Victor Agadjanian

About

Victor Agadjanian is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA Sociology. His approach to research involves starting from scratch by developing exciting ideas, selecting a place on the world map to explore them, designing plans, building teams, obtaining funding, and learning local languages if necessary. He emphasizes collecting and analyzing data as part of his process, continuously generating new ideas through this cycle. His work reflects a hands-on, exploratory methodology aimed at understanding social phenomena through detailed fieldwork and data analysis.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Geography
• Demography
• Demographic economics
• Economics
• Law
• Economic growth
• Socioeconomics
• Gender studies

Selected publications

• Bridewealth Marriage in the 21st Century: A Case Study from Rural Mozambique

  Journal of Marriage and Family · 2020 · 43 citations

  OBJECTIVE: This study examines trends over several decades in bridewealth marriage and analyzes the association of bridewealth with women's experiences in marriage in a rural sub-Saharan setting. BACKGROUND: Bridewealth - payments from the groom's to the bride's family as part of the marriage process - has long been a central element of kinship and marriage systems in patrilineal sub-Saharan Africa. This payment, which symbolizes the transfer of sexual and reproductive rights from the wife's to…

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• The Contradictions of Liminal Legality: Economic Attainment and Civic Engagement of Central American Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status

  Social Problems · 2020 · 36 citations

  This study examines how Temporary Protected Status (TPS) may shape immigrants' integration trajectories. Building on core themes identified in the immigrant incorporation scholarship, it investigates whether associations of educational attainment with labor market outcomes and with civic participation, which are well established in the general population, hold for immigrants who live in the "liminal legality" of TPS. Conducted in 2016 in five U.S. metropolitan areas, the study is based on a uniq…

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• Revisiting the polygyny and intimate partner violence connection: The role of religion and wife's rank in Nigeria

  Journal of Marriage and the Family · 2021-07-12 · 19 citations

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  Objective: The study examines the association between polygyny and intimate partner violence (IPV) by focusing on the Muslim-vs.-Christian context of polygyny and on co-wives' rank. Background: Although prior research points to a higher incidence of IPV in polygynous unions, the association between polygyny and IPV are not well understood. In particular, the role of broader cultural and religious context of marriage and its connection with intra-marital dynamics have not been examined. Method: T…

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• Men's migration and women's mortality in rural Mozambique

  Social Science & Medicine · 2020 · 13 citations

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• Imperial legacies, nation building, and geopolitics: ethno-regional divides and the Russian language in Central Asia

  Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2021-10-01 · 12 citations

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  Post-imperial ethnic identities and divides are often constructed and construed through direct and indirect references to imperial legacies. In this study, we use nationally representative survey data to examine proficiency, use, and valuation of the Russian language - a major such legacy of the Soviet empire - in Kyrgyzstan, a multiethnic Central Asian nation with a long and complex history of ethnic and regional cleavages. The multivariable analyses produce instructive net variations in Russia…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03HD045129

  NIH · $150k · 2007

• NIH Grant R03HD044020

  NIH · $150k · 2006

• NIH Grant R01HD058365

  NIH · $2.0M · 2014

Frequent coauthors

• Sarah R. Hayford

  The Ohio State University

  23 shared

• Cecilia Menjívar

  University of California, Los Angeles

  16 shared

• Natalia Zotova

  Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  14 shared

• Boaventura Manuel Cau

  Eduardo Mondlane University

  9 shared

• Lesia Nedoluzhko

  8 shared

• Scott T. Yabiku

  Pennsylvania State University

  8 shared

• Arusyak Sevoyan

  7 shared

• Premchand Dommaraju

  Nanyang Technological University

  7 shared

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