Toni C. Antonucci

Toni C. Antonucci is the Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Program Director and Research Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Antonucci’s research focuses on social relations and health across the life span, including the family, life span and life course development, multigenerational relations, adult development and aging, and comparative studies of social relations and health in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Japan. She is particularly interested in how social relations optimize or jeopardize an individual’s ability to face life’s challenges. She received a Research Career Development Award and is currently funded or has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging and several private foundations, most recently, the Fetzer Institute and the MacArthur Foundation.

She has been president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Society for the Study of Human Development. She served as editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, series editor of the Annual Review of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology. Her numerous scientific publications include editing (with James S. Jackson) Life Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities and (with Karen Fingerman, Cynthia Berg and Jacqui Smith) the Handbook of Life Span Development.