Daniel T. Lichter is the Ferris Family Professor emeritus of Life Course Studies at Cornell University.  He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He taught previously at Pennsylvania State University (1981-1999) and The Ohio State University (1999-2005), before joining the Cornell University faculty in 2005. Dr. Lichter has published widely on topics in population and public policy, including studies of racial and ethnic inequality, cohabitation and marriage among disadvantaged women, and immigrant integration.  His recent work, for example, has focused on changing ethnoracial boundaries, as measured by changing patterns of interracial marriage and residential segregation in the United States. Lichter is especially interested in America’s racial and ethnic transformation, growing diversity, and the implications for the future.  His other work centers on new destinations of recent Latino immigrants, especially those moving into less densely-settled rural areas in the Midwest and South. His most recent work has focused on rural depopulation over the past century, and on the question of whether new immigrant and refugee populations can revitalize small-town America.  Lichter is past president of the Population Association of America and the Rural Sociological Society.