Jennifer Karas Montez is one of three faculty members reappointed to the rank of University Professor, the University’s most senior and selective academic status. The honor recognizes exceptional scholarship and innovative academic and professional activity.

Montez has extensive expertise in demography, political economy, population health and life course and aging topics. Her research examines the large and growing inequalities in adult mortality across education levels and geographic areas within the United States, including why those trends are particularly worrisome for women, for people without a college degree and for those living in states in the South and Midwest. She also studies whether and why experiences in childhood, such as poverty and abuse, have enduring consequences for health during later life.

She is co-director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab in the Maxwell School, and is a faculty associate of the Aging Studies Institute and a research affiliate at the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health and the Center for Policy Research.

Fewer than 20 individuals have been recognized as University Professors. Appointments are made by the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees.

Read the full story via the SU News website.

By Diane Stirling