LIFE COURSE STUDIES

Current Pre- and Post-Doctoral Scholars

Year Started	Name	Status	Prior Degree	Research Interests
2008	Matt Bradshaw	Post-Doctoral Fellow	University of Texas - Austin	biosocial factors in health and well-being, with emphasis on the interplay of genetic and environmental influences over time
2004	Matt Loyd	Pre-Doctoral Student	Carleton College	Work/family responsibilities over the life course; Japanese society
2008	Maria Monserud	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Washington State University	Life course development of inter-generational relationships and resource transmission; multigenerational households
2008	Cheryl Roberts	Pre-Doctoral Student	Harvard University	inequality and health, including social determinants of health and mental health over the life course
2006	Naomi Spence	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Florida State University	Social demography; life course processes; gender, and race/ethnicity as determinants and mediators of health disparities
2007	Lin (Victor) Wang	Pre-Doctoral Student	Renmin University of China - Beijing	developmental social psychology, mental health, and population studies

Former Doctoral Scholars (by year of completion)

Year Completed	Name	Current Information	Dissertation Topic
1973	Harold Grasmick	Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma	Social change and the Wallace movement in the South
1974	William Corsaro	Shaffer Professor of Sociology, Indiana University	A developmental sociolinguistic approach to socialization
1975	Howard Sacks	Associate Provost, Professor of Sociology, Director of Rural Life Center, Kenyon College	Socialization and status change in the development of self
1976	Sheila Bennett	Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures, Hobart and William Smith Colleges	Social change and women's roles
1983	David Demo	Professor of Human Development, Univ. of North Carolina - Greensboro
1984	Elizabeth C. (Jodi) Clipp	Deceased (2007)	Health in later life
1984	Susan Rose	Professor, Dickinson College	Religion and the life course
1986	Rachel Ivie	American Institute of Physics
1986	Avshalom Caspi	Professor, Genetics/Psychiatry, Duke University	Personality and the life course
1988	Hastings, Tom	Manager, Quintiles International
1989	Vanden Heuvel, Audrey	Researcher, Suicide Prevention, Adele Austin, Flinders University
1991	Miech, Richard	Associate & Chair, Dept. of Health & Behavioral Sciences, Univ. of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center	Working to improve society
1991	Cynthia P. Gimbel	Caliber Associates, Washington, DC	Long-term recall and life course development
1991	Weiqiao Wu	Sales, Manager, Bristol Myers Squibb, Shanghai, China	Family formation in contemporary urban China
1993	Martha Skinner	Research Associate, Social Research Institute, Seattle, WA	Linking economic hardship to female adolescent depressive symptoms
1991	Mareena Wright	Caliber Associates, Washington, DC	Holding up their half of the sky
1992	Amy Wofford	Unknown
1992	Glenn Deane	Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY Albany	Parents and progeny
1994	Monika Ardelt	Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Florida at Gainesville	Wisdom in the later years
1996	Angela P. Willeto	Associate Professor of Sociology, Northern Arizona University	Navajo culture and education
1998	Toshiko Kaneda	Senior Policy Analyst, Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC	Patterns of aging in China
1999	Raymond Swisher	Associate Professor, Sociology, Bowling Green University	Neighborhood effects on adolescent college expectations
2002	Margaret Mueller	Research Analyst, Leo J. Shapiro & Associates, Chicago, IL	Work, family and well-being over the life course
2003	Jenny Godley	Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary	Eating disorders in adolescence
2005	Lance Erickson	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Brigham Young University	Mentors in young lives: escaping disadvantage or enhancing success?
2008	Tyson Brown	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Duke University	Racial and ethnic inequalities in wealth and health trajectories

Former Post-Doctoral Fellows (by year of completion)

Year Completed	Name	Current Position	Prior Degree	Research Area
1983	Jeffrey Liker	Professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan	University of Massachusetts	Economic factors in the life course
1991	Eliza Pavalko	Grimshaw Professor of Sociology, Indiana University	Florida State University	Health trajectories and longevity
1987	Avshalom Caspi	Arnette Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences, Duke University	Cornell University	Personality and the life course
1990	Margaret Love Miller	Research Faculty, Psychology, University of Kentucky	University of Minnesota
1991	Elizabeth Robertson	Branch Chief, Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse	UNC-Greensboro	Health trajectories and substance abuse
1993	Laura Rudkin	Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch	Princeton University	Age-related rural migration
1993	Aimee Dechter	Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison	University of Pennsylvania	Economic factors in divorce
1995	Michael J. Shanahan	Professor of Sociology, UNC - Chapel Hill	University of Minnesota	Adolescent work experience
1995	Debra Mekos	Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Affiliation uncertain	University of Virginia	Family socialization and retaliation
1996	Valarie King	Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University	University of Pennsylvania	Intergenerational processes
1997	Stephen T. Russell	Endowed Chair & Professor, Family & Consumer Sciences; Professor, Sociology, University of Arizona	Duke University	Rural change
1997	Christopher Chan	SAS Institute, Houston, TX	Harvard University	Social change and the life course
1996	Anne Fletcher	Associate Professor, Dept. of Human & Community Development, University of North Carolina - Greensboro	Temple University	Social etiology of adolescents
1999	Heather Koball	Senior Research Associate, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University	Virginia Tech University	Role of economic crisis in changing men’s roles in families
1999	Daniel J. McGrath	Principal Research Analyst, Federal Research Program, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC	University of Pennsylvania	Urban families and economic factors
2000	Hiromi Taniguchi	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Louisville, KY	Princeton University	War in men’s lives
2000	Brenda K. Wilhelm	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Mesa State College	University of Arizona	Intergenerational dynamics
2000	Mark Regnerus	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas - Austin	UNC - Chapel Hill	Religious influences on adolescence
2001	Robert Crosnoe	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas - Austin	Stanford University	Human development, education, health
2002	Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson	Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Washington State University	University of Minnesota	Education and work in adolescence and young adulthood
2002	Sabrina Oesterle	Investigator/Research Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington	University of Minnesota	Transition to adulthood
2003	Kim Shuey	Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Western Ontario	Florida State University	Intergenerational relationships and exchanges
2003	Andrea Wilson	Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Western Ontario	Florida State University	Dynamics of inequality over the life course
2003	Scott Stoner-Eby	Instructor, Sociology, Messiah College	University of Pennsylvania	Educational attainment among youth in disadvantaged settings
2005	J. Scott Brown	Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Miami University of Ohio	Duke University	Aging
2005	Steven Hitlin	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Iowa	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Self, values, agency and the life course
2006	Steve McDonald	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, NC State University	Florida State University	Social networks and employment outcomes
2007	Matthew Dupre	Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Duke University	Duke University
2007	Kathryn Henderson	Researcher, Westat, Inc., Washington, DC	Indiana University
2007	Miles Taylor	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Florida State University	Duke University	Aging and the life course, inequality and health, population health & change, family dynamics and well-being
2007	David Warner	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Case-Western Reserve University	Pennsylvania State University	Demography of work and retirement, health inequalities