Dr. László J. Kulcsár
PhD, Cornell University, 2005
Interests: Demography, spatial inequalities, migration, urbanization, Eastern Europe

Dr. László J. Kulcsár is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Kansas Population Center. His field of expertise is social demography and regional development, with a particular emphasis on migration, urbanization and spatial inequalities. He does research on population dynamics and social change in rural areas, including aging and the impact of natural resource extraction on rural demography. Dr. Kulcsár participates in the NSF EPSCOR eco-forecasting research program which ties population projections to system-level ecological and land use change and the transforming rural landscape in the Great Plains. He also studies the social and demographic transformation of Eastern Europe from a historical perspective, but with a particular emphasis on the post-socialist period focusing on the political economy of market transition, democratization and EU integration. Dr. Kulcsár teaches courses on social and spatial inequalities, population dynamics, immigration, agi ng and sociological methodology.

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