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Kristi Williams

Kristi Williams is professor and chair of sociology at Ohio State University and a senior scholar at the Council on Contemporary Families. She's also the former editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family . A family demographer and medical sociologist, Williams studies the influence of union formation, fertility, and other social ties on mental and physical health with attention to gender, race/ethnicity, and life course variations in these processes.