Arielle Kuperberg is a Sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who studies  romantic relationships and the intersections of education, work, family and gender. Her research has examined how behavior changes when cohabiters get married, whether cohabitation is related to divorce, where students meet hookup and date partners and how meeting contexts influence risk-taking, selection into various types of relationships (dates, hookups, long-term relationships) in college, educational differences in marriage and childbearing, stay-at-home mothers, and gender and racial inequality in pay.