Dr. Porter is currently appointed as a Professor at the City University of New York across various departments and colleges in the CUNY system and a Lecturer on the faculty at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in the Environmental Health Sciences Department.  His primary appointment is at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College in the Department of Sociology where he is currently the Director of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at the CUNY-Graduate Center and the Children and Youth Studies Program at Brooklyn College.  He holds appointments on the doctoral faculty at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center in the Sociology, Demography, and Criminal Justice PhD Programs and is also appointed as a Faculty Associate at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR).

The interdisciplinary nature of these appointments is indicative of Dr. Porter’s training which includes two graduate degrees and multiple minor/certifications in the areas of Sociology, Statistics, Criminology/Criminal Justice, and Geography (GIS/Spatial Statistics).   Dr. Porter has worked extensively as a statistical consultant for the Urban Institute, the Social Science Research Center, the First Street Foundation, and the Research and Evaluation Center.  In addition, he is a founding co-editor of the journal Spatial Demography and is also the lead editor of the Social Science section of the Journal of Maps.  Porter also serves as current, and founding, editors of the new Spatial Demography Book Series at Springer Publishers.