Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Ph.D.
Zellerbach Family Professor
of Sociology

Professor  Frank Furstenberg

Office: 277 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Department
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299
Telephone: (215) 898-6718
Fax: (215) 898-2124
Email: fff@ssc.upenn.edu
Full CV

Education:

1961  B.A., Haverford College, Haverford, PA

1967  Ph. D., Columbia University, New York, NY

Research:

  • Family Sociology
  • Demography
  • Urban Sociology
  • Gender Studies
  • Sociology of Education
  • Children, Youth and Public Policy

Selected Publications:

2003  Destinies of the disadvantaged: The life course of teenage mothers and their children. Forthcoming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

2000 The sociology of adolescence and youth in the 1990s: A critical commentary. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62:4:896-910.

2001  Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults, with Anne H. Gauthier. . Pp. 175-197 in Child well-being in modern nations: What do we know? Edited by K. Vleminckx and T. Smeeding. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.

2001  Managing to make it: Afterthoughts. Journal of Family Issues, 22:2:150-162.

2000 The Family in the city. Urbana 5:26:25-35.

1999  Managing to make it: Urban families in high-risk neighborhoods, with Thomas Cook, Jacquelynne Eccles, Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Arnold Sameroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1991  Divided families: What happens to children when parents part, with Andrew J. Cherlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (paperback edition, 1994).

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