Robert Crosnoe
Ph.D., Stanford University
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts; Professor, Rapoport Centennial Professorship of Liberal Arts #2, Department of Sociology

Contact
- E-mail: crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-7202 (COLA), 512-471-8329 (PRC)
- Office: GEB 3.212 (COLA), RLP 2.406F (PRC)
- Campus Mail Code: G1800
Interests
Human Development, Education, Family, Health, Immigration
Biography
Currently the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Rapoport Centennial Professor of Sociology at Texas, Rob Crosnoe received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Carolina Population Center and the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His main research areas are human development, education, family, and health; specifically, the connections among children’s, adolescents’, and young adults' health, social development, and educational trajectories and how these connections contribute to population-level inequalities (e.g., social class, immigration).
Dr. Crosnoe's books include:
Crosnoe, Robert. (in press). The Starting Line: Latinx Children, Texas Schools, and National Debates about Early Education. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Crosnoe, Robert. 2019. Families Now: Demography, Diversity, and Development. New York: Macmillan.
Carr, Deborah, Elizabeth Boyle, Benjamin Cornwell, Shelley Correll, Robert Crosnoe, Jeremy Freese, and Mary Waters. 2017. The Art and Science of Social Research. New York: Norton.
Crosnoe, Robert and Tama Leventhal. 2016. Debating Early Child Care: The Relationship between Developmental Science and the Media. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Crosnoe, Robert, Claude Bonazzo, and Nina Wu. 2015. Healthy Learners: Poverty, Immigration, and Opportunity in Early Childhood Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Gordon, Rachel, Robert Crosnoe, and Xue Wang. 2013. Physical Attractiveness and the Accumulation of Social and Human Capital in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Assets and Distractions. Ann Arbor, MI: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Crosnoe, Robert. 2011. Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Crosnoe, Robert. 2006. Mexican Roots, American Schools: Helping Mexican Immigrant Children Succeed. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Some representative articles include:
Yeager, David, Paul Hanselman, Greg Walton, Jared Murray, Robert Crosnoe, Chandra Muller, Elizabeth Tipton, Barbara Schneider et al. “Where Does a Scalable Growth-Mindset Intervention Improve Adolescents’ Educational Trajectories?” Nature 573: 364–369.
Crosnoe, Robert, Arya Ansari, Kelly Purtell, and Nina Wu. 2016. “Latin American Immigration, Maternal Education, and Approaches to Managing Children’s Schooling in the U.S.” Journal of Marriage and Family 78: 60-74.
Crosnoe, Robert, Kate Chambers Pickett, Chelsea Smith, and Shannon Cavanagh. 2014. “Changes in Young Children’s Family Structures and Child Care Arrangements.” Demography 51: 459–483.
Crosnoe, Robert and Chandra Muller. 2014. “Family Socioeconomic Status, Peers, and Adolescents’ Path to College.” Social Problems 61: 1-23.
Crosnoe, Robert and Carey E. Cooper. 2010. “Economically Disadvantaged Children’s Transitions into Elementary School: Linking Family Processes, School Contexts, and Educational Policy.” American Educational Research Journal 47: 258-291.
Crosnoe, Robert. 2009. “Low-Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools.” American Sociological Review 74: 709-730.
Crosnoe, Robert and Aletha C. Huston. 2007. “Socioeconomic Status, Schooling, and the Developmental Trajectories of Adolescents.” Developmental Psychology 43: 1097-1110.
Some representative reviews and policy briefs include:
Crosnoe, Robert and Aprile Benner. 2015. “Children at School.” Pp. 268-304 in Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Vol. 4: Ecological Settings and Processes, edited by Marc Bornstein & Tama Leventhal (series editor: Richard M. Lerner). New York: Wiley.
Crosnoe, Robert. 2013. “Preparing the Young Children of Immigrants for Academic Success.” Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/preparing-children-immigrants-early-academic-success.
Robert Crosnoe and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. 2011. “Research on Adolescence in the 21st Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 37: 439-460.
Crosnoe, Robert and Ruth Lopez-Turley. 2011. “The K-12 Educational Outcomes of Immigrant Youth.” Future of Children 21: 129-152.
Crosnoe, Robert and Shannon E. Cavanagh. 2010. “Families with Children and Adolescents: A Review, Critique, and Future Agenda.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 1-18.
This research has been supported by several current or past grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, and National Institute of Justice as well as from the William T. Grant Scholars Program and the Foundation for Child Development Changing Faces of American Children Scholars Program. Professor Crosnoe has won early career awards from the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Research on Human Development, and the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association and recently received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Interdisciplinary Study of Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development. He is currently President of the Society for Research on Adolescence and a member of the Board of the Council on Contemporary Families, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Collaborative on Development in Context, Deputy Editor of Demography, and a member of the Mindset Scholars Network, and he has completed terms as the Deputy Editor of Journal of Marriage and Family and as a member of the Governing Council of Society for Research in Child Development, NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, and Institute of Medicine Study Group on Young Adult Health and Safety.
Professor Crosnoe teaches Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Difficult Dialogues: Race and Social Policy in the U.S., and American Teenagers on the undergraduate level. He is also faculty member in the Children and Society Bridging Disciplines Program for undergraduates and serves on the UT Signature Course Advisory Board. At Texas, he has won the President’s Associates Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Award for Undergraduate Instruction.