Shiro Furuya is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His substantive interests lie in health, aging and the life course, and the family. As an emerging scholar at the Center for Aging Families, he examines how work and economic conditions are associated with and affect family formation and dissolution among older adults in the United States. Additionally, he is extending his research scope to include other nations that have witnessed population aging.
