Faculty
Mark A. Leach
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2007)
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Email address: mal41@psu.edu Telephone:1-814-867-2871 Fax: 1-814-865-3746 Office address: 110B Armsby Building University Park, PA 16802 |
Research Interests
My research focuses on Mexican migrants and their children in the United States, including processes of migration, settlement and socioeconomic incorporation. I am currently working on projects that assess why Mexican migrants have increasingly settled in places outside traditional destination areas in the Southwest and Chicago, patterns of household formation and child poverty, and the implications of parental legalization and naturalization for the educational attainment of the children of Mexican migrants.
Current/Recent Courses
- AREC 525: Research Methods in the Rural Social Sciences
- CED 497: International Migration to the United States
- Latino Population in the United States
Recent Selected Publications
Leach, Mark A. 2009 (Forthcoming). “America’s Older Immigrants: A Profile.” Generations.