Michael White is the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies at Brown University, where he is also Professor of Sociology and Director (as of 1 July 2016) of the initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences. Previously at Brown, he served as Chair of the Sociology Department and as director of the Population Studies and Training Center. White is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Honorary Research Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Asian Demographic Research Institute (Shanghai), and he is an associate editor of Demography. Prior to arriving at Brown in 1989, White taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and was a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington DC.-Faculty profile