Angela M. O'Rand
Dean of the Social Sciences
Angela O'Rand is a former chair of Duke' s Sociology Department and previous director of the Focus Program.
Born in Chicago and raised in California, O'Rand has a BA from the University of the Pacific and an MA from the University of Oregon, both with honors, and a Ph.D. from Temple University. She taught at Temple, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Florida before coming to Duke in 1979.
O'Rand does research in life-course analysis, social stratification, gender and labor markets. She has published more than 75 articles and chapters and is the coauthor, with M.E. Hughes, of The Lives and Times of the Baby Boom (Russell Sage/Population Reference Bureau, 2004); and with John
C. Henretta, of Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life (Westview Press, 1998). She compiled and edited, with C.C. Osterbind, Older People in Florida : A Statistical Abstract 1978 (University Presses of Florida, 1979). She is deputy editor of Demography and editor of
Research on Aging: An International Bimonthly Journal of Aging and the Life Course.
Elected last year as president of the Southern Sociological Society, O'Rand also won the 2008 Matilda White Riley Award from the American Sociological Association for a career of distinguished scholarship in aging and life course studies. Her Duke awards include the inaugural Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award and a Provost's Common Fund Award for an interdisciplinary research program on aging. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Social Security Administration.
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