About
William Haller is a professor of sociology. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999 and served 4 years as a postdoc with Princeton University’s Office of Population Research and Center for Migration and Development before coming to Clemson in 2004. He also is a professor for the policy studies Ph.D. program. Currently, he teaches courses in social stratification, sociological theory, globalization, and social research methods. His primary research interests include international migration, social stratification, and social research methods. He additionally serves on the Advisory Board of Princeton University’s Center for Migration and Development and as Editor of Population Review since 2010. He is the 2021-2022 Canada Research Chair in Global Governance with the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Visiting Scholar with University of Waterloo, as per his receipt of a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant.
For more information, see his College Profile.
How their research is transforming health care
Haller’s primary area of research focuses on maturation and assimilation processes of immigrant youth, including its social psychological aspects, educational attainment, school-to-work transitions, and ethnic/national/religious self-identifications. He and his research team in the United States and Spain recently completed a third wave of a large-scale longitudinal study of adaptation and assimilation of the second generation based initially in Madrid and Barcelona. As with their prior longitudinal study of children of immigrants in the United States, it includes measures of household composition, familism, intergenerational relations, ethnic and national self-identification, friends’ networks, educational attainment, and employment. His health research interests are particularly to improve access to health care, and to improve understanding of family and household dynamics associated with health care disparities. He is currently working with colleagues in Sociology, Mathematics, and Geographical Information Systems to track the spread and impacts of COVID-19 in the Upstate.
News and media related to Dr. Haller's research
- Clemson math, sociology team to study Upstate COVID-19 spread with survey project - The Post and Courier
Health Research Expertise Keywords
Faculty Scholar, Disparities, race, ethnicity, immigration, assimilation, culture, demography, public health, population health
