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Emily Smith-Greenaway

Dean's Professor of Sociology and Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences
Emily Smith-Greenaway
Email smithgre@usc.edu Office HSH 309 Office Phone (213) 740-8869

Research & Practice Areas

Demography, Health, Mortality, Family, Inequality

Center, Institute & Lab Affiliations

  • USC Center for the Changing Family, Co-Chair Research Sub-Committee

Biography

Emily Smith-Greenaway is Associate Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her research areas include demography, health, mortality, bereavement, inequality, family, and international sociology. Broadly, Smith-Greenaway’s research examines how social conditions impact individual and family wellbeing and experiences. Her recent work analyzes the influence of mortality conditions on family systems, the impact of child loss on family dynamics, and the consequences of community mortality conditions for women’s fertility. She also studies how social inequality influences young adults’ educational, childbearing, and marital experiences.  Her research has...

Education

  • Ph.D. Sociology & Demography, Penn State University, 2014
    • NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, 2014-2015

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Associate Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences, USC, 2020 –
    • Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC, 2015 – 2020

  • Research Specialties

    Demography, Health, Mortality, Family, Inequality

    • Sabbatical Laureate, Max Planck Society, Human Sciences Section, 2019
    • Distinguished Early Career Award, ASA, Children and Youth Section, 2018
    • Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, USC, 2018
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