Merril Silverstein

Merril Silverstein, Ph.D., holds the Marjorie Cantor Chair in Aging Studies at Syracuse University and serves as professor in the Departments of Sociology and Human Development and Family Science. Professor Silverstein received his doctorate in sociology from Columbia University, after which he served on the faculty of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. In over 200 research publications, he has focused on aging in the context of family life using international-comparative perspectives, with an emphasis on intergenerational relations over the life course. Professor Silverstein serves as principal investigator of the Longitudinal Study of Generations and the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province, China. Between 2010-2014 he served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Professor Silverstein is a Fellow of the Brookdale Foundation, the Fulbright Senior Scholars program, and the Gerontological Society of America.