Joseph Trent Alexander
Jerome M Clubb Collegiate Research Professor, Collegiate Research Professor, Office of the Vice President for Research, Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Research Professor, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research
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J. Trent Alexander is the Associate Director of ICPSR and the Jerome M. Clubb Collegiate Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research. Alexander is a historical demographer and builds social science data infrastructure. He is currently leading the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project (joint with Katie Genadek) and Data Sharing for Demographic Research. These projects are supported by awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Gates Foundation, the Ballmer Group, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President for Research. Prior to coming to ICPSR in 2017, Alexander initiated the Census Longitudinal Infrastructure Project at the Census Bureau and managed the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) at the University of Minnesota.
- Katie R. Genadek, Joseph Trent Alexander. 2022. The Missing Link: Data Capture Technology and the Making of a Longitudinal U.S. Census Infrastructure. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 44(4):57-66.
- Alexander, Joseph Trent, Massey, Catherine, Leibbrand, Christine , Tolnay, Stewart . 2019. Great Migration's great return? An examination of second-generation return migration to the South. Social Science Research 81:117-131.
- Alexander, Joseph Trent, Massey, Catherine, Leibbrand, Christine , Tolnay, Stewart . 2019. Neighborhood Attainment Outcomes for Children of the Great Migration. American Journal of Sociology 125(1):141-183.
- Susan Leonard, Joseph Trent Alexander, Maggie Levenstein, Kum, Hye-Chung , Akgün, Özgür , Antonie, Luiza , O'Hara, Amy . 2018. Establishing an International Data Linkage Repository Workgroup Toward a Benchmarking Repository. International Journal of Population Data Science 3(4):..
- Alexander, Joseph Trent, Massey, Catherine, Genadek, Katie R, Gardner, Todd K, O'Hara, Amy . 2018. Linking the 1940 U.S. Census with modern data. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 51(4):246-257.
- Alexander, Joseph Trent, Andersen, Robert , Cookson, Peter W, Edin, Kathryn , Fisher, Jonathan , Grusky, David B, Mattingly, Marybeth , Varner, Charles . 2017. A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 672(1):143-161.
- Joseph Trent Alexander. 2012. Gender and the ‘Laws of Migration’: A Reconsideration of Nineteenth‐century Patterns. Social Science History 36(2):223-241.
- Joseph Alexander. 2011. Frozen Film and FOSDIC Forms: Restoring the 1960 Census of Population and Housing. Frozen Film andFOSDICForms:Restoringthe 1960 Census of Population andHousing 44(2):69-78.
- Joseph Alexander. 2010. Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications. Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications