The day care center
is located in an absorption center near Jerusalem. These are the
children of recent
Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia. Professor Bell traveled to Israel
with the Fulbright Program.
Research Interests: Quantitative
Methods of Research, Qualitative Methods of Research, Social Demography,
and Sociology of Law.
Patricia Bell is Professor and Head of the
Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University and has been
a member of the faculty since 1981. She received her Ph.D.
from the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of expertise include
social research
design, sociology of law, and social demography. Dr. Bell has conducted
research and published in the areas of labor force participation,
migration, social mobility, census coverage, and undercount of the
African American population, among other topics. Dr. Bell has presented
research findings in international meetings around the globe, and
teaches classes on the topics of world population problems and immigrant
and ethnic minorities. Most recently she received a Fulbright Award
to travel in Israel and Jordan, and has taught in Central America.