Florencia Torche is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor in the Department of Sociology and the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). Her research and writing focus on social inequality and social mobility, educational disparities, and marriage and family dynamics. Her recent scholarship studies the influence of early-life exposures and circumstances –starting before birth– on individual health, development, and wellbeing using natural experiments and causal inference approaches.

Professor Torche was elected to the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (AAPSS) in 2023, and to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020. She has led large collaborative data collection projects, including the first national social mobility surveys in Chile and in Mexico. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, among others.