Merril Silverstein

Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professor in Aging
Aging Studies Institute

Degree

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1990

Specialties

Aging, family, intergenerational relationships, demographic, policy and cultural contexts, quantitative methods

Courses

SOC 800:   Sociology of the Family  

SOC 664:   Aging & Society  

Biography

Merril Silverstein, Ph.D. , is inaugural holder of the Marjorie Cantor Chair in Aging Studies at Syracuse University in the Maxwell School Department of Sociology and in Human Development and Family Science. He received his doctorate in sociology from Columbia University. In over 150 research publications, he has focused on aging in the context of family life, with an emphasis on life course and international perspectives. He serves as principal investigator of the Longitudinal Study of Generations and has had projects in China, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Israel. He is a Brookdale Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar and between 2010-2014 served as editor-in-chief of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

Research Projects

LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF GENERATIONS

The 2016 web-survey of the Longitudinal Study of Generations is now live!  Many thanks to those who are participating in this landmark study.  

Over the years this project has produced many publications, a selection of which I list below from the last 10 years.  Unfortunately, I am not able to share the manuscripts due to copy-right protections exerted by the journals (though many may be available in various data bases), 

Please be reminded of the fact that the time and effort devoted by study participants like you have made these publications possible.

With appreciation.

Merril Silverstein, Ph.D.