Yuri Frantsuz
Research  |  2020-21

Russia

Project title: The Impact of Social, Economic and Political Inequalities on Health in Russia and CIS Countries

Host Department: UNM Political Science, Faculty Associate: Dr. Gabriel Sanchez

Dr. Yuri Frantsuz is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also an invited Lecturer at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Science of the St. Petersburg State University. He is a “kandidat nauk” in Economics of Population and Demography, and also received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. His areas of research interest include population theories and policies, social and political demography, sociology of health, and social inequality and health. The project on the impact of sociopolitical instability’s impact on demographic behavior in the USSR/post-Soviet Russia from the period from 1952 to 1998 has highlighted in a joint publication in the Q1 journal (Y. Frantsuz and E. Ponarin. The Impact of Societal Instability on the Demographic Behavior (Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: a Case Study), 2020. // Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 39, issue 6: 1087 – 1117).

Dr. Yuri Frantsuz carries several honor awards for teaching and mentorship of students at the universities of Russia and US, and he is a recipient of several prestigious research grants in the US and Europe.

“I had the great privilege of obtaining a Fulbright Research Fellowship and working with my mentor, Dr.G. Sanchez on investigating the impact of social and economic inequalities on health. I am deeply grateful to him and his colleagues for the opportunity to work together in Fulbright Scholar Program and UNM for their support.”