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Director of Center for Family and Demographic Research and Professor of Sociology
Wendy D. Manning received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992, and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship
at Pennsylvania State University. She joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University in 1995.
Dr. Manning is a social demographer whose primary interest is family sociology, particularly how family members define and
understand their obligations to each other in an era of increasing diversity and complexity of family relationships. Her research
focuses on social change and family behavior, and has stressed racial and ethnic differences in the meaning of nonmarital
co-residential unions, and how cultural patterns and traditions have important implications for a variety of fertility decisions.
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