John Henretta

Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, Harvard University, 1974

Areas of Interest: Family Structure and Transfer Behavior, Retirement, Aging

Office: 3346 Turlington
Mailing Address: PO Box 117330, Gainesville , FL 32611-7330
Voice: (352) 392-0265 ext. 229
FAX: (352) 392-6568
E-mail: henretta@ufl.edu
Individual Web Page: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jch

John Henretta earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1974. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University, he joined the University of Florida faculty in 1976 where he has served as department chair (2001-2006). He has held sabbatical visiting appointments at the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King’s College, London,  the Centre for Population Studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Henretta is co-author (with Angela M. O’Rand) of Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life (Westview, 1999) as well as numerous research articles on issues of retirement, family demography, and intergenerational transfers. His research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIH), the Social Security Administration, and other agencies. He is currently Principal Investigator on a multi-year NIH grant, “Family Culture and Intergenerational Relations” and has been a co-investigator on the Health and Retirement Study, a major survey of health, economic, labor force, and family aspects of aging, since 1992.