Jason Houle is a sociologist interested in social disparities in mental health and well-being, processes of social stratification and mobility, and life course sociology. He received his PhD in Sociology and Demography from The Pennsylvania State University in 2011. He is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In July 2013, he will join the faculty at Dartmouth College as an Assistant Professor of Sociology.