Turner, Barbara Formaniak

Turner received the A.B. from Antioch College and the Ph.D. in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. From 1968 to 1989, she was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she founded and directed the Center on Aging. In 1989, she moved to the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where she is Professor of Gerontology. Her research interests and publications focus on the intersection of gender and aging, especially in personality, mental health, and sexuality.