Dr. Berry’s main research is in the general area of cross-cultural psychology.  He is currently working on projects dealing with acculturation, intercultural relations, and ecological factors in human behavior, especially in the areas of immigration, family and cognition.

In the area of acculturation, Berry’s research involves the comparative study (with colleagues in 13 countries) of how first and second generation immigrant youth are adapting socially, psychologically and academically in their "new" societies. Making sense of their parental (heritage) culture and their peer culture involves acculturation and identity strategies that are considered to affect these three kinds of adaptation. A description of this project can be found on the project website http://www.ceifo.su.se/icsey/intro.html. A book (co-authored with Jean Phinney, David Sam and Paul Vedder), Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition was published by Lawrence Erlbaum in 2006.  With David Sam, Berry recently published another volume on acculturation: The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology, Cambridge University Press in 2006. This volume brings together critical overviews of various aspects of acculturation by 36 leading researchers from many regions of the world.  Berry is also involved with studies of mutual attitudes and intercultural strategies, and the personal and social consequences of these relationships, for members of ethnocultural groups and the larger society. This research is currently underway in nine countries in Europe, and in China, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.  Berry has also just completed a study of family structure and function in 30 countries.

Research Interests:  Sociobehavioral theory; distributive justice; status; international migration; inequality; probability distributions; mathematical methods for theory building; factorial survey methods for empirical analysis.  International Affiliations: Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate, National Science Foundation; Scientific Advisory Board, DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung -- German Institute for Economic Research); Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations; Board of Directors, DIW DC (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung -- German Institute for Economic Research).

Kenneth Land is an elected fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the American Statistical Association, the Sociological Research Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.  He is well known in criminology for his work on statistical models for the analysis of crime and victimization rates and for his contributions to crime opportunity theory.  His expansive research and scholarly interests include Mathematical Sociology/ Demography (population mathematics, stochastic models of social processes, models for age-period-cohort analysis, models of macro social change); Social Statistics; Demography; Organizations and Markets; and Social Indicators, Social Trends, and Social Forecasts.  Land is immediate past Editor of Demography and SINET: Social Indicators Network News and a Founding Member of the Editorial Board of Social Science Research.

Dr. Whitaker has been at Northern Michigan University since 1997, where he has served as Professor and Head.  He is Founding Editor of Brain & Language and Brain & Cognition and Consulting Editor for the journal The Mental Lexicon. For his research in neuropsychology and neurolinguistics, he was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Division 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) in 1986 and for his research in the history of psychology he was elected a Fellow of APA’s Division 26 (History) in 1997. Current research projects include: Editor of the section on language and brain, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2 (published by Elsevier Science), Editor (with C. Smith and S. Finger) of Brain, Mind and Medicine: Neuroscience in the 18th Century (to be Published by Springer), and Author of INTRODUCTION TO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: Neurological and Psychological Dimensions.

Richard Whatmore was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and holds a doctorate from the former. He is Acting Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, a Fellow of Royal Historical Society, editor of the Elsevier journal History of European Ideas, and has taught at the University of Sussex since 1993.  Whatmore’s research focuses on French, British and Swiss intellectual history during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  At undergraduate level Whatmore teaches courses on Enlightenment thought, the French Revolutionary period, and the history of democracy.  At the postgraduate level he teaches on the Intellectual History MA and supervises doctoral and MPhil students interested in early modern politics, political economy and religion.

Henry Wai-chung Yeung received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1995. He has been Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore since July 2005. He was a recipient of the National University of Singapore Outstanding University Researcher Award (1998) and Outstanding Research Award (2008), the Institute of British Geographers Economic Geography Research Group Best Published Paper Award (1998), the Commonwealth Fellowship (2002), the Fulbright Foreign Research Award (2003), and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Team Residency in Bellagio (2005). His research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, Asian firms and their overseas operations and Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region.

Professor Yeung has published widely on transnational corporations from developing countries, in particular Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian Newly Industrialised Economies. He is the author of Transnational Corporations and Business Networks (Routledge, London, 1998), Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002) and Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era (Routledge, London, 2004), and co-author of Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (Blackwell, Oxford, 2007).  He has over 85 research papers published or forthcoming in internationally refereed journals and 40 chapters in books.

Barbara studied political science and Arabic at the University of Vienna.  Her 2004 dissertation on “Negotiating Life: The Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning in Israel,” was awarded the “Best Dissertation” prize by the Austrian Political Science Association.  She has held research positions at UC San Francisco (USA), at the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Cardiff University, Wales, UK; and at the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology at St Thomas Hospital, King’s College, London.  She has also held visiting positions as a Professor of International Studies at Ramkamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, and at the Institute for Social Research, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.  Her credentials also include teaching comparative politics and the governance of genetics & genomics at the University of Vienna; giving seminars in political theory, constitutional law/politics, and qualitative research methods at the Austrian Academy for Security Forces, the Austrian Vocational-Pedagogic Academy, and the Renner Institute in Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Peter Schmidt is a Professor at the Institute for Political Science, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen), Karl-Glöckner Str. 21 E 35394, Giessen, Germany.  He studied sociology, political science, and statistics at the Universities of Cologne and Mannheim, earning his PhD in 1969.  Since 1981, he has served as  a Professor of Empirical Social Research in Giessen.  He is also Co-Director of the International Scientific Educational Laboratory of Socio-Cultural Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.