Study Directors
 
 
 

Thomas Crossley is Co-Director of FES and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Dr. Crossley is an economist with interests in economic data, survey methods, and household financial behavior.

 
 
 

Katherine McGonagle is Co-Director of FES and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Dr. McGonagle is a social psychologist with research interests in the areas of survey research methods, health, and well-being.

 
 
 

Narayan Sastry is Associate Director of FES, Director of the FES Child Development Supplement, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Sastry's research interests center on social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents.

 
 
 

Esther Friedman is Associate Director of FES and Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Friedman is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on health and aging, family caregiving, long-term care, and dementia.

 
 
 

Noura Insolera is Assistant Director of FES and Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Dr. Insolera is a quantitative sociologist whose interdisciplinary research focuses on food insecurity, social safety net participation, and health over the life course and across generations.