Rin Reczek is Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University and Co-Director for the Center for Aging Families (CAF). She is a family demographer and qualitative methodologist whose research accounts for the full complexity of family ties, with specific attention to how family dynamics and structure shape health and well-being in mid- and later-life. She is especially interested in how the multifaceted dynamics of parent-adult child ties, parenthood, and intimate relationships change across the life course. Dr. Reczek is well known for her national media engagement on family estrangement and no-contact family relationships, as well as for her work on sexual minority families and health. Dr. Reczek is currently leading a National Institutes of Health-funded project examining how childbearing biographies (e.g., age at first and last birth, parity) shapes midlife health. Dr. Reczek research interests dovetail with CAF’s research theme on aging family health and health disparities in aging families. She co-leads CAF’s Development Core, which houses our Emerging Scholar and Innovation Grant programs.
