Deborah Carr is Professor and Chair of the Boston University sociology department. She is a life course sociologist who has written extensively on health and aging among older adults, late-life family relationships, and death and dying. Dr. Carr has authored several books including the undergraduate textbooks Introduction to Sociology, Essentials of Sociology, and The Art and Science of Social Research (all with W. W. Norton). She is also editor-in-chief of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Dr. Carr has a BA in sociology from Connecticut College and earned her MS and PhD in sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.