Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox
Associate Professor
3353 Turlington Hall
352-392.0265 x251
tkcox@soc.ufl.edu
Office
hours (fall)
Monday 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Wednesday 1:00 - 2:30 pm
or by appointment
Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox
completed her Ph.D. in Sociology
and Demography at the
University
of Pennsylvania in 1998. Before coming to the University of
Florida, she was an NIA post-doctoral fellow in the Demography of
Aging, Department of
Population and
Family Health Sciences, at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at
Johns Hopkins University.
Her research focuses on marital status, parenthood, and childlessness over the life course -- their meanings in society and their implications for middle-aged and older adults. Her research draws on a life course perspective -- examining the links between individual lives and larger historical and social circumstances, including changing attitudes and opportunities. She is particularly interested in how gender shapes opportunities, decisions, and experiences throughout the life course.
Most recently, her work has examined attitudes about
childlessness and what they may reveal about gender, family issues, and
concerns about work-family dilemmas. This research has included
analyses of national survey data as well as an original survey of
attitudes about childless/childfree couples and parents among
college-aged young adults.
She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender
Research as well as the Center
for European Studies at the University of Florida. Her
research has been published in Journals
of Gerontology: Social Sciences; Journal of Marriage and Family;
Research on Aging; and Marriage and Family Review. Her
most
recent articles have appeared in Sex
Roles, International
Journal of Aging and Human Development, Journal
of Family Issues, and Journal
of Marriage and Family.
Her research has garnered press coverage in Florida
(Gainesville Sun, Miami Herald), nationally (Newsweek, Boston Globe),
and internationally, and she has been interviewed on both national and
local public radio.
Dr. Koropeckyj-Cox is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, the Population Association of America, Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, and the National Council on Family Relations.
