Dr. Dina Ziganshina Lienhard is the Assistant Director of Research at SCAS, where she leads a portfolio of large-scale, international, transdisciplinary research projects and develops strategies to advance student success.

Yellow Horses' research focuses on understanding how larger social forces "get under skin" to generate health inequities for racialized and minoritized peoples.

Cassandra Cotton is a family demographer whose work investigates family dynamics and kinship in sub-Saharan Africa, and romance and dating across the life-course in the US.

Dr. Connor uses causal inference and big data to study how places shape human development, social inequality, and the transmission of advantages and disadvantages over extended historical periods.

Dr. Sheehan is a demographer who uncovers the hidden social forces that shape human sleep and well-being.

Xing Zhang is a public policy demographer. Her research focuses on the role of parent-child relationships in shaping young adult health from adolescence to adulthood.