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Christopher Wildeman

Chris Wildeman

Contact Information

Department of Sociology
Yale University
Office Location : 493 College Street Room: 409 New Haven CT 06511-8933 USA
Office Location : 493 College Street Room: 409 New Haven CT 06511-8933 USA
Postal Address (all other mail) : P.O. Box 208265 New Haven CT 06520-8265 USA
Phone : +1-203-436-4181
Facsimile : +1-203-432-6976
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Assistant Professor of Sociology

Christopher Wildeman is an assistant professor of sociology, a faculty fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE), and a resident fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from Princeton University in 2008. As a graduate student, his research received the Dorothy S. Thomas Award from the Population Association of America and graduate student paper awards from three sections of the American Sociological Association. From 2008-2010, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar and postdoctoral affiliate in the Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests revolve around the consequences of mass imprisonment for inequality, with emphasis on families, health, and children. He is also interested in child welfare more broadly, especially as relates to child maltreatment and the foster care system. Some of his current research considers the effects of parental incarceration on child homelessness, the consequences of mass imprisonment for population health, the implications of mass imprisonment for inequality among children, the effects of incarceration on mortality, and changes in the cumulative risk of maltreatmwnt and foster care placement for children. These projects have been funded by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Center for Marriage and Family Research at Bowling Green State University, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research.

Selected Publications