Miguel Ceballos

Miguel Ceballos (mceballos2@unl.edu) is an assistant Professor of Sociology and the Institute for Ethnic Studies. He received a B.A. in Chicano Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, an M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, an M.S. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to coming to Lincoln, Miguel held a National Institute of Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Population Studies Center of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. His current research interests are focused on the demography and sociology of Latino health and health disparities of ethnic minority populations, the process of migration and acculturation in the United States, and the role of social networks and social capital in U.S.-Mexico migration. He is currently analyzing a National Science Foundation-funded survey, of the Latino community in the Midwest to better understand the effects of the acculturative process on maternal and infant health.