Life Course Center Visitors, 1986 to Present

The Center annually welcomes national and international visitors and sponsors a Seminar Series and a Miniconference in which these prominent social scientists present their research and confer with interested faculty and students about their own projects.

Time index: 2007-08 |2006-07 |2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000 | 1998-1999 | 1997-1998 | 1996-1997 | 1995-1996 | 1994-1995 | 1993-1994 | 1992-1993 | 1991-1992 | 1990-1991 | Visitors in the 1980's

2007-08

  • Duane Alwin, Pennsylvania State University
  • Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland
  • Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University
  • Claude Fischer, University of California-Berkeley
  • Elizabeth Fussell, Washington State University
  • Karen Hansen, Brandeis University
  • Michael Hout, University of California-Berkeley
  • Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania
  • Michael Rosenfeld, Stanford University

2006-07

  • Helga Krüger, University of Bremen, Germany

2005-06

  • Glen Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Walter Heinz, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Guillermina Jasso, New York University
  • Monica Johnson, Washington State University
  • Jane McLeod, Indiana University
  • Timothy Owens, Purdue University
  • Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University
  • Anne Petersen, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Sharon Preves, Hamline University
  • Michael Shanahan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Jeremy Staff, Pennsylvania State University
  • Judith Torney-Purta, University of Maryland

2004-05

  • The Life Course Center co-sponsored Resetting the Clockwork, a Research and Policy Forum
  • Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware

2003-04

  • Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Cornell University
  • Rand Conger, University of California-Davis
  • Pamela Braboy Jackson, Indiana University-Bloomington
  • Min Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles

2002-03

  • Klas Borell, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden
  • Hilke Brockmann, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Yen Espiritu, University of California-San Diego
  • Sara McLanahan, Princeton University
  • Lynet Uttal, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2001-02

  • William Corsaro, Indian University-Bloomington
  • Frank Furstenberg, Jr., University of Pennsylvania
  • Helga Krüger, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Mary Jo Maynes, University of Minnesota
  • Phyllis Moen, Cornell University

2000-01

  • John Bynner, University of London, United Kingdom
  • Márta Fülöp, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
  • Walter Heinz, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Ross Matsueda, University of Washington
  • Phyllis Moen, Cornell University

1999-2000

  • John Hagan, Northwestern University

1998-99

  • Richard Jessor, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • William McCarthy, University of California-Davis
  • D. Wayne Osgood, Pennsylvania State University

1997-98

  • Hans Bertram, Humboldt University-Berlin, Germany
  • Susan Cross, Iowa State University
  • Helga Krüger, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Timothy Owens, Indiana University-Indianapolis
  • J.P. Roos, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Anna Rotkirch, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Verta Taylor, Ohio State University
  • Merry White, Boston University

1996-97

  • Rand Conger, Iowa State University
  • Teresa Cooney, University of Delaware
  • Kathleen Gerson, New York University
  • Walter Heinz, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Udo Kelle, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Sara McLanahan, Princeton University
  • Phyllis Moen, Cornell University
  • Irving Tallman, Washington State University

1995-96

  • Viktor Gecas, Washington State University
  • Sandra Hofferth, University of Michigan
  • John Laub, Northeastern University

1994-95

  • Terry Arendell, Colby College
  • Francis Fox Piven, City University of New York
  • David Halle, University of California-Los Angeles and SUNY-Stony Brook
  • Melvin Kohn, Johns Hopkins University
  • Helga Krüger, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Nan Lin, Duke University
  • Arland Thornton, University of Michigan

1993-94

  • Denise Bielby, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Mary Brinton, University of Chicago
  • James House, University of Michigan
  • James Inciardi, University of Delaware
  • Robin Leidner, University of Pennsylvania
  • Barbara Reskin, Ohio State University
  • Patricia Roos, Rutgers University
  • Janet Saltzman Chafetz, University of Houston
  • Irving Tallman, Washington State University

1992-93

  • Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
  • Geraldine Brookins, University of Minnesota
  • Deborah Davis, Yale University
  • Elina Haavio-Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Helen Longino, Rice University
  • Robert Sampson, University of Chicago
  • Irving Tallman, Washington State University
  • Yutaka Tsujinaka, University of Tsukuba, Japan

1991-92

  • Rand Conger, Iowa State University
  • Glen Elder, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania
  • Norval Glenn, University of Texas-Austin
  • Walter Heinz, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Reed Larson, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
  • Valerie Oppenheimer, University of California-Los Angeles

1990-91

  • Steven Berkowitz, University of Vermont
  • Lee Robins, Washington University
  • Carol Vance, Columbia University

1989-90

  • Kieko Takahashi, University of Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan
  • Irving Tallman, Washington State University

1988-89

  • Paula England, The University of Texas-Dallas
  • Ellen Greenberger, University of California-Irvine
  • Igor Kon, Institute of Ethnographic Studies, Academy of Sciences, USSR
  • Kurt Lüscher, University of Konstanz, Germany

1987-88

  • Ivan Charner, National Institute for Work and Learning, Washington, D.C.
  • David Farrington, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
  • Slobodon Jakšic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1986-87

  • Sun Fei, Nankai University, People's Republic of China
  • Richard Gelles, University of Rhode Island
  • Jean Kellerhals, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Irving Tallman, Washington State University

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