| Audrey Beck | John Hobcraft | Pamela Klebanov |
| Carey Cooper | Michael Hout | Mary Clare Lennon |
| Carlos Gonzalez Sancho | Kathleen Kiernan | Sarah Meadows |
Audrey Beck received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University in 2007. Her research interests include family formation, education, juvenile delinquency and racial and ethnic inequality. Her dissertation was titled, “Constrained or Invariant Choice? How the Marriage Market Shapes Attraction to Socially Distant Marriage.”
Carey Cooper received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. Her dissertation was titled “Family Poverty, Parental Involvement in Education, and the Transition to Elementary School.” Carey’s research interests include poverty, education, family structure, parenting, and child well-being. Her current work at CRCW focuses on racial/ethnic gaps in school readiness.
Sarah Meadows received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University in 2005. Her research interests include stress and coping, mental health, adolescent health and wellbeing, criminology, juvenile delinquency, life course, and marriage and health. She served as a research assistant on the Index of Child Well-Being Project at Duke University. Her dissertation was titled, “Parallel Mechanisms: Gender Similarities in Adolescent Mental Health and Delinquency.”
John Hobcraft is Professor of Social Policy and Demography and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Child Development and Well-Being at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Hobcraft’s research interests include intergenerational and lifecourse pathways to adult social exclusion, understanding human reproductive and partnership behavior, the role of generations in human behavior, population policies, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights, and understanding genetic, evolutionary, mind, brain, and endocrinological pathways and their interplays with behavior. He has worked in policy formulation processes at the highest international level in the UN which resulted in an active participation with advocacy and assessment of policies on reproductive health and empowerment for women.
Michael Hout is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, Chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, and of the Berkeley Population Center. He teaches courses in inequality and data analysis. In his research, he uses demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. He is a co-author of Century of Difference, a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States. His honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society.
Kathleen Kiernan is a professor of social policy and demography at the University of York in the United Kingdom. She was previously a professor of social policy and demography at the London School of Economics and continues as a Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, at LSE. Prior to LSE she was Research Director at the Family Policy Studies Centre in London; Deputy Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit at City University; a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and she began her career with the MRC on the National Survey of Heath and Development. Much of her research uses longitudinal data from the British Birth Cohort Studies including the 1946, 1958, 1970 and the Millennium Cohort Study and more recently comparative data from a range of European countries and the USA.
Mary Clare Lennon is an associate professor of clinical and sociomedical sciences in Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Director of Social Science Research at the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University. Most of her research examines the relation of gender to physical and mental health problems and their treatment, with a focus on the roles of family and the workplace. In recent years, her research interests have focused on the well-being of low income women and children. Another research project examines mental health problems (especially depression) in low-income women. She explores the relation of depression to employment and welfare receipt, and focuses on treatment availability and utilization.
Carlos Gonzalez Sancho is a Ph.D. student from the Juan March Institute in Madrid, Spain. He was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to come to Princeton University to study for one year. His current research centers on assortative mating and educational inequalities among children. The focal point is whether the mating of individuals with similar educational levels is associated with new forms of inequality in the following generation.