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Department of Sociology
University of British Columbia
Office: AnSo 1325
Phone: (604) 827-3083
E-mail: nlauster(at)interchange.ubc.ca
B.A. (Purdue University)
M.A. (Washington State University)
Ph.D. (Brown University)
Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Minnesota)
Research Methods, Life Course & Family, Housing & Built Environment, Demography.
Housing, Population, Family, Cultural Change, Status & Inequality.
Current research activities include principle investigation on the SSHRC-funded project, "Proper Housing and the Valued Family: A Cross National Study." The study explores historical change in what sort of housing becomes considered appropriate for families to live in. Quantitative historical data will be matched to contemporary life course data, obtained through surveys and qualitative interviews across three countries: Canada, Sweden, and the United States. The study will ultimately attempt to link housing concerns and declines in access to proper housing to declines in fertility and other widespread cultural changes in the family. Other research activities include a co-investigator role on the SSHRC-funded study, "'Iglurjuaq' in transition: An historical analysis of Inuit housing policy." Together with Pascaline Nsekera, Nathan Lauster co-founded the Illustrated Journey Project, an attempt to bring refugee youth together with comic book artists to help them tell their stories about the journey to Canada.
Mulder, Clara & Nathanael Lauster (forthcoming) "Introduction to the Special Issue on Housing and Family." Housing Studies. Special Issue on Housing and the Family. ed. C. Mulder & N. Lauster.
Lauster, Nathanael (forthcoming) "Housing and the Proper Performance of American Motherhood, 1940-2005." Housing Studies. Special Issue on Housing and the Family. ed. C. Mulder & N. Lauster.
Lauster, Nathanael and Adam Easterbrook (2008) "Home Ownership and Housing." Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. Ed. Deborah Carr. MacMillan Reference.
Lauster, Nathanael (2008) "Better Homes and Families: Housing Markets and Young Couple Stability in Sweden." Journal of Marriage and Family 70.4: 891-903.
Lauster, Nathanael (2006) "A Room of One's Own or Room Enough for Two? Housing and Leaving Home for Family and Non-Family Destinations in Sweden, 1968-1992." Population Research and Policy Review 25.4: 329 - 351.
Lauster, Nathanael and Urban Fransson (2006) "Of Marriages and Mortgages: The Second Demographic Transition and the Relationship between Marriage and Home Ownership in Sweden." Housing Studies 21.6: 911 - 929.
Guttman, Myron, Glenn Deanne, Nathanael Lauster and Andres Peri (2005) "Two Population-Environment Regimes in the Great Plains of the United States, 1930-1990". Population and Environment 27.2: 191 - 225.
Lauster, Nathanael (2002) "Hem Ljuva Hem: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Access to Home Ownership in Sweden, 1972-1992." Scandinavian Population Studies 13: 171 - 190.
Lindstrom, David and Nathanael Lauster (2001) "Local Economic Opportunity and the Competing Risks of Internal and U.S. Migration in Zacatecas, Mexico." International Migration Review 35.4: 1232 - 1256.