Anna Campbell Buck received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.  Her dissertation examined the effects of religious involvement on functional health status and mortality among elderly Mexican Americans.  She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology from the University of Florida.  After completing a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Anna worked as an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida.  Her past research focuses primarily on the relationship between religiosity and mental and physical health outcomes, especially among older adults and the Hispanic/Latino population.  She specializes in quantitative research methods with an emphasis on survey research and longitudinal data analysis.