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Research Interests:

• Aging and the Life Course
• Gender, Childlessness, and Singlehood over the Life Course
  
• Marriage, Families, and Fertility
• Social Demography
  
• Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
• Families, Fertility, and Aging in the U.S. and Europe
  

• Introduction to Marriage and Families (SYG 2430)
• U.S. Population Issues (SYD 4021)
• European Population Issues (SYA 4933)
• Gender and Aging (SYA 7933)
• Families, Aging, and the Life Course (graduate - SYA 7933)
  

• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya. In press. "Singlehood."  In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by Deborah S. Carr (Editor-in-chief), Amy Pienta, M.E. Hughes, and Robert Crosnoe.
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya. In press. "Loneliness in Later Life."  In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by Deborah S. Carr (Editor-in-chief), Amy Pienta, M.E. Hughes, and Robert Crosnoe.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya and Gretchen Pendell. 2007.  “The Gender Gap in Attitudes about Childlessness in the United States.”  Journal of Marriage and Family 69, 899-915.
• Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox and Gretchen Pendell. 2007.  “Attitudes about Childlessness in the United States: Correlates of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Responses."   Journal of Family Issues 28, 1054-1082.
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, and Vaughn Call.  “Characteristics of Childless Older Persons and Parents: Cross-National Comparisons.”  Forthcoming in Journal of Family Issues, Special Issue entitled "Childless Older Adults: Cross National Comparisons." Pearl Dykstra and Gunhild Hagestad (editors).  
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Amy Mehraban Pienta, and Tyson H. Brown. 2007.  “Women of the 1950s and the “Normative” Life Course: The Implications of Childlessness, Fertility Timing, and Marital Status for Psychosocial Well-Being in Late Midlife.” International Journal of Aging and Human Development 64, 299-330.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Victor Romano, and Amanda Moras. 2007. “Through the Lenses of Gender, Race, and Class: Students’ Perceptions of Childless/Childfree Individuals and Couples.” Sex Roles 56, 415-428.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Colleen Cain, and Justin Coran. 2005.  “Small Group Learning and Hypothetical Families in a Large Introductory Course. Marriage and Family Review 38: 21-39.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya. 2005. “Singles, Society, and Science: Sociological Perspectives.”  Psychological Inquiry 16: 91-97.
• Peek, Chuck W., Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox, Barbara A. Zsembik, and Ray T. Coward.  2004.  “Race Comparisons of the Household Dynamics of Older Adults.”  Research on Aging 26: 179-201.
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya.  2002.  “Beyond Parental Status: Psychological Well-Being in Middle and Old Age.”  Journal of Marriage and Family 64: 957-971. 
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya.  2002.  “Three Men’s Perspectives on Marriage and Childlessness.”  In Ways of Aging, Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein (editors), Blackwell Publishers.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya.  1998.  "Loneliness and Depression in Middle and Old Age: Are the Childless More Vulnerable?"  Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 53B: S302-S312.
• Glicksman, Allen and Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox.  1997.  "Gender, Class, and the Construction of Jewish Identity Among the American Jewish Aged." In A Portrait of American Jewry: 1990.  David Gordis (editor). Behrman House Publishers.
• Smith, Herbert L., S. Philip Morgan, and Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox.  1996.  "A Decomposition of Trends in the Nonmarital Fertility Ratios of Blacks and Whites in the United States, 1960-1992."  Demography 33: 141-151.

• Martin, Telisha S., Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox, and William Marsiglio. “What Are Their Chances? Perceptions of Marriage Likelihood Among New Generation Cohabitors.” In review.
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Victor Romano, and Susan Cody-Rydzewski. “Biases, Premiums, and Penalties: Student Perceptions of Parents and Childless/Childfree Couples.” In review.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Constance Shehan, & Danielle Dirks. “Appearance Scripts, Beauty Discourse, and Body Changes among Middle-Aged Women.“ In review.
• Glicksman, Allen, and Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox. “Aging among Jewish Americans: Implications for Understanding Religion, Community, and Service Needs.” In preparation for The Gerontologist.
  
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Regina Bures, and Michael Loree.  “Definitions of Childlessness and Psychosocial Well-Being.”  In review.
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya.  “Changing Meanings and Implications of Childlessness Over the Life Course.”
• Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya. “Childless Adults in Midlfe: Exploring the Correlates and Implications.”  Invited presentation at the semiannual meeting of the MIDUS II work group, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. September 14, 2005.

• Principal Invesitigator: “Childless Adults in Mid-Life: Life Paths, Attitudes, and Psychological Well-Being.”  Research Award, Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Pilot Grant Program.  Sub-contract from Rutgers University, funded by NIA.  December 2004 - June 2006. $15,000.
• Principal Investigator: “Never Married Adults in Middle and Late Life.”  Research Award, Anthony Marchionne Foundation.  Susan Bluck (Co-PI).  May 2003 - August 2004. $25,000 direct costs.
• Co-Principal Investigator.  “The Consequences of Earlier Life Experiences for Older Adult Well-Being.”  Provost Opportunity Fund Award, University of Florida.  Amy Pienta, PI.    May 2002 - May 2003. $25,000 direct costs.
  

• 1998    Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation: "The Conditional Benefits of Parenthood (and Childlessness) for Subjective Well-Being in Older Adulthood."
• 1994    M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania.  Thesis: The Social Consequences of Childlessness in Middle and Old Age.
• 1988    B.A., Biological Basis of Behavior, University of Pennsylvania.

• Member, Editiorial Board, Journal of Family Issues.
• Manuscript Reviewer:  Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, American Sociological Review, Demography, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Canadian Studies in Population, Women's Health International, Sex Roles, Social Biology.
• Ad hoc proposal reviewer, National Institutes of Health.
  
• Gerontological Society of America, Richard Kalish Award Committee.
  
• Affiliate Faculty, Center for Gerontological Studies, University of Florida.
• Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida.  
• Affiliate Faculty, European Studies Center, University of Florida.
  
• Faculty Mentor, NIA Pre-Doctoral Training Grant Program, University of Florida.
  

• NIA Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Demography of Aging, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1998-2000.
  
• Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award from the Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1996-1997.
• Dissertation Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-97.
• Dissertation Fellowship, Boettner Institute for Financial Gerontology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1995-96.
• Pre-Doctoral Student Research Award, Behavioral and Social Science Section, Gerontological Society of America, 1994.
• NIA Pre-Doctoral Training Fellowship, Sociology and Demography, University of Pennsylvania. 1992-1994.