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Elwood Carlson is Charles B. Nam Professor in Sociology of Population at Florida State University and former director of FSU's Center for Demography and Population Health. Dr. Carlson has also served as Dean at the International Max Planck Research School for Demography (Rostock, Germany), a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace. His doctorate in sociology is from the University of California-Berkeley.

His research and publications focus on social determinants of health in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Most recently, he published The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom, and a PRB Population Bulletin, "20th-Century U.S. Generations."