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 expert on the native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye’kwana). His research interests are in behavioral ecology, food and labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, and kin and parental investment.