Professor, Department of Sociology
Department Chair, Department of Sociology
Faculty Member, Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Robert Crosnoe is the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair #4 at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Chair of the Department of Sociology and a faculty member in the Department of Psychology (by courtesy) and Population Research Center. Prior to coming to UT, he received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Crosnoe’s research considers the connections among health, child/adolescent development, and education and the contributions of these connections to socioeconomic and immigration-related inequalities in American society. One specific strand of this research concerns the drinking behavior of U.S. teenagers, particularly the ways that they attempt to use alcohol to integrate into the social networks of their schools in ways that ultimately undermine their health and wellbeing. This research, which draws on genetically informed designs, network techniques, school transcript data, and qualitative methods, has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Crosnoe is the President-Elect of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
View his coffee talk here.