Ann C. Crouter is the Raymond E. and Erin Stuart Schultz Dean of the College of Health and Human Development and a professor of Human Development at Penn State. Her research, funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, focuses on the interconnections between work circumstances and family processes in a variety of populations.
Alan Booth is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Human Development & Family Studies, and Demography at Penn State. He has been a senior scientist in Penn State’s Population Research Institute since 1991. Booth has co-organized the university’s National Symposium of Family Issues since its inception in 1993. Booth’s research has focused on marital and parent-child relationship quality, nonresidential fathers and their children, adolescents’ transition to adulthood, and hormones and family relationships. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and four books, and the editor of 16 volumes. He was editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family from 1985 to 1991.
