DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Area(s) of Interest

Family, Gender, Demography, Education, Health

Biography

Julia Behrman is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where she holds an AT&T Research Professorship. A sociologist and demographer, her research examines the causes and consequences of family change in a global perspective. She investigates how events, experiences, and policies shape power dynamics within families, particularly around childbearing and reproductive wellbeing. While her earlier work focused on high-fertility contexts, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, her recent research addresses low-fertility settings in Europe and the United States. Her research has earned multiple awards from the American Sociological Association (Education, Population, and Development sections), the Population Association of America, the Sociologists’ AIDS Network, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences, and the South African Medical Research Council, among others. Dr. Behrman received her Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and was a Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford prior to starting at Northwestern.

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate: Gender and Society
Graduate: Research Design; Regression II

Relevant Links

Prospective PhD students who are considering emailing me please read the following: https://tinyurl.com/2kwnsb69