Sara McLanahan, Ph.D.

Position
Founding Director
Role
1940-2021
Office Phone
Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1979.

Honorary degree, Northwestern University, 2016.

Bio/Description

Ph.D. 1979, University of Texas, Sociology. Founding Director of the Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing (formerly the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing), Founding Principal Investigator on the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (formerly known as the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study).