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Daniel Bolger
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D., Sociology, Rice University

Research Interests: Social Inequality, Urban Ethnography, Race, Religion, Poverty, Mental Health, Community-Based Research

Christine Jang-Trettien
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Housing and credit markets, families, neighborhoods, qualitative methods, social policy, cities

Yolanda Padilla

Future of Families Network Scholar 

Network funded by the Ford Foundation

PI on "Mexican American Child Health: Birth to Early Childhood"

Ph.D. 1992 University of Michigan, Social Work and Sociology

Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, University of Texas at Austin 

Lauren Rich

Future of Families Network Scholar

Network funded by the Ford Foundation

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Economics

Interests: Child poverty, youth employment, adolescent childbearing.

Mark Turner

Future of Families Network Scholar

Network funded by the Ford Foundation

Ph.D. 1995, University of Maryland, Economics

Founder and President of Optimal Research Solutions

Sara I. Villalta
​​​​​​​Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests: Children/Youth, Family and Peer Relationships, Race and Ethnicity, Education, Gender, and Social Networks

Maureen Waller

Fragile Families Network Scholar

Network funded by the Ford Foundation

PI on "FFCWS and Public Policy: Fathers' Ties to Unmarried Mothers and their Children"

Ph.D. 1997 Princeton University, Sociology.

Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. 

Melvin Wilson

Future of Families Network Scholar

Network funded by the Ford Foundation

Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia  

Interests: Young, low-income, unwed, and nonresident fathers

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