People Type: Aging

Sociology of Aging and the Life Course provides an analytical framework for understanding the interplay between human lives and changing social structures. Its mission is to examine the interdependence between (a) aging over the life course as a social process and (b) societies and groups as stratified by age, with succession of cohorts as the link connecting the two. This special field of age draws on sociology as a whole and contributes to it through reformulation of traditional emphases on process and change, on the multiple interdependent levels of the system, and on the multidimensionality of sociological concerns as they touch on related aspects of other disciplines. The field is concerned with both basic sociological research on age and its implications for public policy and professional practice.

Elwert, Felix

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Felix Elwert, Ph.D., is a scholar of social inequality, social demography, and applied statistics.  He develops methods of causal inference and conducts research on the contextual drivers of inequality, income, education, and health. Ever on the lookout for ways to coax causality from data, Elwert collaborates with …

Engelman, Michal

More information Curriculum vitae Additional online resource Personal website Biography Research Interest Statement: Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the …

Grant, Monica

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Grant’s current research focuses on gender inequalities in early life course transitions–primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with a focus on how increasing educational attainment and the HIV/AIDS epidemic influence other domains of life during the transition to adulthood. These interests have led to her most …

Grodsky, Eric

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, co-director of EdSHARe (Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research, an umbrella that includes the national cohort studies High School and Beyond and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972) and Co-Director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership between the …

Mark, Nicholas

More information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., New York University (2023) Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology; Social Stratification; Family; Methods and Statistics; Education; Aging and the Life Course Other Campus Affiliations: Center for Demography and Ecology Interdisciplinary Training Program Research Interest Statement: My primary research agenda is focused on understanding how social policy …

Massoglia, Michael

Biography Research Interest Statement: Mike’s work focuses on the social consequences of the expansion of the penal system, the relationship between the use of legal controls and demographic change in the United States, and patterns and consequences of criminal behavior over the life course. Mike’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National …

Palloni, Alberto

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Alberto Palloni is conducting research in two areas. The first, is the formal modelling of adult health, disability and mortality effects of adverse early conditions (embryonic, in utero and shortly after birth). He develops macro and microsimulation models using inputs derived from empirical human and animal studies …

Rauf, Tamkinat

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being. I am interested in both how these inequalities are influenced by macrosocial forces (including economic and political institutions), as well as how they are generated in proximate contexts via the interplay of biological …