Robert Crosnoe is associate dean of Liberal Arts and Rapoport Centennial Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His main research area is the life course and human development, specifically the connections among children’s and adolescents’ health, psychosocial development, and educational trajectories and how these connections contribute to population-level inequalities. Professor Crosnoe teaches introduction to sociology, sociology of the family, and “Difficult Dialogues: Race and Social Policy in the U.S.” He has won the President’s Associates Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Award for Undergraduate Instruction.