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Holly Hummer

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Assistant Professor of Sociology @ UBC, PhD from Harvard. Studying family, fertility, & childlessness. Also, cookbook obsessed.

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Assistant Professor This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

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26.09.2025 15:34 👍 30 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 2
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New Web Application Launch: Explore Fertility Trends Across Countries from 1891 to 2023 - Flux Consortium We are excited to announce the release of our new interactive web application, “Fertility Statistics Visualization Tool (1891–2023)”, now available...

📊 Are you interested in fertility trends in different countries? Try FLUX's new web application!

🔍 The application uses high-quality demographic data and automatically updates with the latest available information.

#demography #fertility

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06.08.2025 11:16 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 3
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A nice view of Rainier on my way to #PAA2025. Excited to be presenting (some ~qual~ projects) in the fertility & social context session on Fri and a poster in the family demography session on Sat!

10.04.2025 22:19 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New blog! 📢 Check out @hollyhummer.bsky.social's essay on women's family decision-making during #COVID19

TLDR: It's a good time *not* to have children. 

Read it here: contexts.org/blog/gendere...

09.01.2024 18:59 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Excited to read this and use it for my dissertation in the future!

07.11.2023 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Claudia as detective with her dog by her side.

Claudia as detective with her dog by her side.

I love this image from the Nobel summary of Claudia Goldin's contributions:

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09.10.2023 13:02 👍 38 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

First post on here, hi everyone! I'm Holly, a PhD candidate at Harvard studying family, gender, and fertility. My dissertation focuses on women's childlessness, asking how this historically non-normative family status is experienced by women in both the United States and Japan.

02.10.2023 17:31 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0