Jill Quadagno Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar, Department of Sociology

Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Dr. Jill Quadagno is an internationally recognized expert on aging and public policy, a professor of sociology, and member of the FSU Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy since 1987.

She has been the recipient of grants from the National Institute on Aging and National Science Foundation, including an NSF Visiting Professorship for Women, which enabled her to teach and do research at Harvard University.

She has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Aging and is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to the President's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform and as vice president of the American Sociological Association. In addition, Dr. Quadagno has served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, The Gerontologist, and the Journal of Aging Studies. She is the author of 12 books and more than 50 articles, including "The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State and States," and "Labor Markets and the Future of Old Age Policy". Her book The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty received the award for the Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America from the Gustavos Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights.

Dr. Quadagno's current research focuses on Social Security reform. She recently received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct research and write a book on national health insurance.

Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy

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