Position: Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty Mentor, Coordinator of Honors Projects, CURS Projects, Undergraduate Research, Scholarships, and Internships
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
MA, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Economics, George Washington University
Jenjira J. Yahirun is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Bowling Green State University. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at BGSU in 2019, she was on the faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Dr. Yahirun is a family demographer and population health scientist, whose research focuses on family relationships across the life course. She is especially interested in how the resources of family members, mainly adult children, generate spillover effects on the health of older adults. Dr. Yahirun also studies how social support networks differ across social groups, asking how nativity, race, and ethnicity shape people’s access to and ties to kin. Her research has received support from the National Institute on Aging.
