John Henretta
Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, Harvard University, 1974
Areas of Interest: Family
Structure and Transfer Behavior, Retirement, Aging
Office: 3219 Turlington
Mailing Address: PO Box 117330, Gainesville , FL
32611-7330
Voice: (352) 392-0265 ext. 229
FAX: (352) 392-6568
E-mail: jch@soc.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.
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