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238 Townshend Hall
1885 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292.6681
Fax: (614) 292.6687

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Reanne Frank

Assistant Professor

Office: 219 Townshend
Phone: 614.247.4679
Email: frank.219@sociology.osu.edu

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin, 2002


Research Interests:

Demography; immigration/migration, health and mortality, race/ethnicity. Current research focuses on the ways in which demographic outcomes are influenced by the migration process, with specific attention to the case of the U.S.-Mexico migration flow. Most recent work focuses on the role of changing immigrant settlement patterns and different social contexts in contributing to the health and health-risk behaviors of first-, second-, and later-generation immigrants in the United States. More recently, research includes an investigation of the reemergence of a biological conceptualization of race in research on race/ ethnic disparities in health.


Recent Publications:

  • Akresh, Ilana Redstone and Reanne Frank.* Forthcoming. “The Health of New Immigrants: an Evaluation of Competing Explanations.” American Journal of Public Health. *Authors are listed in alphabetical order denoting equal contributions.
  • Frank, Reanne, Magdalena Cerda, and Maria Rendon. Forthcoming. “Barrios and Burbs: Residential Context and Health-Risk Behavior among Angeleno Adolescents.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
  • Frank, Reanne. 2007. “What to Make of It? the (Re)emergence of a Biological Conceptualization of Race in Health Disparities Research” Social Science and Medicine 64(10): 1977-1983.
  • Frank, Reanne and Danielle Frank. 2006. “Race and Genetic Influences on Health-Letter.” JAMA 295(4): 384-5.
  • Frank, Reanne and Patrick Heuveline. 2005. “A Crossover in Mexican and Mexican-American Fertility Rates: Evidence and Explanations for an Emerging Paradox.” Demographic Research. 12-4.
  • Frank, Reanne and Elizabeth Wildsmith*. 2005. “The Grass Widows of Mexico: Migration and Union Dissolution in a Binational Context.” Social Forces. 83(3): 919-948. *Authors are listed in alphabetical order denoting equal contributions.