Marriage

Julia McQuillan is Willa Cather Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She evaluates fundamental social psychological theories with multiple kinds of research designs and analyses, including interdisciplinary work with art, to study social inequality with the goal of changing structures and practices to increase equity and wellbeing. She enjoys teaching introductory sociology and multidisciplinary research collaboration to fund and publish research on several topics, including fertility and infertility, gender, health, public understanding of science, and more recently the implications of innovations in food science, bioeconomy, robotics, and engineering. Her work on fertility and infertility examined the psychosocial dynamics and health disparities of fertility and infertility in women, including the impact on marriage and divorce. (Updated May 2025)

Raymond Hames is an evolutionary anthropologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His field research, supported by the National Science Foundation and the LSB Leakey Foundations, focusses on the native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye’kwana). His research topics include behavioral ecology -- an evolutionary approach to behavior -- along with marriage, wildlife conservation, food and labor exchanges, warfare and alloparental care, where individuals other than biological parents care for offspring. (Updated March 2025)