Deborah Carr, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Sociology and inaugural director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science, established in September 2021. She is a life course sociologist who uses survey data and quantitative methods to study social factors linked with health and well-being in later life. She has written extensively on death and dying, bereavement, family relationships over the life course, and the stigma associated with health conditions including obesity and disability.<\/p>\n
Her current projects focus on the economic consequences of marital statuses and transitions over the life course; the nature and sources of human flourishing; and life course influences on end-of-life preparations.<\/p>\n
She has published more than 100 articles and chapters, and several books including Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life<\/em> (Russell Sage, 2019) and Worried Sick: How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2014), as well as several co-authored textbooks including Introduction to Sociology and The Art and Science of Social Research<\/em> (both with W. W. Norton). Her new book Aging in America<\/em> will be published in 2023 (University of California-Press). She is also co-editor of the Handbook of Aging & Social Sciences, 9th ed.<\/em> (Elsevier, 2021). She was editor-in-chief of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences<\/em> (2015-20), is principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), and co-investigator of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) survey. She will serve as editor-in-chief of Journal of Health and Social Behavior<\/em> during the 2023-2025 term.<\/p>\n Dr. Carr is on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America, and has served as chair of the sections on Aging & the Life Course and Medical Sociology of the American Sociological Association. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a member of the honorary Sociological Research Association, and the recipient of the 2022 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award of the ASA Aging & Life Course section. Her work is featured in national media including The New York Times<\/em>, USA Today<\/em>, public television, and other sources.<\/p>\n Pronouns: she\/her\/hers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15764,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12751\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}