Dr. Lichter is the Ferris Family professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, as well as professor of Sociology and and Director of the Cornell Population Center. He teaches courses on population and public policy, poverty, inequality, and demographic techniques. Dr. Lichter has published widely on demographic topics related to the family and welfare policy, including studies of children's changing living arrangements, poverty, cohabitation and marriage among unwed mothers, and welfare incentive effects on the family. He is especially interested in America's racial and ethnic transformation, growing diversity, and the implications of those things on our future.