Shiro Furuya

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. His research has been published in leading journals such as Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, and among others.

Shiro received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2024, with multiple generous national- and university-level fellowships (e.g., Fulbright Scholarship). He is currently serving as a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University. He will begin his on-campus appointment in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University in Fall 2026.