Ted Gerber is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Ted received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Social Science from the University of Michigan (1987), and an M.A (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Ted’s research examines social inequality, economic change, public opinion, migration, and family processes in contemporary Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and other former Soviet countries.