Connor Sheehan

Connor Sheehan, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. He earned his doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin in 2017 and subsequently served as a National Institute on Aging (NIA) Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Sheehan is an award winning social demographer and epidemiologist specializing in employing advanced quantitative methods to explore the determinants of health across the lifespan. His primary research focus lies in understanding how complex social dynamics shape population-level sleep patterns.

Dr. Sheehan has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles which have appeared in journals such as Sleep, Addiction, Social Science & Medicine, and The Journal of Gerontology: Series B. His research has been cited or highlighted in media outlets including The New York Times, The Times of London, Science News, and Smithsonian Magazine, as well as featured on Horizon PBS, Arizona NPR, and the front page of r/science. Dr. Sheehan's research has received funding from The Global Sport Institute, the Southwestern Interdisciplinary Research Center, and the National Institute on Aging.  He is also deeply committed to social embeddedness, collaborating with non-profit organizations across the Phoenix metropolitan area to support their data analytics and research needs.