The University of Texas at Austin

Jacqueline L. Angel is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1989 and post-doctoral training at Rutgers in mental health services research and the Pennsylvania State University Program in Demography of Aging. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of family, health, and aging. She is particularly interested in evaluating the impact of policies on the health and well-being of Latinos, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups, and how cultural heterogeneity among the elderly affects the design of programs for the cost-effective delivery of health services.

Dr. Angel is a Co-Investigator on an NIH/National Institute on Aging funded benchmark study of the longitudinal health of older Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States. Since the inception of the project, she has assessed the impact of nativity and the migration process on health outcomes, and examined their implications for family living arrangements and long term care policy.

She is currently developing a research agenda that focuses on the role of civil society and non-governmental organizations on the care of low-income elderly in the United States and Latin America.

Dr. Angel has published extensively in the sociology of aging and how it is affected by the life course and social policy, including numerous articles, chapters, and books. Her most recent books are Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State co-authored with Ronald Angel (Springer, 2009); Inheritance in Contemporary America: Social Dimensions of Giving Across Generations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); and The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population, co-edited with Keith Whitfield (Springer Publishing, 2007).

She also serves as an advisor to professional committees, non-governmental organizations and other agencies that provide basic services to the elderly. Dr. Angel currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Gerontologist, and is past Associate Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and member of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board. The International Association for Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) recently selected her to be Treasurer for the World Congress meeting in San Francisco, California in 2017. Previously she served on the U.S. Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health NIA Behavior and Social Science of Aging Review Committee, which she also chaired for two years, Chaired the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course, and Co-Organized the 2005 Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA). Additionally, she sat on the Board President of Family Eldercare, Inc. and was elected to the President's Council in 2003.

At the LBJ School, she teaches courses on policy development with respect to health care, population diversity with a special emphasis on Hispanic families, and inequality in an aging society.

In 2000, she was awarded Fellowship Status by The Gerontological Society of America.

Education

Ph.D. in sociology, Rutgers University

Current Positions

Chair, NIA Behavior and Social Science of Aging Review Committee; Fellow, The Gerontological Society of America

Previous Positions

NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, Demography of Aging Training Program, The Pennsylvania State University (1990-1992); Board President, Family Eldercare, Inc

Co-editor, The Health of Aging Hispanics (Springer, 2007); author, Health and Living Arrangements of the Elderly (Garland Publishing, 1991); co-author, Painful Inheritance: Health and the New Generation of Fatherless Families (University of Wisconsin Pres

Aging and Gerontology
Diversity and Multiculturalism
Health Care
Immigration
Social Security