Mark Leach, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
University Park, PA 16802
Education:
- Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2007
Research Interests
My research focuses on Mexican migrants and their children in the United States, including processes of migration, settlement and socioeconomic incorporation. I am currently working on projects that assess why Mexican migrants have increasingly settled in places outside traditional destination areas in the Southwest and Chicago, patterns of household formation and child poverty, and the implications of parental legalization and naturalization for the educational attainment of the children of Mexican migrants.
Current/Recent Courses
- AREC 525: Research Methods in the Rural Social Sciences
- CED 497: International Migration to the United States
- Latino Population in the United States
- CED 404: Survey Research Methods
Recent Selected Publications
Bean, Frank D., Mark A. Leach, Susan K. Brown, James D. Bachmeier, and John Hipp. 2011. "The Educational Legacy of Unauthorized Migration: How Parents' Status Affects Their Offspring." International Migration Review 45(2): 352-389.
Bean, Frank D., Susan K. Brown, Mark A. Leach and James Bachmeier. 2010. Mexican Immigrant Legalization and Naturalization and Children’s Economic Well-Being. Pp. 129-150 in Gerard Sonnert and Gerald Holton (eds.), Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed: Public Policy, Aid, and Education, New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Leach, Mark A. 2009. “America’s Older Immigrants: A Profile.” Generations 32(4):34-39.
