Dr. Taquino provides direction for the center’s research, data, and analysis activities and provides oversight for NSPARC’s multidisciplinary scientific team of sociologists, economists, statisticians, geoscientists, and industrial engineers. NSPARC’s scientific team specializes in data modeling and forecasting, social and economic impact research, analytics to support workforce and economic development, and research to drive policy development.
Dr. Taquino has more than 20 years of experience engaging in basic and applied research and managing large-scale, multidisciplinary projects. His work can be found in technical reports, policy briefs and journals such as American Sociological Review, Demography, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, and Rural Sociology. He holds doctoral degrees in Sociology from Mississippi State University and Human Sciences from the University of Catania, Italy.
