Office: ELA 236
Phone: 245-2479
E-Mail: dm28@txstate.edu

I received my undergraduate degree in Architecture and Planning from the Indian Institute of Technology (1992), master's in Geography and Planning from the University of Toledo (1996), and Ph.D. in Sociology from Bowling Green State University . My areas of interest are demography, quantitative methods, family, and issues related to South Asia . I like to understand societies and peoples from a global perspective and I strive to bring different points of view into my classes. As you can tell my path to Sociology has been a bit circuitous starting with Architecture in India and culminating in a doctoral degree in the US . I was first introduced to Sociology as an elective course while I was pursuing my undergraduate degree in India . Little did I know then that this was going to be my career. Nevertheless, my multidisciplinary background has actually helped me appreciate this field better and has broadened my horizons; and ending up in Sociology is the best thing that has happened to me. Some of the classes I teach on a regular basis are Applied Data Analysis, Advanced Social Statistics, and Population Dynamics.

My research, thus far, has been on issues related to families and adolescent health. My current work is related to the understanding of differences in risky behaviors among African American, Hispanic, and white adolescents and the associated factors. In the future, in addition to my current interests, I intend to study issues pertaining to South Asian families in developed nations.

Majumdar, Debarun. 2005. “Explaning Adolescent Sexual Risks by Race and Ethnicity: Importance of Individual, Familial, and Extra-familial Factors.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family 31(1):19-37.

Majumdar, Debarun, Roque Mendez. 2004. “The Influence of Parental Authoritativeness and Parental Affect on Risky Sexual Behaviors among Adolescents.” American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco .