Myron Gutmann

Affiliated Programs:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Michigan Historical Demography Workshop

Funded Research:

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (NIH)

Child Care Research Collaboration and Archive, Year 5 (ACYF)

Collaborative Research: CI-Team Demonstration Project: Enhancing Social Science Research Training with Collaborative Tagging (NSF)

Creating a Reading Room for National Long-Term Care Survey Administrative Documents (NIA)

Demographic Analysis of Longitudinal Historical Data (NICHD)

Enhancing the National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) for the Creation of a Longitudinal Public Use File (NIA)

Grammars of Death: 19th-Century Literal Causes of Death (NICHD)

Historical Cause of Death Archive (MiCDA)

Human Subjects Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis (NICHD)

Immigrant Elders: Living Arrangements, 1850-2000 (NIA)

Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets (NSF)

National Historical Geographical Information System (NSF)

Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains (NICHD)

Transformations of Agrarian Landscapes and Life Ways (NSF)

University of Michigan Comprehensive Ethics Training Program in Basic and Social Sciences Engineering (NSF)

Ph.D., Princeton University

Dr. Gutmann specializes in historical demography and population-environment relationships, with a focus on Europe and the Americas during the past four centuries. His current research focuses on the relationship between population and environment in the Great Plains of the U.S., and on the history of the U.S. Hispanic population.

Recent Publications

Books

Gutmann, Myron, and Paul Stern. 2007. Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data. Washington DC : National Academy Press. Abstract.

Benedict, Philip, and Myron Gutmann. 2005. Early modern Europe : from crisis to stability. Newark: University of Delaware Press.

Journal Articles

Lazer, D., A. Pentland, L. Adamic, S. Aral, A.L. Barabasi, D. Brewer, N. Christakis, N. Contractor, J. Fowler, Myron Gutmann, T. Jebara, G. King, M. Macy, D. Roy, and M. Van Alstyne. 2009. "Computational Social Science." Science, 323 (5915) : 721-723. DOI:10.1126/science.1167742. Licensed Access.

Gutmann, Myron, Kristine Witkowski, Corey Colyer, O'Rourke JoAnne McFarland, and James McNally. 2008. "Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices Relating to Confidentiality." Population Research and Policy Review, 27 (6): 639-665. DOI:10.1007/s11113-008-9095-4. Abstract. Licensed Access.

Rindfuss, R.R., B. Entwisle, S.J. Walsh, L. An, N. Badenoch, Daniel Brown, P. Deadman, T.P. Evans, J. Fox, J. Geoghegan, Myron Gutmann, M. Kelly, M. Linderman, Jianguo Liu, G.P. Malanson, C.F. Mena, J.P. Messina, E.F. Moran, D.C. Parker, W. Parton, P. Prasartkul, D.T. Robinson, Y. Sawangdee, L.K. Vanwey, and P.H. Verburg. 2008. "Land use change: complexity and comparisons." Journal of Land Use Science, 3: 1-10. DOI:10.1080/17474230802047955. Licensed Access.

Green, A. G., and Myron Gutmann. 2007. "Building Partnerships Among Social Science Researchers, Institution-based Repositories and Domain Specific Data Archives." OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives, 23: 35-53. DOI:10.1108/10650750710720757. Licensed Access.

Parton, W.J., Gutmann, Myron, and D. Ojima. 2007. "Long-term trends in population, farm income, and crop production in the great plains." Bioscience, 57(9):737-747. DOI:10.1641/B570906. Abstract. Public Access.

Gratton, B., Myron Gutmann, and E. Skop. 2007. "Immigrants, their children, and theories of assimilation: family structure in the United States, 1880–1970." History of the Family: An International Quarterly, 12 (3): 203–222. PMCID:PMC2194643. DOI:10.1016/j.hisfam.2007.10.003. Abstract. Public Access.

Sylvester, Kenneth M., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. "Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household/Agricultural Systems." History and Computing, 14(1&2): 31-60.

Skop, E., B. Gratton, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. "La Frontera and Beyond: Geography and Demography in Mexican American History." The Professional Geographer, 58 (1): 78-98. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9272.2006.00514.x. Abstract. Licensed Access.

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New Publications

Thornton & Philipov "Changes in European Families: Insights from Developmental Models"

Harding "Neighborhood Effects on Education," PSC Research Report

Next Brown Bag

Seminars will start up again in fall 2009
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