David Swanson

Director
david.swanson@ucr.edu
951.827.6398

David Swanson is a nationally known demographer who joined the UCR faculty in the fall of 2007 and was appointed interim Director of the Center on Jan. 1, 2008. He previously was Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department and Director of the Center for Population Studies at the University of Mississippi. 

He has more than 30 years of experience as an applied demographer, including recent research funded by the National Science Foundation in which he directed an on-the-ground census and sample survey to assess the impact of Hurricane Katrina on residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He has been at the University of Mississippi since 2003. 

His applied demography experience includes service as the Dean of the Helsinki School of Economics, Professor of Urban Studies at Portland State, and State Demographer in the Alaska Department of Labor. He also has conducted demographic research in Saudi Arabia.

Degrees:

Ph.D. Sociology and Population Studies, University of Hawaii, 1985.
MA, University of Hawaii.
Graduate Diploma, University of Stockholm.
B.Sc., Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University). 

Research Interests:

In addition to his study on Hurricane Katrina’s effects on Mississippi Gulf Coast residents, Dr. Swanson’s research has covered a wide range of topics including household energy and food consumption patterns, tourism and gaming revenues, health benefits, infant mortality and social inequality, and the consequences of demographic changes on a wide range of public and private sector issues. 

Juliann Allison

Associate Director
Juliann.allison@ucr.edu
951.827.4582

Juliann Allison is Associate Director of the Blakely Center. She received her Ph.D from the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the UCR faculty in 1997.

As Associate Director, Dr. Allison will be seeking to strengthen ties between the Center and UCR’s faculty by aiding research efforts, finding funding for graduate students and their research and identifying faculty members interested in the Center’s research projects.

Her teaching interests include international political economy and environmental politics. Her research efforts have been supported by the California Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Allison’s recent publications include: Creating Distributed Generation Policy to Improve Air Quality: "Can We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too?" Energy Policy Journal (forthcoming, written with former Center Director James Lents); "Information and International Politics: an Overview," in Technology, Development and Democracy: International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age. Albany: SUNY Press (2002); and Technology, Development and Democracy: International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age, ed. Albany: SUNY Press (2002).

Rick Burnham

Assistant Director
rick.burnham@ucr.edu
951.827.4103

Rick Burnham is the Center’s Assistant Director. He has more than 25 years’ experience as a business writer and editor for newspapers in California and Michigan, including nearly 15 years with The Press-Enterprise. He has written for regional and national magazines, including California Builder, Road & Track, Westways and Parenting. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University and has completed several college courses in real estate technology and telecommunications.

Shayna Conaway

Finance, Outreach & Extramural Funds Administrator
shayna.conaway@ucr.edu
951.827.7830

Shayna Conaway joined CSSD in 2004 as the Finance and Event Manager. Before joining the Center, she worked as a Financial Analyst in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean’s Office at UCR where she assisted with the financial management of CSSD from its inception. Prior to coming to Riverside, Shayna worked in mortgage banking finance. She received her B.A. degree from California State University, Fresno in 1992.

Judy Swineford

Office Administration & Project Support Specialist
judysw@ucr.edu
951.827.7945

Judy Swineford is the Center’s Contract Manager. Before joining CSSD in May 2004, Swineford worked for the College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology at UCR and for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. She has conducted field measurements and data review for the Southern California Ozone Study, worked in the Environmental Policy Studies group developing emission inventories, identifying and evaluating new and emerging air pollution control technologies, and researching alternatives in solid waste transport. Swineford has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management from the University of La Verne.