Terry L. Mills

Associate Professor of Sociology
and CLAS Associate Dean for Minority Affairs
and Director of OASIS
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Southern California, 1996

Areas of Interest: Family Intergenerational Relationships, Mental Health, Minority Health

Office: 115 Grinter
Voice: (352) 392-0788
FAX: (352) 392-6568
E-mail: tlmills@soc.ufl.edu
Individual Web Page: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/tlmills

Terry Mills completed his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1996, where he also conducted research on the USC Longitudinal Study of Generations at the Andrus Gerontology Center. He has participated in post-doctoral training at the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research, as well as a traineeship in the Yale-NIMH Mental Health Services Research Fellows Program. In 2004, he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to a 4-year term on the NIH National Advisory Council on Aging; and in 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Dr. Mills has been a member of GSA since1995, and has held several leadership positions including, BSS representative to GSA Membership Committee, Chair of the BSS Membership Committee, and AGHE Faculty Development Committee. His research focuses on social, environmental, and physical health factors associated with late-life depression; and intergenerational relationships, especially among grandparents and their grandchildren. Dr. Mills is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Family Issues, and has been an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences and Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Family Relations, and Journal of Aging Studies. He has published widely, and edited a two-volume edition of the Journal of Family Issues (vol. 22:[4/5]), which focused on grandparent-grandchild relationships.