You're missing a photo of Hollingsworth J. Selwyn Hollingsworth (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1970) is a sociologist- demographer with a special interest in Latin America. His research interests include the sociology and the demography of Alabama, the United States, and Latin America. Specific areas of research interest include demographic profiles, infant mortality, internal migration, the incidence of cross-racial births (and the problems of mixed-race people with respect to self-identity), social change/modernization/development, aging, epilepsy, health care delivery, values and value orientations, human ecology, social stratification, and urbanization. Hollingsworth has taught and/or conducted research in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Mexico. He is currently working on a demographic profile of Alabama

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Selected Publications

1996. Editor, Demographic and Structural Change: The Effects of the 1980s on American Society. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (with Dennis Peck).

1993. Population Changes in Alabama's Black Belt. Montgomery, AL: Center for Demographic and Cultural Research, Auburn University at Montgomery.

1986. Three chapters in Jesus Arroyo and William Winnie (eds.) La migracion hacia las seis ciudades menores de Jalisco. Mexico City: The Ford Foundation.

1981. Prevalence of Epilepsy in a Rural Alabama County. American Journal of Rural Health 7(5): 35-45.

1978. Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, and Epilepsy in Alabama: A Sociological Approach. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.

1977. How Does a Handicapped Child Affect the Family? Implications for Practitioners. The Family Coordinator. July, pp. 286-93. (With William Dunlap).

1977. Variations in Valuations by Age in a Developing Country. Journal of Gerontology 29(1): 676-83. (With Irving L. Webber and David W. Coombs).

1974. Three chapters in Valores, desarollo e historia: Popayan, Medellin, Cali, y el valle del Cauca. Bogota: Ediciones Tercer Mundo.

1974. Urbanization and Industrialization in Latin America. Regional Development: Concepts and Principles. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State.

1969. A Cross-Cultural Study of the Relationships between Family Types and Forms of Social Stratification. Journal of Marriage and Family Living. May, pp. 322-27.