Holly Reed is a Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), a faculty associate of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR), and a faculty affiliate of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Her research focuses on migration (including forced migration), demographic dynamics, education, and health in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa—including Ghana, South Africa, and Nigeria. She has led a large mixed-methods fieldwork collection effort in Ghana and conducted qualitative interviews among immigrants and refugees in the United States. Her current research projects focus on understanding the availability of resources for and trajectories and outcomes of undocumented students at CUNY, and the determinants and consequences of forced migration flows globally. Professor Reed has published articles in journals such as Demography, Sociological Forum, Demographic Research, Sociology of Development, Health and Place, and African Population Studies.

Professor Reed previously served as a program officer for the Committee on Population of the National Academies in Washington, DC, where she wrote and edited reports on various international population issues, including urbanization and development, forced migration, maternal mortality, and fertility change.  Professor Reed teaches Introduction to Statistics (SOC 205) and a master’s-level course in Demography (SOC 736) at Queens College, and doctoral-level courses in Demography at the CUNY Graduate Center.