Iftekhar Amin is a doctoral candidate in Sociology of Organization, University of North Texas. His research and teaching interests include aging, environment, research methods, marriage and family, and race/ethnic relations.

His dissertation focuses on the health care issues of U.S. retirees in Mexico through comparing retirees from different nations, and to suggest policy implications to reduce the current barriers U.S. retirees face in Mexico.  He collected data through three techniques: mail survey, focus groups, and interview surveys. He used SPSS for processing the structured questions on the questionnaire, and conducting bivariate and multivariate analyses to discover and substantiate patterns and relationships. It is expected that the findings of this research will have important policy implications as there is a rising concern about the future of Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid for the elderly.

 Amin has a strong teaching background. He had an excellent opportunity to teach a variety of courses in the Department of Sociology, the Department of Applied Gerontology, the Institute of Applied Economics, and the School of Community Service. He has successfully taught Race and Ethnic Minority, Quantitative Research Methods, World Population, Introduction to Sociology, Environment and Society, Social and Cultural Context of Aging, Minority Aging, and Microfinance in Developing Nation (Graduate level course). In addition to these courses, he is interested in teaching a variety of new courses.

 He has a strong research background with strong quantitative and qualitative research skills. He has been working as a Research Assistant in many funded projects at the Center for Public Service, University of North Texas. For example, he interviewed respondents, analyzed the results, and co-authored the report of a funded grant by Texas Department of Aging “State of Texas Senior Housing Assessment”. This report is available at http://www.dads.state.tx.us/news_info/publications/studies/KeyInformantWebPosting.pdf

 He also worked on a research “Parents Report about their Children” funded by the University of North Texas. He analyzed the data using SPSS and co-authored the project report, which has been published in Men and Masculinities. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, and presented in several conferences. He is the Associate Editor of the journal Sustainable Communities Review.

Amin holds an M.A. in Sociology from University of Texas at Arlington.