Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox has taught at the University of Florida since 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.  Before coming to the University of Florida, she was an NIA post-doctoral fellow in the Demography of Aging, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Her research focuses on marital status, parenthood, and childlessness over the life course — their meanings in society and their implications for adults at different ages. Her research uses a life course perspective — examining the links between individual lives and larger historical and social circumstances, including changing attitudes and economic pressures. She is particularly interested in how gender shapes opportunities, perceptions, decisions, and experiences throughout the life course.

Her recent work has examined attitudes about childlessness and what they reveal about gender, family, and work-family dilemmas. This research has included analyses of national survey data (U.S. and cross-national) as well as an original survey of attitudes among university students in the U.S., Turkey, and Japan.

She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research as well as the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida.  Her research has been published in Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences; Journal of Marriage and Family; Research on Aging; Sex Roles; and Population Research and Policy Review. Her most recent articles have appeared in Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology and Journal of Family Issues.

Her research has garnered press coverage in Florida (e.g., Gainesville Sun, Miami Herald), nationally (Newsweek, Washington Post, Boston Globe), and internationally, and she has been interviewed on both national and local public radio.

Dr. Koropeckyj-Cox is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, the Population Association of America, National Council on Family Relations, Council on Contemporary Families, and European Association for Population Studies.