About the Editor

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor Emerita in the Sociology Program, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging and the life course with special focus on health policy, health care utilization, and health behavior. She serves as editor of the research annual, Research in the Sociology of Health Care published each year by Emerald Press. She is coeditor of Health and Associate Editor In Chief, American Journal of Health Promotion. She has served in many roles with the American Sociological Association (ASA) including as Chair of the Medical Sociology Section and other positions in this group. She is currently serving as a council member with the Retired Sociologist Interest Group of the ASA. She has served as secretary-treasurer of the Medical Care section of the American Public Health Association. She is a past president of Sociologists for Women in Society.