W. Bradford Wilcox
W. Bradford Wilcox is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia (where he directs the National Marriage Project), a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. He has been a research fellow at Yale University, a research associate at Princeton University, and a Civitas Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
His sociological research centers on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation, particularly on how family structure, civil society, and culture affect the quality and stability of family life, and the ways families shape the economic outcomes of individuals and societies. His research has been featured in CBS News, National Public Radio, National Review, NBC News, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets. He also consults regularly with companies on fertility and marriage trends in the United States.
Wilcox has a master’s degree and a doctorate in sociology from Princeton University. His bachelor’s degree in government is from the University of Virginia.