1. Kristi Williams is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University. Her research examines the effects of personal relationships on mental and physical health, the mechanisms through which these effects are produced, and sociodemographic variations in these processes. Current projects focus on the effects of family labor on the health of individuals and their spouses, the impact of widowhood on health regulation, and the relative effects of marital status and marital quality on psychological...
2. Debra Umberson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on structural determinants of psychological and physical health, gender and relationships, bereavement, and marital quality. Her current research, funded by the National Institute on Aging considers how marital quality and the effect of marital quality on health change over time. Her recent book on the effect of a parent's death on adults was published by Cambridge University Press.