Editors in Chief

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, Duke University

Hedy Lee is a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University and Co-Director of the Duke Population Research Center Development Core. Her research explores the fundamental sociopolitical drivers of population health and health disparities. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she has authored articles spanning a diverse array of topics and disciplines, including criminology, demography, medicine, political science, public health, social work, and sociology. Hedy earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009, and her B.S. in Policy Analysis from Cornell University in 2003. She was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2011. Prior to her current roles at Duke, she served as a professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis (2017–2022) and the University of Washington (2011–2017). She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Scholars Strategy Network and serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

M. Giovanna Merli, Duke University

M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Global Health at Duke University and the Director of the Duke Population Research Center. Her research has applied demographic techniques to the study of fertility and mortality in China and Vietnam and has advanced innovative approaches to the study of hidden and hard-to-survey populations, such as the use of network sampling and the collection of ego-centric network data in population-representative surveys, to understand the behavioral and relational determinants of HIV transmission, immigrant health, and social integration of Chinese immigrants in the United States, France, and sub-Saharan Africa. She has published extensively in Demography—starting with her first-ever publication in the journal’s 35th volume in 1998—and other leading journals.

Giovanna earned her Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, following earlier training in international relations (M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Hopkins‒Nanjing Center) and Chinese studies (B.A., University of Venice). She has held visiting appointments at Bocconi University, INED, and Nuffield College, Oxford. She has served on the Board of the Population Association of America (2019‒2022), as Vice President of the Association of Population Centers (2020‒2022), and is the current Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research (2023‒2026). Before joining Duke University, she was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin‒Madison.

Marcos A. Rangel, Duke University

Marcos A. Rangel is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University. His research is on population economics and explores topics that primarily revolve around family-level decisions regarding childbearing and investments in health, education, and acquisition of skills. He pays particular attention to disparities related to race, ethnicity, and immigration status that emerge when studying those. He is an applied microeconomist working on an interdisciplinary agenda, with articles and collaborations spanning disciplines such as demography, sociology, political science, and developmental psychology. Marcos holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (2004) and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1997 and 1999). Prior to joining Duke, he held appointments at the University of Chicago (2004‒2007) and the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (2007‒2014), and a visiting scholar position at Princeton University (2012‒2014).