BIO

Suzanne Bianchi is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate in the Maryland Population Research Center. In 2003-04, she was named a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. She is a Past-President of the Population Association of America (PAA) and currently serves as co-editor of the PAA’s official journal, Demography. In May 2003, she received the Alumni Merit Award for the College of Arts and Sciences from Creighton University where she earned her B.A. in 1973. She received her Master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1994 and earned her Doctorate in the field of sociology from the University of Michigan in 1978. In 1978, she joined the U.S. Census Bureau as a demographic statistician and rose to Assistant Division Chief for Social and Demographic Statistics in the Population Division, a position she held at the time of her departure in 1994. In 1994, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in College Park as Professor of Sociology. Professor Bianchi is a family demographer whose research focuses on the dramatic changes in the lives of American women in the latter half of the 20th century and charts the causes and consequences of these changes for women, their families and their workplaces. In addition to her numerous articles, Dr. Bianchi has published four books and has two other books forthcoming (one in the ASA’s prestigious Rose Monograph Series). She has earned numerous awards for her scholarship, including twice winning the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (2001 and 2004), the 2001 Reuben Hilll Award from the National Council on Family Relations, the 2002 Otis Dudley Duncan book award from the Population Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), and the 1999 Lawrence R. Klein Award for the best paper published in the Monthly Labor Review. She has served as a member of a 2001-03 National Academy of Sciences panel on work-family policies and is also a past chair of the Family and the Population Sections of the American Sociological Association.