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George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
National Opinion Research Center (NORC at Chicago)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Linda Waite is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. She is Principal Investigator of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP), widely recognized as the gold standard for the collection of survey data on older adults’ intimate and social relationships and innovation in the development of methods for the collection of biomarkers such as blood spots and saliva during in-home interviews. Using unique data from NSHAP’s partner dyads, Waite has expanded research and public discourse on later life sexuality. Her research on this topic, published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, Demography, Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Sexual Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates that sexuality is not just the province of the young. Instead, sexuality is a key component of physical and emotional well-being for both older and younger adults, and it is closely connected with dynamics of social relationships and health in later life.
Waite received the Matilda White Riley Award from the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Research and, separately, received the Matilda White Riley Award for career achievement from the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association. Waite is also past president of the Population Association of America. She has received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET