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overview of Dr. Elder's research, which includes a biographical account of his
career and a schematic review of work along his lines of study, can be found on
the CPC website at http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/lifecourse/elder_research
Families, Social Change, and Individual Lives 
Professional Narrative
Glen H. Elder, Jr. is Howard W. Odum Distinguished
Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he co-directs the Carolina
Consortium on Human Development and manages a research program on life course
studies. He has also served on the faculties of the University of California (Berkeley) and Cornell University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elder has
served as Vice-President of the American Sociological Association (1989), and as President of the Sociological Research
Association (1999) and of the Society for Research on Child Development
(1995-97). His books (authored, co-authored, edited) include Children of the
Great Depression (1974; 1999, expanded edition), Life Course Dynamics (1985),
Children in Time and Place (1993), Families in Troubled Times (1994), Examining
Lives in Context (1995), Developmental Science (1996), Methods of Life Course
Research (1998), and Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural
America (2000: William J. Goode Award).
This site is maintained by Terry Poythress. It was last updated 2/5/2007.