Evelyn Mae Kitagawa (1920 – September 15, 2007) was an American sociologist and demographer who worked as a professor at the University of Chicago and became president of the Population Association of America and chair of the U.S. Census Bureau's Advisory Committee on Population Statistics.
[1] She is known for her book with Philip Hauser, Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology, which discovered systematic correlations between the death rates of Americans and their income and level of education.
[3] She was born as Evelyn Mae Rose, in 1920[4] in Hanford, California, to a family of Portuguese Catholic descent.
In one of the camps, she met her future husband, Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa,[1] who had come to the US in 1941 as a divinity student and became an Episcopalian minister while interned.
Her husband also worked at Chicago, as professor of history of religions and dean of the divinity school.