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)
Creating a Reading Room for National Long-Term Care Survey Administrative Documents (NIA)
Demographic Analysis of Longitudinal Historical Data (NICHD)
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)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan.
Professor, History, University of Michigan.
Professor of Information, UM School of Information, University of Michigan.
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, Mark Abrahamson, Margaret O. Adams, Micah Altman, Caroline Arms, Kenneth) Bollen, Michael Carlson, Jonathan Crabtree, Darrell Donakowski, Gary King, Jared Lyle, Marc Maynard, Amy M. Pienta, Richard Rockwell, Lois Timms-Ferrara, and Copeland H. Young. 2009. "From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data." Library Trends, 57(3): 315-337.
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. 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. Public Access. Worldcat.
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. 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.
PSC blog
Recent resources, events, news
New Publications
Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
Next Brown Bag
Mon, Nov 9
John Bound
Stratification in US Higher Education
For live stream
LINK HERE
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