Associates

	John R. Reynolds, Ph.D Director of the Pepper Institute Professor of Sociology email:john.reynolds@fsu.edu website: John R. Reynolds phone: 850.644.8825 Bio: John Reynolds' recent awards include the Sociology Department's Teaching Award in 2000, the University Teaching Award at Florida State University in 2001, and 2008. Also the sociology graduate students' 2001 award and 2007, for contributions to graduate education in the department. Professor Reynolds currently researching areas including the sociology of education, aging and the life course, and social psychology. Currently Reynolds is studying the psychological resources and social arrangements that shape the schooling and work trajectories of young adults. This research seeks to understand when and why some adolescents rise above challenging family and neighborhood environments, while other youth in the same environments demonstrate elevated risks for psychiatric disorders, juvenile delinquency, high school dropout, and unemployment. At the same time, Reynolds is trying to uncover the factors that lead many economically privileged youth to suffer from mental, behavioral, and developmental challenges despite the considerable resources at their disposal. The unifying theme of this work is the premise that the payoffs to effort and the ability to achieve one's goals are moderated by both psychological makeup and social structural constraints.
	Anne Barrett, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology email: abarrett@garnet.acns.fsu.edu website: Anne Barrett phone: 850.644.2833 Bio:Anne Barrett received her Ph.D. from Duke University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Her research uses a social psychological perspective to examine the relationships among family roles, health, gender, and aging. Her recent projects include an examination of women’s aging anxieties and their links with current psychological distress and an analysis of undergraduate students’ perceptions of elders and the aging process.
	Charles Barrilleaux, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science email: cbarrile@garnet.acns.fsu.edu website: Charles Barrilleaux phone: 850.644.7643 Bio: Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, 1985. Major research interests are in state politics, policy and administration.
	Farasat Bokhari, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics email: fbokhari@fsu.edu website: Farasat Bokhari phone: 850.644.5418 Bio: Dr. Bokhari is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Florida State University where he teaches courses in Health Economics and Econometrics. He got his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 2001 and did his postdoctoral work at University of California, Berkeley. His current research is in the area of health economics and health policy analysis from an IO perspective. To date, his research has been in the areas of managed care, health care technologies and more recently in mental health issues, specifically, the economic and policy analysis of Attention Deficit/Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD) and market for psychostimulant drugs. His other research interests are in the evolution of industrial structures, and the innovation, adoption and diffusion of technologies.
	Jason Barabas, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Political Science email: jason.barabas@fsu.edu website: Jason Barabas phone: 850.644.7595 Bio: Dr. Barabas studies how citizens learn about policy issues from the mass media and interpersonal deliberation as well as public attitudes toward privatization in America. Ongoing research projects include the relationship between public opinion and public policy, the effects of the information environment on public knowledge and attitudes, and the politics of stock market investing with an emphasis on private investment accounts. He teaches several courses in the Master's in Public Health program in the College of Social Science, and several of his recent papers are on preferences toward or knowledge of the Medicare and Social Security programs in the United States.
	Kenneth Brummel-Smith, M.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine email: ken.brummel-smith@med.fsu.edu website: Kenneth Brummel-Smith phone: 850.644.2291 Bio: Dr. Brummel-Smith is the Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor of Geriatrics and the chair of the Department of Geriatrics at the FSU College of Medicine. He is editor of five textbooks, Geriatric Rehabilitation, Practical Ambulatory Geriatrics, Interviewing and Patient Care, Geriatric Assessment, and Reichel’s Care of the Elderly. His research has addressed the effect of a support group on caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, methods of assessing pain in persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and advance care planning. He serves on the National Advisory Council on Aging for the National Institute on Aging.
	Neil H. Charness, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology email: charness@psy.fsu.edu website: Neil H. Charness phone: 850.644.6686 Bio: Neil H. Charness joined the Florida State University as a Professor of Psychology in 1994. His research focuses on: age and expertise-trying to understand how acquired skill may compensate for age-related declines in cognitive efficiency; and on age and human factors-trying to understand how best to design technology for effective use by older adults.
	Miles Taylor, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology email: mtaylor3@fsu.edu website: Miles Taylor phone: 850.644.5418 Bio:Dr. Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. She received her Ph. D. at Duke University in 2005 and her postdoctoral fellowship at the Carolina Population Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on physical and mental health among older adults, including functional impairment, chronic disease, and mortality. Her most recent project deals with racial disparities in disability trajectories across later life and the intersection of demographic, contextual, psychological, and interpersonal factors in the disablement process that fuel race differences. She is also interested in marital and family relationships across the life course, including the enduring relationship of marital quality and health and the effects of grandparents in the lives of adolescents.
	Gary M. Fournier, Ph.D. Professor of Economics email: gfournie@coss.fsu.edu website: Gary M. Fournier phone: 850.644.5001 Bio: Gary M. Fournier is a health economist and Professor of Economics at Florida State University. Dr. Fournier's degrees are from the University of Florida and the University of Virginia. His expertise includes empirical research in health economics, applied microeconomics and industrial organization. His recent interests include the airline industry, information diffusion in medical treatment decisions, risk and quality issues in hospitals and health maintenance organizations, medical malpractice, and the problems of access to health care and insurance.
	Jill B. Quadagno, Ph.D. Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar and Professor of Sociology email: jquadagn@coss.fsu.edu phone: 850.644.8827 Bio: Jill B. Quadagno is Professor of Sociology at Florida State University where she holds the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Chair in Social Gerontology. She has been a recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, a National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship for Women, the Distinguished Scholar Award of the ASA Section on Aging, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. In 1994 she served as Senior Policy Advisor on the President's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. Her most recent book is "One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance" (Oxford 2005).
	Deana Rohlinger, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology email: drohling@fsu.edu website: Deana Rohlinger phone: 850.644.2493 Bio: Deana Rohlinger received her doctorate at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines links between gender, social movements, and political change. Her current projects include an analysis of civic and political engagement over the life course. Her research also examines how movement-countermovement dynamics affect media strategies and outcomes.
	William G. Weissert, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science email: wweisser@fsu.edu website: William G. Weissert phone: 850.644.5727 Bio: The Claremont Graduate School, 1972. Principal research and teaching interests are health policy and home care, especially its cost-effectiveness and the potential of using incentive payment methods to improve it.