My latest Blog Posts
Nick’s Coconut-Lentil Soup Recipe
Nick’s coconut-lentil soup 2 yellow onions 4 cloves garlic 2 tbsp cooking oil (grape seed,…
Everyone Gets Government Money Eventually, so What’s So Special about College Debt Forgiveness?
My initial reaction to Biden’s announcement of student loan forgiveness was to have no…
Notes on Giving Presentations
August 2022 I was recently asked by a grad student for pointers on giving…
About Me
Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah.
He received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. at UCLA, both in sociology. His books include Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones; Springer, 2005), Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden; Rutgers University Press, 2013), Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox; Oxford University Press, 2016), and, most recently, Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (with Matthew McKeever; Oxford University Press, 2024. In early 2025, Wolfinger's edited volume of twenty faculty investigation stories, Professors Speak Out: The Truth about Campus Investigations (Academica Press) will be published. Wolfinger is also the author of about 40 articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic, National Review, Huffington Post, and other outlets.
Nick splits his time between Northern California and Salt Lake City, Utah. Follow him on Twitter at @NickWolfinger.