Organizational Structure

DSDR National Advisory Committee

DSDR seeks guidance from a National Advisory Committee. The committee provides advice to project leadership about important policy and procedural matters as well as guidance on archive development and dataset identification and acquisition.

• Roberta Balstad, Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
• Larry L. Bumpass, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Wisconsin
• Bill Butz, President/CEO, Population Reference Bureau
• Julia Lane, Program Director, Economics, National Science Foundation
• Wendy Manning, Professor of Sociology, Bowling Green State University
• Bob Michael, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

DSDR Steering Committee

The Steering committee oversees the operational plans of the project.

• Christine Bachrach, Chief, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Barbara Entwisle, Director, Carolina Population Center
• Myron Gutmann, ICPSR and Population Studies Center
• Amy Pienta, Acquisitions Director, ICPSR
• Steve Ruggles, Director, Minnesota Population Center

DSDR Technical Leadership Group

The Technical Leadership Group oversees technical issues and identifies potential problems and solutions that affect data dissemination. This group also develops schedules for workshops and for training programs involving project data and methods.

• Felicia LeClere, Director
• Bryan Beecher, Director, Computer and Network Services, ICPSR
• Barbara Entwisle, Director, Carolina Population Center
• Russel Hathaway, Data Sharing for Demographic Research
• Lisa Neidert, Population Studies Center
• Tim van Acker, Carolina Population Center
• William Block, Minnesota Population Center

DSDR Project Staff

• Felicia LeClere, Director
• Russel Hathaway, Research Associate
• Brian Madden, Research Assistant
• Sanda Ionescu, Research Assistant
• Elizabeth Moss, Research Assistant