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Davor Jedlicka, Ph.D.  Professor of Sociology The University of Texas at Tyler
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NAME: Davor Jedlicka

PRESENT POSITION: Professor of Sociology

WORK ADDRESS: The University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Blvd.
Tyler, TX. 75799
TELEPHONE: Office: (903) 566-7428
Home: (903) 581-4139

DATE OF BIRTH: August 3, 1945

CITIZENSHIP: U.S.A.

LANGUAGE FACILITY: Fluent in Serbo-Croatian. Reading and translating
ability in Social Science Russian. Some
conversational ability in Japanese.

EDUCATION:

Jan 1993-May 1999 Ph.D. in Family Therapy, Texas Woman’s University.
Dissertation entitled: “Conflict Resolution Tactics and
Marital Role Consistency: Implications for Counseling
with International Couples.” (Glen Jennings, Chair).

1972-1975 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Hawaii Dissertation entitled: “Ethnic Serial Marriages in Hawaii: Application
of Sequential Preference Model.”
(James A. Palmore, Chairman)

1969-1971 M.A. in Sociology, University of Hawaii Theses entitled: “Immigrant Pull Model: A Study of Japanese Movement to Hawaiian Islands.” (Linton Freeman, Chairman)

1968-1969 B.A. in Sociology, University of Hawaii

1964-1967 Foothill Community College, Los Altos Hill, California




ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS:

September 1997 to Present Sociology Program Coordinator.
The University of Texas at Tyler

September 1990 to Present Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Tyler

September 1982 to 1990 Associate Professor of Sociology, with tenure, Department of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Tyler

January 1976 to August 1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

January 1976 to May 1978 Director of Sociology Data Analysis Center, University of Georgia. Staff included programmer, graduate assistants, and electronic data processing clerks

April 1978 to August 1982 Member of Honors Faculty, University of Georgia

January 1975 to December 1975 Program Coordinator and Research Statistician for the statewide Health Surveillance Program, Department of Health, State of Hawaii

September 1971 to February 1975 Staff Researcher. East-West Center Population
Institute

1970-1972 Regular guest lecturer, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Hawaii

1969-1971 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology,
University of Hawaii


COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:

September 2001 – May 2007 Volunteer counselor for the American Red Cross.

January 1998 - April 1999 Volunteer counselor and case worker, Longview
Youth Shelter

Summer 1998 Service Assistant with Sabine Valley Center.
Conducted skill training for troubled children.


January - May 1998 Volunteer with Sabine Valley home visitation
program. Duties included home and school
visitations to work with troubled children and
their families.

1997 Volunteer family therapist at Child and Family
Psychiatric Clinic, The University of Texas
Health Center at Tyler.

July 1996 to December 1996 Intern at Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center, Nevada, Texas Texas. Worked with patients individually, in families, and in groups. Supervisor: Martha S. William’s, Ph.D.

May 1996 to December 1996 Student Counselor: Galaxy Counseling Center, Garland, Texas. Experience with individual, family, and play therapy. Supervisor: Rosalie Otters, LSW- ACP, LMFT.

August 1995 to May 1996 Student Therapist: Family Therapy Clinic, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Supervisors: Frank Thomas, Ph.D., LMFT, and Glen Jennings, Ed.D., LMFT, LPC.


RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS:

2005 Certified as a provider of continuing education by the Texas State Boards of Examiners of 1) Social Workers 2) Licensed Professional Counselors, and 3) Marriage and Family Therapists.

2004 UT System Telecampus grant for training at MIT on designing Internet classes. Symposia and workshops on "Creating and Sustaining Online Learning Communities." March 22 –26, 2004. Will conduct workshops for the UT Telecampus in 2004 and 2005.

2003 UT Telecampus grant to develop an online, graduate course on "Internet Communities."

1999 Admitted into the Legacy Circle of the National Council on Family Relations for 25 years of membership. Annual Meeting, Irvine, California. November.

1989-1990 Harper and Row Publishers Outright Grantee for Family Research

1988-1989 Co-director and grantee, U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, “Modernization and Education in Yugoslavia”

1988 Special Research Stipend for study of “International Marriages.”

1986-1987 Harper and Row Publishers outright grant for book preparation

1984-1985 Hudnall Professorship Award for study of Energy and Society

1983-1985 United States Department of Commerce, Sea Grant for research on coastal population of Texas

1982 Faculty Research Grant for study of Mate Selection

1978-1981 United States Department of Commerce, Sea Grant for research on coastal
population of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas

1979-1980 Fulbright-Hays Award for research and lectureship in Yugoslavia

1978 National Science Foundation, co-Investigator with Linton Freeman, principal investigator, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania: Application of Electronic Information Exchange System

1977 National Science Foundation Grant for under-graduate research participation in sociology

LICENSE AND CERTIFICATION

2004 Certified for completing the Crisis Response Team training.
Texas Department of Public Safety.

2003 Certified for completion of training Blackboard Training System.
Faculty training for Course Development and Instruction. UT Telecampus.

2000- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Texas Board of Examiners of
Marriage and Family Therapist.


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

2007 - Member Editorial Board of Family Science Review.

2004-05 Conducted a regional workshop for mental health providers. Topic:
"Affinograpphs: A New Method for Family Assessment." Tyler, TX, June.

2003 Resource Person: Social Work Theory and Practice. Interuniversity Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

2001 -2007 Member Editorial Board of Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family

1999 Participant: “Human Rights and Medicine” postgraduate seminar at the Inter University Center, Dubrovnik. June/July

1993-1998 Occasional guest lecturer: Department of Family Sciences, Texas
Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Invited by Glen Jennings, Ed.D.

1990-1993 Board Member: Texas Council on Family Relations

1992 Organizer/Chair: Race and Family Policy Workshop. Groves Conference, Washington, D.C., March

1985-1989 Co-director with George J. Stolnitz, Indiana University: Seminar in Demographic Trends and Population Policy held at the Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia

1987 Discussion Leader: “Teaching Sociology of the Family” National Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas, October

1986 Organized and conducted 20 hours of Continuing Medical Education
seminars. Accredited by the A.M.A. and sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston

1985 Member: Local Arrangements committee for the National Council of Family Relations Meeting in Dallas, Texas, November

Organizer/Chair: Roundtable: Issues in Energy, Technology, and Policy. Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October

Guest Lecturer: Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, June

1984 Elected: Executive Board Member of the Southwestern Fulbright Alumni Association, Louisiana State University, October

1982 Workshop Leader: National Council on Family Relations, Washington, D.C.

1981 Rapporteur: National Sea Grant Social Science Workshop, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

1979-1989 Grant Referee: National Sea Grant Program, Washington, D.C.

1979 Organizer: Seminars on Population Redistribution and Socioeconomic Development at Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Partially supported by Ford Foundation

1978 Chairman: Registration Committee for the Population Association of America Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, April

1976-Present Journals Refereed:
Demography Family Relations
Health Reports (Statistics-Canada) Human Organizations
Journal of Marriage and the Family Social Biology
Social Networks Social Problems

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1982-Present. Courses taught at the University of Texas at Tyler:

GRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE
Applied Sociology Majority and Minority
Directed Graduate Internships & Independent Study Marriage and the Family
Energy and Society Medical Sociology
Family Theories and Methods Multicultural Studies
Family Services Sex Roles
Human Development Social Change
Intercultural Studies Survey/Introductory
Methods of Social Research
Social Problems: 1) Family Violence 2) Capital Punishment
Internet Communities (All online course)

1976-1982 Directed and served as a member of dissertation committees

1981 Conducted workshops on “Classroom Simulation” as a staff member of the Georgia Teaching Workshops, Atlanta, Georgia, February

1978 Participant: American Sociological Association Workshop, on Teaching Undergraduate Sociology, Tallahassee, Florida, May

1977-1982 Directed Undergraduate Research Program


Courses taught at the University of Georgia:

GRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE
Race Relations Marriage and the Family
Marriage and the Family Race Relations
Methods of Social Research Introductory Sociology
Sociological Theory Methods of Social Research
Computer Applications Sociological Theory
Research in Demography Independent Research- Honors Program
Field Research

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

Forthcoming Accepted for publication, “Using the Homebook Method for Teaching for Teaching Graduate Courses in Social Sciences,” National Social Science Journal.

Forthcoming “Helping Couples Find Family Therapy Online”, In Daniel Eckstein (Ed.)
book on helping families cope.

2006 D. Jedlicka and M. Stadelmann. “ The Future of the Textbook: A Study of Student Reactions to the Homebook and Traditional Textbook.” National Social Science Journal, 25(2), 2006, p. 58-63.

2005 Jedlicka, D. Ethnicity, Society, and the Individual. El Cajon, CA: National Social Science Press. (21 chapters in homebook format).

2003 Jedlicka, D. "Ethnic Relations in the United States Since 1945." In Jerry Baydo, editor, ¬¬Modern America Examined: A Reader. El Cajon, CA: National Social Science Press

2002 Jedlicka, D. and G. Jennings. "Supervising Marital Therapy on the Internet," Professional Issues in Counseling. Summer 2002, http://unx1.shsu.edu/~piic/summer2002

2001 Jedlicka, D. and G. Jennings. “Marital Therapy on the Internet,” Journal of
Technology in Counseling, 2(1). http://jtc.colstate.edu

2000 Jedlicka D., “Globalization of Romance: Love and Marriage in the Global
Village,” Family Science Review 13(4), 28-38.

1999 Jedlicka D., “The Role of the Pedagogy and Education in Diminution of Interethnic Tensions,” (translated into Croatian), Napredak 140 (4), 417-424.

1991 Jedlicka, D., “Ethnic Consistency in Remarriage,” Family Perspective
25 (3):237-245.

1991 Kephart, William M., and D. Jedlicka, Family, Society, and the Individual, 7th edition. New York: Harper and Row Publishers.

1988 Kephart, William M., and D. Jedlicka, Family, Society, and the Individual,
6th edition. New York: Harper and Row Publishers.

1987 Jedlicka, D., and I.E. Robinson, “Fear of Venereal Disease and Other Constraints on Premarital Coitus,” The Journal of Sex Research. August.
391-396.

1985 Jedlicka, D., “Formal Mate Selection Networks in the United States,”
Reprinted in L. Cargan, Marriage and Family, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, pp. 102-107.

Robinson, Ira E., and D. Jedlicka, “Changes in Sexual Attitudes and
Behavior of College Students from 1965 to 1985: A Research Note,” Reprinted in Brent C. Miller and David H. Olson, editors Family Studies
Review Yearbook, Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, Inc.

1985 Jedlicka, D., “Sex Inequality in Marriage and Work as a Consequence of Age Differences at Marriage,” LaVerne D. Knezek, Marjie C. Barrnett and
Shelia K. Collins (eds.), Women and Work, The University of Texas at Arlington, Women and Work Research & Resource Center.

1984 Jedlicka, D., “Indirect Parental Influence on Mate Choice,”
Journal of Marriage and the Family, February, pp. 65-70.

1982 Robinson, Ira E., and D. Jedlicka, “Sexual Attitudes and Behavior of
College Students, 1980: A Research Note,: Journal of Marriage and the
Family, 44 (1):237-240.

1981 Jedlicka, D., “Automated Go-Betweens: Mate Selections of Tomorrow?:
Family Relations, 30 (July), pp. 373-376.

1980 Jedlicka, D., “Formal Mate Selection Networks in the United States,”
Family Relations, (April), pp. 199-203.

Jedlicka, D., “Population Redistribution and Socioeconomic Development,: Geojournal, 4 (4):377-380.

Jedlicka, D., “A Test of Psychoanalytic Theory of Mate Selection,”
The Journal of Social Psychology, (December), pp. 292-299.

1979 Jedlicka, D., “Suicide and Adaptation to Aging,” Aging International,
6 (3), p. 23.

Jedlicka, D., “Sex Inequality in Marriage and Work,” Socioloski Pregled.
A Journal of Yugoslav Sociological Association, 13 (3):89-93.

Jedlicka, D., “Opportunities, Information Networks and International
Migration Streams,” Social Networks, 1 (February), pp. 277-284.

Jedlicka, D., “Mate Selection in Absence of Face-to-Face Relations,”
pp. 181-185 in Mark Cook and Glen Wilson (eds.), Love and Attraction,
Pergamon Press, Oxford.

1978 Kees De Hoog, and D. Jedlicka, “Life der per Advertentie,” pp. 53-58 in
Hilde de Hann and Ed van der Wolk (eds.), De Problematische Liefde,
Amsterdam: Intermediaiar Press.

Jedlicka, D., “Sex Inequality, Aging and Innovation in Preferential Mate
Selection,” Family Coordinator, April, pp. 137-140.


1977 Shinn, Yongsock, D. Jedlicka and E.S. Lee, “Homicides Among Blacks,”
Phylon, 38 (December), pp. 398-407.

Kees de Hoog and D. Jedlicka, “Partnerbemiddling in Nederland en de
Veringi Staten,” Intermedair, 6, (February), pp-15-19.

1975 Read, John, E.S. Lee, D. Jedlicka, and Y. Shin, “Trends in Black Health”, Phylon, 38 (December), pp. 448-455.

Jedlicka, D., E.S. Lee and Y. Shin, “Suicide Among Blacks,” Phylon,
38 (December), pp 448-455.

1975 Jedlicka, D., “Sequential Analysis of Perceived Commitment to Partners
in Premarital Coitus,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 37 (May), pp
385-390.


PUBLISHED PROCEEDING, TECHNICAL REPORTS AND MISCELLANEOUS

2004 Prepared a report for UT Telecampus, "Summary of 2004 Learning International Networks Consortium." MIT Conference on distance learning.

2001 Jedlicka, D. “The Use of Genographs in Family Assessment of Serial
Monogamy.” Abstract. Connections. 23(1), 135.

1994 Jedlicka, d. and Weiss, P. East Texas Experience: A Reader in
Cultural Diversity and Social Change compiled student papers.
The University of Texas at Tyler.

1990 Jedlicka, D. Book Review: Toch, A. and Adams, K. The Disturbed Violent Behavior. Reviewed in Deviant Behavior, 11, 2, Apr-June, 200-201.

1986 Jedlicka, D., “Population Redistribution and Global Population Policy,”
Demographic Trends and Population Policy, Selected Conference Papers,
Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik.

1985 Jedlicka, D. and Katunaric, V., “Measured Changes in Social Distance as an Outcome of Higher Education Experience,” Improving University Teaching: Contributed Papers, Utrecht: The State University of Utrecht, July, pp. 842-851.

Jedlicka, D., “Parents Who Disapprove of a Son’s Marriage”: By request
of the editors of Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 19(5), p 206.

1981 Jedlicka, D., A Demographic Study of Coastal Counties of Georgia,
1790-1980, Technical Report Series, No. 81-3, Georgia Marine
Science Center, Skidway Island, Georgia, 28 pages.


1981 Hsung, Ray-May and D. Jedlicka, “Coastal Farming and Fishing in the Southern United States,” in Gerald C. Wheelock (ed.), Proceedings of
the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, pp. 47-1 to 47-9.

1978 Jedlicka, D. and S. Mabry, “Simulation in Teaching Race Relations,:
pp 161-164, in Nancy Roberts, editor, N.A.S.A.G.A. Proceeding of the
16th Annual Conference, North American Simulation and
Gaming Association.

Jedlicka, D., “Occupational Opportunities and Migration: A Proposed Predictive Model,” Mid-South Sociological Proceedings, Center for
Social Service and Research, Northeast Louisiana University,
2 (November), pp. 229-231

1978 Jedlicka, D., “Children in Hawaii: An Analysis of Some Sociodemographic Characteristics from Hawaii Health Survey, 1972-74” R&S Report, Department of Health, State of Hawaii, Issue No. 9, (February), 20 pages.

1975 Kawaguchi, Paul T. and D. Jedlicka, “A Study of Illiteracy Provisions of the Federal Voting Rights Act and Its Application to the Hawaii Electorate,” R&S Report, Department of Health, State of Hawaii,
Issue No. 6, (December), 12 pages

Jedlicka, D., “Estimates of Interstate Population movement for Hawaii Counties: A Migration Study from Hawaii Health Survey, 1971-74, “Population Report, State of Hawaii, Issue No. 4, (December), 25 pages.

SOME SPONSORED OR INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

2004 "The Future of Online Education." Training workshop, sponsored by UT Telecampus."

2001 “Ethics and Counseling on the Internet.” Workshop, Centennial Homecoming Celebration. Texas Woman’s University. Denton. April

2000 “From Ethnic Harmony to Genocide in Bosnia.” Meeting of the North Texas Chapter of the Fulbright Association.

1999 “The role of Education in Reducing Interethnic Tensions,” Paper presented by invitation of the Croatian Sociological Association University of Zagreb, June

1998 “Computers, the Internet and Relationship Enhancement,” workshop at the conference on Successful Relationships in Couples, in Families between Friends and at Work. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March.

1990 “Socioeconomic Correlates of AIDS.” Southwest China Medical University, Chengdu

1986 “Coastal Population of Texas” paper presented by invitation, Sea Grant Conference, Texas A&M University, May.

1985 “Petroleum Networks,” Hundall sponsored paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Networks Analysis, West Palm Beach, Florida, February.

1984 “Dating, Mating, and the School,” Region VIII In-service for Teachers, Mt. Pleasant, Texas, August.

1981 “Coastal Farming and Fishing the Southern United States (with Ray May Hsung), Southern Association of Agriculture Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia.

1980 “Population Redistribution Along Coastal Regions of the United States, 1940- 1970,” presented by Ray May Hsung, Southern Regional Demographic Group, Tallahassee, Florida, October.

“Social Status and Salt Water Angling,” The United States Sports Academy Seminar, Knoxville, Tennessee, March.

1979 “Population Redistribution and Socioeconomic Development along the South Atlantic Coast,” (with Muncho Kim). Annual meeting of Southern Regional Demographic Group, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, October.

1978 “Recreational Fishing,” presented by invitation at the Mid-South Sociological Association meetings, Jackson, Mississippi, November.

“Employment Trends in Fishing Occupations: South Atlantic States, 1880-1973,” presented at the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Workshop, Charleston, South Carolina, February.

“Suicide and Adaptation to Aging in developed Countries,” presented by proxy. The Xith International Congress of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan, August.

“Computer Dating,” presented by invitation at the Southern Sociological Society meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 29 - April 1.

“Status Inconsistency and the Black Family Instability in Georgia,” Southeastern Council on Family Relations, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February.

1977 “Formal Mate Selection Networks in America,” presented by proxy at the IVth Annual Social Networks Colloquium, Social Science and Linguistics Institute, University of Hawaii, December.

1977 “Simulation in Teaching Race Relations,” (with Spencer Mabry), North American Simulation and Gaming Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November.

“Picture Mates: Mate Selection in Absence of Face-to-Face Relations,” International Conference on Love and Attraction, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, August.

1976 “Institutional Change and Mate Selection Among the Elderly,” Georgia Sociological Association, Brunswick, Georgia, November.

“Occupational Opportunities and Migration,” Mid-South Sociological Association, Monroe, Louisiana, November.

“Ethnic Serial Marriages in Hawaii,” Western Council on Family Relations, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, May.

1975 “Black Health in America, with Yongsock Shin and Everett S. Lee, DuBois Conference on Black Health, Atlanta, Georgia, December.

“Network Development from Sequential Relationships,” 3rd Annual Social Networks Colloquium, Honolulu, Hawaii, December.

“Monogamous Marriage Networks,” 2nd Annual Social Networks Colloquium, Honolulu, Hawaii, December.



PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

2007 “Using the Homebook Format for Teaching Graduate Courses in Social Sciences.”
National Technology and Social Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April.


2006 “The Homebook Concept for Teaching Ethnic Relations and Multicultural
Studies.” Association of American Geographers Conference on RACE,
ETHNICITY, AND PLACE. Texas State University, San Marcos,
November 1-4, 2006.

2005 "The Future of the Textbook: A Study of Student Reactions to Homebook and Traditional Textbook." National Technology and Social Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April

2004 "Homebook Concept as a Pedagogical Tool: A Case Study of a CD-Text."
National Technology and Social Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV

2003 "Ethnicity, Society and the Individual: Perspectives on an Online Text."
National Technology and Social Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV

2002 "Domestic Violence and Police Intervention in Rural Texas."
National Social Science Association, Las Vegas, NV

2001 “Living Arrangements among Alaskan Indigenous People with Disabilities.”Groves
Conference. Fairbanks, Barrow, Anchorage. May.

2000 “Using Genographs in Family Assessment of Serial Monogamy.” Annual Meeting of the International Society for Social Networks Analysis. Sponsored by Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. April.

2000 “Constructing Genograms of Blended Families.” Groves Conference. Asheville, North Carolina. June.

1998 “Marital Adjustment Problems in a Sample of International Marriages.”
(with Gladys Hildreth, Ph.D.). National Council on Family Relations.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November.

1997 “Relevance of George H Mead’s Theory of Self to the Curricula in Family
Therapy.” National Social Science Association, Los Vegas, Nevada, April

1996 “Intergenerational Emotional Process: Applications of the Family-of- Origin Theory.” (with Glen Jennings). Paper prepared for workshop participants, Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family,”
San Diego, California, March.

1994 “Violent Conflict among Couples Married through International Introduction Services,” Grove’s Conference, Costa Rica, March.

1992 “Single Parent Families,” Sociological Symposium. East Texas
State University, November.

1989 “Assimilation and Pluralism: Opposing forces in Formulation Population Policies,” presented at the conference of Demographic Trends and
Population Policy, Interuniversity Center, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June.

1988 “Including the Mexican-American Family into the Family Studies Curriculum,” Texas Council on Family Relations, Houston, Texas, April

1987 “Remarriage: An Analysis of Consistency,” National Council of Family Relations, Poster Session, Atlanta, Georgia, November.

1987 “Teaching the Undergraduate Family Courses,” National Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas, October.

1986 “Mothers and Birth Settings,” paper presented at Southwestern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March.

1985 “Sex Inequality in Marriage and Work as an Outcome of Age Differences at Marriage.” Conference on Women and Work, held at The University
of Texas at Arlington, May.

1983 “Aging and Living Alone,” Southern Sociological Society,
Atlanta, Georgia, April.

1983 “Spatial Distribution of Opportunities and Interstate Student Migrations,” Southwestern Social Science Association, Houston, Texas, March.

“Migration and Social Networks,” Social Networks Conference,
San Diego, California, February.

1982 “Child Homicide,” Southern Regional Demographic Group,
Greenville, North Carolina, November.

“Aging and Acting: Male/Female Differences in Age at Major Success
and Span of Achievement,” Popular Culture Association of the
South, Atlanta, Georgia, November.

1981 “Sexual Attitudes and Behavior of College Students,” (with Ira Robinson),
Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Louisville, Kentucky April.

“A discrete Time Dependent Model for an Analysis of Decision-Making Process,” (with Kenneth Johnson, Department of Mathematics,
Social Networks Conference, Tampa, Florida, February.

1980 “Social Status of the Foreign Born and Their Children in the U.S.A.,”
Bi-National Conference on Ethnicity in America,
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, October.

“Population Redistribution and Socioeconomic Development,”
Population Association of America, Denver, Colorado, March

1978 “Suicide and Adaptation to Aging in Developed Countries,” presented by proxy. The Xith International Congress of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan,August.

“Computer Dating,” presented by invitation at the Southern Sociological Society meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 29-April 1.

1978 “Status Inconsistency and the Black Family Instability in Georgia,” Southeastern Council on Family Relations, University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia, February.

1977 “Formal Mate Selection Networks in America,” presented by proxy at the
I Vth Annual Social Networks Colloquium, Social Science and Linguistics Institute, University of Hawaii, December.

“Simulation in Teaching Race Relations,” (with Spencer Mabry), North American Simulation and Gaming Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November.

1977 “Picture Mates: Mate Selection in Absence of Face-to-Face Relations,” International Conference on Love and Attraction, Swansea University,
Swansea, Wales, August.

1976 “Institutional Change and Mate Selection Among the Elderly,”
Georgia Sociological Association, Brunswick, Georgia, November.

“Occupational Opportunities and Migration,” Mid-South Sociological Association, Monroe, Louisiana, November.

Ethnic Serial Marriages in Hawaii,” Western Council on Family Relations, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, May.

1975 “Black Health in America,” with Yongsock Shin and Everett S. Lee,
DuBois Conference on Black Health Atlanta, Georgia, December.

“Network Development from Sequential Relationships,” 3rd Annual Social Networks Colloquium, Honolulu, Hawaii, December

1975 “Monogamous Marriage Networks,” 2nd Annual Social Networks Colloquium, Honolulu, Hawaii, December.