Jennifer Lundquist

Jennifer H. Lundquist is Professor of Sociology and Senior Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development with the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received a joint PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Recent work includes the 2021 book (with Celeste Curington '17 and Ken-Hou Lin '13) The Dating Divide: Race and Intimacy in the Era of Online Romance. She has published her research in a variety of academic journals, including Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review and is the lead author of a well-known demography textbook. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Mellon and Humboldt and covered by outlets ranging from Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times and National Public Radio.