Associate Professor 
GH 763 
(215) 204 -1452 
gcondran@temple.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:
My current research builds on my previous work in the history of mortality change. I am completing a manuscript on the role of purposive action, including public health activities and changing medical technology, in the decline of mortality in Philadelphia in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. In that work I am emphasizing infant and early childhood mortality and diphtheria to speak to the debates about the sources of mortality change. 

Education: 
1974 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Phila. PA Demography 
1969 M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison WS Sociology 
1965 B.A. Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA, Sociology 

Selected Publications:
"Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City, 1625-1990." in David Rosner, ed. Hives of Sickness: Public and Epidemics in New York City, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 

"The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1930: The Role of Municipal Services," (with Henry Williams and Rose Cheney) Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1984. Reprinted p. 422-436 in J. Leavitt and R. Numbers, eds., Sickness and Health in America, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. 

"The Effect of Residential Segregation on Black Social and Economic Well-being," (with Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton) Social Forces, 66:29-56, 1987. 

"Decline in Mortality in the United States in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," Annuals de demographie historique 1988. 

"Family Change and Adolescent Well-being," pages 117-156 (with Frank Furstenberg) in Andrew Cherlin, ed., The Changing American Family and Public Policy, 1988. 

" A Relational Model of Mortality at Older Ages in Low Mortality Countries," (with Christine L. Himes and Samuel H. Preston) Population Studies, 48:269-291, 1994. 

" Child Mortality Differences, Personal Health Care Practices, and Medical Technology: the United States, 1900-1930," (with Samuel H. Preston) in Lincoln C. Chen, Arthur Kleinman, and Norma C. Ware, Health and Social Change in International Perspective, Harvard University Press, 1995.