Rate My Professor John Robert Warren

John Robert Warren is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, an M.A. in Sociology from the same institution in 1994, and a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College in 1991. Warren joined the University of Minnesota in 2002 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, and to Full Professor in 2007. Prior to his appointment at Minnesota, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington from 1998 to 2002.

Warren serves as Director of the Minnesota Population Center. He is a sociologist, demographer, population health scholar, and education policy researcher with expertise in large-scale data collection and dissemination. His work includes projects on the High School and Beyond cohort, linkages between historical census data and modern surveys, and studies examining the long-term effects of education on health, cognition, and labor market outcomes. Warren was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2021. He served as editor of Sociology of Education from 2013 to 2016 and has co-directed the NICHD-funded Training Program in Population Health Science. He is also involved in ongoing NIH-funded research on education studies for healthy aging.