Loretta E. Bass

Biography

Loretta came to the University of Oklahoma in 1999 after earning her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and completing a two-year appointment within the Fertility and Family Branch of the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. Loretta is a demographer who focuses her research on stratification issues in the United States, Africa and Europe. Her book, African Immigrant Families Another France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), examines the integration experiences of international migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa to France. Her prior book, Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004), offers a window on the lives of child workers in 43 African countries.She is currently the Series Editor for the Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY), and serves on the Editorial Board for the journals Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Population Research and Policy Review and Current Sociology. Additionally, she serves as Past-President of Research Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood, within the International Sociological Association (ISA) and is a past Chair of the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Children and Youth Section.

Research Interest

International Migration, Child Labor, Children and Families, Stratification Issues, Demography