CCF Experts

 

Current board members with their e-addresses:

 

Etiony Aldorando                                             etiony@MIAMI.EDU

Rhea Almeida                                                 RheaAlmeid@AOL.COM

Ashton Applewhite                                          applewhite@EARTHLINK.NET

Pauline Boss                                                   pboss@CHE.UMN.EDU

Joshua Coleman                                             drjoshuacoleman@COMCAST.NET

Joshua Coleman                                             joshuacoleman@EARTHLINK.NET

Stephanie Coontz                                           coontzs@MSN.COM

Rena Cornell                                                   rcornel@SA.NCSU.EDU

Paula England                                                 pengland@STANFORD.EDU

Frank Furstenberg                                          fff@SSC.UPENN.EDU

Kathleen Gerson                                             kathleen.gerson@NYU.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

Barbara Risman                                             brisman@UIC.EDU

Virginia Rutter                                                 vrutter@GMAIL.COM

Karen Struening                                              Karen.struening@VERIZON.NET

Wilma Peebles Wilkins                                   wpeebles@BU.EDU

Joan Williams                                                 williams@EMAIL.UCHASTINGS.EDU

Steven Wisensale                                           steven.wisensale@UCONN.EDU

Steven Wisensale                                           wisensal@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU

           

 

 

 

* Constance Ahrons, Professor Emerita of Sociology

University of Southern California

Director, Divorce and Remarriage Consulting Associates

5357 Croton Court

San Diego, CA  92109

cahrons@usc.edu

(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:

 

  • half of grown children reported bette*r relationships with their fathers
  • over three-quarters felt that they, and their parents, are better off because of the divorce
  • almost 80% felt their parents' divorce was a good decision
  • 60% of divorced parents were amicable twenty years after their divorce

 

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

3 Clyde Road, Suite 101

Somerset, NJ 08873

(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: New York.

 

Almeida, R. (1998). Transformations of gender and race: Family and developmental perspectives, New York: Haworth.

 

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.

 

 

 

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Ed.D., Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts

gonzalo.bacigalupe@umb.edu

(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

rbarnett@brandeis.edu

(781) 736-2287

21 Partridge Hill Road

Weston, MA  02493

 

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. New York: Basic Books.

 

Barnett, R. C., & Rivers, C. (1998). She works/he works: How two-income families are happier, healthier and better off. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

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

American University and University of Maryland

5430 41 Place NW

Washington DC  20015

bbergman@wam.umd.edu

(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 University of Maryland and at American University in Washington, DC. She is currently working on a book entitled The Decline of Marriage and What to Do About It.

 

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 (University of Michigan Press)

Saving Our Children From Poverty: What the United States Can Learn From France (Russell Sage Foundation)

The Economic Emergence of Women (Basic Books)

 

 

Anne C. Bernstein, Ph.D.  Professor of Psychology

The Wright Institute

2955 Shattuck Avenue

Berkeley, CA  94705

anne8@berkeley.edu

(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 University of California at Berkeley.

 

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, Indianapolis: Perspectives Press, 1994.

 

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 W. Michigan Avenue

Western Michigan University

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. Harvey (Eds.) Handbook of divorce & dissolution of romantic relationships. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (2006).

 

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 UK, I noted that the Government in England and Wales provides relationship support for all couples (married, cohabiting, straight, gay/lesbian, various religions), not just for those couples who are or are interested in marriage as is the current US policy through the re-authorization of TANF.  Reference: Blaisure, K. R. (2003). Divorce intervention and prevention: Comparison of policy initiatives in England/Wales and the US. London: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
                                  
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.



Janet Bokemeier, Professor and Chairperson

Dept. of Sociology

bokemeie@msu.edu

(517) 355-6632

 

I specialize in studies of gender, work, and family in rural America. My current research program involves (a) a study of the experiences of economic decisions in rural households living in an area experiencing economic decline, (b) studies of labor market experiences of rural households and the impact of changing rural labor markets on inequality and poverty of families, and (c) university-community partnerships for research on family issues. I am also Assistant Director of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and Co-Director of the MSU Family and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition www.fact.msu.edu.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Lorraine Garkovich, Bokemeier, Janet, and Barbara Foote. (1995) Harvest of Hope:  Family Farming and Farm FamiliesUniversity of Kentucky Press, Lexington KY.

 

 

 

Dr. Pauline Boss, Emeritus Professor

University of Minnesota; DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY SOCIAL SCIENCE, also family therapist in private practice

pboss@umn.edu

(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, Harvard U. Press, 1999

 

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

1021 Kiwi CT NW

Olympia, WA 98502

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 University of Maryland. Got Ph.D. from University of Washington in Interpersonal Communication with minor in Clinical Psychology. Teaching Assistant, teaching Introduction to Public Speaking, and Introduction to Interpersonal Communication.

 

Faculty, Senior Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine. Faculty, Post-Doctoral Intern, University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Faculty, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications and Psychology, Central Washington University.

 

Now in private practice in clinical psychology in Olympia, WA for 30 years specializing in couples therapy. Have taught many “Brief (No-Bullshit) Marital Therapy” workshops.

 

Publications:

 

Bradley, Sam. The Happy Husband: A Guy’s Guide to Marital Success. (Publication forthcoming).

 

 

 

Scott Browning, Ph.D., Professor

Interim-Chair (Chestnut Hill College)

scobrown@chc.edu

(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 therapyWashington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

 

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. New York: The Haworth Press.

 

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). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

 

Recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching-2003

 

 

 

Andrew Cherlin, Professor of Public Policy and Sociology

cherlin@jhu.edu

(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
U.S. and other developed nations. In a recent article, my co-authors and I found substantial levels of sexual and physical abuse in the histories of low-income mothers' lives, and we also found that women who had been abused in the past were much less likely to be married. See Andrew J. Cherlin, Linda M. Burton, Tera R. Hurt, and Diane M. Purvin. 2004. "The Influence of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabitation." American Sociological Review 69:768-789.

In another article, I assessed the current status and likely future of marriage in the
United States. See Andrew J. Cherlin. 2004. "The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage." Journal of Marriage and
Family
66: 848-861.

 

Most well-known books, articles, support work for families:

 

Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage 

 

Public and Private Families 

 

Divided Families

 

 

 

 

 

Philip N. Cohen, Associate Professor of Sociology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

155 Hamilton Hall CB#3210

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210

http://www.unc.edu/~pnc

pnc@unc.edu

(919) 843-4791 (Sociology office)

(919) 966-7481 (Carolina Population Center office)

 

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 United States”, Gender & Society 18(2):239-252.

 

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. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

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.

 

 

 

Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., Psychologist, Author

drjoshuacoleman@comcast.net

(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 St. Martin's Press.

 

 

Scott Coltrane, Associate Dean

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology

coltrane@ucr.edu

(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 California respond to economic stress.  Job loss or chronic low income leads to depression, marital problems, hostile parenting, and various social and emotional troubles for children. European American children seem to be most sensitive to the effects of harsh or inattentive parenting, whereas Mexican American children seem to be most sensitive to the effects of marital conflict and possible marital disruption. 

 

Most well-known books, articles, support work for families:

 

Family Man: Fatherhood Housework and Gender Equity

 

Gender and Families

 

Families and Society

 

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. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

 

 

* Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education

Council on Contemporary Families

Professor of History and Family Studies

The Evergreen State College

coontzs@msn.com 

(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 America's Changing Families (Basic Books, 1997)

 

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”

 

 

 

Shelly J. Correll, Asst. Professor

Dept. of Sociology

Cornell University

323 Uris Hall

Ithaca, NY  14853

Sjc62@cornell.edu

(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
University of California, Berkeley

2205 Tolman Hall - #1650
Berkeley CA 94720-1650
(
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: American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA, 1999) - Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research.  

 

 

 

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

Penn State University

University Park, PA  16802
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.

 

 

Jill Berrick Duerr, Ph.D., Professor

School of Social Welfare

120 Haviland Hall

U.C. Berkeley

Berkeley, CA  94720-7400

(510) 643-7016 (phone)

(510) 642-1895 (fax)

dberrick@berkeley.edu

 

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

445 Bellevue Avenue Suite 302

Oakland, CA 94610

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, New York: Guilford Press, 2005.

 

Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care, co-edited with Toni Heineman, Baltimore: Brookes Publishing Company, 2005.

 

Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Their Children What They Want, But Not What They Need, New York: Guilford Press, 1997.

 

Parenting Together: Men and Women Sharing the Care of their Children, New York: The Free Press, 1987.

 

Article:

 

“Raising Girlyboys: a Parent's Perspective.”  Studies in Gender and Sexuality (in press).

 

 

 

Jean Elson, Ph.D.

Dept. of Sociology

University of New Hampshire

Horton Social Science Building

20 College Road

Durham, New Hampshire  03824

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 Brandeis University in 2000, and an MA in 1996 in Sociology and Women's Studies, also from Brandeis.

 

 

Robert E. Emery, Professor of Psychology

Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law

Dept. of Psychology

Gilmer Hall

Box 400400

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA  22904-4400

ree@virginia.edu

(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 University of Virginia. He also is an associate faculty member in the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, and was Director of Clinical Training from 1993-2002.

 

Dr. Emery is the author of over 100 scientific publications. His books include:

 

Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment (1999, 2nd Ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications) 

 

Abnormal Psychology (2004, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall [with Thomas Oltmanns]) is in its fourth edition.

 

Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation (1994, New York: Guilford Publications)

 

The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive (2004, New York: Viking/Penguin)

 

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

Stanford University

Stanford, CA  94305-2047

pengland@stanford.edu

(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. New York: Aldine. 1986. 

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor

Graduate Center

CUNY

President-Elect, American Sociological Association

CEpstein@gc.cuny.edu

(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

 

 

 

Buford Farris, Retired Professor of Sociology

Last at Saint Louis University and now living in Bastrop, Texas

farrisbe@earthlink.net

(512) 303-6768

 

For twenty years (49-69), I worked in poverty areas of the US. In San Antonio, the community center agency developed a Gang Work project that worked--The Wesley Youth Project. This project also developed a model of working with poverty neighborhoods that became the basis of my teaching and research for the next 34 years of academic life. This model puts the emphasis on the families at the bottom of a "low income" neighborhood and then moves to advocacy and mediation with other neighborhood groups and then to the broader community. This also involves political action and policy development to the extent that this is possible. The work in San Antonio also involved work with Welfare Rights groups who advocated for a guaranteed income and this lead research on its effectiveness. In recent years, I have been involved with a national group, United States Basic Income Group (USBIG) that is dedicated to bringing this policy back on the American agenda. It is connected to international groups that are further along toward realizing such a goal, such as Brazil.

 

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

 

 

 

Myra Marx Ferree, Professor of Sociology

UW Madison

mferree@ssc.wisc.edu

 

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 (Cambridge UP, 2002)

 

“Close your eyes and think of England: Pronatalism in the British print media” (with Jessica Autumn Brown), Gender & Society, 2005,

 

“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

Emory UniversitySchool of Law

Gambrell Hall

1301 Clifton Road NE

Atlanta, GA 30322

mfineman@law.emory.edu

(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..   

 

 

 

Gordon E. Finley, Professor of Psychology

finley@fiu.edu

(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.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 291-293.

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.    

Finley, G. E., & Schwartz, S. J. (2006). „Parsons and Bales revisited: Young adult children’s characterization of the fathering role.” Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 7 (1), 42-55.

 

 

 

Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics

folbre@econs.umass.edu

(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

dlfranklin@earthlink.net

 

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 University of Chicago, University of Southern California, and Smith College. She is currently an author and lecturer.  

 

 

 
Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology

University of Pennsylvania

Department of Sociology

3718 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299

Tel: (215) 898-6718

Fax: (215) 898-2124

fff@ssc.upenn.edu

 

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 Mexico that have been working to develop a comparative survey of family change and the well-being of children in Latin America. 

 

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. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

                                   

Destinies of the disadvantaged; The life course of teenage mothers and their children. Manuscript in progress.

 

 

 

Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology

Professor of Sociology

New York University

269 Mercer Street, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10003

kathleen.gerson@nyu.edu

(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

gerstel@sadri.umass.edu

(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, Vanderbilt University Press (2002). Eds. Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, includes Gerstel article on Caregiving to Extended Kin, “The Third Shift: Gender, Employment, and Care Work Outside the Home,” and an article on Unions and Family/Work Policies “Unions’ Responses to Family Concerns.”

 

“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
3104 Rolling Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815

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

 

 

Janet Gornick, Ph.D., Professor

Associate Director, Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

Professor of Political Science and Sociology

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

Professor of Political Science

Baruch College

City University of New York address:

17 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York  10010

janet_gornick@baruch.cuny.edu

(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), New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.

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
United States.” Journal of
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

California School of Professional Psychology

Alliant International University

1 Beach Street, Suite 100

San Francisco, CA  94133-1221

rjgreen@alliant.edu

(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. New York: International Universities Press.

 

Laird, J., & Green, R.-J. (Eds.). (1996). Lesbians and gays in couples and familiesSan Francisco:  Jossey Bass/Wiley.

 

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.). New York: Guilford Press.

 

 

Sharon Hays, Professor of Sociology

hays@virginia.edu

(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)

 

 
 
Pilar Hernandez, Assistant Professor Marriage and Family Therapy Program

phernand@mail.sdsu.edu

(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 US and on my work with displaced populations and abducted children for war in Colombia).

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

rhertz@wellesley.edu

(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 U.S. population, the goal of having a child remains at the heart of family life. Instead of remaining childless, a growing number of women with good jobs are electing to by pass the storied progression from love to marriage to motherhood. Part 1 discusses the dilemmas they face in trying to figure out how to become parents when marriage isn't in the cards. Part 2 explores their different paths to motherhood. Part 3 discusses how these women create a world that does include men, and how they simultaneously meet the demands of employment and family life. I have been tracking their lives for close to ten years.

 

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 MarriagesUniversity of California Press.

When Baby Makes Two: The Choice to Become a Single MotherNew York: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming)

"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 Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single Parent Families Strategies."  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social SciencesPhiladelphia: PA. 1999. Vol. 562. pp.16-31.

 

 

Patrick Heuveline, Assistant Professor of Sociology

p-heuveline@uchicago.edu

(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 U.S. exhibits both unique family formation patterns in and distinct (typically less favorable) youth outcomes.

 

Most well-known books and articles:

"The Role of Cohabitation in Family Formation: The United States in Comparative Perspective," in Journal of Marriage and Family 66(6): 1214-1230. December 2004. (Heuveline, P., Timberlake, J.M.).

"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

University of Kansas

Sociology Department

722 Fraser Hall

Lawrence, KS 66045

(785) 864-9405

hill@ku.edu

 

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 US and the African diaspora in general in terms of how it affects gender/kinship among black people. 

 

Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships (AltaMira, 2005)    

  

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.



 

Sandra Hofferth, Professor

Department of Family Studies

University of Maryland, College Park

1210E Marie Mount Hall

College Park, MD  20742

hofferth@umd.edu

(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, New York: Elsevier Science, 2001. I am updating this research to 2002/2003.

 

 

 

 

Jacqueline Hudak, M. Ed., Ph.D. (Candidate)

Family therapist, Doctoral Intern, Adjunct Faculty

Drexel University

_jack4fta@comcast.net

(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

University of Pennsylvania

School of Social Policy & Practice (formerly School of Social Work)

3701 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA  19104-6214

riversen@sp2.upenn.edu

(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 Seattle, St. Louis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Milwaukee. We followed 25 families  through economic boom and bust. We also interviewed and observed about 1000 auxiliaries of the families, including the parents'  job training teachers and institutions, co-workers and supervisors at their worksites, teachers and administrators from 120 days spent in children's schools, and area policymakers, business executives, and human service personnel. The forthcoming book from this research (Jobs Aren't Enough) challenges the historic American myths of opportunity, meritocracy, and "bootstraps." We argue that a new paradigm for economic mobility is needed in the 21st century for the one in four families like these across America that work full time but do not earn enough to support their families.


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.


 

Carole Joffe, Professor of Sociology

U. of California, Davis

cejoffe@ucdavis.edu

(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, May 5, 2005

 

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

mpj@psu.edu

www.personal.psu.edu/mpj

(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

University of Chicago

wejohnso@uchicago.edu

(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 Chicago family intervention designed to support positive involvement among fathers (ages 18-30) in families and communities via (1) enhanced relationships with children, (2) improved access to the labor market, (3) enhanced financial literacy and (4) strengthened social support systems.

 

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 School of Social Service Administration on April 22, 2005 and will edit a volume based on the symposium and related papers.

 

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

Berry College

Mt. Berry, Georgia  30149-5019

bjory@berry.edu

(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 United States. It has been codified into practice in 32 states. 

 

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
.
New York: Springer Publishing.

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. Washington, DC: American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy.

Jory, B. and Randour, M. (2000). The AniCare Model of Treatment for Animal Abuse, Washington Grove, MD: PSYETA Publications


 

Rachel Kahn-Hut, Professor of Sociology, Emerita

rkahnhut@sfsu.edu

(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)

 

 

Elana Katz, LCSW, Senior Faculty and Co-director, Divorce Mediation Program

Ackerman Institute for the Family

New York, NY

elanakatz@aol.com

(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

michael_kimmel@yahoo.com           

(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 America

 

The Politics of Manhood

 

 

 

 

 

Jodie Kliman, Ph.D., Psy.D., Faculty

Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

(617) 232-5282

jkliman@earthlink.net

jkliman@mspp.edu

 

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
American Family Therapy Academy, 1, 1-63.

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:
Guilford Press.

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:
Guilford.

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.
New York: Routledge

Kurz, D. 2005. "Keeping Tabs on Teenagers."  In J. Gubrium and J. Holstein, eds. Couples, Kids, and Family Life.
New York: Oxford University Press.

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.
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. 2nd edition.  


 

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 Boulder, Colorado. Empowering Individuals & Families through Counseling & Family Life Education—A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach.

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.

 

 

 

Annette Lareau, Professor

Department of Sociology
University of Maryland

2112 Art-Sociology Building

College Park, Maryland  20742

(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, University of California, 2003

 

“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, Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.



Ralph LaRossa, Professor of Sociology

Department of Sociology

Georgia State University

P.O. Box 5020

Atlanta, GA  30302-5020

rlarossa@gsu.edu

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 America's fathers during and after the Second World War.

 

Selected Publications:

 

Ralph LaRossa. The Modernization of Fatherhood:  A Social and Political History.  University of Chicago Press, 1997.

 

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 America." Sociological Forum, 2001.

 

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

Montana State University

Bozeman, MT  59717

bletiecq@montana.edu

(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, B.L. & Koblinsky, S.A. (2004).  “Parenting in violent neighborhoods: African American fathers share strategies for keeping young children safe.” Journal of Family Issues, 25(6), 715-734.

 

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, B.L. & Koblinsky, S.A. (2003). “African American fathering of young children in violent neighborhoods: Paternal protective strategies and their predictors.” Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, 1, 215-237.

 

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

970 Farmington Ave.

West Hartford, CT 06107

(860) 313-4431

(860) 313-4437 (fax)

mdm@mwsg.org

 

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 Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut, having formerly directed their Eating Disorders Program.  I also am senior editor of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and board member of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, and Action, and of Dads and Daughters.  I serve on many advisory boards including the National Eating Disorder Screening Project. I have served as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of Psychiatry and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford, Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology, and am a member of the psychiatry departments at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital’s Mental Health Network and at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.   

 

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. Volume I. (2005). Alexandria, VA: American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

 

Eating Disorders and the Family: A Biopsychosocial Perspective.” In D.R. Crane & Marshal S.E. (Eds.). Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2005) New York: Sage.

 

 

 

Larry McCallum, Jaeke Professor of Family Life at Augustana College

psmccallum@augustana.edu

(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.” Washington Post, November 30, 2003

 

Current unpublished work:

 

Self-esteem and narcissism in children

 

Abstinence only Education

 

Marital Satisfaction and Depression

 

 
 
Linda C. McClain, Rivkin Radler Distinguished Professor of Law

Hofstra University School of Law

121 Hofstra University

Hempstead, NY  11549

Linda.C.McClain@hofstra.edu

(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 (Harvard University Press, 2006).

                                  

 

 

Sara McLanahan

Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

265 Wallace Hall

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544

(609) 258-4875 (office)

(609) 258-5804 (fax )

mclanaha@princeton.edu

 

My recent research focuses on fragile families, defined as unmarried parents raising a child together. My interest in the family is motivated by my belief that the family is a key component of the social stratification system. As the first social institution to which children are exposed, families both mediate and modify the effects of genes and the environment on future life chances.

 

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, Donahue, Elisabeth, and Ron Haskins (eds.). 2005. Marriage and Child Wellbeing, Future of Children, 15 (2).  Washington DC. Brookings Press.

 

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. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

 

 

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, Ph.D. (h.c.), Director, Multicultural Family Institute

mmcgoldrick@mindspring.com

(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. (Guilford, 2005)

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 (Guilford, 1999).

 

 

Steven Mintz, Moores Professor of History and Co-Chair, Council on Contemporary Families

smintz@uh.edu

(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

Columbia University

320M. Faywerweather Hall, MC 2568

New York, NY  10027

mm1664@columbia.edu

(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 Latina women who are gay and creating families. Some of that research is forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and is also part of a book manuscript entitled “Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black and Latina Women.”

 

 

 

Jeylan T. Mortimer, Professor of Sociology

Director, Life Course Center

Department of Sociology

University of Minnesota

1014 Social Science Bldg.

267 19th Ave. S.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

(612) 624-7020 (fax)

(612) 624-4064 (phone)

morti002@umn.edu

 

JEYLAN MORTIMER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Life Course Center. She has conducted a series of longitudinal research projects related to work, individual development, and attainment, including studies of occupational choice, vocational development in the family and work settings, psychological change in response to work, job satisfaction, work involvement, and the links between work and family life. Since 1987 she has directed the Youth Development Study, an ongoing longitudinal examination of the effects of early work experience on students and its implications for mental health, adjustment, and achievement as they mature. She is now studying the effects of adolescent work on the timing and patterning of markers of transition to adulthood. Much of her research addresses the links between early labor force participation and socio-economic attainment.  She is past chair of the Social Psychology Section and the Sociology of Children Section of the American Sociological Association and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds a B.A. degree from Tufts University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.

 

Her books include:

 

Call, Kathleen Thiede and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2001. Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence: A Study of Adjustment in Context. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Mortimer, Jeylan T., and Michael J. Shanahan (eds.) 2003. Handbook of the Life Course.  New York: Plenum Publisher.

 

Mortimer, Jeylan T. 2003. Working and Growing Up in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

 

 

Kelly Musick, Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Southern California

musick@usc.edu

(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)

 

 

 

Ruth Paris, Assistant Professor; Director, Family Therapy Certificate Program

Boston University

School of Social Work

264 Bay State Road

Boston, MA  02215

rparis@bu.edu

(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)

 

I am a researcher, writer, educator and policy analyst (as well as a speaker/trainer) on adoption; foster care issues; infant abandonment; gay/lesbian adoption; adoption ethics; changing families; new reproductive technologies; open adoption; intercountry adoption; adoption law, policy and practice. Honors include a Pulitzer Prize nomination for writing about adoption and awards from the US Congress, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Adoption Congress, and Holt International Children’s Services.

 

Best-known book (reviewed as “the most important ever written on the subject”): Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America. Also, numerous op-eds, newspaper articles, book chapters, and research studies (with the Adoption Institute)

 

 

 

Brian Powell, Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor

Dept. of Sociology

Indiana University

744 Ballantine Hall

Bloomington, IN  47405

powell@indiana.edu

(812) 855-7624

(812) 855-0781 (fax)

 

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 Regina Werum. (2004) “Micro Causes, Macro Effects:

Linking Family Structure, Public Policy, and Educational Outcomes.” Pp. 111-44. In Dalton Conley (ed.), After the Bell: Education Solutions Outside the School. New York: Routledge Press.

 

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, Regina Werum, and Scott Carter. (2002) “Reconsidering Sibling Configuration and Academic Success: Recent Advances and Paradoxes.” Annual Review of Sociology 28:243-269.

 

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.

 

 

 

Michele Pridmore-Brown, Ph.D., Scholar/Writer

Co-Chair Emerita of Scholars’ Programs

Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender

michle@zia.Stanford.edu

(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, Dec. 17, 2004, and "Brave New World," TLS, Mar 11, 2004.

 

"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

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA  92521

(951) 827-2024

 

Karen Pyke, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Her scholarship concerns gender and power in families, with a recent focus on family dynamics and internalized racial oppression among second generation Asian Americans and issues of adaptation among "parachute" children from East Asia. She has written about how notions of a "normal American family" shape the way that children of Asian immigrants view their family lives (Journal of Marriage and the Family), acculturative differences among siblings in Asian immigrant families (Journal of Family Issues) and how racialized stereotypes of gender affect the way that Asian American females understand dynamics in ethnic and mainstream social worlds (Gender & Society). She is currently writing a book tentatively titled “The Hidden Injuries of Racism: Internalized Racial Oppression among Asian Americans.” Pyke received the Jessie Bernard Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper Award from the National Council on Family Relations in 1995 for her article "Class-based Masculinities" in Gender & Society (1996).

 

 

 

Diane H. Ranes, Ph.D., LCSW, MSW, MA, Psychotherapist

Carolina Partners Counseling Center

1415 West Highway 54, Suite 207

Durham, NC  27707

(919) 401-2933

(919) 401-4993 (fax)

(919) 260-8555 (cell)

docranes@earthlink.net         

 

I have a long history of 30 years of clinical practice in New York, California and North Carolina. I am a former professor at Western Connecticut State University in Health Related clinical matters and in New York at Manhattan College/Mount St. Vincent. Here in North Carolina I have been a UNC-CH Lecturer in Human Sexuality and Sexual Orientation, in the graduate school level. I was also a research associate of Dr. Constance Ahrons with a focus on post-divorce and Stepfamily life on the Binuclear Family Research project.  

 

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 Family Center

98 Main Street, No. 231,

Tiburon, CA 94920

(415) 435-7648 (office)

(415) 435-2736 (cell)

Psychotherapy Office Hours in San Francisco and Marin

 

 

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 New Family Center and divide my time between my psychotherapy and consulting practice for individuals and families, participating in Kids Turn, a non-profit organization that provides educational workshops for children and families on divorce and stepfamily life, and consulting with family courts. For 15 years I was with the California Judicial Branch heading the Statewide Office of Family Court Services where I was responsible for statewide research efforts, standards development for child custody mediation, evaluations, supervised visitation, and other clinical and practice standards. I am not involved in conducting research at the present time. My past research focused on the divorced parents’ parenting relationship and child adjustment (pre 1984) and court-based family mediation and other court services (after 1984).

 

My best-known book:

 

Mom’s House, Dad’s House: A Complete Guide for Parent Who Are Separated, Divorced, or Remarried, Macmillan (1980), New York,  2nd Edition, Fireside books (1997), New York

 

Just published:

 

Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids: How to Feel at Home in One Home or Two, New York: Fireside/Simon and Schuster (Spring, 2006). For children ten and older and their parents on separation, divorce, and stepfamily living. The book is meant to empower children to go beyond surviving their parents’ divorce or remarriage to adopting attitudes and learning skills that promote resilience and self-confidence.




Barbara J. Risman, Professor and Head

Department of Sociology (MC312)

University of Illinois at Chicago

1007 W. Harrison Street

Chicago, IL 60607

brisman@uic.edu

(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 University of Illinois Chicago and National Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families. I also edit The Gender Lens, a feminist transformation book series for the discipline of sociology. In 2005, I received the Katherine Jocher Belle Boone Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. Currently, I have three main research projects:  1) I am attempting to understand if hormonal levels in utero actually predict gender behavior in adults. 2) I am studying  the development of gender and sexual identities among white and black middle-school children. 3) I am also examining the efficacy of non-profit and local government agencies as they use federal TANF funds to serve poor families.

 

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.

 

 

 

Jeanne B. Robinson, retired from clinical faculty of School of Social Service Administration

University of Chicago

and a private practitioner in individual and family therapy.

451 West Ellet Street, Apt. B

Philadelphia, PA  19119-3017

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 Philadelphia, PA public school system for grades K-12 especially middle and secondary students with special education needs.

 

 

 

Nancy E. Rose, Professor and Chair

Department of Economics

California State University, San Bernardino

(909) 537-5516

nrose@csusb.edu

 

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

Lycoming College

700 College Place

Williamsport, PA  17701

(570) 321-4204          

ross@lycoming.edu

 

Susan Ross is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lycoming College in Willamsport, PA where she teaches courses including Family Sociology and Sociology of Gender. She is the editor of the book, American Families Past and Present: Social Perspectives on Transformations (Rutgers University Press, in press). Her current research project is a qualitative study of Army Reservists who have served back-to-back deployments following the events of September 11th and focuses on the family relations of these soldiers.

 

 

 

Virginia E. Rutter, Ph.D., Health Research Scientist

Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation

vrutter@gmail.com

(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 Framingham, MA.

 

Books:

 

The Gender of Sexuality (with Pepper Schwartz). 1998, Altamira Press.

 

The Love Test (with Pepper Schwartz). 1998, Perigee Books.

 

 

 

Gina Miranda Samuels, Assistant Professor

gmsamuels@uchicago.edu

University of Chicago

School of Social Service Administration

969 E 60th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

(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.

 

 

 

Pepper Schwartz, Professor

Dept. of Sociology

University of Washington

Seattle, WA  98195

(206) 543-4036

pepperschwartz@hotmail.com

 

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

College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of North Texas

PO Box 311157 - UNT

Denton, Texas 76203-1157

(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 America and the United States. The results appeared in the book, The American Family: A Demographic History, Sage, 1978, which was selected to be part of the National Council on Family Relations' monograph series. Results from my first international research project that I directed were published in the article "Different Approaches to Childbirth and Their Consequences in Italy, Sweden, and the United States," by the International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Spring 1984. Currently, my research focuses on parents, especially fathers and deals with some of the challenges contemporary families must meet, especially young parents. The goal is to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of family policies directed toward meeting these needs in Ireland, Sweden, and the United States. I have or currently serve on the advisory boards for Work Friendly (a voluntary advocacy group of professionals and employers devoted to assisting employers and employees deal with work and family conflicts) and Hope for Children Foundation (an advocacy group for abused children). I have participated in and helped to organize programs for the International Sociological Association's Committee on Family Research and the World Congress for the International Institute of Sociology.

 

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, I., & Cosimo, D. (2005). “Irish families in the twentieth century: Exception or converging?” Journal of Family History, 30, 410-430.

 

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: Sweden and the United States.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 33, 387-399.

 

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
New York, NY 10012
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
United States. In 2002, Family Justice's direct service laboratory, La Bodega de la Familia, in partnership with the New York State Division of Parole, was named a winner of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Innovations in American Government Award.

Publications:

 "The Family: A Cost-Effective and Untapped Resource." Staff News,
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. July 1, 2005. http://www.cya.ca.gov/AboutCDCR/staffNews/sn20050701.pdf

 "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"


 

Deborah Siegel, Director of Special Projects and Member Center Communications,

National Council for Research on Women, and freelance writer

dsiegel@ncrw.org

(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
Rutgers sociologist Deborah Carr, will focus on changing attitudes of Gen X&Y men across a number of arenas. Perhaps the most significant finding is that younger women are just as ambitious as ever, and that younger men are currently experiencing a major disconnect between their changing attitudes and their rather inflexible/ workplaces. I can also answer questions having to do with “third-wave feminism,” the role popular culture plays in shaping ideas about masculinity/femininity, and the myths and realities surrounding the so-called “opt out” revolution.

Other published work:

”The New Trophy Wife,” Psychology Today (January 2004)

 

 

Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Yeshiva University

NYC

LBSilverst@aol.com

99 Clinton Street

Brooklyn, NY  11201

(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.  New YorkNew York University Press.

 

Silverstein, L. B. & Auerbach, C. F.  (1999).  “Deconstructing the essential father.”  American

Psychologist, 54, 397-407.

 

 

 

Timothy M. Smeeding, Director, Center for Policy Research

Syracuse University

426 Eggers Hall

Syracuse, NY  13244

tmsmeed@maxwell.syr.edu

(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 Europe" is in publication with the Cambridge University Press. Smeeding is also currently examining the effects of economic and demographic inequality on important social outcomes such as health, public goods, educational opportunity, crime, civic engagement and related issues. Papers covering these and other topics are available on his website at http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/smeeding/

.

Most important books and articles:

 

Moynihan, D.P., T.M. Smeeding, and L. Rainwater (eds.).  2004. The Future of the Family. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

 

Clark, R.L., R.V. Burkhauser, M. Moon, J.F. Quinn, and T.M. Smeeding. 2004. The Economics of an Aging Society. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

 

Rainwater, L., and T.M. Smeeding.  2003. Poor Kids in a Rich Country. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, December (paperback edition 2004).

 

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

Population Studies Center & Department of Sociology

The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

426 Thompson Street

Ann Arbor, MI  48106-1248

(734) 763-2264

(734) 763-1428 (fax)

pjsmock@umich.edu

 

Dr. Smock is a family sociologist and demographer. Her scholarship focuses on the causes and consequences of family patterns and change in the U.S., and their connections to economic, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities. She has published on heterosexual cohabitation, the economic consequences of divorce and marriage for women, men, and children; nonresident fatherhood; child support; remarriage; and the motherhood wage penalty. In a project supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Smock is currently studying the meanings of cohabiting unions to working and middle-class young adults.

 

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 United States: Demographic Perspectives and Implications for Family Policy,” Law and Policy 26: 87-117

 

 

 

Charlotte Spiegelman, Family Therapist in Private Practice; Family Therapy Educator

Charlotte 01@comcast.net

(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 New Jersey Center for Family Studies. I am a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Family Therapy in New Jersey.

 

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

New York University

(212) 992-9568

(310) 403-3385(cell)

judith.stacey@nyu.edu

 

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, Boston: Beacon Press, 1996; paperback edition 1997.

 

Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth-Century America, Basic Books 1990; paperback edition, Basic Books 1991; second paperback edition, University of California Press, 1998.Major Awards include:

 

Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, 2005-06; Jesse Bernard Award of American Sociological Association; Distinguished Article Award, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association

 

 

 

Myra Strober, Professor

myras@stanford.edu

(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 United States and Japan

 

Strober, Myra H. “Children Should Be Considered Public Goods,” Dissent, Fall 2004

 

Strober, Myra H. “Women in the Workplace – The Unfinished Revolution,” USA Today Magazine, November 2003.

 

Strober, Myra H. “What’s A Wife Worth?”, in Marilyn Yalom and Laura Carstensen (Eds.), Inside the American Couple, University of California Press, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Struening, Ph.D., Research and Development Associate

Vocational Foundation, Inc.

Karen.struening@verizon.org

(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 Brooklyn, New York.

 

Most important books and articles:

 

New Family Values: Liberty, Equality, Diversity (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2002)

 

“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)

 

 

 

Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology and Professor and Chair of Gender & Women's Studies

University of California, Berkeley
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,
Rutgers, 1997).

A sociologist of childhood who has done research on gender relations among children (see Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School [
Rutgers, 1993]). 

 

Now working on a study of kids growing up, and adults raising children, in a mixed-income, ethnically diverse area of Oakland, California. The study illuminates structural and cultural shifts in the configuration of contemporary U.S. childhoods: widening social
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
.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum ,2003, pp. 165-178.

 

 

 

E. Kay Trimberger, Professor Emeritus of Women’s and Gender Studies

Sonoma State University

Affiliated Faculty Member at Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC, Berkeley

ktrim@berkeley.edu

(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.,