Dr. Steven Vago earned two Ph.D.s: one in Anthropology and one in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. During graduate school, he was an integral part of the creation of an alcohol treatment program at Malcolm Bliss Hospital in St. Louis. Vago became part of the Department of Sociology at St. Louis University after finishing his graduate studies and was a full professor there by the age of 37. Thereafter, Steve chaired the Department of Sociology several times, teaching at St. Louis University for over thirty years. During the 1970s, Vago was asked by the United Nations to work for its member agency UNESCO and worked in Paris for several years in their Office of Population and Demography. At the end of his teaching career in 2001, Dr. Vago retired to Bellingham, Washington, with his wife. Vago passed away in 2010, at the age of 73.