Post-Doctoral Associate. History, University of Minnesota, 1997-1998

B.A. summa cum laude, History and Philosophy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1986

Ph.D. American History, University of Minnesota, 1997

Principal Research Scientist, IPUMS-International Project Manager, Minnesota Population Center, 2001-

Managing Editor, Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, 1998-2001

Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 1998

Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Minnesota, 1997-1998

Instructor, University of Minnesota, Dept. of History, 1994

Research Assistant, University of Minnesota, 1989-1997

Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, 1987-1989

Administrative Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1987-1988

Harriet Schoonover Memorial Fellowship, Univ. of Minnesota, 1987-1988

University Fellowship, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1986-1987

Walter Craddock Memorial Scholarship, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fall 1985

University Academic Scholarship, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1981-1982

Co-Investigator, "Integrated Samples of Eurasian Censuses." National Institutes of Health. Principal Investigator, Robert McCaa. $2.5 million. 2010-2015.

Co-Investigator, "International Integrated Microdata Series." National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator, Steven Ruggles. $6.0 million. 2009-2014.

Co-Investigator, "Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses." National Institutes of Health. Principal Investigator, Robert McCaa. $2.5 million. 2008-2013.

Principal Investigator, subcontract, "American Time Use Survey: Data Access System." National Institutes of Health. Principal Investigator, Katherine Abraham. $1.2 million subcontract. 2006-2011.

Principal Investigator, "Tanzania Census Microdata Sample Project." University of Tromso, Norway. $30 thousand. 2006-2007.

Co-Investigator, "Integrated Samples of European Censuses." National Institutes of Health. Co-Principal Investigators: Robert McCaa, Miriam King, Deborah Levison, and Steven Ruggles. 2004-2009.

Co-Investigator, "Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses, 1960-2003." R01 HD044154-01, National Institutes of Health. Co-Principal Investigators: Robert McCaa, Miriam King, Deborah Levison, and Steven Ruggles. Total award: $2.9 million. 2003-2008.

Co-Investigator, "IPUMS-Redesign." R01 HD43392, National Institutes of Health. Co-Principal Investigators: Miriam King, Carolyn Liebler, and Steven Ruggles. Total award: $2.6 million. 2002-2007.

Co-Investigator, "International Integrated Microdata Access System." SBR-9908380, National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators: Steven Ruggles, Robert McCaa, Deborah Levison, and Miriam King. Total award: $3.5 million. 1999-2004.

McCaa, Robert, Albert Esteve, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek. "Using Integrated Census Microdata for Evidence-Based Policy Making: The IPUMS-International Global Initiative." African Statistical Journal 2 (2006): 83-100.

Sobek, Matthew. "Occupations." [and Managing Editor] In Susan Carter et al., eds., Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

McCaa, Robert, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek. "Integrated Census Microdata Samples for Scientific Research and Teaching." Estrala 8 (August 2005): 25-31.

McCaa, Robert, Albert Esteve, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek. "La Integración de los Microdatos Censales de América Latina: El Proyecto IPUMS." Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos 20 (Spring 2005) 37-70.

Esteve, Albert, and Matthew Sobek. "Challenges and Methods of International Census Harmonization." Historical Methods 36 (Spring 2003): 66-79.

Ruggles, Steven, Miriam King, Deborah Levison, Robert McCaa and Matthew Sobek. "IPUMS-International." Historical Methods 36 (Spring 2003): 60-65.

Ruggles, Steven, Matthew Sobek, Miriam L. King, Carolyn Liebler, and Catherine Fitch. "IPUMS Redesign." Historical Methods 36 (Winter 2003): 9-20.

Sobek, Matthew. "New Statistics on the U.S. Labor Force, 1850-1990." Historical Methods 34 (Spring 2001): 71-87.

Ruggles, Steven, Catherine Fitch, Patricia Kelly Hall, and Matthew Sobek. "IPUMS-USA: Integrated Public Use Microdata for the United States." In Patricia Kelly Hall et al., eds., Handbook of International Historical Microdata for Population Research. Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2000, 259-284.

Sobek, Matthew, and Steven Ruggles. "The IPUMS Project: An Update." Historical Methods 32 (Summer 1999): 102-110.

Gardner, Todd, Matthew Sobek, and Steven Ruggles. "IPUMS Data Extraction System." Historical Methods 32 (Summer 1999): 119-124.

Ruggles, Steven, Matthew Sobek, and Todd Gardner. "Distributing Large Historical Census Samples on the Internet." History and Computing 8 (Summer 1997): 145-159.

Sobek, Matthew. "Work, Status, and Income: Men in the American Occupational Structure since the Late Nineteenth Century." Social Science History 20 (Summer 1996): 169-207.

Ruggles, Steven, Todd Gardner, and Matthew Sobek. "Disseminating Historical Census Data on the World Wide Web." IASSIST Quarterly 20 (Fall 1996): 4-18.

Sobek, Matthew. "The Comparability of Occupations and the Generation of Income Scores." Historical Methods 28 (Spring 1995): 47-51.

Sobek, Matthew, and Lisa Dillon. "Interpreting Work: Occupational Classification in the Historical Public Use Microdata Samples." Historical Methods 28 (Spring 1995): 70-73.

Ruggles, Steven, J. David Hacker and Matthew Sobek. "Order Out of Chaos: General Design of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." Historical Methods 28 (Spring 1995): 33-39.

Sobek, Matthew. "Class Analysis and the U.S. Census Public Use Samples." Historical Methods 24 (Fall 1991): 171-181.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International: Version 6.0. With staff. Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2010.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Version 3.0. With Steven Ruggles. Minnesota: Historical Census Projects, University of Minnesota, 2004.

A Century of Work: Gender, Labor Force Participation, and Occupational Attainment in the United States, 1880-1990. University of Minnesota, 1997.

"Identifying Family Relationships for the World's Largest Collection of Census Microdata." [Poster] With Sheela Kennedy. Population Association of America, Dallas, April 2010.

"Harmonizing the World's Census Microdata: Methods and Challenges of the IPUMS Project." International Statistical Institute Meetings, Durban, South Africa, August 2009.

"International Census Data for Comparative Research." European Population Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2008.

"Challenges of Census Data Harmonization" Joint Statistics Meeting, Minneapolis, August 2005.

"The IPUMS-International Project: Challenges and Methods of International Census Data Integration." With Albert Esteve and Robert McCaa. Social Science History Association, St. Louis, October 2002.

"Disseminating Anonymized, Integrated Census Microdata via the Internet: the IPUMS-International Project." With Robert McCaa and Steven Ruggles. 20th ANCSDAAP Population Census Conference, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 2002.

"Family Labor Patterns and Economic Status in the United States, 1880-1990." Social Science History Association, Forth Worth, November 1999.

"High Education, High Technology, and High Wages: An Exploration into the Relationship Between Research Universities and Economic Prosperity and Dynamism." With Susan Carter and Richard Sutch. R&D Investment and Economic Growth in the 20th Century, All-UC Group in Economic History, Berkeley, March 1999.

"Work, Gender, and the U.S. Census: The 1910 ‘Overcount’ of Female Labor." With Diana Magnuson. Social Science History Association, Washington D.C., October 1997. Another version presented at Upper Midwest Conference on Demographics for Policy Makers, St. Paul, April 1998.

"Opportunities for Developing New Time Series Using the Historical Census Samples." Historical Statistics on Labor, Human Capital, and Labor Markets. National Science Foundation Conference, Palo Alto, June 1997.

"Electronic Dissemination of Historical Census Data." Population Association of America, New Orleans, May 1996. Other versions of this paper presented at Social Science History Association, New Orleans, October 1996; International Association for Social Sciences Information Service and Technology, Minneapolis, April 1996; Association of Public Data Users, Washington D.C., October 1997.

"Microdata and Economic History." Roundtable: New Directions in Economic History Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 1995.

"Occupational Classification and Measurement: Issues for Historical Analysis Using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." All-UC Conference on the Public Use Microdata Samples, Riverside, March 1995.

"Work, Status, and Income since the Late Nineteenth Century." Social Science History Association, Atlanta, October 1994.

"America at 1880: Research From the Public Use Sample." Roundtable Discussant. Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November 1992.

"Occupation, Class, and Socioeconomic Status in Historical Census Data." Social Science History Association, New Orleans, November 1991.

"Class Analysis and the U.S. Census Public Use Samples." Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, October 1990.

"Use of the IPUMS-International Data Series." Workshop. International Statistical Institute Meetings, Durban, South Africa, August 2009.

"The Harmonization of International Census Microdata for Demographic Research: The IPUMS Project." With Albert Esteve. INED Seminar Series, Paris, March 2009.

"Uses and Limitations of the IPUMS-International Database." Seminar. UN Population Council, Cairo, October 2008.

"Design and Use of the IPUMS-International Census Data Series." Social Sciences Seminar, Cairo University, October 2008.

"Workshop: Design and Use of the IPUMS International Census Database." Fifth African Population Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, December 2007.

"The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." African Census Workshop, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, January 2007.

"Using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series in Research." American Sociological Association, August 2006 [earlier versions 2003, 2004, 2005].

"Data Processing in the IPUMS-International Data Series." European Census Harmonization Conference, Paris, France, June 2006.

"IPUMS-International Methods and Processes." Workshop: Integrating European Census Microdata, Barcelona, July 2005.

"Teaching with the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." Midwest Sociology Association, Minneapolis, April 2005.

"Dataset Processing: IPUMS-International." Workshop: Integrating Latin American Censuses, Cartagena, January 2004.

"Using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series in Research." ICPSR Summer Workshop, July 2002.

"Historical Patterns of U.S. Female Labor Force Participation." Research seminar, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, March 2002.

"Historical Measures of Female Labor Force Participation." University Lecture Series. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, February 2002.

"Using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." National Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference, Lexington, KY, September 2000.

"Measures of U.S. Female Labor Force Participation, 1880-1990." Seminar. Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, May 2000.

"Taking the Measure of Women's Work: Female Labor Force Participation in the U.S. Census, 1880-1990," Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, February 1999.

Workshop on Using U.S. Census Data to Study the Elderly. Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, July 1996.

Editorial board, Historical Methods, 2006-2008

Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation.

Manuscript referee: Social Science History Journal, Historical Methods

Chair and discussant, Social Science History Association, Population Association of America.

Student Editorial Board, Social Science History Journal, 1993-1995

Social Science History Association

Population Association of America

American Sociological Association