Susan L. Brown is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University and Co-Director of the Center for Aging Families (CAF). She also serves as the Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research and Co-Director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research. She is a family demographer whose research addresses union formation and dissolution and its linkages to health and well-being in the second half of life. She is especially interested in nonmarital partnerships, including living apart together (LAT) and cohabiting relationships. She also studies the patterns and implications of limited family ties among older adults. Her research on later life divorce has been supported by three NIA grant awards over the past decade. She is widely recognized as an expert in family change among older adults and is regularly quoted in the national media. Dr. Brown’s scholarly agenda closely aligns with CAF’s research theme on the changing demography of aging families. She leads CAF’s Communication and Dissemination Core. She also is a Mentor in CAF’s Emerging Scholars program.
