Sharon Sassler, Ph.D., and Amanda Miller, Ph.D.

Sharon Sassler, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Trained as a social demographer, her research examines factors shaping the activities of young adults and their life course transitions into school and work, relationships and parenthood, and how these transitions very by gender, race/ethnicity, and social class. Her published research on family demography explores various facets of contemporary relationships. Her 2017 book, coauthored with Amanda Miller, Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships (University of California Press) examines how cohabitation is contributing to growing levels of family inequality in the United States.

Amanda Miller, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology and Director of Faculty Development at the University of Indianapolis. Her work focuses on the intersections of family, gender, and social class through examining couples’ divisions of household labor, relationship progression, and fertility decisions. Further, she examines best practices for supporting underrepresented students inside and outside of the college classroom. She and Sharon Sassler coauthored the book, Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships.