W. Bradford Wilcox
| W. Bradford Wilcox | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Bradford Wilcox 1970 |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Virginia |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia (B.A. 1992), Princeton University (Ph.D. 2001) |
William Bradford Wilcox (born 1970) is an associate professor of sociology and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Wilcox has a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University, and the Brookings Institution before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia, where he is an associate professor and director of graduate studies. His sociological research centers on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation, particularly on how family structure, civil society, and culture affect the quality and stability of family life, and the ways families shape the economic outcomes of individuals and societies. He teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on statistics, family, and religion.
Wilcox has authored and edited several books, and published numerous articles on marriage, fatherhood, parenting, and religion. His work has appeared in such leading academic journals as The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and The Journal of Marriage and Family. His latest book, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, & Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with coauthor Nicholas Wolfinger) was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. His first book, Soft Patriarchs and New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. In addition, Wilcox has co-edited two books: Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives (with Kathleen Kovner Kline, Columbia University Press, 2013) and Whither the Child? Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility (with Eric Kaufmann, Paradigm Press, 2013).
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