Robert Hummer
PhD, Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor, Sociology
rhummer@email.unc.edu
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Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Dr. Hummer has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters, and books in his areas of interest, with attention to health disparities both during infancy/childhood as well as across the adult life course. His latest book, Population Health in America (with Erin R. Hamilton, published in 2019 by the University of California Press), weaves together demographic data with social theory to provide an in-depth historical and contemporary portrait of US population health and challenges readers to examine current health policy priorities and to ask whether major shifts are needed.
Dr. Hummer is Director of the long-running National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a nationally-representative longitudinal study of over 20,000 American adults who are now in their mid-40s and have been followed since they were adolescents. Dr. Hummer spends much of his time on a daily basis on the innovative collection of Add Health data as the cohort is aging into middle adulthood. His overall goal for the project is to produce a data set for the scientific community that is innovative, high quality, and supportive of a broad range of research interests. His personal interests lie in understanding how and why the physical, mental, and cognitive health of individuals in the Add Health study differ by race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Associated Projects
- Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
- Add Health Wave VI Cognition and Early Risk Factors for Dementia Project
- From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research
- Influences of State Policies and Racialized Parental Incarceration on Youth Justice System Contact and Conflict, Emotional Estrangement and Intergenerational Life Outcomes
- Network on Life Course Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America