Margaret Gough Courtney

Margaret (Gough) Courtney, PhD, is Director of Programs and Research at the American Sociological Association. Courtney is an accomplished researcher and teacher. Prior to joining ASA, Courtney was a Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and an Associate Professor of Sociology with tenure. She holds a BA in Social Welfare and Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, along with a PhD and MA in Sociology, and an MA in Statistics, from the University of Michigan, where she was a trainee at the Population Studies Center. She completed an ASA/NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and was part of the inaugural cohort of scholars in the Michigan Integrative Well-Being and Inequality (MIWI) Training Program.