Robert Crosnoe
Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Topics of expertise- Childcare (Providers & Systems)
- Children & Adolescents
- Economic Inequality
- Health & Illness
- Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families
- Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
- Public Policy
- Transition – Adolescents to Adulthood
- Work & Family
Email: crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
Rob Crosnoe is a life course sociologist and developmental scientist who studies the connections among children’s and adolescents’ health, psychosocial development, and educational trajectories and how these connections contribute to population-level inequalities (e.g., race, social class, immigration). Specific areas of interest are family relations, peers, school contexts, child care, parenting, immigrant families, early childhood health, obesity, and teen substance use.