E-mail: mnelson@middlebury.edu

Margaret K. Nelson has written about caregiving (Negotiated Care: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers [Temple University Press, 1990]; Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives [edited with Emily K. Abel, SUNY Press, 1990]), the survival strategies of rural families (Working Hard and Making Do: Survival in Small Town America [with Joan Smith, University of California Press, 1999]; The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America [Routledge, 2005]), surveillance among families (Who's Watching: Daily Practices of Surveillance Among Contemporary Families [edited with Anita I. Garey, Vanderbilt University Press, 2009]), and, most recently, hyper-vigilant parenting among the professional middle class (Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Families in Uncertain Times [NYU Press, forthcoming]). She has taught at Middlebury College since 1975 where she teaches courses on the family, poverty, and education.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
802.388.6659 (h); 802.443.5301 (w)
mnelson@middlebury.edu