Bio
I am a social demographer who studies race, ethnicity, and family structure, the family's effect on children, and the history of the family. I am interested in mate selection as a social as well as a personal process.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Sociology
Administrative Appointments
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Director of the Sociology Coterminal Masters Program, Stanford University (2002 - 2004)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Director of Urban Studies, Stanford University (2010 - 2011)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University (2000 - 2008)
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University (2008 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Winner of the Stanford University Phi Beta Kappa teaching award, Stanford University Phi Beta Kappa (2012)
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Winner of the Teaching Award, Stanford Urban Studies (2009)
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Winner of the 2007-2008 Stanford University Dean’s Award, Stanford University (2008)
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Winner of Roger V. Gould memorial prize, American Journal of Sociology (2006)
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Hellman Faculty Scholar, Hellman Faculty (2002-2003)
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Nominated for a Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Excellence in Teaching Award, Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association (2003)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Consulting Editor, Social Forces (2009 - 2011)
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Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2006 - 2008)
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Senior Research Associate, Council on Contemporary Families
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Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology
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Reviewer, American Sociological Review
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Reviewer, Social Problems
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Reviewer, International Migration Review
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Reviewer, Journal of Marriage and the Family
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Reviewer, Journal of Family Issues
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Reviewer, Demography
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Reviewer, Social Science Quarterly
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Reviewer, Higher Education
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Reviewer, Social Forces
Program Affiliations
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professional Education
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Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, Mathematics (1989)
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Master of Arts, University of Chicago, Latin American Studies (1991)
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, Sociology (2000)
2024-25 Courses
- 2024 Election, Understanding the National, Participating in the Local
SOC 9N (Aut) - Sociology of the Family
SOC 323 (Win) - The Urban Underclass
CSRE 149A, SOC 149, SOC 249, URBANST 112 (Win) - Workshop: Graduate Family
SOC 325W (Aut, Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (12)
- Coterminal MA directed research
SOC 291 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Coterminal MA individual study
SOC 290 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Coterminal MA research apprenticeship
SOC 292 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
SOC 392 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Research
SOC 391 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Individual Study
SOC 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research Internship
SOC 395 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Thesis
SOC 196 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Directed Research
SOC 191 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Individual Study
SOC 190 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
SOC 192 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Coterminal MA directed research
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Junior Seminar: Preparation for Research
SOC 202 (Aut) - The Changing American Family
FEMGEN 155, FEMGEN 255, SOC 155, SOC 255 (Spr) - The Urban Underclass
CSRE 149A, SOC 149, SOC 249, URBANST 112 (Spr) - Workshop: Graduate Family
SOC 325W (Aut, Win, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Sociological Methodology I: Introduction
SOC 381 (Aut) - Sociology of the Family
SOC 323 (Spr) - The Urban Underclass
CSRE 149A, SOC 149, SOC 249, URBANST 112 (Spr) - Workshop: Graduate Family
SOC 325W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Junior Seminar: Preparation for Research
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Terresa Eun, Lisa Hummel -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Amy Casselman Hontalas, Alisa Feldman -
Doctoral (Program)
Alisa Feldman
All Publications
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Stability and change in predictors of marital dissolution in the US 1950-2017
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
2023
View details for DOI 10.1111/jomf.12932
View details for Web of Science ID 001048544200001
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The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (Book Review)
SOCIAL FORCES
2022; 100 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/soab097
View details for Web of Science ID 000748376500007
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Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: A Reply to Manning, Smock, and Kuperberg
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
2020
View details for DOI 10.1111/jomf.12744
View details for Web of Science ID 000603120400001
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Disintermediating your friends: How online dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2019
Abstract
We present data from a nationally representative 2017 survey of American adults. For heterosexual couples in the United States, meeting online has become the most popular way couples meet, eclipsing meeting through friends for the first time around 2013. Moreover, among the couples who meet online, the proportion who have met through the mediation of third persons has declined over time. We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that family and friends once played in bringing couples together.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.1908630116
View details for PubMedID 31431531
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Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation's Association With Marital Dissolution
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
2019; 81 (1): 42–58
View details for DOI 10.1111/jomf.12530
View details for Web of Science ID 000455117100003
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Commitment Timing in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Relationships
POPULATION REVIEW
2018; 57 (1): 1–19
View details for DOI 10.1353/prv.2018.0003
View details for Web of Science ID 000437795600001
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Are Tinder and Dating Apps Changing Dating and Mating in the USA?
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2018: 103-117
View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-95540-7_6
View details for Web of Science ID 000672803600006
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Who Wants the Breakup? Gender and Breakup in Heterosexual Couples
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2018: 221–43
View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-71544-5_11
View details for Web of Science ID 000454538000011
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Marriage, Choice, and Couplehood in the Age of the Internet
SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
2017; 4: 490-510
View details for DOI 10.15195/v4.a20
View details for Web of Science ID 000411668000001
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Revisiting the Data from the New Family Structure Study: Taking Family Instability into Account
SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
2015; 2: 478-501
View details for DOI 10.15195/v2.a23
View details for Web of Science ID 000436987000021
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Couple Longevity in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
2014; 76 (5): 905-918
View details for DOI 10.1111/jomf.12141
View details for Web of Science ID 000342678400002
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Unhitched: Love, Marriage and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China (Book Review)
SOCIAL FORCES
2014; 93 (1)
View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/sos104
View details for Web of Science ID 000342988400023
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Nontraditional Families and Childhood Progress Through School: A Comment on Rosenfeld Reply
DEMOGRAPHY
2013; 50 (3): 963-969
Abstract
Allen et al.'s results depend on their inclusion of children whose family at the time of their grade retention is unknown, plus adopted and foster children whose selection process into families is unknown. Children whose family has been through upheavals or transitions are less likely to make good progress in school than children from stable families. Children raised by stable same-sex couples do remarkably well in school.
View details for DOI 10.1007/s13524-012-0170-4
View details for Web of Science ID 000318815500009
View details for PubMedID 23161455
- Reply to Allen Demography 2013; 50 (3): 963-969
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Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
2012; 77 (4): 523-547
View details for DOI 10.1177/0003122412448050
View details for Web of Science ID 000306973000002
- Review of Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West HOllywood to Western China - Judith Stacey Social Forces 2012
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NONTRADITIONAL FAMILIES AND CHILDHOOD PROGRESS THROUGH SCHOOL
DEMOGRAPHY
2010; 47 (3): 755-775
Abstract
luse U.S. census data to perform the first large-sample, nationally representative tests of outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples. The results show that children of same-sex couples are as likely to make normal progress through school as the children of most other family structures. Heterosexual married couples are the family type whose children have the lowest rates of grade retention, but the advantage of heterosexual married couples is mostly due to their higher socioeconomic status. Children ofallfamily types (including children ofsame-sex couples) are far more likely to make normal progress through school than are children living in group quarters (such as orphanages and shelters).
View details for Web of Science ID 000280894900013
View details for PubMedID 20879687
- The Independence of Young Adults in Historical Perspective Family Therapy 2010; 9 (3): 17-19
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STILL WEAK SUPPORT FOR STATUS-CASTE EXCHANGE: A REPLY TO CRITICS
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
2010; 115 (4): 1264-1276
View details for Web of Science ID 000275177400009
- The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions and the Changing American Family Harvard University Press. 2009
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Racial, Educational and Religious Endogamy in the United States: A Comparative Historical Perspective
SOCIAL FORCES
2008; 87 (1): 1-31
View details for Web of Science ID 000261314900002
- Intermarriage Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society edited by Schaefer, R. T. Sage Press. 2008: 736–739
- The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions and the Changing American Family Harvard University Press. 2007
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Young adulthood as a factor in social change in the United States
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
2006; 32 (1): 27-?
View details for Web of Science ID 000236391700002
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The independence of young adults and the rise of interracial and same-sex unions
98th Annual Meeting of the American-Sociological-Association
AMER SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOC. 2005: 541–62
View details for Web of Science ID 000231408700001
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A critique of exchange theory in mate selection
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
2005; 110 (5): 1284-1325
View details for Web of Science ID 000229472200002
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Measures of assimilation in the marriage market: Mexican Americans 1970-1990
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
2002; 64 (1): 152-162
View details for Web of Science ID 000173835400014
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The salience of pan-national Hispanic and Asian identities in US marriage markets
DEMOGRAPHY
2001; 38 (2): 161-175
Abstract
In this paper I test whether "Hispanic" and "Asian" identities are salient in the U.S. marriage market. That is, I determine whether the different Asian and Hispanic national groups intermarry often enough to suggest that Asian and Hispanic pan-national identities are important. Analysis of census data from 1980 and 1990 suggests that both Hispanic and Asian pan-national identities are significant forces. Variations in the strength of pan-national Hispanic and Asian associations by region, education, and nativity are discussed.
View details for Web of Science ID 000168802600003
View details for PubMedID 11392905
- Mexican Immigration, Occupational Niches and Labor Market Competition: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta, 1970-1990 Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the United States edited by Bean, F. D., Bell-Rose, S. New York: Russell Sage. 1999
- Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 1999; 25 (3): 545-546
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Immigrant America: A portrait. (Book Review)
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
1998; 557: 186-186
View details for Web of Science ID 000073293100020
- Mexican Immigrants and Mexican American Political Assimilation Migration Between Mexico and the United States: Binational Study 1998: 1117-1132
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Celebration, politics, selective looting and riots: A micro level study of the Bulls riot of 1992 in Chicago
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 1997: 483-502
View details for DOI 10.1525/sp.1997.44.4.03x0233y
View details for Web of Science ID 000071355500004
- Labor Market Implications of Mexican Migration: Economies of Scale, Innovation and Entrepreneurship At the Crossroads: Mexican Migration and U.S. Policy edited by Bean, F. D. Rowman and Littlefield. 1997: 177–200
- Celebration, Politics, Looting and Riots: A Micro Level Analysis of the Bulls Riot of 1992 in Chicago Social Problems 1997; 44: 483-502