GGD Faculty

Linda H. Aiken

Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1973
Juan Pablo Atal

Assistant Professor of Economics
Associate Undergraduate Chair of Economics

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
Contact:
602 PCPSE, 133 South 36th Street
ataljp@econ.upenn.edu
Economics faculty page
Regina S. Baker

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University, 2015
Jere R. Behrman

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966
Contact:
616 PCPSE, 133 South 36th Street
215-898-7704
jbehrman@econ.upenn.edu
Economics faculty page, Google Scholar Profile
Courtney Boen

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2017
Norma B. Coe

Co-Director, Population Aging Research Center
Director, PEDAL Lab
Associate Professor, Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
Irma T. Elo

Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Public Affairs and Demography, Princeton University, 1990
Douglas Ewbank

Research Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1975
Contact:
245 McNeil
215-898-7999
ewbank@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology faculty page
Chenoa Flippen

Professor of Sociology
Undergraduate Chair of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1999
Paula Fomby

Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
Lance Freeman

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning and Sociology

Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997
Frank F. Furstenberg

Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus

Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, 1967
Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
Michel Guillot

Associate Director for Training, Population Studies Center
Chair, Graduate Group in Demography
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Emily Hannum

Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1998
Hans-Peter Kohler

Co-Director, Population Aging Research Center
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
John M. MacDonald

Penny and Robert A. Fox Faculty Director of the Fels Institute
Professor of Criminology
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Criminology, University of Maryland, 1999
Olivia S. Mitchell

Executive Director, Pension Research Council
Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor of Insurance and Risk Management

Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978
Hyunjoon Park

Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
Korean Foundation Professor of Sociology
Professor of Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
Emilio Alberto Parrado

Director, Population Studies Center
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1997
Samuel H. Preston

Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1968
José-Victor Ríos-Rull

Director, Penn Institute for Economic Research
Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Economics, Minnesota, 1990
Contact:
516 PCPSE, 133 South 36th Street
215-898-7701
vr0j@econ.upenn.edu
Economics Faculty page, Personal site, Google Scholar Profile
Wendy Roth

Associate Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University, 2006
Jason Schnittker

Graduate Chair of Sociology
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, 2001
Herbert L. Smith

Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1982
Contact:
230 McNeil
215-898-7768
hsmith@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology faculty page
Xi Song

Associate Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, 2015
Petra Todd

Edward J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1996
Contact:
606 PCPSE, 133 South 36th Street
215-898-4084
ptodd@econ.upenn.edu
Economics faculty page, Google Scholar Profile
Atheendar Venkataramani

Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Assistant Professor of Medicine

M.D., Medicine, University of Washington, 2011Ph.D., Health Policy (Economics), Yale University, 2009
Tukufu Zuberi

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Africana Studies

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1989