781-283-3841
Education
- Carleton College, B.A.
- Harvard University, M.A., Ph.D.
Research and Teaching Areas
Outside of the classroom, I have been doing research on two related topics: (i) changes in American family structure, with particular emphasis on children living with neither biological parent, and (ii) changes over time in the material hardship of single mothers. My current work primarily involves the analysis of large, nationally representative sample surveys like the Current Population Survey, the American Housing Survey, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Other research interests include income and social inequality and the sociology of education.
Beginning in the summer of 2002, I will be starting a new project that explores the lives of never married men and women in their 30s and 40s.
Biography
I began teaching at Wellesley in Fall 1999 as a lab instructor for Quantitative Reasoning 199, Introduction to Social Science Data Analysis. At the time, I was a graduate student at Harvard University. I finished my PhD the following year and have remained here at Wellesley, splitting my time between QR199 and Sociology 301 Methods of Social Research, a course that introduces students to the fundamentals of survey design and multivariate analysis. I graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, MN with a major in Sociology/Anthropology and spent two years as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa. As a PCV I taught secondary school mathematics in a small town called Bibiani.