People

Sara McLanahan

Founding PI on the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (formerly known as the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study)

PI on "Appending Educational Records to the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study" & "Improving Opportunities for Urban Youth: What Can We Learn from City Comparisons"

Ph.D. 1979…

Daniel Bolger
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D., Sociology, Rice University

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

Irv Garfinkel

Founding PI on the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (formerly known as the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study).

Ph.D. 1970 University of Michigan, Social Work and Economics. 

Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia School of Social Work. 

Co-Director of…

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

Ron Mincy

Co-investigator on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Ph.D. 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics 

Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice

Director of the Center for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family…

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