Suzanne M. Bianchi is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equities at UCLA.  Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in July 2009, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland where she was recognized as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in 2003-04. She is a Past President of the Population Association of America (PAA) and is a former editor of the journal Demography. She has also chaired both the Family and the Population Sections of the American Sociological Association. 

Professor Bianchi’s research focuses on the American family, time use and gender equality. Her work chronicles changing parental investments in childrearing, unpaid work in the home and market work from 1965 to the present. Her 2006 ASA Rose Monograph, Changing Rhythms of American Family Life (co-authored with John Robinson and Melissa Milkie) won book awards from both the Population and the Family Sections of the American Sociological Association.  Bianchi has also written extensively on family change and is currently is working on projects investigating intergenerational caregiving, using vignettes to assess attitudes toward intergenerational co-residence. She has a newly-funded project on geographic proximity of adult children and aging parents and is working on a new book on intergenerational ties later in life.