The Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) hosts an annual Visiting Scholars Program. The program facilitates interactions between CAPS faculty and student affiliates and other prominent scholars in the demography and economics of aging.
The 2024 Visiting Scholar Program will occur October 21-25, 2024.
Visiting scholars receive a $1500 honorarium, meet with CAPS faculty and student affiliates, and give the keynote address for the CAPS Annual Conference. The 2024 conference will be held virtually on October 25. Visiting scholars may participate in the program virtually or on-site. All travel expenses associated with an on-site visit will be covered.
Questions about, or interest in, the program should be sent to Jennifer Karas Montez, CAPS Director, at CAPS@syr.edu.
2024 Visiting Scholar
Lisa Berkman
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, and Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University
Talk title coming soon.
2023 Visiting Scholar
Hui Zheng
Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University
“Understanding American Health Trends: Deaths of Despair, Racial Disparities, and The Declining Health in Boomers to Millennials “
2022 Visiting Scholar
David M. Cutler
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
“Is Aging a Luxury Good?”
2021 Visiting Scholar
Courtney Boen
Assistant Professor and Axilrod Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
“The Scars of Legal Violence: Immigration Policy, Surveillance, and Enforcement and Population Health Inequality”
2020 Visiting Scholar
Clare Bambra
Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
“Scaling Up – The Politics of Health and Place”