Marriage

Julia McQuillan is a Willa Cather Professor of Sociology as well as the Chair for the Sociology Department. She has done research about the psychosocial dimensions and the health disparities of fertility and infertility in women. McQuillan has also researched the affect that fertility plays on marriage and divorce. She is currently researching about social inequality, with special emphasis on changing structures and practices to increase equity and wellbeing.

Raymond Hames is an evolutionary anthropologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His field research, supported by the National Science Foundation and the LSB Leakey Foundations, focusses on the native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye’kwana). His research topics include behavioral ecology -- an evolutionary approach to behavior -- along with marriage, wildlife conservation, food and labor exchanges, warfare and alloparental care, where individuals other than biological parents care for offspring. (Updated March 2025)