- Demography is increasingly bringing in non-sociology fields like economic history, economics concerned with stratification, public health for reasons internal to those disciplines (e.g., econ increasing interest in inequality), or bc pop centers are organizationally successful, or bc NIH made pop centers diversify their disciplinary base to keep their funding and their strategies for doing so brought new audiences to #PAA / #PAA2023, #DemographyJournal, etc

The demographer's dilemma:

Bc #PopStudies institutions--your #PopCenter, #PAA2023, #DemographyJournal & etc--are your core intellectual home, you want them to make a lot of space for "demographer's demography," bc if that stuff doesn't happen there, there's nowhere else in the world it will happen

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bc #demography as a field is small, small, small, you want your institutions to have broad ownership so they're vibrant and sustainable and fun

#AreaStudies friends: same boat?

@academicchatter