Sara McLanahan
Ph.D. 1979 University of Texas, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research; founder and Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Interests: Child development, child wellbeing, parenting, education, poverty, and family and community influences on the development of young children. PI on the "Fragile Families Study."

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Ph.D. 1975 University of Pennsylvania, Developmental Psychology. Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University;  Director, Center for Children and Families.  Interests:  Child development, parenting and poverty.  PI on "Child Care & Parental Employment in Fragile Families."

Marcia Carlson
Ph.D. 1999 University of Michigan, Sociology. Assistant Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Columbia University School of Social Work.  Interests:  Family structure and parenting, child and adolescent wellbeing, social policy.  PI on "Family Structure, Parenting and Child Wellbeing."

Michelle DeKlyen
Ph.D. 1992 University of Washington, Child Clinical Psychology.  Research Associate, CRCW, CHW, and OPR, Princeton University.  Interests:  Child development, early child behavior disorders, child learning disabilities.   PI on "Newark Fragile Families Study."

Kathryn Edin
Ph.D. 1991 Northwestern University, Sociology. Professor of Public Policy and Management, Kennedy School, Harvard University.  Interests: Poverty/social inequality, family/gender, public policy.  PI on "Couple Dynamics and Father Investments." Co-Instructor of "Quantitative and Qualitative Research Using Fragile Families Data."

Paula England
Ph.D. 1975 University of Chicago, Sociology.  Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.  Interests:  Gender inequality, households and families, labor markets.  PI on "Couple Dynamics and Father Investments."

Frank Furstenberg
Ph.D. 1967 Columbia University, Sociology.  Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and Research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  Interests:  Family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, and urban education.  PI on "Transitions to Adulthood."

Irv Garfinkel
Ph.D. 1970 University of Michigan, Social Work and Economics.  Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia School of Social Work.  Interests:  Social policy and the welfare state, poverty and inequality, single parent families, child support.  PI on "Fragile Families Study."

Kristen Harknett
Ph.D. 2002 Princeton University, Sociology and Demography. Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Interests: Social demography, marriage and family, poverty. Co-Instructor of "Quantitative and Qualitative Research Using Fragile Families Data."

Waldo Johnson
Ph.D. 1993 University of Chicago, Social Work. Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Interests: male involvement in adolescent pregnancy, nonresident fathers in fragile families, and the physical and psychosocial health statuses of African American males. Fragile Families Network Scholar.

Daniel Notterman
M.A. 1977 Tufts University, M.D. 1978 New York University School of Medicine. Senior Health Policy Analyst, Princeton University and Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Interests: Cancer biology, gene-environment interactions, health policy, children’s access to quality health care. Director of DNA component of the "Fragile Families Study."

Jean Knab
Ph.D. 2004 Princeton University, Sociology. Research Associate at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Interests: Social policy, poverty and inequality, the family, and child wellbeing. Study Director for the "Fragile Families Study."

Ron Mincy
Ph.D. 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics. Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Columbia University.  Interests: Family support, income security policy, U.S. labor market, urban poverty. PI on "Fragile Families Study."

Yolanda Padilla
Ph.D. 1992 University of Michigan, Social Work and Sociology.  Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin.  Interests: Mexican American studies in children and families, poverty, and immigration.  PI on "Mexican American Child Health: Birth to Early Childhood."

Christina Paxson
Ph.D. 1987 Columbia University, Economics. Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director of the Center for Health and Well-Being, Princeton University.  Interests:  Applied economics, health, and development economics. PI  on "Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing" and "Economic Status, Public Policy and Child Neglect."

Nancy Reichman
Ph.D. 1993 City University of New York, Economics. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  Interests: Infant and child health, poverty, research methods.  PI on "Fragile Families and Child Health." and "Effects of Child Health on Family Resources"

Lauren Rich
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Economics. Senior Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Philadelphia. Interests: Child poverty, youth employment, adolescent childbearing. Fragile Families Network Scholar.

Mario Small
Ph.D. 2001 Harvard University, Sociology. Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.  Interests: Inequality and culture, urban poverty and immigration, neighborhood effects, higher education.  PI on “Child Care Centers and Social Capital.”  

Julien Teitler
Ph.D. 1996 University of Pennsylvania, Sociology. Associate Professor of Social Work and Director, Social Indicators Survey Center at Columbia University.  Research Interests: Adolescent transitions, family policy, welfare reform.  PI on "Fragile Families and Child Health."

Marta Tienda
Ph.D. 1977 University of Texas, Sociology. Professor of Sociology, Demographic Studies, and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Interests:  Population and development, youth employment and labor market dynamics, race and ethnic stratification, access to higher education. Fragile Families Study collaborator and Youth Policy associate.

Jane Waldfogel
Ph.D. 1994 Harvard, Public Policy. Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at Columbia University.  Interests:  Child and family well-being, comparative Social Welfare policy, child protective services and child welfare policy.  PI on "Economic Status, Public Policy and Child Neglect."

Maureen Waller
Ph.D. 1997 Princeton University, Sociology. Assistant Professor, PAM at Cornell.  Interests:  Marriage, fatherhood, and child support in low-income communities.   Fragile Families Network Scholar and PI on "'Fathers' Ties to Unmarried Mothers & their Children."

Bruce Western
Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy of Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  Interests:  Political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology.  PI on "Fatherhood & Incarceration."

Brad Wilcox
Ph.D.2001 Princeton University, Sociology.  Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Interests: religion and marriage, cohabitation, parenting, and fatherhood. PI on the "Fragile Families Study."

Melvin Wilson
Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.  Interests: young, low-income, unwed, and nonresident fathers. Fragile Families Network Scholar.