Training Institutes of Asia (ADIPA) Award to
participate in the 1983 general conference in Malaysia.
Finland Department of Higher Education Award to participate in the 1984 Capitalist-Socialist
Workshop on Comparative Organizations, in Helsinki, Finland.
European Association of Development Research and Training (EADI) Award to participate in
the Fourth Conference of EADI held in Madrid, Spain, 1984.
Institute of Tropical Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Award to participate in the EADI
workshop on "Income Inequality."
Rockefeller Foundation Award to participate in the workshop on "Women's Status, Fertility, and
Mortality," held in Bellagio, Italy, June 1988.
Australian National University Visiting Fellowship Award 1988.
Recognized as outstanding educator by National Science Foundation, 1994
Funded Research Projects:
Socioeconomic of Fertility in Rural and Urban Iran, 1978-79, Rockefeller Foundation
Determinants of Infant Mortality in Iran, 1983-84, Shiraz University Research Council
A Pilot Study of Value of Children in Iran, 1985-86, Rockefeller Foundation
Development, Gender Inequality, and Fertility in Iran, 1989-90, Rockefeller Foundation
A Socioeconomic Analysis of Fertility in Iran, (Co-Investigator with Charles Hirschman), 1990-93, National Institutes Health
Undergraduate Faculty Seminar in Population and Demographic Studies, 1992-93, National
Science Foundation
Computer Workshop in Social Demography, 1993-94, National Science Foundation
Prenatal Care and Adoption of Family Planning in Morocco and
Tunisia, 1993-94, USAID Evaluation Project
Social Science Teaching and Research Laboratory, 1994-95, National Science Foundation
Marriage, Fertility, and Labor Force Participation: A Study of Adolescents in Iran, 1994-96,
Rockefeller Foundation
Improving Social Science Research at Fayetteville State University, 1998-2000,
Department of Education,
Publications:
1978 "Fertility and Family Economy in the Iranian Rural Communities." Journal of Comparative
Family Studies, Vol. 9(1):119-128.
1978 "The Economic Achievement of Rural Migrant Workers in an Iranian City." International
Review of Modern Sociology, Vol.25(3):119-28.
1978 "Family Type, Family Resources, and Fertility Among Iranian Peasant Women." Social
Biology, Vol. 25(3): 205-209.
1979 "Family Economy and Economic Contribution of Children in Iran: an Overview." Journal
of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 3(1): 21-23.
1979 "The Relationship of Income and Consumption of Modern Goods to Fertility." Journal of
Biosocial science, Vol. 11(2): 209-219.
1979 "Effect of Child Mortality on Contraceptive Use in Rural Iran." The Eugenics Society
Bulletin Vol. 11(1): 14-18.
1980 "Women's Labor Force Participation and Socioeconomic Development: The Case of
Peninsular Malaysia: 1957-1970." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 11(1): 30-49.
1981 "Community Characteristics, Economic Status and Fertility in the Iranian villages." Genus,
Vol. 37(Nos. 1-2): 137-152.
1981 "Age at First Birth and Completed Family Size in Malaysia." Journal of Biosocial Science,
Vol. 13(2):197-202.
1982 "A Profile of Females Heading Households in Peninsular Malaysia." Journal of
Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 13(3):373-378.
1983 "Socioeconomic of Female Headed Households in Shiraz, Iran." International Journal of
the Sociology of Family, Vol. 15(2):211-224.
1983 "Ethnic Inequality in Iran: an Overview." International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol.
15(2):211-224.
1984 "Parental Education and Child Mortality in Shiraz, Iran." Biology and Society, Vol.
1(3):136-140.
1985 "Living Arrangement of Widows in Shiraz, Iran." Journal of Marriage and the Family,
Vol.47(3):781-785.
1986 "Economic Activity of Children in Two Iranian Villages." Journal of South Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 10(1): 67-77.
1986 "Some Notes on Divorce in Iran." Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 48 (3)749-755.
1986 "Agricultural Variation and Household Size." Genus, Vol. XLII, (No. 3-4):209-220.
1988 "Fertility and Family Planning in Iran: A Review." in K. Mahadevan (ed.) Fertility Control
Policies in Asia. Sage Publications.
1988 "Post-Revolutionary Demographic Trends in Iran." in H. Amir Ahmadi, (ed.), Post-Revolutionary Iran. Westview Press.
1988 "The Value of Children in Rural and Urban Iran." Journal of Comparative Family Studies,
vol. 19 (1):85-97.
1988 "Marital Satisfaction Among Dual-Worker Families in Shiraz, Iran." International Journal
of Family Sociology, vol. 8(Spring):10-20.
1989 "Status of Women and The Dynamics of Population," in Status of Women: An Asian
Perspective. Sage Publication.
1990 "Social Correlates of Child Immunization in Shiraz, Iran" in Health Policies, Strategies and Child Survival: Experiences from Asia. Sage
Publication
1990 "War and Migrant Families in Iran: An Overview of a Social Disaster," International
Journal of Sociology of the Family Vol. 20 (Spring):97-107
1991 "Socioeconomic Modernization, Status of Women, and Fertility Decline in Iran," in Studies
on Population Economics. CEDAM Publication, Italy.
1991 "Development, Gender Inequality and Fertility: a Cross-section Analysis from Iran." Paper
Series of Women in International Development, Michigan University, East Lansing, Michigan.
1991 "Women's Roles and Recent Marriage Trends in Iran" Canadian Studies in Population Vol.
18 (1): 17-28.
1991 "The Impact of Status of Development on the Status of Women: A District Level Analysis in
Iran." Journal of Developing Societies vol. 7 (July-October): 291-298.
1991 "Population Change in Iran, 1966-86: A Stalled Demographic Transition," Population and
Development Review Vol. 17 (4):703-715.
1992 "Status of Women and Fertility in Iran," Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol.
13(3):361-374
1992 "New Effort Toward Fertility Decline in Iran," Population Today (October):6-8
1993 "The Status of Women and Children In Iran:Update From the 1986 Census," in Women in Postrevolutionary Iran (eds.) Erika Fidler and
Mahnaz Afakhami, New York: Suny Press.
1994 "Population Policy and Family Planning in Iran: 1976-1992," International Population
Perspective (June ): 24-31.
1995 "Ideation or Demand: The Decline of Fertility in Iran," Demography 32 (2): 1145-165
1995 "New Direction in Population Policy and Family Planning in the Islamic Republic of Iran,"
Asian-Pacific Population Journal, 10 (1):3-20.
1996 "Cumulative Fertility in Iran," (with Homa Agha and Andrew Gross), Journal of
Comparative Family Studies 27 (1): 59-72.
1996 "Even History Modeling of World Fertility Survey Data, With Application to the Fertility
Decline in Iran" Mathematical Population Theory,
Presentations (recent):
1991 "Gender Inequality and Attitudes of Mothers Toward Food Distribution in Iran," paper presented at the 1990 Meeting of the Middle East
Associate of America, San Antonio, November 1990.
1991 "Social Change, Fertility and Fertility Change in Iran." Paper presented at the 1991 Annual
Meeting of American Sociological Association, Cleveland Ohio
1991 "A Study of Pattern and Variation of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in a Predominantly Black
University." Paper presented at 1991 International Conference on Drug Policy Reform."
Washington D.C.
1992 "The Demography of Iran: An Overview," Paper presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of
the American Sociological Association, August 20-26, Pittsburgh
1992 "Recent Urbanization Trends in Iran," Paper presented at the
1992 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association of America, October 28-31, Portland,
Oregon.
1992 "Population Policy and Contraceptive Use in
Iran," Paper presented at the 1992 Meeting of Southern Demographic Society, Charleston, South
Carolina, October 16-17.
1993 "Islamic Diversity and Status of Women in the Middle East and Southeast Asia," Paper
presented at the 1993 Southeast Asian Studies Association, Hilton Head, January 15-17.
1994 "Living Arrangement of African American Elderly," Paper presented at the 1994 annual
Meeting of Minority Research Association, Raleigh, NC, February 5-9.
1994 "New Directions in Population Policy in Iran," Paper presented at the 1994 Annual
Meeting of the Middle East Association of America, Phoenix, Arizona, November 19-24.
1995 "Recent Fertility Trends in Iran: Signs of Renewed Demographic Transition" Paper to be
presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, San Francisco,
California, April 6-8
1995 "Prenatal Care and Family Planning in Morocco and Tunisia," Paper presented at the 1995
Annual Meeting of the Middle Association of America, Washington DC, December 6-12.