Joe Costanzo
Instructor
Office: 0117 Caroline Hall | Phone: 202-460-3049 | Email
M.A. Applied Demography, 1998, Georgetown University; B.A. Political Science, 1993, Pennsylvania State University
Throughout Joe Costanzo's Washington, DC-based professional life (1993 to 2007), he wore many different hats as a Researcher, Analyst, Demographer, Consultant, Survey Statistician, and Acting Chief (of Immigration Statistics and of International Relations) for government agencies and think tanks alike. He worked on issues including human trafficking, the redesigned U.S. Naturalization Test, immigrant integration, and illegal migration.
In 2007 Costanzo left his full-time civil service career behind to become a PhD student in the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of Maryland. A selection of his doctoral research is available online.
Costanzo's doctoral research interests include: collective actions and movements (protests and parades), immigrant organizations and integration, collective memory, environment-behavior-society (EBS), and applying research designs and techniques to studying "difficult" populations (illegal migrants) and events (protests).
Costanzo sits on the advisory board of the Masters Concentration in Public Sociology at American University.
Costanzo is teaching URSP600 Research Design in Spring 2009.