Jennifer Glass | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociology |
Main interests | work and family issues,gender stratification |
Jennifer L. Glass is Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] She was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California,University of Iowa and the University of Notre Dame.
Glass received her B.A. of Social Science at the New College of Florida in 1977. [1] She received her M.S. of Sociology in 1979 and Ph.D. in Sociology in 1983,both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She was Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame from 1985 to 1994. She subsequently joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Iowa from 1994 to 2011. She joined the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.
She has been on various editorial board of academic journals,including the Gender &Society , Journal of Marriage and the Family , Social Problems, and American Sociological Review . [1] Her work has also been featured in The New York Times. [2]
She received American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award in 2020. [3]
Lee Anna Clark is a professor and William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame,Indiana,United States. She used to be a professor and collegiate fellow at the University of Iowa. She was,as of 2007,the director of clinical training in the Clinical Science Program. Prior to her appointment at the University of Iowa,she was a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,Texas. Her research focuses on personality and temperament,clinical and personality assessment,psychometrics,mood,anxiety,and depression.
Barbara Katz Rothman is an American interdisciplinary and international City University of New York (CUNY) Professor of Sociology whose work encompasses medical sociology,childbirth and midwifery issues,bioethics,race,disability,food studies,the sociology of knowledge and the interactions between these factors.
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Judith G. Stacey is an author and Professor Emerita of Social and Cultural Analysis and Sociology at New York University. Her primary focus areas include gender,family,sexuality,feminist and queer theory,and ethnography. Her book Unhitched explores family configurations that deviate from the standard Western concept of "marriage",including polygamous families in South Africa,the Mosuo people in southwestern China,and intimacy and parenthood among gay men in Los Angeles,California. She has published many works. She is perhaps most known for her paper,co-authored with Timothy Biblarz,titled "(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?" This study found that children with gay or lesbian parents "are well-adjusted,have good levels of self-esteem and are as likely to have high educational attainments as children raised in more traditional heterosexual families."
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