Mark Regnerus
Mark Regnerus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and President of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture. His research is in the areas of marriage, family, sexual and relationship decision-making, and religion. Mark is the author of nearly 60 published articles and four Oxford University Press books. His published research is widely reviewed, including in outlets such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Christianity Today, and the Wall Street Journal. He’s a contributing editor at Public Discourse and an occasional contributor to First Things. He is well known for being the author of a 2012 study on the comparatively optimal outcomes of young adults raised in biologically-intact, stably-married households. He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his wife have three children.