Faculty
 | Robert L. Crosnoe |
Office: MAI 2308
Phone: 471-8329
crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
Biosketch (PDF format)
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Stanford University
B.A., University of Texas
Field(s) of Study: Children, Youth and Families, Education and the Transition to Adulthood
Research interests:
Rob Crosnoe received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University in 1999 and then completed an NICHD- and NIMH-supported post-doctoral fellowship at the Carolina Population Center and the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Crosnoe's main research area is the life course and human development. He studies how individuals grow and age within interpersonal, institutional, and demographic contexts. Within this framework, his main focus is the connection between child/adolescent development and education and how this connection can be leveraged to understand population-level inequalities (e.g., race, social class, immigration). Recent publications can be found in Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociology of Education, Journal of Marriage and Family, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, American Educational Research Journal and Social Psychology Quarterly. His book, Mexican Roots, American Schools: Helping Mexican Immigrant Children Succeed, was published by Stanford University Press in 2006.
At the Population Research Center, Professor Crosnoe has been or currently is the principal investigator of projects supported by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, the William T. Grant Foundation (Faculty Scholar Award), the Foundation for Child Development, and the American Educational Research Association. He is also serving as a Co-PI on Phase IV of the long-running NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Dr. Crosnoe’s research has won early career awards from the Society for Research in Child Development and the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association.
Professor Crosnoe teaches Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of the Family, and Childhood and Adolescence in American Society on the undergraduate level. On the graduate level, he teachers Life Course and Human Development and Education as a Social Context. He is also faculty member in the Children and Society Bridging Disciplines Program for undergraduates at UT.
Selected Links:
Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford University