Frank Trovato, PhD, MA, BA Honours

Professor Emeritus Sociology, Faculty of Arts - Sociology Dept

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Professor Emeritus Sociology, Faculty of Arts - Sociology Dept
Email
ftrovato@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Population Studies Demographic Methods Population Health Family Demography Macrosociology Fertility Mortality Migration


About

Frank Trovato (PhD, University of Western Ontario, 1983)

My research explores phenomena at the intersections of demography, social epidemiology and sociology, covering such topics as sex differences in cause specific mortality and life expectancy across industrialized countries, trends in youth suicide, immigrant health and mortality differentials, the geographic mobility of immigrants, the social demography of indigenous populations, and Canadian fertility in historical and contemporary contexts. My current research looks at trends and patterns of fertility in Alberta, as well as cause specific mortality fluctuations in relation to changing economic conditions in this province. Among my recent works, I have edited Migration, Health and Survival - International Perspectives (2017, Edward Elgar), a volume comprising research by leading international scholars examining the health conditions of immigrant populations in selected European countries and in Australia, Canada, and the United States. With Anatole Romaniuk, I co-edited Aboriginal Populations - Social, Demographic and Epidemiological Perspectives (University of Alberta Press, 2014). This book features works contributed by Indigenous Studies scholars from Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand. The volume was a finalist in the 2015 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. The first edition of my textbook, Canada's Population in a Global Context - An Introduction to Social Demography (2009, 2015, Oxford University Press) was awarded the Nathan Keyfitz Book Prize for an outstanding contribution to Canadian demography. Through my professional involvements, I have contributed significantly to the advancement of population studies in Canada. I have served as President of the Canadian Population Society and have participated as member of Statistics Canada’s Scientific Advisory Committees in connection with the development of population projections of the Aboriginal and visible minority populations of Canada. I have served on the editorial boards of Social Forces and Sociological Perspectives, and as series editor for Oxford University Press’ Studies on Canadian Population. For over a decade, I edited the journal Canadian Studies in Population, now owned and published by Springer Nature. 

Featured Publications

Were, Jason Mulimba, Gregory Farmer, Claire Benny, Brendan T. Smith, Shelby Yamamoto, Katerina Maximova, Candace I.J. Nykiforuk, Frank Trovato, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Arjumand Siddiqi, and Roman Pabayo

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2025 May; (2025):1-11


Frank Trovato

Kendall Hunt. 2023 August;


Frank Trovato

Canadian Review of Sociology. 2021 November; 58 (4):476-491


Frank Trovato

Journal of International Migration and Integration. 2020 June; 21 (2):351-379


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Edward Elgar. 2017 November;


Frank Trovato

Cahiers québécois de démographie. 2016 August; 45 (1):27-49


Frank Trovato

Review of Religious Research. 2016 June; 58 (1):271-284


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Oxford University Press. 2015 June;


Frank Trovato, Anatole Romaniu,

University of Alberta Press. 2014 August;


Frank Trovato

Canadian Studies in Population. 2010 December; 37 (3-4):497 - 524


Frank Trovato and N.M. Lalu

Biodemography and Social Biology. 2010 February; 43 (1):20-37


Frank Trovato and Nils B. Heyen

Journal of Biosocial Science. 2006 May; 38 (3):391-401.


Ron Budinski and Frank Trovato

Canadian Studies in Population. 2005 December; 32 (1):69-95


Frank Trovato

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. 2005 December; 2005 (1):17-52


Melinda Mills and Frank Trovato

Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. 2001 February; 18 (1):103-118


Frank Trovato

Social Forces. 1998 September; 77 (1):105-126


Catherine Krull and Frank Trovato

Social Forces. 1994 May; 72 (4):1121-1147


Frank Trovato and Dave Odynak

Canadian Studies in Population. 1993 December; 20 (1):1-41


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International Migration Review. 1988 December; 22 (3):59-86


Frank Trovato

Social Forces. 1987 December; 66 (2):463-485


Frank Trovato and George K. Jarvis

Social Forces. 1986 December; 65 (2):433-457 10.1093/sf/65.2.433


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