CCF
Experts
Current
board members with their e-addresses:
Etiony
Aldorando etiony@MIAMI.EDU
Rhea
Almeida RheaAlmeid@AOL.COM
Pauline
Boss pboss@CHE.UMN.EDU
Rena
Cornell rcornel@SA.NCSU.EDU
Frank
Furstenberg fff@SSC.UPENN.EDU
Janet Gornick janet_gornick@BARUCH.CUNY.EDU
Pilar Hernandez phernand@MAIL.SDSU.EDU
Waldo Johnson wejohnso@UCHICAGO.EDU
Larry McCallum PSmccallum@AUGUSTANA.EDU
Steven
Mintz hist4@CENTRAL.UH.EDU
Mignon Moore mm1664@COLUMBIA.EDU
Julie Noveske jnoves1@UIC.EDU
Lynn Parker lparker@DU.EDU
Karen Struening Karen.struening@VERIZON.NET
Wilma
Peebles Wilkins wpeebles@BU.EDU
Steven
Wisensale steven.wisensale@UCONN.EDU
Steven
Wisensale wisensal@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU
Director,
Divorce and Remarriage Consulting Associates
(858)
274-8943 (phone)
(858) 274-5185 (fax)
www.constanceahrons.com
My research, teaching, writing, lecturing and clinical work has been
dedicated to the study of divorce, remarriage and family change. We're
Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce is
based on in-depth interviews with 173 grown children whose parents divorced
over 20 years ago. Some of the most surprising findings:
Most well-known books:
The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family
Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart
We’re Still Family: What Grown
Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorce.
Both books are published by HarperCollins
Publishers.
Rhea V. Almeida – LCSW, Ph.D.
Institute for Family Services
(732) 873-0744
(732) 873-1663
(732) 873-2926 (fax)
www.Instituteforfamilyservices.com
My work is focused on the clinical/programmatic issues of gender
across cultures, masculinities including men as partners, lovers, sons and
fathers, domestic violence: victims, perpetrators and their children, South Asian families, and the mentoring and
teaching of family therapy/social work students.
Almeida, R. (1994). Expansions
of feminist family theory through diversity, Haworth Press:
Almeida, R. (1998). Transformations of gender and race: Family and developmental
perspectives,
Upcoming book "Transformative
Family Therapy: Just Families in a Just Society", Almeida, R. Parker, L.,
& Dolan-Delvecchio, K. Boston, MA:
Allyn & Bacon.
Almeida, R. , & Bograd, M. (1990). Sponsorship: Men holding
men accountable for domestic violence. Journal
of Feminist Family Therapy, 25, 243-256.
(617)
287-7631
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gonazlo_bacigalupe/
Associate
Professor and Director of the Family Therapy Program, Graduate College of
Education, University of Massachusetts Boston; Associate Research Professor,
Family Medicine & Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical
School; Invited Professor Psychotherapeutic Interventions Master-Degree, School
of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid,
Spain; Faculty Research Associate Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino
Community Development and Public Policy.
As
a research associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine and
Community Health, my current area of research addresses health care barriers
and strategies to cope with them among patients in primary care settings.
Present research addresses medication and literacy among Latino elderly and
patients’ concerns about chronic pain treatment. This is research that has been
funded by the National Institute of Aging, Agency of Healthcare Research
Quality, and CMMS.
I
also am a clinician and family therapy professor who specializes in the
challenges that intercultural couples face.
Most
relevant references:
Bacigalupe,
G. (2003). “Intercultural therapy with Latino immigrants and White partners:
Crossing borders coupling”. Journal of Couples and Relationship Therapy,
2 (4), 131-149.
Bacigalupe,
G. (2002). “Is balancing family and work a sustainable metaphor?” Journal of
Feminist Family Therapy, 13 (2/3), 5-20.
Rosalind
Chait Barnett, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Community,
Families and Camp; Work Program
(781)
736-2287
My current area of research is the
relationship between work schedules and health and quality-of-life outcomes,
the relationship between parental after-school stress and parents'
psychological well-being and job productivity, gender differences in social and
cognitive behaviors, and parent-adult children relationships. I am currently
conducting research on the mismatch between the work schedules of parents, the
school schedules of their children, the schedules of such community resources
as transportation and after-school care and the impact of maternal day versus evening
shift work on the socioemotional well-being of their school-age children (8-13
years of age). I can also address questions having to do
with gender differences.
Most well-known books:
Barnett,
R. C. & Rivers, C. (2004). Same difference: How gender myths are hurting
our relationships, our children, and our jobs.
Barnett,
R. C., & Rivers, C. (1998). She works/he works: How two-income families
are happier, healthier and better off.
Barnett,
R. C., Gareis, K. C., & Brennan, R. T. (1999). “Fit as a mediator of the
relationship between work hours and burnout.” Journal of Occupational Health
Psychology, 4(4), 307-317.
Barnett,
R. C., & Gareis, K. C. (2002). “Full-time and reduced-hours work schedules
and marital quality: A study of women physicians with young children.” Work
and Occupations, 29, 364-379. (Paper nominated for the 2003 Rosabeth Moss
Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.)
Barbara Bergmann,
Professor Emerita of Economics
5430 41 Place NW
(202) 537-3036 (phone)
Barbara R. Bergmann writes on economic and social
policy--on discrimination, affirmative action, child care, Social
Security. She is Professor Emerita of Economics at the
Her previous books include:
America’s Child
Care Problem: The Way Out,
(Palgrave) written in collaboration with Suzanne Helburn.
Is Social Security Broke?: a Cartoon Guide to the Issues (
Saving Our Children From Poverty: What the
The Economic Emergence of Women (Basic Books)
Anne C. Bernstein, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
The Wright Institute
(510) 549-0598
I am a family psychologist and mediator, a
professor at The Wright Institute, a doctoral program in psychology, and an
assistant clinical professor of psychology at the
I have been teaching family therapy for 30
years. My research and writing has been primarily in the area of
stepfamilies, family and couple therapy, children's experience of family
diversity, and their cognition about sex and family formation. My clinical
practice has focused on couples and on family diversity, including
stepfamilies, families formed through adoption or collaborative reproduction,
and gay and lesbian couples and their families.
Most relevant publications:
Books:
Flight of the Stork: How children think (and when)
about sex and family building,
Yours, mine, and
ours: How families change when
remarried parents have a child together, W. W. Norton, 1990.
Chapters/articles:
“Re-visioning,
Restructuring and Reconciliation: Clinical Practice with Complex Post-divorce
Families.” Family Process, 45(3).
(2006)
"Straight therapists
working with lesbians and gays in family therapy." Journal of
Marital and Family Therapy. 26(3), pp.
461-473. (2000)
Karen Blaisure, Ph.D., Professor
Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences
1903
Kalamazoo,
MI 49008-5322
karen.blaisure@wmich.edu
(269) 387-3663
My current work continues to be on interventions
for separating and divorcing parents and their families. See Blaisure, K. R.,
& Geasler, M. J. (expected publication date second half 2005). “Educational
interventions for separating and divorcing parents,” in M. A. Fine & J.
H.
Also, I am a family life educator and family therapist
and offer educational programs for couples interested in improving their
communication and conflict-management/resolution skills, or maintaining
their feelings of closeness.
In a 2003 report completed during an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy in
the
Other relevant articles:
Blaisure, K. R., & Geasler, M. J. (March 2000). “Clinical update: children
and divorce.” Published by the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy, 2(2).
Geasler, M. J., & Blaisure, K. R. (1999). “1998
nationwide survey of court-connected divorce education programs.” Family and
Conciliation Courts Review, 37, 36-63.
Dept.
of Sociology
(517)
355-6632
I
specialize in studies of gender, work, and family in rural
Most
important books and articles:
Booth,
Cheryl, Shruti Vaidya, Patricia Farrell, Janet Bokemeier. (2003) "Families
and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition: Evolution of a University-Wide
Engagement Model". Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.
8(1)
Struthers,
Cynthia and Janet Bokemeier. (2000) "Myths and Realities of Raising
Children and Creating Family Life in a Rural County." Journal of Family
Issues. 21 (1): 17-46.
Hardesty,
Constance and Janet Bokemeier. (1989) "Finding Time and Making Do: The
Distribution of Household Labor in Nonmetropolitan Marriages." Journal
of Marriage and the Family, 51(1): 253-267.
(651)
343-7260 (cell)
(651)
644-3024 (home office)
(612)
625-0291 (university office)
My
research and clinical focus is on families where a loved one is missing either
physically or psychologically.
I call this type of unclear loss, ambiguous loss. The cause may be
man-made and natural disasters which lead to physical disappearance--or
psychological disappearance from illnesses or addictions that take the mind
away. In either case, it is the stress of ambiguity that traumatizes and
immobilizes
people left behind. Ambiguous loss is a major cause of trauma and stress
for individuals, couples and families, and often is an underlying cause of
other stress. Traditional grief and trauma therapies are insufficient. To lower
stress, special interventions are needed for ambiguous loss that avoid seeking
closure, since there is none.
Most
important books, articles, or awards:
Ambiguous
Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief,
Loss, Trauma
and Resilience, Norton
Press, 2006
Family
Stress Management (2003) Sage.
2
Humanitarian Awards for working with families of the missing after 9/11; Ernest
Burgess Award for Research and Theory Development that strengthens families
Sam Bradley, Ph.D.,
Clinical Psychologist
360-754-8467
dr_bradley2000@yahoo.com
Staff aide to U.S.
Senator, Washington, D. C. while completing BA in English Lit, and MA in Speech
Communication at the
Faculty, Senior
Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Now in private
practice in clinical psychology in
Publications:
Bradley, Sam. The Happy Husband: A Guy’s Guide to Marital
Success. (Publication forthcoming).
Scott
Browning, Ph.D., Professor
Interim-Chair
(
(215)
248-7149
Stepfamilies
remain my primary topic of interest. As a long term board member of the
Stepfamily Association of America, I have taken seriously the need to train
therapists in understanding the nuances of treatment with this
population. I am currently writing a book entitled Stepfamily Therapy.
In
addition to stepfamilies, I certainly have an interest in the diverse family,
as both an academic and a clinician. Rounding out my main interests are 1)
the creation of families for role-play and increased empathy and 2) increasing
the social skills of those with high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome.
Most
important books, articles, or awards:
Browning,
S. & Collins, J. & Nelson, B. (2005, In Print). “Creating
families: A teaching technique for clinical training.” Marriage
& Family Review.
Browning,
S. & R. J. Green (2003). “Constructing therapy: From strategic, to
systemic, to narrative models.” In G. P. Sholevar (Ed.) Textbook of family
and couples therapy.
Browning,
S. (1998). “The empathy expansion procedure: A method of helping couples deal
with traumatic incidents.” In L. L. Hecker & S. A. Deacon (Eds.) The
Therapist's Notebook.
Browning,
S. (1994). “Treating stepfamilies: Putting family therapy into perspective.” In
K. Pasley & M. Ihinger-Tallman (Eds.) Remarriage & Stepparenting:
Current research & theory. (pp.94-104).
Recipient
of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching-2003
(410) 516-2370
My current areas of research include (1) the consequences of welfare reform for
low-income children and families, including children's well-being and marriage
and family patterns; (2) changing patterns of marriage and cohabitation in the
In another article, I assessed the current status and likely future of marriage
in the
Family 66: 848-861.
Most well-known books, articles,
support work for families:
Divided Families
155
Hamilton Hall CB#3210
(919)
843-4791 (Sociology office)
(919)
966-7481 (
In recent research, I have studied who cares for children with disabilities, and the impact of that carework on gender inequality. Children with disabilities are even more likely to live under the care of women than are children in general. This has particular effects on single mothers, who are much less likely to have jobs when they have a child with a disability (or have a disability themselves). Therefore, unless the state or the market can step in to help, the extra care required for children with disabilities has the potential to exacerbate gender inequality. I also study gender inequality more broadly, including labor markets and the household division of labor; and household composition, including cohabitation and extended households.
Well
known books, articles, etc.:
Cohen,
Philip N. 2004. “The Gender Division of Labor: ‘Keeping House` and Occupational
Segregation in the
Philip
N. Cohen and Danielle MacCartney. 2003. “Inequality and the Family.” In
Jacqueline L. Scott, J. K. Treas and M. Richards (eds.), The Blackwell
Companion to Sociology of Families.
Jeanne
A. Batalova and Philip N. Cohen. 2002. “Premarital Cohabitation and Housework:
Couples in Cross-National Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and Family
64(3):743-755.
Cohen,
Philip N. and Lynne M. Casper. 2002. “In Whose Home: Multigenerational Families
in the United States, 1998-2000.” Sociological Perspectives 45(1):1-20.
(510) 547-6500 (pst)
In my most recent book, The Lazy
Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework, I look at ways
to address the common problem of the unequal division of household labor. My
research for this book as well as my clinical experience has made me
well-versed in the academic and practical debates in this arena.
My first book, The Marriage Makeover (originally titled Imperfect
Harmony for the hardback) addressed the issue of how to remain in a
marriage with children that one might leave if childless. I can address
questions having to do with child well-being in a low satisfaction marriage,
research on the effects of divorce on children, and the causes of divorce.
I have extensive expertise in the area
of infertility, and conduct infertility counseling, evaluations of ovum donors,
sperm donors, surrogates, and gestational carriers. I also provide yearly
workshops for Resolve, a non-profit organization offering education and support
for people struggling with infertility.
Books:
The Marriage Makeover: Finding
Happiness in Imperfect Harmony
The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do
More Parenting and Housework, both with
(951) 827-2443
Scott Coltrane is a sociologist whose
research focuses on families, gender, and social policy. He is an expert on
housework and parenting, with special emphasis on fathers, shared parenting,
and variations in family patterns across different ethnic groups. His most
recent NIMH-funded research projects investigate the impact of economic stress
and the meaning of fatherhood and step-fatherhood in Mexican American and
European American families. This research shows how Mexican American families
and European American families in southern
Most well-known books, articles, support work for families:
Family Man: Fatherhood Housework and
Gender Equity
Scott Coltrane. 2004. “Fathering:
Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas.” In M. Coleman and L. Ganong
(Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past,
Contemplating the Future.
Council
on Contemporary Families
The
Evergreen
(360) 352-8117
(360) 556-9223 (cell)
I have just completed
a five year research project on the history of marriage and the world historic
transformation that has occurred in the past 30 years, changing almost
everything we used to think we knew about who marries, who doesn't, and
how marriage works. I can also discuss historical myths about family life
and marriage and put contemporary debates over marriage promotion, divorce
reform, same-sex marriage, and contemporary family trends in historical
perspective.
Most well-known books, articles and awards:
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy,
or How Love Conquered Marriage (Viking, May
2005)
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the
Nostalgia Trap (Basic Books, 1992, 2000)
The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with
American Families: A Multicultural Reader
(Routledge, 1999)
2000 – Council on Contemporary
Families “Visionary Leadership” Award; 1995 – American Pediatric Association Award for “Outstanding
Contributions to Child Development”
Dept.
of Sociology
323
Uris Hall
(607)
255-1697
(607)
255-8473 (fax)
Correll
is an expert on gender differences in taking math and science classes. She has
several papers showing that cultural beliefs that men are better affect
individuals' assessments of their own competence and cause women to be less
likely to take math courses than men with the same test scores as them. Also,
among girls and boys with the same test scores, the males tend to have higher
confidence in their skills than females. Correll is also doing research showing
that for high level jobs, people respond differently to resumes of women if
they mention having small kids even when other accomplishments are the same.
* Carolyn
Pape Cowan and Philip A. Cowan, Professor of Psychology, Emerita, and Professor
of Psychology, Emeritus
Dept. of Psychology
2205 Tolman Hall - #1650
(510) 643-5608
(office)
We are completing a longitudinal preventive
intervention study of 100 families, following them from the first child's
transition to elementary school through late high school. The intervention we
evaluated in this study was a group for couples with clinically trained leaders
who met with small groups of parents every week for 16 weeks to help them
strengthen their relationships -- as a couple and with their children as the
children entered school.
We found that working with men and women on their marital and parenting dilemmas
enhanced their relationships as a couple and with their children. The children
reaped the benefits in terms of greater social and academic success and fewer
problem behaviors at school from kindergarten through grade 9 in high school.
A book describing the transition to elementary school phase and the effects of
the couples’ intervention was released by Erlbaum Associates in April 2005: The Family Context of Parenting in
Children's Transition to Elementary School.
We are now applying these strategies to help parents in low-income families
with their couple relationships - to
enhance the involvement of low income fathers with their young children (sponsored
by the California Office of Child Abuse Prevention) and to strengthen the
relationships of low-income married couples (in a national U.S. project).
Most well-known books, grants and awards:
Book:
When Partners Become Parents: the Big Life Change for Couples,
Erlbaum Associates, 2000 (translated into 5 languages)
Grants
from National Institute of Mental Health (continuously since 1979) have supported
two longitudinal preventive intervention studies examining the effects of (i) couple
relationships on children's adaptation, and (ii) the intervention for couples -
during the transition to parenthood and the transition to school
Award:
Ann Crittenden, author, lecturer
ann.crittenden@rcn.com
(202) 362-3419
My best-known area of
research is the economic disadvantages incurred by people who assume the role
of primary caregiver in the family. In a current book I present data on the
leadership/management lessons and transferable skills learned by those who care
for children and other family members. Perhaps the most
surprising/interesting/significant finding is the fact that the literature on
effective management and the literature on effective parenting is almost
exactly the same. I can also address
questions having to do with work-family conflict (and synergy), the effects of
Social Security "reform" on women.
Most well-known books:
The
Price of Motherhood
If
You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything
Robert
Drago, Professor of Labor Studies and Women’s Studies LSIR & WS
133 Willard Building
drago@psu.edu
http://lsir.la.psu.edu/workfam/drago.htm
(814) 865-0751
(814) 863-3578 (fax)
President-elect, 2006, College and
University Work-Family Association (www.cuwfa.org)
Most of my research concerns biases against caregiving in colleges and
universities, and faculty responses to these biases. I am also a co-founder of
the Take Care Net, an organization addressing public policy needs around care (www.takecarenet.org),
recently completed an NCAA sponsored project addressing the decline of women in
the coaching of women's intercollegiate athletic teams, and study general
trends affecting the work-family interface.
Most well-known books, articles:
"The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving Among
Faculty," Academe (Sept-Oct 2005), R. Drago, C. Colbeck, D. Stauffer, A.
Varner, K. Burkum, J. Fazioli, G. Guzman and T. Habasevich.
"The Willingness-to-pay for Work/Family Policies: A Study of
Teachers," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 55 (October
2001), 22-41. R. Drago, D. Costanza, R. Caplan, T. Brubaker, D. Cloud, N.
Harris, R. Kashian & T.L. Riggs (Nominated for 2002 Kanter Award for
Excellence in Work-Family
Research).
"A Half-Time Tenure Track Proposal," Change: The Magazine of
Higher Learning, Vol. 32 (November/December 2000), 46-51. R. Drago & J.
Williams.
"New Estimates of Working Time for Teachers", (pdf file) Monthly
Labor Review, Vol. 122 (April 1999), 31-41, R. Drago, R. Caplan, D.
Costanza, T. Brubaker, D. Cloud, N. Harris, R. Kashian & T.L. Riggs.
120 Haviland Hall
U.C. Berkeley
(510) 643-7016 (phone)
(510) 642-1895 (fax)
I conduct two areas of research--the first focuses on
welfare reform and its effects on low-income, single-parent families. My
edited book (with Bruce Fuller) due out this Spring will help show that while
millions of women have moved from welfare reliance to work, the transition has
been very challenging for them and their families; parenthood is squeezed and
children may not be any better off in the long-run.
My other area of research, foster care, principally focuses on the role
grandparents play in raising children when mom is no longer available.
Most
well-known books:
The Tender Years (book on foster care services for young children)
Faces
of Poverty
(book on challenges faced by low income families)
Good
parents or good workers? How policy shapes families' daily lives (coming out this Spring -- examines the impact of
welfare reform for low-income families using qualitative studies)
Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
The Wright Institute, Berkeley
dehrensaft@earthlink.net
(510) 547-4147 (phone)
(510) 547-7692 (fax)
I am a developmental and clinical psychologist,
a professor of psychology at The Wright Institute, Berkeley, and a faculty
member of the Psychoanalytic Institute
of Northern California. I am also a founding member and senior clinician on The
Children's Psychotherapy Project, a national mental health program offering pro
bono services to children in foster care, and Board Vice President of its
parent organization, A Home Within, a nonprofit organization serving the
emotional needs of children in foster care and their families.
I have been teaching psychology for over thirty
years and have had a clinical practice specializing in work with children and
parents, along with individual adult psychotherapy, for the past twenty five
years. I am also a trained mediator and
custody evaluator and have done extensive clinical work in the area of divorce
and post-divorce family life. My general focus of teaching, research, writing,
and clinical work is in the area of child development, parenting, and family.
My more specific interests and research projects involve: gender equality and
divisions in parenting; contemporary child rearing practices; psychological
experience of children and parents in families built with the aid of assisted
reproductive technology (egg donor, sperm donor, surrogacy, and gestational
carrier families), and gender variance in children. I am also actively involved
in studying and serving the needs of children in foster care and work with the ACLU
as an expert witness on cases involving discrimination or harassment of youth
based on their perceived sexual orientation.
Books:
Mommies, Daddies,
Donors, Surrogates: Answering Tough Questions and Building Strong Families,
Building a Home
Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care, co-edited with Toni Heineman,
Spoiling Childhood:
How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Their Children What They Want, But Not What
They Need,
Parenting Together:
Men and Women Sharing the Care of their Children,
Article:
“Raising Girlyboys: a Parent's Perspective.” Studies
in Gender and Sexuality (in press).
Jean Elson, Ph.D.
Dept. of Sociology
jelson@unh.edu
or jeanelson@aol.com
(603) 862-1885 (office)
(603) 659-8473 (home)
I teach graduate and
undergraduate classes and seminars in "Sociology of the Family,"
"Sociology of Gender," and "Women, Health, and Illness." I
have published several articles in professional journals, including Sex
Roles, Gender & Society, and Contemporary Sociology. My
book, “Am I Still a Woman?" Hysterectomy and Gender Identity
was published in 2004 by Temple University Press. The book is based upon my 44
in-depth interviews with women who had undergone hysterectomy. I received a
Ph.D. in Sociology from
Robert E. Emery, Professor of
Psychology
Director of the Center for Children,
Families, and the Law
Dept. of Psychology
Gilmer Hall
Charlottesville,
VA 22904-4400
(434) 924-0671
(434) 982-4766 (fax)
Robert Emery, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and
Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the
Dr. Emery is the author of over 100 scientific
publications. His books include:
Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment
(1999, 2nd Ed.,
Abnormal Psychology
(2004,
Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child
Custody, and Mediation (1994,
The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with
the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
(2004,
Dr. Emery's research focuses on family
relationships and children's mental health, including parental conflict,
divorce, child custody, family violence, and associated legal and policy
issues. His Child Development paper, Family Members as Third Parties
in Dyadic Family Conflict: Strategies, Alliances, and Outcomes (with Samuel
Vuchinich and Jude Cassidy), won the 1989 "Outstanding Research
Publication Award" from the American Association of Marriage and Family
Therapy. The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts presented their
“Distinguished Researcher” and “Myer Elkin Address” awards to Dr. Emery in
2002.
Paula England, Professor of Sociology
Dept. of Sociology
Building 120, 450 Serra Mall
(650) 723-4912
(650) 725-6741 (fax)
My current area of research deals with couple relationships. With Kathryn Edin, I am co-editing a book on
low income couples who have a child together outside of marriage and are living
together. In another study, I am looking at dating and sex among college
students today. In another study, I am looking at whether women or men initiate
divorce. In another study I am looking at the higher rate of unplanned
pregnancies among less educated women. I can also answer questions having to do
with the sex gap in pay and women’s employment.
Most
well-known books, articles, support work for families:
Paula
England and George Farkas. Households,
Employment, and Gender: A Social,
Economic, and Demographic View.
Paula
England, Carmen Garcia-Beaulieu, and Mary Ross.
2004. “Women’s Employment Among
Blacks, Whites, and Three Groups of Latinas:
Do More Privileged Women Have Higher Employment?” Gender & Society 18:494-509.
Michael Bittman, Paula
England, Liana Sayer, Nancy Folbre, and George Matheson. 2003. “When Does Gender Trump Money?:
Bargaining and Time in Household Work.” American
Journal of Sociology 109:186-214.
CUNY
President-Elect,
American Sociological Association
(650)
321-2052 (spring)
My work has been on obstacles facing
women in the professions, particularly the legal profession. I have
studied "Glass Ceilings" in large corporate law firms, and also
part-time work in the professions. I have also done an extensive review of
social science findings on gender differences and similarities for my book
"Deceptive Distinctions."
Most
important books, articles, or awards:
Women
in Law
Deceptive
Distinctions: Sex, Gender and the Social Order
The
Part-Time Paradox: Time Norms
Family
and Gender
She
has received Guggenheim Award and numerous awards from ASA, ESS and the
American Bar Association
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303-6768
For
twenty years (49-69), I worked in poverty areas of the
Most
important books, articles or awards:
Recent
presentations:
"Was
it only a Dream? Guarantee Income Through the Eyes of a Sixties Poverty
Warrior," USBIG Congress, 2002
"A
Real War On Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus," USBIG Congress, 2003
"The
Compassionate Face of Religion: A Grounding for a Guaranteed Income,"
USBIG Congress, 2005
"The
Wesley Youth Project: A Gang Work Project that Worked," a manuscript in
progress
UW Madison
My recent research compares European and American family and gender politics. My book suggests that differences in how abortion gets talked about have less to do with rights and more to do with welfare: how family support policies in Germany (and other countries in Europe) defuse the sharpness of the conflict over abortion by committing the state to help women have children they can support rather than punishing them for choosing not to have children they can't.
Most well-known books and articles:
Shaping
Abortion Discourse (
“Close
your eyes and think of
“Meaning and Measurement: Reconceptualizing measures of the division of household labor” (with Joan Twiggs and Julia McQuillan), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1999
“Marital satisfaction among two-earner couples: gender and fairness.” (with Jane Wilkie and Kathryn S. Ratcliff), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998, 60: 577-594.
“The importance of variation among men and the benefits of feminism for families.” (With Julia McQuillan) in Men in Families, Alan Booth and Ann Crouter, eds, 1998.
Martha
Albertson Fineman
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law &
Director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project
Gambrell Hall
(404) 712-2421
My work is interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on gender,
comparative concepts of equality, family law and feminist legal theory. In 1984
I founded the Feminism and Legal Theory Project to examine issues of law and
policy of particular interest to women. In 2001 I was awarded the prestigious
Harry Kalven Prize for Distinguished Research in Law and Society. As a
corollary to my work in the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, I have edited
and contributed to a dozen collections of work on feminist legal theory. The
initial collection, At the Boundaries of
Law: Feminism and Legal Theory - published by Routledge in 1991, was the
first anthology on the topic.
The Illusion of
Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform (University of
Chicago Press 1991), which challenged the country’s no-fault divorce reforms of
the 1970’s and 80’s
The Neutered
Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies (Routledge
1995), which critically explored single motherhood, welfare reform, and
marriage as social policy
The Autonomy
Myth: A Theory of Dependency (The New Press 2004), a radical
reconception of the family in society in which she argues that the
responsibility for dependency should be reallocated across societal
institutions so that it does not remain privatized – assigned to the family in
the first instance and within that family to women serving in their roles as
mothers, wives, daughters and so on..
(305)
348-3190
My main interests are in fathers,
children, and divorce. I both undertake and publish research on these
topics and write family policy papers as well as write letters-to-the-editor to
raise consciousness regarding these issues.
Most important books and articles:
Finley, G. E. (2003). “Father-child relationships following divorce.” In J.R. Miller, R.M. Lerner, L.B.
Schiamberg, & P. M. Anderson (Eds.). Encyclopedia
of human ecology, Volume 1: A - H.
Finley, G. E., & Schwartz, S. J. (2004). “The father involvement and
nurturant fathering scales: Retrospective measures for adolescent and
adult children.” Educational and Psychological Measurement, 64 (1),
143-164.
Schwartz, S. J. & Finley, G. E. (2005). “Fathering in intact and
divorced families: Ethnic differences in
retrospective reports.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 67 (1), 207
- 215.
(413)
367-9605
I can speak to the following topics:
parental spending on children, value of parental time, care work in both the market and the non-market economy
Most important books, articles, or
awards:
The Invisible Heart: Economics and
Family Values (New Press, 2001)
coeditor with Michael Bittman of Family
Time: The Social Organization of Care (Routledge, 2004)
recipient of a MacArthur Foundation
Five-Year Fellowship
Donna L.
Franklin
Donna L. Franklin's research interests have focused on the
African-American family and gender relations in the black community. Her book Ensuring Inequality:The Structural Transformation of
the
African-American Family won the American Sociological
Association's William J. Goode Distinguished Book Award for "outstanding
scholarship on the family." She is the first African-American author
to
win this award. The Washington
Post described Ensuring Inequality as "one of the most important books written
on the black family in recent years." Her second book, What's Love Got To Do With It? Understanding and
Healing the Rift Between Black Men and Women, conducts a
comprehensive historical analysis of gender relations in the African-American
community. She has held academic appointments at the
Department of Sociology
3718 Locust Walk
Tel: (215) 898-6718
Fax: (215) 898-2124
My current research projects focus on the family in
the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior,
cross-national research on children’s well-being, and the transition from
adolescence to adulthood. I am currently the Chair of the MacArthur Foundation
Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood. The Research Network was
established in 2000 to examine the changing nature of early adulthood. For more
information about our research initiatives please visit our website at www.transad.pop.upenn.edu.
I am also part of a Latin American Family Network, a
group of researchers from Southern Cone nations and
Distinguished Contributions to the Public Policy of
Children Award from the Society for Research on Child Development, 2005; Fellow,
Fulbright Senior Specialists Awards 2002, 2003, 2004
Most important
books:
Early adulthood in cross-national perspective. March 2002. The Annals Vol. 580
On the
frontier of adulthood: Theory, research, and public policy, with Richard A. Settersten,
Jr., and Rubén G. Rumbaut (Eds.). 2005.
Destinies of
the disadvantaged; The life course of teenage mothers and their children. Manuscript in progress.
Professor of Sociology
(212)
998-8376 (office)
(718)
788-7139 (home)
Central
findings from two current research projects:
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality, with Jerry A.
Jacobs (Harvard University Press, 2004)
The Time Divide shows how and why:
– Time has become a new form of inequality that is creating social divides
between time-pressed, overworked Americans and income-pressed, underemployed
Americans.
– There is a growing aspiration gap between workers preferred and actual
working hours. Whether they put in very long or short days at the workplace,
most workers including men as well as women – would
like to find a balance between a 35 to 40 hour work week and time for the rest
of life.
Children of the Gender Revolution: Growing Up in an Era of Work and Family
Change (forthcoming),
explores how new generations have experienced growing up in changing
families and how they are fashioning their own work and family strategies.
Central, and
surprising, findings include:
– The two-earner, egalitarian household appears to be the new family ideal.
Among those who grew up in a dual-income family, most (about 80%) concluded it
was the best arrangement.
– In contrast, about half of the children who grew up in traditional homes
wished their parents had chosen a different arrangement, while about half of
those who lived in a single-parent home felt it was the best option.
– Whether reared in a traditional or nontraditional arrangement, most women
(about 80%) and men (about 60%) are hoping to integrate paid work and a
lasting, egalitarian partnership.
Selected
awards:
Rosabeth
Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research; Distinguished
Feminist Lecturer for Sociologists for Women in Society
Other
Books:
No Man’s Land: Men’s Changing Commitments to Family and Work (Basic
Books, 1993)
Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood, (University
of California Press, 1985)
Naomi Gerstel, Professor
(413) 545-5976
My
research addresses the care given to extended family members—to mothers,
fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins—and asks what factors, whether economic
conditions or cultural values, shape this caregiving. I find a persistent
gender gap in such caregiving. I also find a persistent racial gap. What
explains these? It is not differences in values or some natural predispositions
that distinguish these groups. My research shows that it is structural
conditions, especially employment and income, that can best explain the
differences in caregiving between women and men as well as the differences in
caregiving between whites and blacks as well as between whites and Latinas/os.
Most
well-known books and articles:
Families
at Work: Expanding the Boundaries,
“Kin
Support Among Blacks and Whites: Race and Family Organization,” American
Sociological Review, December 2005 (Natasha Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel).
“Explaining
Men’s Care Work: Gender and the Contingent Character of Care,” Gender &
Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2001
(Naomi Gerstel & Gallagher)
“Family Leaves, The FMLA, and
Gender Neutrality: The Intersection of Race and Gender,” Social Science
Research, 2005 (Amy Armenia and Naomi Gerstel)
Linda Perlman Gordon, MSW, M.Ed. Psychotherapist, author
gordo96@aol.com
www.parentingroadmaps.com
(301)
343-9500 (phone)
(301) 986-8858 (fax)
Linda Perlman Gordon can address the issues raised by emerging adulthood, a
previously unrecognized developmental stage. Today's twentysomethings require a
new way of parenting and parents are confused because they have no roadmap or
conventional wisdom to guide them.
The traditional benchmarks of adulthood, like marriage, having a job,
graduating from college or buying a house no longer apply. Gordon's research
identifies the characteristics of adulthood for parents to use in order
to guide their adult children towards maturity.
Gordon can also address the distinctive issues facing teenage boys and/or
teenage girls and how parents can support them.
Linda Perlman Gordon also advises judges, lawyers and families dealing with
divorce and blended families.
Most well known books:
Mom, Can I Move Back In, A Survival Guide for Parents of Twentysomethings,
Tarcher/Putnam, 2004
Why Boys Don’t Talk and Why it Matters, McGraw Hill, 2005
Why Girls Talk and What They’re Really Saying, McGraw Hill, 2005
Associate
Director,
Professor
of Political Science and Sociology
The
Professor
of Political Science
(646)
312-4422 (phone)
(646)
312-4411 (fax)
My
research focuses on work-family reconciliation policies. Most of my work
is comparative--across high-income countries--and concerns the effects of
public policies on parents' capacity to combine employment with caregiving. I
have studied, in depth, child care and preschool programs, paid family leave
policies, the regulation of working time, and income transfers targeted on
families with children. Much of my work, from recent years, is reported
in my book: Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and
Employment (coauthored by Marcia
K. Meyers),
I am currently guest editing two special issues of The Journal of
Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. This special
double issue will compare work-family policies across countries, and will
assess their impact on a range of parent and child outcomes.
Other important books and articles:
Gornick, Janet C., and Marcia K. Meyers. 2004. “More Alike Than
Different: Re-Assessing the Long-Term Prospects for Developing ‘European-Style’
Work-Family Policy in the
Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 6(3):251-273.
Gornick, Janet C. 2004. “Women’s Economic Outcomes, Gender
Inequality, and Public Policy: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income
Study.” Socio-Economic Review 2: 221-246.
Gornick, Janet C., Marcia K. Meyers, and Katherin E. Ross. 1998.
"Public Policies and the Employment of Mothers: A Cross-National
Study." Social Science Quarterly 79(1): 35-54.
Robert-Jay
Green
Director,
Rockway Institute for LGBT Research in the Public Interest
Distinguished
Professor, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program
San Francisco,
CA 94133-1221
(415) 955-2115 or (415) 749-0100
I am Director of the Rockway Institute, a university-wide research, public policy, education, and consultation center focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues in Business, Education, Marriage and Family Relations, Healthcare, Psychology and Social Services. WEBSITE: http://rockway.alliant.edu
Expertise/areas
of interest:
1. Same-sex couples (including
same-sex marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, relationship qualities,
and differences from heterosexual couples).
2. Lesbian/gay parents and their
children’s functioning (including information pertaining to adoption, alternative
insemination, surrogacy, school/peer experiences, and children’s mental health
outcomes).
3. Lesbian/gay adolescents’ and adults’
relations with their families of origin (including coming-out issues and family
acceptance/rejection, acceptance of partners, acceptance of grandchildren).
4. The
effects of discrimination on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals at
all ages of the life cycle in schools, the workplace, religious institutions,
health care, and other community contexts.
5. Mental
health and counseling/psychotherapy issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
people (including topics such as “ex-gay conversion therapy,” teen suicide,
“gay-affirmative therapy,” and effects of family of origin and community
support on mental health).
Most well-known books and articles:
Green, R.-J., & Framo, J.L. (Eds.). 1981. Family Therapy: Major Contributions.
Laird, J., & Green, R.-J. (Eds.). (1996). Lesbians and
gays in couples and families.
Green, R.-J. & Mitchell, V. (2002). “Gay and lesbian
couples in therapy: Homophobia, relational ambiguity, and social
support.” In A.S. Gurman & N.S. Jacobson (Eds.), Clinical handbook
of couple therapy (3rd ed.).
(434) 978-2816
In the
broadest terms, my work focuses on gender inequality, the family, and American
culture.
More specifically, my research for my
first two books covered the following topics:
-- the cultural ideals and practical realities of childrearing and motherhood -- including what I call the (cultural) ideology of "intensive motherhood"
-- the difficulties women face in managing the work/family balance
-- the practical realities and political logic of welfare reform (the Personal
Responsibility Act of 1996)
-- the special hardships encountered by mothers and children living in poverty
-- cultural ideals regarding "family values," the work ethic, and gender roles embedded in welfare reform
In addition, I am currently at work
on Girls Gone Wild!: The Gendered Politics of Collegiate Sexual
Etiquette -- a book about collegiate sexual norms and their relationship to
continuing controversies about women's proper place in work and family life.
Most
important books:
Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform, (2003)
winner of the C. Wright Mills Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems)
The Cultural Contradictions of
Motherhood, (1996) winner of the Distinguished
Book Award in Culture (American Sociological Society)
(619)
594-7196
Work for families and communities: Developed the Certificate in Cultural and Community Trauma with Carol Robinson-Zanartu, a training program in which faculty and students construct a learning community committed to enhancing the well-being of individuals, families, and communities who have been affected by traumatic events.
My current areas of research are resilience and clinical
consultation using the Cultural Context Model. I introduced the concept of
Collective Resilience to refer to the coping processes that occur in reference
to and dependent on a given social context. These processes aim to rebuild
and sustain social relationships to heal the wounds of trauma, the losses of
war and the reconstruction of a sense of belonging and personal identity.
I can also address questions related to family therapy and clinical supervision
in treating traumatic stress (based on my work on domestic violence in the
Most well-known articles:
Hernández, P., Almeida, R. & Del-Vecchio, K. (2005). “Critical
consciousness, accountability, and empowerment: key processes for helping
families heal.” Family Process. 44(1) 105-119.
Hernández, P. (2002). “Trauma in war and political persecution: expanding the
concept.” American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 72 (1)16-25.
Hernández, P. “Resilience in families and communities: Latin American
contributions from the
psychology of liberation.” (2002). The Family Journal. 10 (3), 334-343.
Rosanna Hertz, Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and
Women’s Studies, Chair of Women’s Studies
(617)
566-4331
I have published articles on the following topics and can
speak to them: the division of labor among shiftwork couples, negotiating
dual-careers, money and authority in dual-earner marriages, women and
leadership, the integration of women into the military, the importance of
women's studies for women's education, childcare decision making, women and
popular culture.
I am presently completing a book based upon extensive in-depth interviews with
women who decided to become mothers without marrying. For a significant
portion of the
I have been doing a ton of interviews recently about
“alternative families” for lack of another term. They are donor assisted
families (gay, lesbian, single mothers) with known and anonymous donors as well
as children adopted domestically and globally by these same families.
Most important books and articles:
More
Equal Than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages.
When
Baby Makes Two: The Choice to Become a Single Mother.
"A
Typology of Approaches to Childcare: The Centerpiece of Organizing Family Life
For Dual-Earner Couples." Journal of Family Issues. 1997 Vol. 18,
No. 4, pp. 355-85.
"Working
to Place Family at the
(773) 256-6355
My main research project at the moment
is a comparison across about 20 developed countries of family structures on the
one hand, and youth outcomes on the other hand, including economic status,
educational outcomes, health behavior, and mortality. These comparisons reveal
that the
Most well-known books and articles:
"The Role of Cohabitation in
Family Formation: The
"Shifting Child Rearing to Single
Mothers: Results from 17 Western Nations." Population and Development
Review 29(1):47-71. March 2003. (Heuveline, P.; Timberlake, J.M.;
Furstenberg, F.F. Jr.).
Shirley A. Hill, Professor
Sociology Department
722 Fraser Hall
(785) 864-9405
My research focuses primarily on families, health/health care, and
social inequalities. I am interested in understanding the dynamics of
family life within African American families and how those dynamics are
shaped by larger social structural forces. I have also recently begun to
look at African immigration to the
Black Intimacies: A Gender
Perspective on Families and Relationships (
Managing Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Income Families (Temple
University Press, 1994)
African American Children: Socialization and Development in
Families (Sage, 1999)
Race, Work and Family (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming)
- a co-edited (with Marlese Durr)
volume of readings on the interface between work and families
among African Americans.
Department
of Family Studies
1210E
Marie Mount Hall
(301)
405-8501 (voice)
(301)
314-9161 (fax)
1. In recent research I explore the association
among children's activities, the social context, and child overweight, and
between food programs and child overweight. A recent article is:
"Poverty, food programs and childhood obesity," Hofferth, S. and S.
Curtin. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24:703-726, 2005.
2. Another area of research focuses on fathers'
investments in children, American children's use of time, work and family, and
public policy: “Residential Father Family Type and Child Well-Being: Investment
versus Selection,” Demography 43:53-77, 2006; "Are all Dads Equal?
Biology versus Marriage as a basis for Paternal Investment," Journal of
Marriage and the Family 65:213-232, 2003 (with K. Anderson);
"Race/Ethnic Differences in Father Involvement in Two-Parent Families:
Culture, Context, or Economy," Journal of Family Issues 24(2),
185-216, 2003.
3. My special area of expertise is on how
children spend their time, including time in homework, sports, reading, and
watching TV: "Changes in American Children's Use of Time,
1981-1997." Sandra Hofferth and John F. Sandberg. Pp. 193-229 in
S. Hofferth and T. Owens (Eds.), Children at the Millennium: Where Have We
Come From, Where are we Going? Advances in Life Course Research
Series,
Jacqueline
Hudak, M. Ed., Ph.D. (Candidate)
Family
therapist, Doctoral Intern, Adjunct Faculty
(732)
741-7649 (office)
(732)
500-1665 (cell)
I have published on substance abuse and domestic
violence. Current dissertation work is on women who leave heterosexual
marriage in midlife, with children, to partner with a woman.
I have been a family therapist for over 20 years, specializing in substance
abuse, gender and power. I am a clinician, a teacher of family therapy, and
most recently, a student again. I am currently completing my doctoral
dissertation on women leaving heterosexual marriage in midlife.
Roberta
Rehner Iversen, Associate Professor
School of Social Policy & Practice (formerly
3701 Locust Walk
(212) 898-5529 (phone)
(212) 573-2099 (fax)
For
over 5 years I directed and conducted a team of 9 in grant-funded ethnographic
research on low-income families trying to transition to family-supporting jobs
and career paths. The research was conducted in
Areas of expertise include: workforce development policy and programs; welfare
reform policy and implementation; low-income families; social policy;
occupational attainment and economic mobility.
Most Important books and articles:
Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-income Families (with Annie Laurie Armstrong, Temple
University Press, in press, expected July 2006)
Moving Up is a Steep Climb (2002), The Annie E. Casey Foundation.
[Monograph]
Iversen, R.R. (1995). “Poor African-American women and work: The occupational
attainment process.” Social Problems, 42, 554-573.
Iversen, R.R. (2004). “Voices in the middle: How performance funding impacts
workforce organizations, professionals and customers.” Journal of Sociology
and Social Welfare, 31, 125-156.
(510)
410-6412
Expert on reproductive health and
reproductive politics (abortion, Emergency Contraception, family planning
programs, “Pharmacists’ refusals” to fill contraceptive prescriptions)
Current work: I am writing a book on
the rise of the Religious Right and the spread of abortion politics to other
areas of American society: contraception, stem cell research, sex education,
assisted reproduction.
Most important books, articles, or
awards:
Doctors of Conscience: The struggle to
provide abortion before and after Roe v Wade (Beacon
Press)
"Its not JUST abortion, stupid:
progressives and abortion," Dissent, Winter 2005
“The Right’s Bitter Pill,” (on
pharmacists’ refusals), TomPaine.com,
2005 Feminist Activist Award,
Sociologists for Women in Society
Michael P. Johnson, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies
and African and African American Studies
Penn State
(814) 237-8061
My current research is focused on domestic violence, investigating
the importance of distinctions among types of intimate partner violence. My
colleagues and I have demonstrated that an adequate understanding of intimate
partner violence requires distinctions among intimate terrorism
(violence exercised in attempt to take general control over one’s partner), violent
resistance (violence utilized in resistance to intimate terrorism), and situational
couple violence (violence that arises only in the context of specific
conflicts). I am working on a book tentatively entitled Violence and Control
in Intimate Relationships: Intimate Terrorism and Other Types of Domestic
Violence, and I write and do workshops on the implications of these
distinctions for intervention and advocacy on behalf of domestic violence
survivors. See Michael P. Johnson, (2005). Domestic violence: It’s not about
gender -- Or is it? Journal of Marriage and Family, 67
(December): 1126–1130.
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Associate
Professor, School of Social Service Administration and Affiliated Faculty,
Centers for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Human Potential and
Public Policy
(773) 834-0400
My research examines male involvement
in adolescent pregnancy, nonresident fathers in low-income families, and the
health statuses of African American males. I am a research consultant to
the Supporting Healthy Marriage Project, an ACF/HHS national
longitudinal evaluation of healthy marriage programs for low-income couples in
their child-rearing years who are married or plan to marry, conducted by the
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), ChildTrends, Optimal
Solutions Group and McFarland and Associates. I am research director for
the Young Fathers Initiative, a
I chaired a research, public
policy and intervention practice symposium "Social Work and Social Welfare
Responses to African Amerian Males: A Research, Public Policy and Intervention
Practice,” Symposium at the
Most important books, articles, or
awards:
"The Status of Fathers in Child Welfare" (in press) Child Welfare
"Social Work Strategies for
Sustaining Paternal Involvement among Unwed Fathers: Insights from Field
Research" (2002) Professional Development: The International Journal of
Continuing Social Work Education
"Paternal Involvement
among Unwed Fathers" (2001) Children and Youth Services
Review
Brian
Jory, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Family Studies
(706)
290-2640 (office)
(770)
345-8207 (home)
I am a researcher and practitioner of
family therapy, focusing on emotional and psychological abuse. This also
includes animal cruelty in families. Animal cruelty is important because
studies indicate that those who abuse their families also commit animal
cruelty, and use family pets as a means to control their victims.
I have developed a method of
intervention for those who abuse others that is based on a concept I call
"intimate justice." Intimate justice focuses on the links
between social justice and how individuals conceptualize justice in their close
relationships. I also applied the intimate justice model to treat those who
abuse animals, which resulted in the first published treatment program for
animal abusers in the
Most well-known books and articles:
Jory, B. (2006). “Violence between African American couples: Seeking
intimate justice in the midst of social injustice.” In R. Hampton and T.
Gullotta (Eds.) Prevention and Treatment of Violence in
African American Families.
Jory, B. (2004). “The intimate justice scale: An instrument to screen for
psychological abuse and physical violence in clinical practice.” Journal
of Marital and Family Therapy, 30, 29-44.
Jory, B. (2001). “Violence,
Dangerousness, Abuse and Neglect.” In R. Woody & J. Woody (Eds.) Ethics
in Marriage and Family Therapy, pg.125-152.
Family Therapy.
Jory, B. and Randour, M. (2000). The AniCare Model of Treatment for Animal
Abuse,
(510)
658-7774
Most important books, articles, or
awards:
Academics on the Line, ed. with Arlene K. Daniels (a study of faculty
members on strike)
Women and Work, ed. with Arlene K. Daniels and Richard Colvard (essays on women
and family/work issues in the early years of the second wave of feminism)
Ackerman
Institute for the Family
(212)
879-4900 x 112
I am a clinician/family practitioner
who practices and teaches both family therapy and divorce mediation with some
experience in parent coordination. As such I treat many divorce
related matters in my therapy practice, and have developed approaches to help
sort through ambivalence, contain escalations, and address parenting
issues pre, during and post divorce.
Because my mediation
work has primarily been within NYC (and I compare notes
with colleagues from other areas) I have also been observing the
impact of money on slowing presumptions of joint custody as well as
the use of parenting coordinators which often keep people
out of court on post divorce matters. In NY mediation is still done
against a tendency toward sole custody with a greater rigidification
of gender roles.
Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology
(718) 768-5919
My current research
concerns younger men, age 18-25 (a book called "guyland") which
focuses on the consequences of the delays in marriage and family life among
men. The other book project is a book called Angry White Men, which
examines various expressions of men's anger -- in sports, the
military, among the
extreme right, and among father rights groups (which directly connects to the
CCF).
Can address issues of male development, values, and
relationships and popular myths about men.
Most well-known books:
The Gendered Society
Manhood in
The Politics of Manhood
Jodie Kliman, Ph.D., Psy.D., Faculty
(617) 232-5282
I teach
family and narrative therapy at the Massachusetts School of Professional
Psychology, where I also do clinical supervision for predoctoral interns in
health psychology. I also have a private practice in
family and individual therapy, working with a range of clients, including
people in multicultural families, immigrants, stepfamilies, families dealing
with learning disabilities, health problems, and trauma.
My clinical, training, and research interests and many of my publications address
the interplay of social class, race, ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sexual
orientation, and gender in family life, culturally competent clinical practice,
and social networks. Recently, I have begun to apply culturally competent
systems approaches to inter-group peace-building work as well as to family
therapy. Some of my recent
publications include:
Kliman, J. (ed.). (2005). “Touched by War Zones, Near and Far: Oscillations of
Despair and Hope.” [Special Issue]. The AFTA Monograph Series: A Publication of the
Kliman, J. (2005). “Many differences, many voices: Toward social justice in
family therapy.” In. M. Mirkin, K. Suyemoto, & B. Okun (Eds.). Psychotherapy with women: Exploring diverse
contexts and identities (pp. 42-63). NY:
Kliman, J. (1999). “Social class as a social relationship: Implications for
family therapy.” In M. McGoldrick (Ed.). Re-visioning
family therapy: Race, culture, and gender in clinical practice (pp. 50-61).
NY:
Kliman, J. & Forsberg, G. (1998). “Dialogue: American welfare reform and
the Swedish welfare State.” J.
Feminist Family Therapy, 10, 47-68.
Demie Kurz,
Women's Studies and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
dkurz@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-8740 (office)
Having written on family issues including domestic violence and divorce, I am now writing a book on the
parenting of adolescents. Based on extensive interviews with mothers, fathers,
and teenagers, I seek to get behind the stereotypes of parents, who are said to
be failing to teach their children properly, and teens, who are said to be
driven by hormones. I examine the challenges parents today face in negotiating
key issues of education, safety, and issues of autonomy with their teenage
children.
Book-in-Progress: Letting Go: Parents and Teenagers Negotiate Adolescence
Kurz, D. 1995. For Richer, For Poorer: Mothers Confront Divorce.
Kurz, D. 2005. "Keeping Tabs on Teenagers." In J. Gubrium and J. Holstein, eds. Couples,
Kids, and Family Life.
Loseke, D. & Kurz, D. 2005. "Men's Violence Toward Women is the
Serious Social Problem." In D. Loseke, R. Gelles, M. Cavanaugh, Current
Controversies on Family Violence.
Judith Landau,
MD, DPM, CFLE
LINC
Foundation, Inc.
Linking Human Systems, LLC
Recovery Resource Center, Boulder
503 Kalmia Avenue
Boulder, Colorado 80304-1733 USA
(303) 442-3755 or (877) 229-5462 (voice)
(303) 440-6463 (fax)
mstewart@LinkingHumanSystems.com
Dr. Judith Landau, child, family and community psychiatrist,
formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, at the University of
Rochester Medical Center, is currently President of Linking Human Systems, LLC,
and LINC Foundation, Inc., in
Dr. Landau’s focus is on competence and empowering families to deal with
transitions and relationships. Specialty areas, to name a few. include: (1)
Accessing Resilience to deal with major life crises; Trauma (human-made or
natural disaster), PTSD, community organization & grief resolution; (2)
Intervention for families struggling with addicted members to get them into
treatment or self-help, (3) gay, lesbian bi- and transsexual relational issues
at all stages of the life cycle, and (4) adolescent issues.
Dr. Landau has over 150 publications and two new upcoming books on the ARISE
Intervention. She is the recipient of AAMFT’s award: Outstanding Contribution
to the Field of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Department of Sociology
2112
(310) 405-9369
alareau@socy.umd.edu
Sept-May, 2005-06 --Center for the
Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. (650) 321-2052.
My current area of research is the study of social
class and race differences in family life. Based on detailed observations in 12
white and black families with 10 year old children, I argue that there is a
cultural logic of child rearing where white and black middle-class families
engage in a pattern of “concerted cultivation” where they actively develop
children’s talents and skills. By contrast, in working-class and poor families
there is a pattern called “the accomplishment of natural growth” where parents
care for children but presume that they will spontaneously grow and
thrive. Since the middle-class strategy is more in sync with the
standards of dominant institutions, middle-class children gain important
advantages from their child rearing, but this form of childhood takes a
significant toll on the rituals of family life.
Most well-known books and articles:
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life,
“My Wife Can Tell Me Who I Know: Methodological and
Conceptual Problems in Studying Fathers,” Qualitative Sociology, 23 (4):
407-433, 2000. Reprinted in Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert
Zussman, Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries,
Department of Sociology
404-651-1836
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwsoc/faculty/larossa.html
My most recent publications have focused on
the history of fatherhood and childhood, transition to parenthood, intersection
of culture and cognition, and theorizing process in qualitative family
research. At the moment, I am especially
interested in the effects of war on families in the past, and am writing a book
on
Selected Publications:
Ralph LaRossa. The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History.
Ralph LaRossa, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G.
Robert Wynn. "The Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic Strip
Families: A Six-Decade Analysis." Journal
of Marriage and Family, 2000.
Ralph LaRossa and Donald C. Reitzes. "Two? Two and One-Half? Thirty Months? Chronometrical Childhood in Early Twentieth
Century
Ralph LaRossa. "The Culture of Fatherhood in the
Fifties: A Closer Look." Journal
of Family History, 2004.
Ralph LaRossa. "'Until the Ball Glows in the
Twilight': Fatherhood, Baseball, and the
Game of Playing Catch." Chapter 7
in William Marsiglio, Kevin Roy, and Greer Litton Fox (eds.), Situated
Fathering: A Focus on Physical and
Social Spaces. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2005.
Bethany Letiecq, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Dept. of Health and Human Development
316D Herrick Hall
(406) 994-7396 (office)
(406) 994-2013 (fax)
One area of research is on
under-resourced/low-income African American fatherhood and how a father's
"situatedness" influences his ability to provide for, nurture, and
protect his child(ren).
A second area of research deals with alternative
family forms and how social policies support or hinder family functioning and
well-being. Currently I am investigating two very different populations:
grandparents raising grandchildren, especially in
rural areas heavily affected by the Methamphetamine epidemic, and same-sex
families.
Most important books and articles:
Letiecq,
Letiecq, B.L. & Bailey, S.J. (2004).
“Evaluating from the outside: Conducting cross-cultural evaluation research on
an American Indian reservation.” Evaluation Review, 28(4), 342-357.
Letiecq,
Anderson, E.A., Kohler, J.K., & Letiecq, B.L. (2002). “Low-income fathers and `responsible fatherhood’ programs: A qualitative investigation of participants' fathering experiences and perceptions of program efficacy.” Family Relations, 51, 148-155.
Margo Main, Ph.D.
Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group
(860) 313-4431
(860) 313-4437 (fax)
I am a clinical psychologist specializing in the
treatment and prevention of eating disorders for over 25 years.
I cofounded the Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group and serve as
clinical consultant at the
My recent books are:
The Body Myth:
The Pressure on Adult Women to Be Perfect, co-authored
with Joe Kelly, concerning adult eating disorders and body image concerns (John
Wiley, 2005)
Father Hunger:
Fathers, Daughters and the Pursuit of Thinness (Gurze, 2004)
Body Wars:
Making Peace With Women’s Bodies: An Activist's Guide (Gurze, 2000)
Recent chapters and articles include:
Eating Disorders. In American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy (Ed.). Clinical Updates for family Therapists: Research and
Treatment Approaches for Issues Affecting Today’s Families.
“Eating Disorders and
the Family: A Biopsychosocial Perspective.” In D.R. Crane & Marshal S.E. (Eds.). Handbook of Families and
Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2005)
(563) 940-3025 (cell)
My main area of clinical work is assessment of
children, specifically ADHD and learning disabilities. My current research is
looking at the development of self-esteem as it may lead to narcissism. We are
also looking at different parenting styles and strategies as they may affect
the development of narcissism. In a different study, we are beginning to look
at marital satisfaction and its relationship to depression, particularly the
interrelationship of each partner's depression and their need to take care of
others and to be taken care of by others.
“Beyond Gay Marriage: Preparing for Splitsville.”
Current unpublished work:
Self-esteem and narcissism in children
Abstinence only Education
Marital Satisfaction and Depression
121 Hofstra University
(516) 463-5867 (phone)
(516) 463-9554 (fax)
As a law professor, I study current debates over
family law and policy, welfare policy, work/family conflict, the same-sex
marriage issue, and abstinence education. Because gender and law and feminist
legal theory are among my fields, I am particularly attentive to how various
social movements and public policy proposals address the issues of equality
within and among families (for example, in marriage promotion proposals and
abstinence until marriage sex education). I also follow the ongoing debates
over enlisting "faith-based" organizations to help carry out
important public policy objectives. I serve on the Executive Committee of the
Family Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
The Place of
Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility (
Sara McLanahan
Center for Research on Child
Wellbeing
265 Wallace Hall
(609) 258-4875 (office)
(609) 258-5804 (fax )
My colleagues and I have launched the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study ( http://crcw.princeton.edu/ ) which is following a cohort of about 5000 children
(including 3700 children born to unmarried parents) who were born between 1998
and 2000. The study is designed to address questions such as: What are the
capabilities of unmarried parents, especially fathers? What is the nature of
parental relationships; are they casual or committed? How do children fare in
fragile families? And how do local labor market conditions and government
policies affect family dynamics and child wellbeing?
My early work focused on the growth of single-mother families and what
it meant for women and children.
Recent Publications
McLanahan, Sara,
McLanahan, Sara. 2004.
“Diverging Destinies: How Children Fare Under the Second
Demographic Transition.” Demography.
41(4): 607-627.
McLanahan,
Sara, and Gary Sandefur. 1994. Growing Up With a Single Parent.
Monica
McGoldrick, LCSW, Ph.D. (h.c.), Director, Multicultural Family Institute
(732)
565-9010 x 203
My work has focused primarily on: 1.
taking account of racism, sexism, and multiculturalism in family therapy. 2.
the use of genograms and currently the development of software to create
genograms but also to maintain genogram information in a database for family research.
3. Family therapy issues including the life cycle, women in families, siblings,
remarried families, and family therapy with one person.
A genogram is a family tree which
illustrates not just geneology, but also family relationship patterns and key
facts of family life, beyond the basics of birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Genograms are maps which illustrate physical and psychological problems and
assets, education, and critical experiences in a family's history such as
traumatic loss, success, and other primary facts about family members.
Most important books, articles, or awards:
Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 3rd Ed. (
The Expanded Family Life Cycle:
Individual, Family and Social Perspectives
(Allyn & Bacon, 2005)
Living Beyond Loss: Death and the
Family, 2nd ed. (Norton, 2005)
Revisioning Family Therapy: Race,
Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice (
Steven
Mintz,
(713)
805-3384
My current area of research is the history of childhood and how today's kids stack up. I seek to separate the genuine problems confronting today's kids from the illusory ones that often attract attention. Today, about a quarter of American children end childhood with a serious problem: they haven't graduated high school; they are seriously involved in the criminal justice system; they have a severe physical or mental disability; or they have a child of their own. But growing up has always been a difficult process, both for kids and their parents. Kids are doing better today on many fronts, and the new problems confronting today's children are aspects of the same developments that are reshaping our society as a whole: globalization, which has greatly increased the diversity of American children; a new economy that has widened the gap between rich and poor; an information revolution that has made kids much more knowledgeable about the adult world; a demographic revolution which has greatly increased the number of only children; and a more work-oriented society that has altered relations between parents and children.
Most
well-known books, articles, support work for families:
Huck's
Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard, 2004)
Domestic
Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (Free Press, 1989)
Mignon R. Moore,
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies
Department of Sociology
320M. Faywerweather Hall, MC 2568
(212) 854-4358 (office)
(212) 864-1616 (home)
Professor Moore has research interests in the study of
race, family, gender, sexuality, adolescence, inter- and intragroup
dynamics. She is the recipient of several awards and honors including the
Woodrow Wilson Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship and the Russell Sage
Foundation Visiting Scholar Award. She has published studies on
neighborhood and family correlates of adolescent sexual debut and pregnancy,
emphasizing family structure and parent-child relationships in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and in edited
volumes on adolescent behavior and adolescent risk. She has examined
intraracial heterogeneity and racial identity in studies published in the American Journal of Sociology. Her
current work is based on the culmination of a four year mixed
methods study of black and
Jeylan T. Mortimer, Professor of Sociology
Director,
Department of Sociology
1014 Social Science Bldg.
(612) 624-7020 (fax)
(612) 624-4064 (phone)
JEYLAN MORTIMER is Professor of Sociology at the
Her books include:
Call, Kathleen Thiede and Jeylan T. Mortimer.
2001. Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence: A
Study of Adjustment in Context.
Mortimer, Jeylan T., and Michael J. Shanahan
(eds.) 2003. Handbook of the Life Course.
Mortimer, Jeylan T. 2003. Working and Growing Up in
Kelly Musick, Assistant Professor of Sociology
(213) 740-5047
My areas of research include: 1) the social context of
childbearing; 2) marriage, cohabitation, and the wellbeing of adults and
children; 3) family inequality and population processes. Recent work
examines how transitions into marriage and cohabitation are associated with
change over time in multiple measures of well-being and social
relationships. My co-author and I find that differences between marriage
and cohabitation tend to be small and appear to dissipate over time. In
other work, I am looking at how parental conflict in childhood relates to
transitions to adulthood, including academic success and risk-taking.
Recent Publications:
Musick, Kelly and Robert D. Mare. 2004. “Family Structure,
Intergenerational Mobility, and the Reproduction of Poverty: Evidence for
Increasing Polarization?” Demography 41(4):629-648.
Musick, Kelly. 2002. “Planned and Unplanned Childbearing Among
Unmarried Women.” Journal of Marriage and Family 64:915-929.
Linda Neilson, Professor
of Adolescent Psychology & Women's Studies
nielsen@wfu.edu
(336) 758-5345
My research focuses on strengthening and understanding father-daughter
relationships, especially when the parents are divorced. As an adolescent
psychologist, I also focus on communication between parents & teenagers,
blended families, and stepmothers.
Books & Articles:
Embracing Your Father - How to create
the relationship you always wanted with your dad (McGraw Hill, 2004)
Adolescence: A contemporary view (Harcourt/Brace, 1996)
"Demeaning, demoralizing &
disenfranchising divorced dads” (Journal of Divorce & Remarriage)
"Fathers and Daughters: Why a
course for college students?" (College Student Journal)
(617)
353-3752 (phone)
(617)
353-5612 (fax)
Dr. Paris’s research has focused on: 1) early treatment intervention
with at-risk mothers and infants; 2) women's adult development and aging; and
3) intergenerational transmission of family violence. One current research
project is a mixed methods evaluation of a health center based pilot home-visiting
program for high-risk new mothers in an immigrant community. Dr. Paris is
currently using a longitudinal dataset to examine perceived stress and personal
growth in a sample of late mid-life women caring for their aging parents. She
is also a qualitative methods consultant on a project examining adolescent
dating violence, sexual risk, and pregnancy.
Paris, R. & Dubus, N. (2005). “Staying connected while nurturing an
infant: A challenge of new motherhood.” Family Relations, 54 (1) 72-83.
Paris, R. & Helson, R. (2002). “Early mothering experience and
personality change.” Journal of Family Psychology, 16 (2) 172-185.
Adam
Pertman, Executive Director
Evan B.
Donaldson Adoption Institute
apertman@adoptioninstitutue.org
(617)
332-8944 (office)
(617)
763-0134 (cell)
Dept.
of Sociology
744
Ballantine Hall
(812) 855-7624
My research has focused primarily on how families
confer advantages (or disadvantages) to their children and how structural features
of the family (e.g., single-parent vs. two-parent households, mother-only vs.
father-only households, birth order, family size, sex composition of the
household) influence parental investments in and interactions with children. My
recent work has examined whether children who live with their same-sex parent
are better off than their peers who live with an opposite sex parent; whether
recent claims about the effects of birth order on innovative thinking are
applicable in the contemporary United States; whether sociobiological
explanations add to sociological understandings of parental investments;
whether gender influences children's perceptions and evaluations of parental
roles; and whether generational differences in
feminist self-identification are strong. My current projects explore the
relationship between parental age and social, intellectual and economic
investment in children; the experiences of children from biracial/multiracial
families; and the relative influence of
schools and families on children's obesity. I also
am working on a book, tentatively titled "Who Counts As Kin? How Americans
Define 'The Family'," which reports on 700 interviews on a wide range of
questions regarding the meaning of family (including views regarding same-sex
households).
Most well-known books and articles:
Powell, Brian, Lala Carr Steelman and
Linking Family Structure, Public Policy, and
Educational Outcomes.” Pp. 111-44. In
Schnittker, Jason S., Jeremy Freese, and Brian
Powell. (2003) "Who Are Feminists and What Do They Believe?” The Role of
Generations.” American Sociological Review 68:607-22.
Steelman, Lala Carr, Brian Powell,
Freese, Jeremy, Brian Powell, and Lala Carr
Steelman. (1999) “Rebel Without A Cause of Effect: Birth Order and Social
Attitudes.” American Sociological Review. 64(2):207-231.
(650)
906-0108
Most
Important Books, Articles, or Awards:
My forthcoming book on late ('delayed') motherhood aims to show just how much the trend toward later motherhood transforms culture, including family structures and gender relations. In addition, it examines media representation of delay in the last 20 years; examines the pathologization and normalization of delay in the medical literature; and via interviews examines professional women’s trade-offs. Finally, it looks at bio-political conundrums associated with late and post-menopausal motherhood.
Forthcoming
book on Later Motherhood (see below)
"Gender
Politics and Late Motherhood," in Feminist Mothering (Ed.
O'Reilly), SUNY Press, 2006.
"Test
Tube Suits," TLS,
"On
Gender and Technology," Journal of ISSEI (Forthcoming 2005/06)
Winner
of prize awarded by Society for Literature and Science for best published article
in 1998 by young nontenured scholar ("Of Virginia Woolf and Fascism,"
PMLA. Vol.113.3)
Karen Pyke, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Dept. of Sociology
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2024
Karen Pyke, Ph.D., is an associate professor of
Sociology at the
(919)
401-2933
(919)
401-4993 (fax)
(919)
260-8555 (cell)
I have a long history of 30 years of clinical
practice in
Obviously my practice has specialized in marital quality, sexual health and sexual orientation, divorce and stepfamily life as well as more traditional matters such as a specialty in Depression and Women's Issues (I have been the CEO of an Active Women's Center serving the Triangle and UNC -CH campus). I am active with attorneys here in Collaborative Divorce work and am a certified Divorce Mediator. As part of my practice I work with marital quality in traditional and non traditional families. I train young therapists here in their practice skills and do professional writing for the clinical societies as to quality practice and health policy and legislative issues.
Isolina Ricci, Ph.D., Director
The New
(415) 435-7648 (office)
(415) 435-2736 (cell)
Psychotherapy Office Hours in
My work over the past 30 years has been dedicated to divorce,
custody, family mediation, family courts, and divorced and stepfamily
parenting. Currently, I am the proprietor and Director of the
My best-known book:
Mom’s House,
Dad’s House: A Complete Guide for Parent Who Are Separated, Divorced, or
Remarried, Macmillan (1980),
Just published:
Mom’s House,
Dad’s House for Kids: How to Feel at Home in One Home or Two,
Barbara J. Risman, Professor and Head
Department of
Sociology (MC312)
1007
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 996-3974
Co-chair, Council
on Contemporary Families
www.contemporaryfamilies.org
I am currently
Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the
Most relevant
books and articles:
Gender Vertigo: American Families in
Transition (Yale, 1998)
“Gender as a
Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Social Change,” Gender& Society, 2004, Volume 18:4.
Risman, Barbara
and Pepper Schwartz, “After the Sexual Revolution: Gender Politics in Teen
Dating,” 2002. Contexts. Volume 1:1.
“A Comment on the
Biological Limits of Gender Construction: Calling the Bluff on Value-Free
Science.” American Sociological Review. Volume 66:4.
and
a private practitioner in individual and family therapy.
jb-robinson1@juno.com
My
primary interest has been in working with families that include children and
adolescents, couples and individuals with a diagnosed mental illness.
I
am now a substitute teacher in the
Nancy E. Rose, Professor and
Chair
Department
of Economics
(909) 537-5516
My current work is an autoethnographic study of lesbian, gay, bisexual parented families. This includes exploring issues such as options regarding alternative insemination, the roles of donor fathers and birthmothers, second-parent adoption, legal family recognition, and creation of community.
Other work involves history and policy of government work programs (e.g. the WPA in the 1930s and workfare currently), alternative pedagogy, and the rightwing attack on academia.
Books and articles:
“The Family Lecture,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 6, 3-4
(2002).
“Scapegoating Poor Women: An Analysis of Welfare Reform,” Journal of
Economic Issues 34, 1 (March 2000).
With Lynn Bravewomon, "Family Webs: A Study
of Extended Families in the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Community," Feminist Economics 4, 2 (Summer 1998).
Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs
(Rutgers University Press, 1995).
Put to Work: Relief
Programs in the Great Depression (Monthly Review Press, 1994).
Dr. Susan M. Ross, Associate
Professor
Department
of Sociology-Anthropology
(570)
321-4204
Susan
Ross is Associate Professor of Sociology at
Battelle
Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation
(703)
875-2974
Currently I am co-investigator on two NIH-funded
studies of how couples negotiate contraceptive choices, and how power
influences who gets their way. We are interviewing 2000 couples across the
country.
This is the first time we have ever asked both
men and women in couples how these decisions get made. In my dissertation,
"The Case for Divorce," I find that not all the consequences of
divorce are negative, and that people leaving unhappy marriages are better off
psychologically than people who remain. I am available to discuss power in
intimate relationships, the health benefits and costs of marriage and divorce
as well as gender and sexuality in intimate relationships. Fall 2006, I begin
as a professor of sociology at Framingham State College in
Books:
The Gender of
Sexuality (with Pepper Schwartz).
1998,
The Love Test (with Pepper Schwartz). 1998, Perigee Books.
Gina Miranda Samuels, Assistant Professor
(773) 684-2153
My research
examines the long-term socio-cultural outcomes of adoptees and foster youth
including racial/ethnic identity development.
Some current research projects include a series of interviews with mixed
race adult adoptees on issues of identity and race, a mixed method study of
youth who have histories of running away from foster care, and a qualitative
study of young adults from ethnic backgrounds including black, white, and
multiracial who have aged out of public child welfare systems across the
Midwest. My publications also explore
issues of kinship, socio-cultural development, and race for children and adults
whose lives and family systems have been shaped by adoption or foster care.
These publications include: "Reading between the lines: Black-white
heritage and transracial adoption" (a 2004 publication in African American
Research Perspectives), "Beyond the Rainbow: Multiraciality in the 21st Century" (a
book chapter in press, Our Diverse Society: Race, Ethnicity and Class---Implications
for 21st Century America), "An Ecological Perspective on Cultural Identity
Development" (co-authored with Coleman, H.L.K., Norton, R. A., and
McCubbin, L. 2003 in Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and
Psychology). I am currently working on a
series of papers that examine interpretive and theoretical approaches to the
study of racial and cultural identity formation in the context of adoptive and
foster family systems.
Dept.
of Sociology
(206)
543-4036
I am working on three books: one on the Romantic Careers
of Baby Boomers, one on a Meyers-Briggs type system for matching people for
dating and long term relationships, and one on sexual passion and adventure for
women in the 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.
Most important positions: American Sociological Association Award (2005) for
Public Dissemination of Sociology; Past President, The Society for the
Scientific Study of Sexuality; President (2204-2005) Pacific Sociological
Association
Books:
American Couples : Money, Work and Sex
Peer Marriage: How Love Between Equals Really Works
The Gender of Sexuality (with Virginia Rutter)
Everything You Know
About Love and Sex is Wrong
Ten Talks Parents
Must Have with Children about Sex and Character
Rudy Ray Seward,
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
(940) 565-2295 (phone)
(940) 369-7035 (fax)
seward@unt.edu
Studying the family combines my love of history
and interest in how larger social forces impact the daily lives of people. My
dissertation research, supported in part by a grant from the National Science
Foundation, assessed the impact of industrialization and urbanization upon
families over time in colonial
Recent journal articles:
Seward, R. R., Yeatts, D. E., Zottarelli, L. K.
& Fletcher, R. (2006). “Fathers taking parental leave and their involvement
with Children: An exploratory study.” Community, Work & Family, 9 (1),
1-9.
Seward, R. R., Stivers, R. A., Igoe, D. G.,
Amin,
Schwartzbaum, A., Seward, R. R., &
Williamson, D. (2004). “A multigenerational approach to teaching research.” Academic Exchange Quarterly, 8, 49-55.
Seward, R. R., Yeatts, D. E., & Zottarelli,
L. (2002). “Parental leave and father involvement in child care:
Yeatts, D. E. & Seward, R. R. (2000). “Reducing
turnover and improving health care in nursing homes: The potential effects of
self-managed work teams.” Gerontologist,
40, 358-363.
Carol Shapiro, Founder and
Executive Director
Family
Justice, Inc.
625 Broadway, 8th Floor
cshapiro@familyjustice.org
(212) 475-1500
Carol is a nationally known innovator in the field of criminal justice. Over
the past 30 years, she has devised numerous approaches to improve public safety
and family well-being in the fields of drug abuse, mental health, housing, and
law enforcement. As the Founder and Executive Director of Family Justice, Carol
serves as an advisor to numerous governmental and non-profit initiatives.
Additionally, she provides technical assistance and consulting services on
policy, planning, and implementation of social justice reform initiatives to
federal, state, and local governments, not-for-profit organizations, and the
media. In 2001, Carol was recognized as a social entrepreneur by being named an
Ashoka Innovator for the Public Fellow, one of the first ten so honored in the
Publications:
"The Family: A Cost-Effective and Untapped Resource." Staff News,
"Coming Home: Building on Family Connections" (with Meryl
Schwartz). Corrections Management
Quarterly, Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2001, 5(3), 52-61.
http://www.familyjustice.org/assets/publications/coming_home_article.pdf
Family Justice Publication Series (Policy
Briefs):
"Turning to Family: Supporting Families with Youth Involved in the Juvenile
Justice System"
"Mental Health Matters: Mental Health and Co-Occurring Disorders Among Families
with Members Involved in the Criminal Justice System"
"Family Mentoring: Community Leadership that Lasts"
National Council for Research on Women, and
freelance writer
(212) 785-7335, x 218
My current area of research is on the
changing attitudes toward work, family, dating, marriage, success, and feminism
among women and men of Generations X and Y. In a recent article, I showed
that men of a younger generation perceive high-achieving women as highly
desirable mates. I am currently finishing a book on changing images and
definitions of “feminism” across generations, and in popular culture (Fighting
Words: The 40-Year Struggle for the Soul of Feminism). I am also
editing an anthology of
personal essays, titled Party of One: Writers Answer the Question, “What¹s
It Like Being an Only Child?” (Random House, 2006). My next book,
co-authored with
Other published work:
”The New Trophy Wife,” Psychology
Today (January 2004)
NYC
(718) 858-8342
I conduct research on fathering - especially
immigrant, gay, triplet and dual earner couples, as well as on
methodology and feminist family therapy
New Projects - Early Head Start fathering project
Most important books and articles:
Silverstein, L. B.
& Goodrich, T. J. (Eds.). (2003). Feminist
family therapy: Empowerment in social context. Washington,
D. C: American Psychological Association Books.
Auerbach, C. F. & Silverstein, L.
B. (2003). An introduction to coding and
analyzing data in
qualitative research.
Silverstein, L. B.
& Auerbach, C. F. (1999). “Deconstructing
the essential father.” American
Psychologist, 54, 397-407.
426
Eggers Hall
(315) 443-9042
Timothy M. Smeeding is an economist, Maxwell Professor
of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Research and of the
Luxembourg Income Study Project, which he founded in 1983. Smeeding's
primary research focuses on national and cross-national comparisons of
inequality and poverty among vulnerable family groups, including low-wage
workers, children, the aged, and the disabled. He also studies and writes
on health care finance and the EITC, and the intra household allocation of
resources. A new book "Immigration in
.
Most important books and articles:
Moynihan, D.P., T.M. Smeeding, and L. Rainwater
(eds.). 2004. The Future of the Family.
Rainwater, L., and T.M.
Smeeding. 2003. Poor Kids in a Rich Country.
Smeeding, T.M. 2004. “Twenty Years
of Research on Income Inequality, Poverty, and Redistribution in the Developed
World.” Guest Editor, Socio-Economic Review Special Issue 2(2)
(May):149-163.
Pamela J. Smock, Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's
Studies & Research Associate Professor
The
(734) 763-2264
(734) 763-1428 (fax)
Dr. Smock is a family sociologist and demographer. Her scholarship focuses on the causes and
consequences of family patterns and change in the
Dr. Smock’s recent publications include:
Smock, Pamela
J, Wendy Manning, and Meredith Porter (2005) “`Everything’s There Except
Money’: How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry Among Cohabitors,” Journal of Marriage and Family
67:680-696
Manning, Wendy
and Pamela J. Smock (2005) “Measuring and Modeling Cohabitation: New
Perspectives from Qualitative Data,” Journal
of Marriage and Family 67:989-1002
Avellar, Sarah and Pamela J. Smock (2005) “The Economic
Consequences of the Dissolution of Cohabiting Unions,” Journal of Marriage and Family 67:314-326
Smock, Pamela J. (2004) “The Wax and Wane of Marriage: Prospects
for Marriage in the 21st Century,” Journal of Marriage and Family 66:966-973
Smock, Pamela J. and Wendy Manning (2004) “Living Together
Unmarried in the
Charlotte Spiegelman, Family Therapist in
Private Practice; Family Therapy Educator
(323) 954-1293
(323) 788-9594 (cell)
I have worked as a practitioner, teacher and trainer of
family therapy since 1980. I am current an adjunct faculty member at the
Schools of Social Work at Smith College and University of Southern California
and a trainer and supervisor at Southern California Counseling Center in Los
Angeles. Until 1997 I was the Executive Director of the
I have a special interest in Jewish families, including
gender roles, diversity within the Jewish population and the effects
of traumas of past generations on current family functioning.
Recent publications include "The Legal Quagmire", The
Family Therapy Clinician, No. 1, February 1998 and "The Power of
Magic", The Family Therapy Clinician, No.2, September 2000
Judith Stacey, Professor,
Dept of Sociology
Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality
(212) 992-9568
(310) 403-3385(cell)
My current primary areas of
research and writing center on gay parenting and family issues, gender and
parenting, and the politics of family values. I served as an expert witness in
the Canadian same-sex marriage case and have filed declarations in numerous
court cases concerning gay parent and family rights.
Important publications include:
"(How) Does the Sexual
Orientation of Parents Matter?", co-authored with Timothy Biblarz, American Sociological Review 66, n.2
(April 2001):159-83.
"The Families of Man: Gay
Male Intimacy and Kinship in a Global Metropolis," Signs 30, n.3
(2005):1911-35.
In the
Name of The Family: Rethinking Family Values in a Postmodern Age,
Brave New
Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth-Century
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting
Scholar, 2005-06; Jesse Bernard Award of American Sociological Association; Distinguished
Article Award, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association
(650) 493-0400
I
am a labor economist and study the difficulties women face in combining work
and family in the business world and in academe.
Most
important recent books:
The
Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the
Strober,
Strober,
Strober,
Vocational Foundation, Inc.
(212) 573-6862
(718) 230-3100, ext. 1008
My publications present a rights-based
critique of family policy. I use political philosophy and constitutional
jurisprudence to explore and criticize the principles on which various family
policies are based (e.g., divorce, marriage, welfare, single parenthood,
sexuality). I argue that some family policies violate the
rights of individuals and that government should support diverse forms of
family.
I am also interested in low-income youth,
particularly those who have dropped out of high school, and what employment and
education policies can best serve their needs. I am a research and development
associate at Vocational Foundation, Inc., a non-profit educational and
workforce development agency for disadvantaged youth, ages 17-21, in
Most important books and articles:
“Familial Purposes: An Argument Against
the Promotion of Family Uniformity,” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 27,
No. 3 (1999)
“Privacy and Sexuality in a Society
Divided Over Moral Culture,” Political Research Quarterly, Vol 49, No. 3
(September 1996)
“A Critique of the New Familialism:
Lifestyle Experimentation and the Freedom of Intimate Association,” Hypatia:
A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 1996)
bthorne@berkeley.edu
(510) 549-0803
Expert on feminist theories of family life and relations of gender, generation,
racial-ethnicity, and social class. Co-editor of Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions (Northeastern Univ. Press,
1993) and Feminist Sociology: Life
Histories of a Movement,
A sociologist of childhood who has done research on gender relations among
children (see Gender Play: Girls and Boys
in School [
Now working on a study of kids growing up, and adults raising children,
in a mixed-income, ethnically diverse area of
class divides, with a growing cleavage between affluent privatized and more
public childhoods; steady deterioration of public provisioning for families;
the increasing commercialization of children's lives;
and high rates of immigration, with the juxtaposition of varied child-rearing
beliefs and practices. For example, see Barrie Thorne, "The Crisis of
Care," in Nan Crouter and Alan Booth, eds., Work-Family
Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children.
E. Kay Trimberger,
Professor Emeritus of Women’s and Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty Member at Institute for the Study of Social
Change at UC, Berkeley
(510) 848-4033
In a longitudinal study of diverse long-term
single women between ages 30 - 65, Trimberger argues against the idea that
fulfillment comes only through coupling with a soul mate. Instead, she suggests
that many women today are content with the single life. She argues that married
women and single women are not different or in competition but rather at
opposite ends of a continuum that comprises many women, including bisexuals and
lesbians.
The New Single Woman, Beacon Press, 2005
Intimate Warriors:
Writings from a Modern Marriage, 1899-1944 (The Feminist Press, 1991)
Tammy A.
Turner-Vorbeck, Ph.D.,