- Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin
Keera Allendorf
Associate Professor, Sociology
- kallendo@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-1540
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About Keera Allendorf
Keera Allendorf is an associate professor of Sociology and International Studies. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She also worked previously at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Allendorf's research focuses on family, gender, and health. She investigates how and why family behaviors vary and change over time and how family behaviors shape well-being in India and Nepal. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, and the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Selected publications
Allendorf, Keera. 2017. "Conflict and Compatibility? Developmental Idealism and Gendered Differences in Marital Choice." Journal of Marriage and Family 79(2):337-355.
Allendorf, Keera and Roshan K. Pandian. 2016. "The Decline of Arranged Marriage? Marital Change and Continuity in India." Population and Development Review 42(3):435-464.
Allendorf, Keera and Arland Thornton. 2015. "Caste and Choice: The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Marriage Behavior." American Journal of Sociology 121(1):243-287.
Allendorf, Keera. 2013. "Going Nuclear? Family Structure and Young Womens Health in India, 1992-2006." Demography 50(3):853-880.
Allendorf, Keera. 2013. "Schemas of Marital Change: From Arranged Marriages to Eloping for Love." Journal of Marriage and Family 75(2):453-469.
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