Duane F Alwin

Duane F. Alwin is the Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University, where he currently directs the Center on Population Health and Aging, an National Institute on Aging-funded Demography of Aging center. He received a PhD in sociology and educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1972. He is currently Chair of the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association. His research...See more

Duane F. Alwin is the Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University, where he currently directs the Center on Population Health and Aging, an National Institute on Aging-funded Demography of Aging center. He received a PhD in sociology and educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1972. He is currently Chair of the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association. His research interests include a wide range of phenomena concerned with aging and the life course, and he is best known for his innovative work on the connections among human development, social structure, demography, and social change. His research has received continuous support from the National Institute on Aging since 1983. His current scholarship focuses on the implications of population processes for research on cognitive aging, as well as on the linkage between social structures and health inequalities. He has published extensively on these and related topics and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, grants, and special university honors. See less