People Type: Family

Institutional and interactional perspectives on family organization, relationships, and transitions are studied in this area. Most of the research is linked either to family and household demography, sociology of the life course and aging, social psychology, sociology of gender, or cross-cultural family and kinship. A good number of faculty and students work with the National Survey of Families and Households (centered in this department) as well as with other major national and international data sources. Graduate students working in the family area may be supported on a variety of research projects or traineeships. Several courses and seminars are offered in this area. Seminars are offered on such topics as social change and families, family and household demography, fertility, gender and society, and life course and aging.

Carlson, Marcia (Marcy) J.

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Carlson’s primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. She has explored the changing composition of families and aspects of their functioning. Her early work explored how family structure was associated with child …

Daminger, Allison

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on gender inequality in family life. In much of my work, I ask a version of this question: as support for egalitarianism grows, why does gender continue to shape the benefits we enjoy and burdens we bear as members …

Dykema, Jennifer

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate website Biography RESEARCH INTEREST STATEMENT: My research focuses on survey research methodology, identifying sources of errors produced in the process of gathering standardized measurements and developing and implementing methods to reduce those errors. This work includes projects supported by extramural funding from NSF and NIH and examines three …

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 …

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 EcologyInterdisciplinary Training Program Research Interest Statement: My primary research agenda is focused on understanding how social policy and …

Oh, Eunsil

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am a sociologist of gender, work, and family interested in inequality, culture, and demographic change. My research asks how gender inequality persists and changes form as women’s lives transform, and I pursue that question through contemporary South Korea and East Asia. Empirically, I study maternal employment …

Schwartz, Christine

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. Much of my work examines the causes and consequences of assortative mating to gain insight into the links between family change and inequality in the United States. Another line …

Simmons, Michaela

Biography Research Interest Statement: Michaela’s research addresses the enduring consequences of racial inequality in the American welfare state through an examination of social citizenship, family, and childhood. She is currently working on a book titled, Mothering with the State, a study of the racial politics of foster care development in the early twentieth century. Education: Ph.D. Sociology, …