The Economy, the Family, and Working-Class Discontent

Event/Talk title: 
The Economy, the Family, and Working-Class Discontent
Location: 
McNeil 103
Series: 
PSC Fall 2016 Colloquium Series
Date: 
November 7, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Name: 
Andrew J. Cherlin
Title: 
Professor of Public Policy
Affiliation: 
Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
Speaker Biographies: 

I received my undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976.  I came to Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in 1976 and have been here ever since.  I served as President of the Population Association of America in 1999.  In 2003 I received the Distinguished Career Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association.  In 2005 I was a Guggenheim Fellow.  In 2009 I received the Irene B. Taeuber Award from the Population Association of America, in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in demographic Research.  And in 2013-2014 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.