Jacqueline L. Angel, Ph.D. is Wilbur J. Cohen Chair, Health and Social Policy and Professor of Sociology, UT Austin.

Angel’s research examines health and retirement issues, with a focus on Latino aging, family, immigration processes, and the Mexican-origin population. She collaborates with a transdisciplinary research team to investigate pathways that influence Mexican American health and cognitive function outcomes. She is a UT Principal Investigator on the NIH/NIA longitudinal panel study of the health and well being of older Mexicans and their caregivers, a bi-national study of living arrangement trajectories and dementia care, Texas Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (with UTMB, UTSA), and since 2005 the Conference Series on Aging in the Americas.

Angel is author/coauthor/co-editor of over 100 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and 15 books/edited collections, including “Loss of Autonomy: Likely Dementia and Living Arrangement Transitions Among Mexicans and Mexican Americans” (The Gerontologist). Among her recognitions are the 2024 American Sociological Association, SALC Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award, 2023 James Jackson Outstanding Mentorship Award, 2020 ASA-SALC Outstanding Mentor Award, 2020 UT President’s Mentorship Award for Global Learning, 2017 Next Avenue’s Influencers in Aging. Angel was recipient of the Jackie Lelong Visionary Leader Award (2013); Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize (2011); and GSA Senior Service Scholar Award (2010).