Letícia Marteleto
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology
Letícia Marteleto, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology, is a social demographer who uses data, cultural knowledge, and sociological theory to understand inequality and its intersections with fertility, education, and health. Her work is motivated by the central question of how social and economic disadvantages and demographic change intertwine in low- and middle-income countries with persistently high levels of inequality at times when widely held social and demographic norms are in flux. In her latest research, Marteleto has been examining how structural shocks such as the Zika and COVID-19 novel infectious disease crises impact women’s lives. She is currently the principal investigator of DZC (Demographic Consequences of Epidemics in Brazil), funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Marteleto’s research has also been funded by sources including the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. She is a research affiliate of the Population Studies Center and a faculty member in the Graduate Group in Demography.
