Comments From the Managing Editor

With this first 2021 issue of the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, it is my pleasure to welcome Dr. Daniel Perlman as editor. Having already contributed to our special COVID-19 issue, Dr. Perlman will work alongside our current editor, Dr. James White. With the aid of our Assistant Editor Judith Horan, the tandem of White and Perlman will create an expanded editorial team. Dr. Perlman brings an extensive resumé of scholarship and editorial work with him. He has previously served as editor for both the Journal of Social Issues and the journal Canadian Psychology. In addition to being on numerous journal editorial boards and administrative positions, he has provided manuscript consultation for over 20 additional journals. His scholarship has spanned the breadth of social psychology with an emphasis on close relationships and loneliness. His almost 10,000 Google Scholar citations come from his 14 edited or authored books, plus approximately 125 articles, chapters, and other publications.

I am grateful to have met and studied under Dr. Perlman almost 25 years ago at the University of British Columbia where he currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus. I am also appreciative to have been able to co-author one of those 125 articles. Dr. Perlman has spent the last 13 years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and is now returning to where his teaching career began, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. I look forward to working with him as he brings his unique knowledge base and expertise to the editorial team, and makes the Journal of Comparative Family Studies even stronger.