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Personnel

Director: W. Bradford Wilcox

Professor Wilcox is associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. As an undergraduate, he was a Jefferson Scholar at U.Va. His research focuses on marriage, and on the ways that gender, religion, class, and children influence the quality and stability of American family life. He has published articles on marriage, cohabitation, fatherhood, and religion and family life in The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, The Journal of Marriage and Family, and The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Time, CNN, NBC’s The Today Show, and numerous NPR stations.

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Assistant Director: Skip Burzumato

Skip Burzumato is currently an adjunct professor of sociology at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. For over twenty years he has worked and taught at various non-profit and educational institutions, including the University of Memphis, Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA, and the University of Virginia. His research focus during graduate school at the University of Memphis was on levels of religious commitment among undergraduate students. He has published articles for various publications pertaining to modern courtship and dating practices among young adults. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on various issues pertaining to marriage and the family.

Faculty & Graduate Fellows

The faculty and graduate fellows of the National Marriage Project pursue research on topics related to marriage and family life, attend NMP events, and contribute to the publications of the project.

Name School
Kerry Abrams Law School, Virginia
Jason Carroll Family Studies, Brigham Young University
Lee Coppock Economics, Virginia
Jeffrey Dew Family Studies, Utah State
Christopher Ellison University of Texas at Austin
Meg Jay Clinical Psychology, University of Virginia
David Morris Sociology, Virginia
Mark Regnerus Sociology, Texas
Leonard Schoppa Politics, Virginia
Kathryn Sharpe Darden School, Virginia
Hyun Joo Shim Psychology, Virginia
Claudia Ayanna Sitgraves Economics, NYU
Christine Whelan Sociology, Iowa
Ronald Wilcox Darden School, Virginia
   

Board of Advisors

Name School / Institute
Richard Campanelli, Esq Attorney
William J. Doherty University of Minnesota
Kathryn Edin Harvard University
Robert Emery University of Virginia
Bill Galston The Brookings Institution
Neil Gilbert University of California at Berkeley
Ron Haskins The Brookings Institution
Linda Malone-Colon Hampton University
Elizabeth Marquardt Institute for American Values
David G. Myers Hope College
Isabel Sawhill The Brookings Institution
Scott Stanley University of Denver
Linda J. Waite University of Chicago
James Q. Wilson UCLA (emeritus)
G. Sim Johnson Author
David Popenoe Rutgers University (emeritus)
Christopher Ellison University of Texas at San Antonio

University of Virginia Faculty Advisory Committee

Name School
Robert Emery Psychology
Jonathan Haidt Psychology
Paul Kingston Sociology
David O’Brien Politics
Steven Rhoads Politics
Lynn Sanders Politics
Jorge Secada Philosophy
Peter Sheras The Curry School
Ronald Wilcox Darden School