Paula Fomby, Professor of Sociology, is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences. Fomby is a sociologist and family demographer whose research focuses on children’s well-being and life chances and the way these are shaped by families and social institutions, with particular attention to economic and racialized inequalities. Her research has been supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation. She has authored numerous scholarly articles and several book sections. In 2023, she won Article of the Year from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sociology of the Family for her co-authored article “Interlinking Structural Racism and Heteropatriarchy: Rethinking Family Structure’s Effects on Child Outcomes in a Racialized, Unequal Society.” Currently, Fomby serves as the Associate Director for Penn’s Population Studies Center, member for the School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award Committee, and Diversity Search Advisor for the School of Arts and Sciences Social Sciences Division, and was a faculty judge for Penn Grad Talks.