ELLEN P. KRALY

Ellen Percy Kraly is the Director of the Division of University Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, of which she is also the Chair. She has been a faculty member at Colgate since 1986 and was the Associate Dean of the Faculty from 1990 to 1993. During 1996-7, Professor Kraly was President of the Population Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Professor Kraly received an M.Sc. in demography from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and her Ph.D. in sociology from Fordham University. She has held faculty positions at Cornell University and Hamilton College. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Immigration Statistics, 1983-85, and has conducted research for the United Nations Statistical Commission, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and currently, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.

Her research interests include the relationship between immigration and U.S. population growth, population and environmental change and policy, emigration from the United States, statistical systems and the measurement of immigration, and status attainment among immigrant and racial populations in the U.S. She has recently completed two papers for the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform which consider the issues of immigration and environmental policy and the policy importance of emigration from the United States, respectively. She and Charles Hirschman at the University of Washington were awarded a research grant from the National Institute of Child and Human Development to study the social and economic status of ethnic and racial groups in the U.S. for 1940 and 1950. At Colgate she teaches GEOG 314, Population Issues and GEOG/SOAN 318, International Migration, U.S. Immigration, and Immigrants. The latter is co-taught with Professor Bryce-Laporte. Professor Kraly also has a special interest in service-learning. In Spring 1998, she and students in GEOG 316, Medical Geography, completed a study of the availability and quality of health care in rural Madison County in order to assess what changes might be made for the benefit of the community.


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