Renata T. Forste

Renata Forste is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992 and taught for three years at Western Washington University before joining the faculty of BYU in 1995. Previous to her appointment as department chair, she served as an associate dean in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences and as director of Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on patterns of family formation and child well-being in Latin America and the United States.