Nicholas Nagle’s research centers on the design and analysis of population surveys. He serves on a National Academy of Sciences Committee focused on the redesign of the 2020 Decennial Census. He is currently working on projects improving the availability and reliability of data from the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Agriculture and on projects related to population and health, both in Tennessee and in developing countries. He is particularly interested in the design of statistical methods that integrate information from multiple sources such as surveys and imagery.

Prof. Nagle regularly teaches courses in quantitative methods and in population geography.