Robert M. Milardo

Bob is Professor of Family Relations at the University of Maine, his academic home for over three decades. He has published extensively in leading journals and books, and served as the founding editor of the Journal of Family Theory & Review (2007-2014) and editor of the Journal of Marriage & Family (1996-2001) both owned by the National Council on Family Relations. He was elected fellow of NCFR in 2005. Bob is active in the developing science of personal relationships and elected as the first president of the International Association for Relationship Research. He served as a visiting Hofstede Research Fellow at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in The Hague and as visiting research professor in the School of Psychology at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and Uncles published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, and editor of the Family Studies Textbook Series published by Routledge. Commentaries on family issues have appeared in Psychology Today, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today and a variety of local and regional media. Bob lives in rural Maine with his partner Dr. Renate Klein, two cats, Bea and Smoke, and a very large stack of wood.