Robert Schrauf is associate professor of applied linguistics at Penn State University and a faculty affiliate of the PSU Gerontology Center. He completed the doctorate in medical anthropology with a specialization in cognitive anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and postdoctoral training in cognitive psychology at Duke University. Prior to his appointment at Penn State, he was an assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
He conducts research in the following three areas: bilingual autobiographical memory; language, culture, and cognitive aging; and applied linguistics and health sciences. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Alzheimer’s Association, and others.
Dr. Schrauf is president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology and associate editor of The Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. He is an active member of the Gerontological Society of America.