K.A.S. Wickrama K.A.S. Wickrama
Professor

Education:
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1992
M.S., Agricultural University of Norway, 1982
B.S., Univeristy of Ceylon, 1971

Office: 70 LeBaron
Phone: (515) 294-7726
Email: s2kas@iastate.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

  • Advanced methods for social and behavioral research
  • Influences of socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, family and community on physical and mental health of youth and adults
  • Health of immigrants
  • International health and development

Teaching Responsibilities:

  • Statistical methods
  • Research methods
  • Multi-level modeling for social and behavioral sciences.

Professional Organizations:

  • American Sociological Association
  • Society for International Development.

Recent Presentations and Selected Publications:

Wickrama, K. A. S., Glen H. Elder and William Abraham. 2007. "Rurality, Acculturation and Adolescent Physical Illness: Are Children of Growing Rural Latino Population at Excess Health Risk?" Journal of Rural Health, 23, 228-237.

Wickrama, K. A. S., Rand D. Conger and William Abraham. 2005. "Early Risks and Later Health: The Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Adversity through Mental Disorder and Physical Illness." Journal of Gerontology, A Special Issue, 60B:125-129.

Wickrama, K.A.S, Frederick O. Lorenz; Rand D. Conger and Glen Elder. Jr. (2005) "Gendered Trajectories of Work Control and Health Outcomes in the Middle Years: A Perspective from the Rural Midwest." Journal of Aging and Health, 17:.754-806.

Wickrama, K. A. S. , Micheal Merton and Glen H. Elder. Jr. 2005 "Community influence on adolescent precocious development: Racial differences and mental health consequences." Journal of Community Psychology:33:639-653.

Wickrama, K. A. S., Samuel Noh and Chalandra Bryan, 2005 "Racial Differences in Adolescent Distress: Differential Effects of the Family and Community for Blacks and Whites" Journal of Community Psychology, 33:261-282.

Beiser, Morton and K. A. S. Wickrama. 2004. "Trauma and Memory: A study of Temporal Reintegration and Mental Health Among Southeast Asian Refugees." The Psychological Medicine 34:1-12.

Wickrama. K. A. S., and Chalandra M. Bryant. 2003. "Community Context and Adolescent Mental Health." Journal of Marriage & Family 65:850-866.

Wickrama, K. A. S., Rand D. Conger, and Lora E. Wallace. 2003 "Linking Early Social Risks to Impaired Physical Health during the Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44:61-74.

Wickrama. K. A. S. 2003. "Group-based Financial and Social Intermediation as a Strategy for Poverty Alleviation: What we have learned?" Journal of Rural Development 1:74-96.