Frank Furstenberg

Frank Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg, in July 2015
Native name	Frank Folke Furstenberg, Jr.
Born	1940 (age 77–78) Baltimore, MD
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Haverford College (B.A. 1961) and Columbia University (Ph.D. 1967)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Main interests	Sociology

Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. (born 1940) is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and adolescent sexual behavior. Furstenberg has written extensively on social change, transition to adulthood, divorce, remarriage and intergenerational relations. Furstenberg is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Frank Furstenberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an established Jewish family. His father, Frank Furstenberg, Sr., was a prominent physician and advocate for national health care and his mother, Edith Hollander Furstenberg was a social worker and family matriarch. His siblings include the late founding owner of Politics and Prose, Carla Furstenberg Cohen, the master baker, Mark Furstenberg, Michael Furstenberg, Anne Furstenberg and Ellen Furstenberg.

Furstenberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College in 1961 and a Ph.D. degree in sociology from Columbia University in 1967. He joined the University of Pennsylvania sociology department as a professor in 1967. His honors include fellowships from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,Russell Sage Foundation and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Furstenberg spent his academic career in the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania as the Zellerbach Family Professor, where he remained until he retired. He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Russell Sage Foundation, London School of Economics and Political Science, National University of Singapore, and Bocconi University.