Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fairfield University
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
Office: 214 Donnarumma Hall
Tel: (203) 254-4000, ext. 2785
e-mail: hodgson@fairfield.edu
1976 Ph.D. Cornell University (Sociology)
1973 M.A. Cornell University (Sociology)
1969 B.A. Fordham University (Sociology)
9/92 to present, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University
7/84 to 7/87 and 9/00 to 5/04, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University
9/83 to 9/92 Associate Professor of Sociology, Fairfield University
9/76 to 9/83 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Fairfield University
9/75 to 8/76 Acting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
9/73 to 8/74 Instructor of Sociology, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
"Benjamin Franklin on population: From policy to theory." Population and Development Review 17, no. 4 (December 1991): 639-661.
"The ideological origins of the Population Association of America." Population and Development Review 17, no. 1 (March 1991): 1-34.
"Orthodoxy and revisionism in American demography." Population and Development Review 14, no. 4 (December 1988), pp. 441-469.
"Demography as social science and policy science." Population and Development Review 9, no. 1 (March 1983), pp. 1-34.
Population in the Global Arena (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982). Jointly written with Parker G. Marden and Terry McCoy. Author of Chapter 4 ("Population policy," pp. 77- 108) and Chapter 5 ("The future of population," pp. 109-135).
Population, Environment, and the Quality of Life (New York: John Wiley and Sons [paper], 1975; New York: AMS Press [hardback], 1975). Jointly edited with Parker G. Marden.
Review of Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics, by Doris Buss and Didi Herman. Population and Development Review 30, no. 1 (March 2004): 166-167.
Review of Women,Work, and Family: Balancing and Weaving, by Angela Hattery. Population and Development Review 27 no. 3 (September 2001): 599-600.
Review of The Decline of Males, by Lionel Tiger, and The First Sex:The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World, by Helen Fisher. Population and Development Review 25 no. 4 (December 1999): 791–793.
Review of Population Policy and Women's Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice, by Ruth Dixon-Mueller. Contemporary Sociology 23, no. 3 (May 1994): 397-398.
Review of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, by Ellen Chesler. Contemporary Sociology 23, no. 1 (January 1994): 98-99.
"How Politically Problematic are Liberal Abortion Policies for Countries With Pronatalist Fertility Policies?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Dallas, 15 April 2010.
"Abortion, Family Planning, and Population
Policy." Presented at
"Abortion Policy, Population Policy and Population Scientists." Paper presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Seminar on the Production and Circulation of Population Knowledge, March 21-24, 2001, Population Studies & Training Center, Brown University.
"From Mercantilism to Neo-Malthusianism: The International Population Movement and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya". Paper presented with Susan Watkins at the Workshop on Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, 29-30 January 1998, Washington, D.C.
"Feminists and Population Controllers: Strange Bedmates at Cairo?" Paper presented with Susan Watkins at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, 9 May 1996, as part of a session on "The Politics of Population. Earlier versions of this paper were also presented to: Center for the Studies of Social Change Seminar, the New School for Social Research, 16 February 1996; Population Studies Center Seminar, the University of Pennsylvania, 29 January 1996; Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Meeting, 17 November 1995, Chicago, Illinois as part of a session on "The Role of Experts/Intellectuals in State Policy."
"Images of Race and Responses to Malthus: The Study of Population in Antebellum America." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 21 August 1995, Washington, D.C., as part of a session on "A History of Social Thought and the Social Imaginary: Race, Class, and Population in American Popular Thought from the Antebellum Period to the Current Day."
"Population in American thought: 1750-1930." Talk presented at the University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center Seminar, 1 January 1992. A version of the talk was also presented to Office of Population Research Seminar Series, Princeton University, 4 October 1991.
"Population and controversy in America, 1900-1930." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, 18-21 October 1990, as part of a session on "The Political Economy of Demography: The Role of Ideology and Power in the Definition of Population Issues."
"The influence of extra-theoretical factors on U.S. demography: 1945-1985." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, 21-23 April 1988, as part of a session on "Two Centuries after Malthus: The history of demography."
Malthusian and Darwinian influences on 19th century American
assessments of fertility decline.
Tracing America's changing population agenda from 1607 to the
present.
Abortion and the formation of international population policy.