CSDE Research Areas:
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
- Hummer Examines How Context Shapes the Meaning of Childlessness in the United States and Japan (04/23/2026)
Holly Hummer is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia with interests in family, gender, and work. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2024 and was a visiting scholar at CSDE for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Her research is broadly focused on the mechanisms shaping individuals’ family and employment pathways and on how these pathways play into broader demographic and social patterns. Much of this work sits at the intersection of family sociology, feminist and gender scholarship, cultural sociology, and population studies. She has a deep interest in advancing and advocating for the use of qualitative and cross-national, comparative methods to understand social life.