Sue Humphers-Ginther (Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, San Francisco) is Profess...

Sue Humphers-Ginther (Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, San Francisco) is Professor of Sociology, Coordinator of the Gerontology Program, and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Her teaching interests are in the sociology of aging, health/aging politics and policy, medical sociology, research methods and statistics, and grant writing. Her doctoral education was funded by a five-year National Institute on Aging pre-doctoral fellowship in Sociocultural Gerontology at the University of California, San Francisco. She received a Teaching Award from UCSF’s Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, two Research Awards from the Institute for Health and Aging, and an Outstanding Advisor Award from MSUM. She was a Governor’s appointee to the Minnesota Board on Aging from 2005 – 2014. From 2015 – 2017, she was a member of the Editorial Board and co-Managing Editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Gerontological Society since 2006, served as co-President of MGS from 2013 – 2015, and is currently co-Chair of the Gerontology Educators Network.