Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

Professor and Hallie E. Ford Center Endowed Director

Hallie E. Ford Center
2631 SW Campus Way, Room 125
Corvallis, OR 97331-8687

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School, Department, or Affiliation

School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
Center for Healthy Aging Research
Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families
Human Development and Family Sciences

Research Interests

The life course; youth and the transition to adulthood; aging; fatherhood; social policy.

Spotlight

Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone
by Richard A. Settersten, Ph.D. and Barbara E. Ray

Handbook of Sociology of Aging
Edited by Richard A. Settersten, Ph.D. and Jacqueline L. Angel

Articles

Rick Settersten and co-author Barbara Ray recently published the article What's Going on With Young People Today? The Long and Twisting Path to Adulthood (pdf) in the journal Future of Children. This article highlights some of the ways that the process of becoming an adult has changed since the turn of the last century.

Special Issue

Rick Settersten guest-edited a special issue of Research in Human Development onThe Consequences of Fatherhood in Men's Lives

Long Vita

Rick Settersten | Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Rick Settersten is Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University and Endowed Director of the Hallie E. Ford Research Center for Healthy Children and Families. He received a Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University and has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern, and the Spencer Foundation in Chicago. Before moving to OSU, he was Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University.

Professor Settersten's recent research has been covered in print, radio, television and internet outlets. These include the BBC, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Economist, Huffington Post, New Yorker, New York Times, NPR, Oprah Radio, Oregonian, People, Seattle Post Intelligencer, The Telegraph, Toronto Star, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Wilson Quarterly.