Sociology Welcomes New Faculty

Cayley Ryan-Claytor

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue

Cayley Ryan-Claytor is an incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. She previously completed her PhD in Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University and a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Michigan Population Studies Center. Her research investigates social determinants of health and health services use across the life course, with a specific focus on how resource-health relationships change across cohorts and in the context of aging societies. Click here to read more about Dr. Cayley Ryan-Claytor.

 Shiro Furuya

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue

Shiro Furuya is a sociologist and social demographer with substantial interests in health, aging and the life course, and the family. Shiro’s work has attempted to uncover causal and selective processes that generate inequalities in health and well-being, in addition to describing these inequalities. Shiro also seeks interdisciplinary synergies, particularly between the social and biological sciences, to provide theoretical and empirical contributions to the social sciences. Click here to read more about Dr. Shiro Furuya.