Rania Tfaily

Biography

Rania Tfaily holds a PhD in demography from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught various undergraduate sociology courses (Studies in Population, Quantitative Research methods, Sociology of the Family, Women in Contemporary Middle East Societies, Classical Sociological Theory, Power and Stratification, Advanced Studies in the Sociology of the Family, Studies in Urban Sociology) as well as graduate courses in social statistics and demographic analysis. Her research has been published in highly regarded, refereed journals in the field of demography in three different research areas: educational inequalities; health and aging; and marriage and fertility. Her work on education examines the impact of family background on educational inequality, the interrelations between educational inequality and conflicts, and the intergenerational transmission of educational inequality. In the area of marriage and fertility, she has examined religious differentials in fertility and the relationship between polygyny and HIV. Her research interests in sociology of health focuses on racial/ethnic disparities in health in Canada and the United States. Rania has supervised and mentored a number of graduate students and has acted as a consultant on data analysis.

Research Interest

Social Demography; Inequality in Education; Sociology of the Family; Health Disparities; Quantitative Methods