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Leisy J. Abrego is Assistant Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Her research investigates the lived experiences of US immigration policies for immigrants and their families in El Salvador. Her book Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love across Borders (2014) highlights how gender and legal status create persistent inequalities among Salvado- ran transnational families separated through migration. She has also published articles on how immigration and educational policies shape the educational trajectories of undocumented students, as well as on how gendered opportunities and expectations and immigration laws play out in the day-to-day lives of immigrants. Seth Abrutyn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis, USA. As a general sociological theorist, he has long been interested in macrosociology, institutions, and sociocultural evolution, which has culminated in his book Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology (2014). Recently, his research interests have moved toward the sociology of suicide, which includes examining the processes by which suicides can spread as well as how these processes relate to and expand Durkheim’s classic thesis. His work has been published in American Journal of Public Health, American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior,andSociological Theory. Menatalla M. Ads is a clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Detroit Mercy, USA. She received her BA in general psychology and English language and literature from the University of Michigan. Her interests include multiculturalism and psychology. Her experiences include community development projects in Cairo, Egypt, and Detroit, Michigan, and lived experience within multicultural communities. She also has research experience in the cultural influences on marriage, parenting, attachment styles, and identity formation. Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi is Associate Professor in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. His research interest is on African demography, using individuals and family as unit of analysis. He has published extensively on migration, aging, family, and reproductive health issues in Africa. Folashade Oyeyemi Akinyemi is a Faculty Member at the Institute for Entreprenuer- ship and Development Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. She is also a doctoral student with the Wits Business School, South Africa. Her research interest is on entrepreneurship in Africa and youth development. 2 CONTRIBUTORS

Mohaned Al-Hamdi is a doctoral student in international security and political science at Kansas State University, USA, with graduate degrees in economics and in mathematics from the University of Central Missouri, USA.

Leena Alanen is Professor Emerita in Early Childhood Education and Docent in the Sociol- ogy of Childhood at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has coedited Conceptualising Adult–Child Relations with Berry Mayall (2001), and Childhood with Bourdieu with Liz Brooker and Berry Mayall (2015). She is also the author of the chapter “Generational Order” in The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies edited by Jens Qvortrup et al. (2009) and is an editor of Childhood. A Journal of Global Child Research. Leena Alanen has been involved in numerous national and international research projects including Childhood as a Social Phe- nomenon (1987–92) and COST A19 on Children’s Welfare (2001–6). Her research interests and numerous articles and chapters are on the social theory of childhood, early childhood education, generational relations and intersectionality.

Łukasz Albanski´ is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Educational Sci- ences at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. Interests include: children – social conditions, migration and ethnicity studies.

Beth Alberts has been CEO of Texas Center for the Missing and Director of the Houston Regional Amber Alert Program, the largest regional Amber Alert System in the country, since 2001. She also serves as coordinator for both the Southeast Texas Child Abduction ResponseTeam,agroupof62agenciespreparedtorespondtoendangeredmissingchild cases, and the Southeast Texas Search and Rescue Alliance, a consortium of trained, vetted volunteer search-and-rescue teams and missing children’s organizations providing support to law enforcement agencies and families of the missing.

Jess K. Alberts is President’s Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communica- tion at Arizona State University, USA. Her research focuses primarily on conflict. She has published articles on the division of domestic labor, family conflict, mediation effectiveness and legal negotiation ethics, among others. She is a coauthor of Human Communication in Society (2016) and author of the upcoming Interpersonal Communication in Society.

Marcus Aldredge is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Iona College, USA. His areas of scholarly interest include the sociology of popular culture, deviance, and qualitative methods. He is the author of Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics (2013), and his recent research has focused on expressive cultural practices.

Lydia Aletraris is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Director of the Center for Research on Behavioral Health and Human Services Delivery at the University of Georgia, USA, where she received her PhD. She has published research on work–life issues including work-hour mismatches, job satisfaction, and work–life conflict in journals such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Family Issues, Research in the Sociology of Work,andWork and Occupations. She has also published research in the area of substance use addiction treatment in the United States. CONTRIBUTORS 3

Kimberly Allen is Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at North Carolina State Uni- versity, USA, where she teaches in the family life and youth development program and holds leadership on several co-operative extension programs. She has over 14 years’ experience working with youth and their families and has led numerous research projects that focused on curriculum and program development for underserved youth and family audiences. Josephine Marie Almanzar graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology and a minor in family, youth, and community sciences from the University of Florida. She isaPsyDclinicalpsychologystudentattheFloridaSchoolofProfessionalPsychologyat Argosy University, USA. Carla Alphonso is Associate Professor of Sociology at Presbyterian College, USA. She teaches courses in sociology and gender studies. Her primary research and teaching areas are family sociology, gender, and aging. Her recent research focuses on work–family issues, generational shifts in attitudes and behaviors, and attitudes about the American welfare state. Rasha Aly is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cincin- nati, USA. She received her master’s degree incriminaljustice,alsoattheUniversityof Cincinnati. Before joining the academic field, Aly was a reporter who worked at two different newspapers, the Sandusky Register and the Desert Sun, in Palm Springs, Ohio. Her reporting on the inequality of education is what spurred her interest in sociology. Fausto Amaro isFullProfessorandVice-RectorofAtlânticaUniversity,Portugal,andwas previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research intersects the study of families, aging, and social policies. His publications have appeared in the International Journal of Community Informatics,theInternational Journal of STD & AIDS, the Journal of Comparative Family Studies,andSociological Research Online.Hehasalsocon- tributed to the Handbook of World Families (2005) and has published a book on sociology of the family (in Portuguese, 2014). Ndidiamaka N. Amutah received her PhD in public health with a focus on maternal and child health at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health, USA in 2010. She received her master’s in public health from the George Washington Univer- sity School of Public Health and Health Services in Maternal and Child Health in 2005. Her dissertation focused on infant mortality in Washington, DC, specifically examining neighborhood-level disadvantage, social determinants of health, and race/ethnicity as predictors of infant mortality. Dr. Amutah also received a BS in Public Health and BA in Africana Studies from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Judith P. Andersen is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. She has employed a multimethod approach to study the impact of severe stress on the mental and physical health of individuals exposed to trauma and chronic stress. She completed two postdoctoral training fellowships, the first with traumatized combat veterans at the US Department of Veterans Administration Hospital in Syracuse, New York, and the second at Cornell University. Currently, she has established ties with police departments in the Greater 4 CONTRIBUTORS

Toronto Area, where she works to promote health and resilience among police officers. Her work has been published in high-impact journals such as JAMA Psychiatry, PLOS ONE,and Psychological Science and has featured on international media outlets such as BBC, CBC, NBC, NPR, and numerous news print publications. Julius W. Anderson is Associate Professor in the Family and Consumer Sciences Depart- ment of Illinois State University, USA, where he teaches primarily in the areas of family relationships and theory. He holds a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Alabama, advanced degrees in family studies and music, and is a Certified Family Life Edu- cator. His primary research interest concerns family dynamics in the presence of parental chronic illness, principally multiple sclerosis. A secondary line of interest involves the use of interrupted case studies in graduate-level human development courses. Publications have been included in Review of Disability Studies, Health Education Research Journal, NCFR Report,andPsychomusicology.

Riana Elyse Anderson is a Doctoral Fellow in Clinical and Community Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, USA. She investigates how protective familial and cultural mechanisms operate in the face of cultural and contextual risk linked to poverty, discrimination, and residential environment. She is particularly interested in how these factors predict familial functioning and subsequent child psychosocial and academic achievement, especially as it pertains to participation in family-based interventions. She has published works regarding ethnic identity, racial discrimination, and positive psychology for African Amer- icans and has been recognized as an emerging scholar within various organizations focused on youth and ethnically diverse individuals.

Joshua O. Aransiola is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropol- ogy at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He studied sociology of the family and urban sociologywithanemphasisonwomen’sandchildren’srightsincludingreproductivehealth rights and the rights of vulnerable children. He has several articles published in various reputable international journals.

Laura Arosio is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Her research is on the processes of family formation and transformation in contemporary societies. Her main interests concern homogamy and social heterogamy, marriage, marital dissolution and its consequences, methodology, and social research methods (in particular longitudinal studies, documentary analysis, and Internet research). She is the author of Sociologia del matrimonio (Sociology of Marriage, 2008).

Jessica L. Ashley is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. She holds a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. She completed her thesis on the effect of abortion on couple relationships and has other research experience in ambivalent sexism and diversity on college campuses. Jessica’s doctoral project is a critical literature review focusing on how relationship factors influence a woman’s experience in undergoing an abortion. CONTRIBUTORS 5

Orit Avishai is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, USA. She specializes in studies of gender, religion, and family, and her work has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals, including Contexts, Gender & Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,and Qualitative Sociology,andintheeditedvolumeFamilies as They Really Are (2010; 2nd ed., 2015). She is studying the marriage education movement. Joseph Ayodeji Kupoluyi is Demographer and Faculty Member in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is working on the social aspects of population dynamics and changing social structure in Nigeria. His interest cuts across family planning and reproductive health, gender, and migration. Maria Aysa-Lastra is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Winthrop University, USA. Her main areas of study are Latino immigrant integration and the determinants of labor migration from Latin America to the United States. Her work has been published in International Journal of Population Research, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Refugee Studies, Norteamérica,andRural Sociology,among other academic journals. Her most recent edited volume is Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience: Comparative Perspectives on Latin American Immigrants during the Great Reces- sion (2015). Daniel Azneer is an undergraduate sociology and telecommunications student at the Uni- versity of Florida, USA. He has studied media impacts on communication and sociological theory and hopes to pursue a master’s degree in a field relating to sociology. Caitlin Baird is a doctoral candidate and Inter-American Foundation Fellow in the Depart- ment of Anthropology at the University of Florida, USA. She is a medical anthropologist specializing in early childhood development in Guatemala. Karolina Barglowski is a researcher at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Ger- many. Her research and teaching focus is on social inequalities, gender, migration, and qualitative research methods. Among her publications is a coedited special issue “Safety Nets of Migrants across Borders: An Inquiry into Social Mechanisms of Inequality,” in Population, Space and Place (2015) and a coauthored article on “Caregiving in Polish-German Transna- tional Social Space: Circulating Narratives and Intersecting Heterogeneities,” in Population, Space and Place (2015). David M. Barry is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point, USA. He teaches courses on social theory, sociology of globalization, social inequality, and sociology of religion, among others. His research focuses on ethno-religious identity, postcommunist society, and global citizenship. He has authored and coauthored multiple book chapters and journal publications, including in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Jennifer Bartek is a graduate student and Assistant at Central Michigan University, USA. She studied early childhood development and communication disorders as an undergraduate student. She is working on a project to develop a parent–child interaction program dealing with social, emotional, and behavioral development in children aged up to five years. 6 CONTRIBUTORS

Mitchell Bartholomew recently received his doctoral degree in human development and family science from Ohio State University, USA. His dissertation research examined the relationships between students’ attachment anxiety and avoidance and their observed community blogging activity. Dr. Bartholomew’s future research plans include further investigations of students’ online interactions, taking an attachment perspective. James S. Bates is Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University and Field Specialist, Fam- ily Wellness in Ohio State University Extension, USA. His work focuses on grandfathering, intergenerational relationships, family wellness and resiliency, and family life education program development and analysis. Eboni J. Baugh is Assistant Professor of Child Development and Family Relations at East Carolina University, USA. Her work focuses on parenting and family development, body image issues, grandfamilies, and premarital education and enrichment. Lori A. Bednarchik is a doctoral student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (with a specialization/concentration in interpersonal and health communication) at Arizona State University, USA. She is interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health behavior change programming targeting college students. More specifically, her work focuses on sexual assault prevention, particularly sexual consent, and howitiscommunicatedwithinbothcasualandromanticrelationships. Bettina M. Beech is Associate Vice Chancellor for Population Health and Professor of Fam- ily Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA. Dr. Beech has a unique interdisciplinary background that integrates public health, health disparities, diabetes, obesity prevention and treatment, cancer prevention and control, and pediatric and adolescent health issues. She is the editor of Family & Community Health. Brittany Behr is a student at the University of Florida, USA. She is studying women’s studies and sociology. She hopes to put her knowledge to good use as a kindergarten teacher when she graduates, creating a more tolerant future. Janice M. Bell is devoted to bold, inspired efforts that transform practice with families. As thefoundingeditoroftheJournal of Family Nursing and a founding member of the Interna- tional Family Nursing Association, Janice connects healthcare professionals to a global community of scholars who share a passion for family-focused care. She co-developed a model for practice with families experiencing serious illness called the “Illness Beliefs Model” and is involved in research related to translation of family-focused practice to healthcare settings. Kristin A. Bell completed her PhD in criminology and justice policy in the School of Crimi- nology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, USA. Her research interests include gender-based violence and human rights violations, with a focus on the intersection of race and gender in victimization. Her doctoral dissertation examines sexual violence as an act of genocide in the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. Axton E. Betz-Hamilton is Assistant Professor of Consumer Studies at Eastern Illinois Uni- versity, USA. She has received national and state-level recognition for her child identity theft CONTRIBUTORS 7 research. As a frequent contributor to media on the topic of child identity theft, she has been featured on the Hallmark Channel and NBC News. Ba¸sak Bilecen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She has studied migration, mobility, interpersonal relationships, and social protection from a transnational perspective. The author of International Student Mobility and Transnational Friendships (2014), she teaches at Bielefeld University on migration, social protection, social inequality, and social network analysis. Monica Sue Bixby is a doctoral student in sociology at North Carolina State University, USA. She has interests in family, crime and delinquency, and school victimization. Carol F. Black is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Morris College, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses in the Sociology Department including social problems, social theory, stratification, sociology of poverty, sociology of gender, and courses in criminal justice.Sheistheauthorof“GrassrootsEffortsagainstPrivatePrisons,”inPrison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry (2012); “Doing Gender in Prison: Male Inmates and Their Supportive Wives and Girlfriends,” in Race,Gender&ClassJournal(2010); and Working for Justice: Families and Prison Reform (2010). Amelia Blume is a doctoral student in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA. Broadly, her research interests include gender, religion, culture, social psychology, and qualitative methodology. Most recently, her research has drawn from ethnographic data and examined gendered role performances and impression and emotion management in a patriarchalcommunalnewreligiousmovement. Libby Balter Blume is Professor of Psychology, Community Development, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, USA, where she directs the program in developmental psychology and certified family life education. Blume has coauthored two textbooks with Mary Jo Zembar: Middle Childhood Development: A Contextual Approach (2009) and Middle Childhood to Middle Adolescence: Development from Ages 8 to 18 (2007). Her publications include a “Symposium on Feminist Theory and Research Methodology” for Journal of Family Issues and “Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse” in Journal of Marriage and Family, and she has coauthored chapters on feminist family theories in Handbook of Feminist Family Studies (2009) and Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research (2005). Blume is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Family Theory & Review,former series editor of Groves Monographs on Marriage and Family, and founding editor of Michigan Family Review. Denise Ann Bodman brings a varied background to her study of family and human development. Originally trained as a speech and hearing scientist, she worked as a speech/language pathologist and as a reserve police officer for the city of Phoenix. She founded a children’s museum and returned for a doctorate in educational psychology/human development, where she studied families from a cross-cultural perspective. Shehadthegoodfortuneofbeingmentoredbytheworld’sforemostthanatologist,Robert Kastenbaum. She currently teaches in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family 8 CONTRIBUTORS

Dynamics at Arizona State University, USA, teaching courses in family science, life span development, and diversity, and she was recently invited to Sichuan University, China, to lecture on death. Valentina Bodrug-Lungu is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Psychology at Moldova State University. She has studied gender issues and family problems with a particular focus on domestic violence. She is a coauthor of Impact of Parents’ Migration on Moldavian Youths’ Perceptions of Family (with Erin Kostina-Ritchey, 2013) and of Violence against WomenintheFamilyintheRepublicofMoldova(with Sylvia Asay and Mihaela Robila, 2013). She is also author of the chapter “Families in Moldova” in Families in Eastern Europe (2004). At Moldova State University she is the coordinator of the master’s program on family counseling and contributes courses on the study of domestic violence to the gender education program. She is considered a national expert on gender and family issues. Oyun-Erdene Bolduukhai is Professor of Education and Department Chair of the Family Research Department at the International University of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She majored in history and social science and her area of research is in family education. She has been working in universities for 20 years, has published 20 articles, and participates in family research at a national level. Catherine Bolzendahl is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA. The bulk of her research stands at the intersection between political sociology and the sociology of gender, framing gender as a fundamental basis of inequality and source of societal change. However, she is also interested in studying multiple dimensions of stratification and inequality, with more recent work exploring gender and race in the United States and patterns of inequality in sub-Saharan African nations. She is a coauthor of the ASA Rose Series book Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family (2012) and her past work has been published in a variety of outlets including the British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Politics, Social Science Quarterly,andSociological Perspectives. Geneviève Bouchard completed her PhD in 1997 at Université Laval. Currently, she is Pro- fessor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Psychology at Université de Moncton, Canada. She is the author of many scholarly publications and book chapters and has also served on the editorial boards of journals such as Canadian Psychology.She has published numerous journal articles on the transition to parenthood in, for example, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Psychology,andPersonal Relationships. Jessica M. Bowers is Assistant Professor and Field Coordinator for the bachelor’s in social work program at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, USA. She has an Advanced Practice Social Work license in the state of Wisconsin and is licensed as a School Social Worker through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. She worked as a social worker in Child Protective Services for eight years in Marathon County, Wisconsin. She haspriorworkexperienceintheareasoffamilyviolence,childwelfare,andjuvenile justice. CONTRIBUTORS 9

Jonathan M. Bowman is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the Univer- sity of San Diego, USA. He studies masculinity and the impact of male perceptions on communication behavior, as well as the cognitive and behavioral impact of interpersonal communication across a variety of contexts. Dr. Bowman has been singled out for his outstanding teaching by both the National Communication Association and the Western States Communication Association, as well as a variety of other institutions and organizations. He is author of the forthcoming book Interconnections andhaspublishedinoutletssuch as Communication Research Reports, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Men’s Studies,andSmall Group Research.

Craig Boylstein is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Coastal Carolina University, USA. He has also worked as an Associate Investigator/Health Research Scientist in the Veterans Affairs Health System for over six years conducting research on stroke recovery outcomes. His research has focused on reciprocity and narrative continuity among spousal caregivers of people with chronic conditions (stroke and Alzheimer’s disease). He has coauthored more than 16 articles related to stroke recovery, Alzheimer’s disease, organization studies, and caregiving and has presented papers related to his research over the past eight years at the national conferences of organizations such as the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and Health Services Research and Development.

Kimberly P.Brackett is Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Sociology and Asso- ciateDeanfortheCollegeofPublicPolicyandJusticeatAuburnUniversityatMontgomery, USA. Her research interests include relationship formation, presentation of self, religion and family, and cultural constructions of mothering.

Cristina Bradatan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Tech University, USA. She hasdoneresearchandpublishedontopicsincludingmarriagesqueeze,familymigration, transnational identity, climate change adaptation and migration.

Kristina S. Brown is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. A Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in private practice at Midwest Assessment & Psychotherapy Solutions and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Approved Supervisor, she teaches and supervises MA in marriage and family therapy students on Forest’s master’s and postgraduate degree certificate programs.

Scott W. Browning is Professor in the Department of Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College, USA. He is a noted authority on psychological treatment with stepfamilies. As a scholar, teacher, and clinician, he has explored the intricacies of treating stepfamilies and has provided advanced training in the treatment of stepfamilies to clinicians and graduate students both in the United States and abroad. He is the author of numerous chapters and articles on the topics of stepfamilies, empathy, co-dependency, strategic family therapy, and family therapy training practices. He is a coauthor of the book Stepfamily Therapy: A Subsystems-Based Approach (2012). 10 CONTRIBUTORS

Jennifer Brubaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA. She teaches courses in family communication, political communication, speechwriting, and persuasion theory. Brubaker’s published work is heavily focused on the intersection of media and politics in American Com- munication Journal, Carolina Communication Annual, Communication Research Reports, and Electronic Journal of Communication. She has explored political pedagogy with work published in InnovationsinTeachingandEducationInternationalandhaspublishedonthe effects of celebrity endorsements (Ohio Communication Journal)andtheeffectsofpost- debate television analysis (Southern Communication Journal).

Leah E. Bryant is Professor of Communication Studies at DePaul University, USA. Her research examines communication challenges in relational contexts and her projects include communication in bereaved families, stepfamily communication, sibling communication, privacy and disclosure in close relationships, and instructional communication strategies affecting teacher–student relationships. Professor Bryant’s research has been published in various journals, including the Communication Quarterly, Communication Research Reports, Communication Studies, Journal of Family Communication,andJournal of Social and Personal Relationships. She is the President of Central States Communication Associ- ation and serves as Secretary-Treasurer for the International Association for Relationship Research.

Rhonda R. Buckley is Associate Professor of Family Sciences at Texas Woman’s University, USA. She has studied adult romantic relationships and communication in marriage and family for 20 years with a special emphasis on partner transgressions.

Angela N. Bullock is Professor of Social Work at the University of the Disctrict of Columbia, USA. She has direct practice experience in the area of child welfare. She is also licensed as a Master Social Worker in Texas and Georgia.

Regina M. Bures is Program Official at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of ChildHealthandHumanDevelopment.Shereceivedherdoctorateinsociology,witha specialization in demography, from Brown University, USA, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Demography and Economics of Aging at the University of Chicago, USA. Dr. Bures’s research has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Demography,andtheJournal of Family Issues. Current research interests include childandfamilyhealthacrossthelifecourse,populationdynamics,andresearchmethods. Jeffrey A. Burr is the current editor of Research on Aging.HeisaProfessorofGerontol- ogy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, as well as the Gerontology Depart- ment Chair and Graduate Program Director of the Management of Aging Services Program. His research focus includes social demography of aging, household composition and living arrangements, race and ethnicity in aging populations, labor force participation in later life, productive activity in later life, aging and health. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (Behavioral and Social Sciences Section) and a member of Sigma Phi Omega, the national gerontological honor society. CONTRIBUTORS 11

Gustavo Carlo istheMillsapProfessorofDiversityandMulticulturalStudiesattheUni- versity of Missouri, USA. His main research interest is in prosocial and moral behaviors in children and adolescents, particularly the personality, parenting, and sociocultural corre- lates of prosocial behaviors. Gerard A. Carter is Executive Director and CEO of Catholic Charities, Charlotte, USA. He holds an undergraduate degree in religious studies, a master’s in counseling and public administration, and a doctorate in family studies. Michael J. Carter is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, USA. His main research interests are in social psychology, specifically self and identity processes. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and his work has appeared in various journals, including American Sociological Review and Social Psychology Quarterly. Andrea Gómez Cervantes wasborninMexicoCity.SheobtainedherBSatGrandValley State University and is a sociology doctoral student at the University of Kansas, USA. Her areas of interest are globalization, transnational families, immigration, and race and ethnicity. Her MA thesis was entitled “Social Class, Education, and Motherhood in a Globalized Context: Identity Construction for Student Transnational Mothers.” Her future work will focus on immigrant families and racism in the United States. Ching-Yu Chang is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. She earned her MA and PhD in sociology at the University of Florida, USA. Her specializations are gender, work, family, and feminist research methods. Ashton Chapman is a doctoral student at the University of Missouri, USA. She manages a stepfamily research lab under the direction of Drs. Lawrence Ganong and Marilyn Coleman that explores relationship development and maintenance across a variety of relationships in remarried families. Her research focuses on family identity and family obligation in diverse family structures. Justin Charlebois is Associate Professor of Communication at Aichi Shukutoku Univer- sity,Japan.Hehaspublishedinthefieldsofdiscourseanalysis,genderandsexuality,and intercultural communication and teaches a variety of communication and gender-related courses in Aichi Shukutoku University’s Department of Global Culture and Communica- tion. A native of upstate New York, Charlebois received his PhD in applied linguistics from Lancaster University, UK, and has resided in Japan for the past several years. Charles R. Cheesebrough is Director of Membership and Marketing at the National Coun- cil on Family Relations, USA.

Ruoxi Chen is Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA. She teaches the practice and research of marriage and family therapy to master’s and doctoral students. She is a recipient of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s Dissertation Award. Her research interests include mate selection, relationship education, and cross-cultural comparisons. 12 CONTRIBUTORS

Stephen R. Christ is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Missouri, USA, where he serves as a graduate teaching assistant and is a University of Missouri Gus T. Ridgel fellow. Stephen earned a BA in Spanish and sociology in 2008, and a master’s degree in sociology and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies in 2010. His research interests focus primarily on Mexican American culture, identity, assimilation, and racial/ethnic inequalities. He studies ethnomethodologically how legality/illegality and native/foreigner are constructed and reified in the everyday lives of Mexican immigrants in the many new destinations in the Midwest. Of particular interest to Stephen’s research agenda are the everyday experiences of Mexican immigrants that contribute to Mexican American identity formation. Fae Chubin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA. Her research interests are gender and sexuality, social movements, and globalization. Through a postcolonial feminist lens, she explores the everyday lives of the subaltern in the Middles East with a focus on resistance and women’s agency. Crystal R. Clarke is a doctoral candidate at Loma Linda University, USA. She is also a Med- ical Marriage and Family Therapy Intern with an interest in working with couples as they navigate through relational issues and chronic illness. Susan Cody-Rydzewski is Dean of Social Sciences at Georgia State University, Perimeter College, USA, and earned her doctorate in sociology at the University of Florida, USA. Her areas of emphasis include gender inequality, work and family, and gender nonconformity as it relates to occupations. Her earlier research focused primarily on the experiences of ordained clergy women. More recently, she has looked at perceptions of the voluntarily childless and mental health disparities by social class and race. Her next projects involve further considerations of the family lives of clergy women as well as a study of dating patterns among single mothers. Diana Tracy Cohen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Central Connecticut State University, USA. Her research focuses on endurance sport communities. She is completing abookon“irondads,”menwhojugglework,family,andsportingidentities. Lindsey K. Colburn-Malousek is a doctoral candidate at the School of Professional Psy- chology at Forest Institute, USA. She is specializing in the treatment of children and adolescents. Lindsey has worked in the mental health field for the past eight years. Her professional and research interests include trauma-informed treatment, child welfare, and foster care. Marilyn Coleman is Curators’ Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Sci- ence at the University of Missouri, USA. She and her husband, Lawrence Ganong, have coauthored eight books and over 200 journal articles, primarily focusing on postdivorce families. She is former editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family and serves on several editorial boards. She is a Board Member of the Council on Contemporary Families and a recent recipient of the National Council on Family Relations Felix Berardo Mentoring Award. Alex D. Colvin is Professor of Social Work at Prairie View A&M University, USA. He has direct practice and administrative experience with Aging and Disability Services. He teaches CONTRIBUTORS 13 courses in gerontology practice across Prairie View A&M’s curriculum. He is also a licensed Master Level Social Worker in Texas and is the receipient of the Chancellor’s teaching excellence award through the Texas A&M System. Panayiotis Constantine is an undergraduate student at Westminster College, USA, major- ing in sociology with a minor in psychology. He plans to pursue a career in nonprofit administration after completing a graduate degree in social work. Pat Conway is Senior Research Scientist at the Essentia Institute of Rural Health, USA, and conducts research and program evaluation with health and behavioral-health-related programs, including: The North Dakota Rural Behavioral Health Network; The Wiconi Ohitika (Strong Life) Youth Suicide Prevention Project; The Ely Community Care Team; The North Dakota Department of Health; the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Men’s and Women’s Health ScreeningDays;theBarnesCountyONTHEMOVEChronicDiseasePreventionProgram; and The North Dakota IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence. She is editor of the Journal of Family Social Work.

Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University Camden, New Jersey, USA – the first programme in North America to grant a PhD degree inthe multidisciplinary field of child studies. He is the author of The Commodification of Childhood (2004) and the editor of Symbolic Childhood (2002) and of The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008). Along with John Wall, he is editor of Children and Armed Conflict (2011). He is an editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research. Cook’s research explores the multitudinous ways in which tensions between “the child” and “the market” play themselves out in various sites of children’s lives, in public culture, and in constructions of children’s participation and personhood.

Kay Cook is Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University, Australia. Her work explores how new and developing social policies, such as welfare-to-work, child support, and child care policies, transform relationships between the state, individuals, and families. By making explicit the connections between political processes and subjective responses, she seeks to provide tangible evidence to policymakers and service providers to affect more humanistic reform. To this end, her work has been taken up by the Australian Law Reform Commission in their inquiry into family violence and Commonwealth law, and her research directly informs the Australian federal Department of Human Services’ delivery of welfare and child support policy.

Zeynep Copur is Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administration at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Florida, USA, working with faculty in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Families, Youth, and Community Science.

Rosalina P.Costa is a sociologist who is Assistant Professor at the University of Évora, Por- tugal, and a researcher at the Research Centre for the Study of Population, Economy, and Society, Portugal. Her research broadly explores issues of time, space, and emotion in relation to family structures, sociocultural contexts, and gender dynamics. In recent years she 14 CONTRIBUTORS has been interested in studying family rituals in constructing contemporary families. Her most recent publications have appeared in Global Studies of Childhood, Journal of Compar- ative Family Studies, Leisure Studies,andM/C Journal. Carolyn Pape Cowan is Emerita Adjunct and Clinical Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She codirects the Becoming a Family Project, the Schoolchildren and Their Families Project, and the Supporting Father Involvement Project – research and preventive intervention studies with couples who are parents of young children. She has published widely in the literature on family research, family transitions, and father involvement. She coedited The Family Context of Parenting in Children’s Adaptation to Elementary School (2005) and Fatherhood Today: Men’s Changing Role in the Family (Wiley, 1988) and is coauthor of When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (with Philip A. Cowan, 2000). She consults widely on the development and evaluation of interventions for couples and is a founding member of the Council on Contemporary Families. Philip A. Cowan isEmeritusProfessorofPsychologyattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berke- ley, USA, and former Director of the Institute of Human Development and the Psychology Clinic. He codirects the Becoming a Family Project, the Schoolchildren and Their Families Project, and the Supporting Father Involvement Project – research and preventive intervention studies with couples who are parents of young children. He writes about the family context of child development and adaptation. His books include When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (with Carolyn Pape Cowan, 2000) and Piaget: With Feeling (1978), and he is the coeditor of The Family Context of Parenting in Children’s Adap- tation to Elementary School (2005) and Family Transitions (1993). He is a founding member of the Council on Contemporary Families. James P.Coyle is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Wind- sor, Canada. He has had a 20-year career as a social worker. His research examines the nature of resilience in families affected by alcohol abuse, mental illness, and developmental disability and the relationships between families’ resilience and the characteristics of resilience in their communities. Stephanie J. Creary is a doctoral candidate in the PhD program in organization studies at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, USA. Her research interests center on how individuals manage their multiple identities in diverse work environments and how these identities may be used as a resource for individuals, for their relationships with others, and for the organizations in which they work. She holds an MBA with high honors from Simmons College School of Management, a BS in communication disorders and an MS in speech-language pathology from Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and an MS in Organization Studies from Boston College Carroll School of Management. Danielle A. Crosby is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Her research examines how public policy and parental employment and income dynamics impact the CONTRIBUTORS 15 development and educational experiences of young children in low-income, ethnic minority, and immigrant families. Her work has been published in Developmental Psychology, Journal of Marriage and Family,andJournal of Policy Analysis and Management.Shehas also recently coedited a book, Societal Contexts of Child Development: Pathways of Influence and Implications for Practice and Policy (with Elizabeth T. Gershoff and Rasmita M. Mistry, 2013).

Annamaria Csizmadia is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. She received her PhD in human development and family studies from the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on ethnic/racial identification, ethnic/racial socialization, and other culturally relevant predictors of social-emotional adjustment among youth of color, with particular emphasis on multiracial children and immigrant youth. She has published in journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Parenting: Science and Practice,andSocial Development and has also written several encyclopedia entries and book chapters. She is editorial board member of the Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Marriage and Family,andJournal of Youth and Adolescence and has served as reviewer for numerous developmental, family studies, and psychology journals. As a scholar of multiracial child development, she has worked as expert witness in court cases involving multiracial youth.

Mira Cudina-Obradoviˇ c´ is Professor Emerita at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She holds a doctorate in psychology and most of her working life was employed by the Teacher’s College at the University of Zagreb as a Full Professor. In her teaching and research projects she was mainly interested in family influences on child development, especially on cognitive development and reading skills. She has published many textbooks on child development as well as over 50 research papers in the field of child development and the family environment.

Wenqian Dai is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Dakota, USA. She has studied racial and ethnic wealth stratification, immigration, and healthcare. She gives presentations and serves as session organizer at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Midwest Sociological Society. Her recent research has been published in the journals International Journal of Social Science Studies and Sociation Today and in edited volumes. She also conducts research on sustainable aging and multinational comparisons of healthcare.

Elizabeth D. Dalton is a research associate and lecturer in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, USA. As a communication researcher, shehaspresentedandpublishedintheareasofadolescentpregnancyandmotherhood, nurse–patient pain communication, health literacy, and health information seeking. Her research about adolescent motherhood in Appalachia has received two top paper awards at the National Communication Association annual convention, and has been published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Kriston Thomas D’Amuro is a full-time Lecturer in Sociology for the University at Buf- falo/Singapore Institute of Management program in Singapore. His dissertation, entitled 16 CONTRIBUTORS

“Life in an Affluent Globalized City: Working Age Singaporeans’ Current Perspective and Future Expectations” is based on original 2013 survey research of adult Singaporeans aged 25–60. He continues to research and write about contemporary issues affecting the city- state. Ermira Danaj is a doctoral candidate at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, working on gender and migration in Albania. She is a social science graduate from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She has worked since 2002 on various projects on gender, poverty, and migration in Albania with various international and national organizations. During 2009–2012 she worked as lecturer in feminist theories at the European University of Tirana, Albania. During spring 2013 she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the New School, New York (Transregional Center for Democratic Studies and Gender Studies Department) and currently she is a visiting researcher at the CIES-IUL, Lisbon. Annie Daniel is Director and Associate Clinical Professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University, USA. She was formerly Director for the Center of the Improvement of Teaching and Learning at Des Moines University, USA, and Director of Office of Medical Education at Tulane University School of Medicine, USA. She holds a BS in family and consumer sciences education, an MS in vocational education, and a doctorate in vocational education from Louisiana State University. Michele R. Davidson is Associate Professor of Nursing and Coordinator of the nursing PhD program at George Mason University, USA. She worked in a variety of women’s health settings including labor and delivery, postpartum, neonatal intensive care unit, reproductive endocrinology, and inpatient gynecology at Columbia Hospital for Women, formerly in Washington, DC. She has delivered over 1000 babies during her career as a nurse midwife and has treated women with a variety of mental health disorders. She has subse- quently developed an interest in postpartum mood disorders and women’s mental health issues. Alexandra N. Davis is a doctoral student in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at the University of Missouri, USA. Her main research interests are in prosocial behaviors and the positive social development of urban minority adolescents, cultural and economic stress, and parent–adolescent relationships. Shannon N. Davis, Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA, received her PhD in sociology from North Carolina State University. She teaches courses on families, gender, and research methods. Her research on the division of household labor, transitions to marriage, divorce, and effects of the Great Recession on families has been published in Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Marriage & Family Review,andSociological Focus. Christine DeCleene holds a master’s degree in sociology from Sam Houston State Univer- sity, USA. She holds a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law. Her research focuses on family violence and social inequality. CONTRIBUTORS 17

Tuba Demir is a doctoral student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, in the Department of Sociology. She holds a doctorate in medical sociology. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology at Adnan Menderes University, Turkey, of which she is a native. She gainedhermaster’sdegreeinteaching,secondaryeducationsocialbranches,andphiloso- phy group teaching from Dumlupinar University, Turkey. She is on full scholarship from the Turkish government. Her interests include health and family. Renée Peltz Dennison is Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Mary’s College of Mary- land, USA. She is active in the Society for Research on Adolescence and the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood, and has published a number of articles on adolescents’ views of marriage and adulthood following a parental divorce. Her doctorate is in family studies and human development, and she currently teaches a variety of courses including on life span development, adolescent development, and the psychology of the family. Jeffrey P. Dew is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family, Consumer, and Human DevelopmentatUtahStateUniversity,USA.Heteachesfamilystudiescoursesandgraduate- level statistics courses. He researches the association between family resources (money and time) and family relationships. Dew received a dual-title PhD in demography and in human development and family studies from Pennsylvania State University. Mame Kani Diop is a family studies PhD Fellow at Montclair State University, USA, who explores the issues of and solutions to harmful traditional practices, including female genital mutilation in African contexts and around the world in western immigration lands. She believes that awareness-raising education campaigns, lifting African women out of poverty, and the promotion of social behavioral change involving both women and men will lead to the eventual abandonment of harmful traditional cultural practices. She has presented scholarly papers on female genital mutilation and polygamy at numerous conferences and haswrittenhermaster’sthesisonthe“RiskFactorsandImpactsofFemaleGenitalMutila- tion Practice in Senegal.” She is also the author of a multicultural children’s book entitled Eye on Africa (2004). Danielle Dirks is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, USA. Her research and teaching focus on justice and inequality. Her work has appeared in Contemporary Justice Review, Justice Quarterly,andQualitative Sociology. She is the author of Confronting Campus Rape: Legal Landscapes, New Media, and Networked Activism (2015) and How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment (2011). Michael J. Doane is a graduate student in the interdisciplinary PhD program in social psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. He completed his BA in psychology at Hobart College, USA, and his MA in social psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. His primary areas of interest include examining and explaining the relationship between religiosity and well-being as well as understanding the factors related to positive outcomes in romantic relationships. Obediah Dodo is a Lecturer in the Department of Peace and Governance at the Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe. 18 CONTRIBUTORS

David C. Dollahite is Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University, USA. His scholarship focuses on religion and family life in the Abrahamic faiths, Latter-day Saint family life, and faith and fathering. He is Codirector (with Dr. Loren Marks) of the Amer- ican Families of Faith Project. He has edited or coedited four books including Generative Fathering (1998) and three volumes on Latter-day Saint family life: Successful Marriages and Families (2012), Helping and Healing Our Families (2005), and Strengthening Our Families (2000). Cassandra Dorius is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University, USA. She received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University in sociology and demography, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Michi- gan. Her work focuses mainly on complex families and the linkages between family instability and the well-being of parents and children. Her scholarly research has appeared in Hormones and Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, Policy Review, Population Research, and Social Forces,aswellasmediaoutletssuchasBloomberg BusinessWeek, Huffington Post, National Public Radio, Time Magazine, USA Today,andWeb MD. Rachael R. Doubledee is a graduate student in human development and family studies at the University of Missouri, USA. Her research interests include the study of diverse families, including foster care, adoption, and child welfare. Andrea Doucet is the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Brock University, Canada. Her research and writing focus on gender and care work, mothering and fathering, parental leave policies, embodi- ment, reflexive sociology, and knowledge construction processes. Her book Do Men Mother? (2006), on primary caregiving fathers (stay-at-home and single fathers), was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociology Association. From 2009 to 2012, she was the editor of the international journal Fathering. Jonathan R. Douglas is a doctoral candidate in human development and family science at Oklahoma State University, USA. He holds a BS in Spanish and international studies from Iowa State University, USA, and an MS in international studies in human development and education from Oklahoma State University. Patricia Drentea is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. She has authored over 30 articles and is working on a book manuscript on family and aging. Her interests lie in families, aging, gender, and socioeconomic status and how they affect mental and physical health. She recently finished her commitment as an associate editor for gender and health for The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclo- pedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (2014). Steve Duck is Daniel and Amy Starch Professor and Chair of the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Iowa. His primary research interests are the study of personal relationships and the ways in which they are rhetorically presented in everyday life interaction. He founded and then edited for 15 years the JournalofSocialandPersonalRelationshipsand has written or edited more than 50 books on personal relationships. CONTRIBUTORS 19

Ann Duffy is Professor of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. She has (with Nancy Man- dell) coedited and contributed to five editions of Canadian Families (1988; 1995; 2000; 2005; 2011). She coauthored (with Julianne Momirov) Family Violence: A Canadian Introduction (1997; 2011). Her publications include articles in the Canadian Review of Sociology, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering,andSocial Policy and Society. Tim Dun is Associate Professor of Communication at Brock University, Canada. He examines new parents’ relationships with their parents, researching changes surrounding the birth of a new generation. His work has appeared in the Journal of Family Communication, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,andQualitative Communication Research. Melanie L. Duncan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point, USA, and received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Florida, USA. Dr. Duncan’s research focuses on the areas of family, sex and gender, sexualities, and law and policy. Her most recent research has investigated attitudes toward same-sex mar- riageaswellashowsocialcontextandlegalpolicieshaveshapedthepresentstateofadoption across the United States. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Family Issues. Lisa A. Eargle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Francis Marion University, USA. She is coeditor of Gun Violence in American Society (2015), Black Beaches and Bayous (2012), and Terrorism inside America’s Borders (forthcoming). She teaches a variety of sociology and criminal justice courses, including on social problems, population, alcohol and drugs, crime organizations, and urban sociology. Charles Ebere teaches sociology at the University of the Gambia. He contributed to both the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought (2010) and the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2008). He has also had work published in CrossCurrents.Hewasavisiting scholar at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA, in the 2010 summer semester. Mary Bond Edmond is Assistant Professor at Piedmont College, USA. She received her PhDfromtheUniversityofGeorgiaandspecializesinthesociologyofmentalhealthand criminology. She has published work in Journal of Addictions, Journal of Adult Development, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Nursing Society and Mental Health,andViolence and Victims. John Eekelaar is Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. Justine E. Egner is a Research Assistant and sociology graduate student at Texas Tech Uni- versity, USA. She received her BA in sociology and psychology from Shippensburg Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, USA. Vivienne Elizabeth worksinthesociologyprogramattheUniversityofAuckland,New Zealand, where she teaches and researches about family life. She has published widely on child custody disputes and has recently coauthored a book with Maureen Baker called Mar- riageinanAgeofCohabitation(2014). 20 CONTRIBUTORS

Tugçe˘ Ellialti is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She received her graduate certificate from the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program in 2011 and is a graduate affiliate at the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence. Her major research interests include sociolegal studies; gender, law, and violence against women; sociology of gender and sexuality; feminist theory; cultural sociology; and political sociology. She is working on her dissertation, which is on the institutional management of cases of sexual violence in the legal realm in Turkey. Glenn Ellis is a Health Advocacy Communications Specialist at Strategies for Well-Being, USA. He is the author of Information is the Best Medicine (2012) and Which Doctor? (2006). A health columnist and radio commentator who lectures in the United States and interna- tionally on health-related topics, Ellis is an active media contributor on health equity and medical ethics. Sothy Eng is Professor of Practice in Comparative and International Education at Lehigh University, USA. His research focuses on the roles of the family and of sociocultural contexts in human development, with social capital as a theoretical lens. His research has explored the resource needs and allocation for improving educational attainment under challenging conditions (e.g., poverty and low education) among people in a particular social context. He also leads the Lehigh University/Caring for Cambodia partnership, which offers a unique opportunity for comparative and international education students to engage in international research and program development and evaluation in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Christine C. Eschenfelder is a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, USA. Her primary research interests are women and work and work–life balance issues. Her publications include her master’s thesis, “How Motherhood Affects Women in Television News: Chal- lenges and Perspectives” (2008). Ashraf Esmail is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Dillard University, USA. His research interests include criminology, social problems, deviance, urban education, multiculturalism education, peace education, family, cultural diversity, and political sociology. He is senior editor of the Journal of Education and Social Justice. Roi Estlein is Research Associate in the School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya,Israel,andResearchAssociateattheCenterforResearchandStudyoftheFamilyat the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research focuses on family communication and, specifically, on the interdependence that exists between marital and parental dynamics and the ways in which marital and parental communication patterns are interrelated to shape family characteristics and outcomes for spouses and children. His work has been published in scholarly journals such as Discourse Studies,theJournal of Family Studies, Personal Relationships,andtheWestern Journal of Communication. Eirik Evenhouse is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Mills College, USA. Marriam Ewaida is a middle school literacy coach and a former secondary English/ ESOL teacher. She received her BA and BE degrees from the University of British Columbia CONTRIBUTORS 21 in Vancouver, Canada. She received her MA in curriculum and instruction in literacy from George Mason University, USA, where she is a doctoral student in literacy and educational leadership. She studies the literacy experiences of immigrant youth and families. GuðnyBjörkEydal´ is Professor of Social Work at the University of Iceland. Her main research area is family and child care policies. She has edited róun velferðarinnar, 1988–2012 (The Development of the Icelandic Welfare State, 1988–2012; 2012) and, with Ingólfur V. Gíslason, ParentalLeave,ChildcareandGenderEqualityintheNordicCountries(2011) and Equal Rights to Earn and Care: The Case of Iceland (2008). Cruz J. I. Falcon Campos is a doctoral student in family studies at Kansas State University, USA. He has a BS degree in psychology and an MS degree in family studies from Kansas State University. He grew up in Mexico City. Alexis Faller is a clinical associate in private practice at the Wolseley Elm in Winnipeg, Canada. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology and received her MA in marriage and family therapy at the School of Professional Psychology at the School of Profes- sional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. Marzanna A. Farnicka is Assistant Professor at University of Zielona Góra, Poland. She is a licensed Psychologist and she has combined scientific work with professional practice. Her research is focused mostly on intergenerational transmission, coping with life changes and development in education environments. Amanda Fehlbaum is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Youngstown State Univer- sity, USA. Candice Feiring was the editor-in-chief of the journal Child Maltreatment from 2010 to 2014. Her longitudinal research on sexual abuse, supported by the National Institute of Men- tal Health, was honored with awards from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and Child Maltreatment. Ana Alexandre Fernandes isFullProfessorofSociologyattheUniversityofLisbon,Por- tugal. She is also Research Fellow at CESNOVA (Center of Sociological Studies) at Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests include demographic aging, health, and public policies. She has published more than 30 articles on the intersection of these areas and she is the author of four books on demography and aging. Daniel Fernandez-Baca is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Florida, USA, and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Child Health Policy,USA.Hereceivedhisbachelor’sdegreeinsociologyandpsychologyfromthe University of Iowa, USA. He received his master’s degree in sociology from the Univer- sity of Florida, USA. His areas of research interests include family, media, and public health. Anthony J. Ferraro isagraduatestudentintheDepartmentofFamilyandChildSciences at Florida State University, USA. He studies identity change in fathers postdivorce. 22 CONTRIBUTORS

Barbara Fiese is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. She is Pampered Chef Ltd. Endowed Professor of Family Resiliency and Director of the Family Resiliency Center at Illinois and is editor-in- chief of the Journal of Family Psychology. Dr. Fiese’s research focuses on family factors that promote health and well-being in children. She is considered one of the national experts in the United States on the role that shared family mealtimes may play in promoting health during early childhood and the elementary school years.

Gordon E. Finley received a BA in sociology and anthropology from Antioch College, USA, and a PhD in social relations from Harvard University, USA. Prior to his present position asEmeritusProfessorofPsychologyatFloridaInternationalUniversity,USA,wherehehas taught for many years, he also taught at the universities of British Columbia, Toronto, and California at Berkeley. He has published empirical research, family policy articles, op-eds, and letters to the editor. His writings focus on fatherhood, divorce, family law reform, and the status of boys and men in contemporary society.

Jacki Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at Texas Tech University, USA. Her areas of research interest include romantic and marital relationships, college adjustment among undergraduates, and parasocialism (individuals’ sense of connectedness to celebrities and fictional characters). Dr. Fitzpatrick teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses that focus on family theories, family structures, and public policy. She has engaged in cross-cultural collaborations with colleagues to explore couple and family dynamics in Brazil, China, Poland, and Singapore.

Kim Fleming received her master’s degree in sociology from Middle Tennessee State Uni- versity. She is pursuing her doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Florida, USA. Her primary research interests are family, health, aging, and life course perspective. Catherine Fobes is Professor of Sociology at Alma College, USA. Her research focuses on teaching sociology, gender, and the life course. She teaches in the areas of aging, gender, family, and qualitative methodology. Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui isProfessorofPoliticalSociologyattheCollegeofManagement, Israel. She was previously the co-head, with Dr. Reina Rutlinger-Reiner, of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute research project: Family and Individualization – Gender, Religion, Nation,andHumanRights.ShealsoheadstheresearchprojecttitledGender-Kibbutz,at Yad Tabenkin, the Research and Documentation Center of the United Kibbutz Movement. Among her recent publications are “Un chemin d’émancipation: L’Alliance israélite uni- verselle et les femmes juives de Palestine (1872–1939)” (Archives Juives, revue d’histoire des Juifs de France, 2013) and Democracy and Feminism: Gender, Citizenship, and Human Rights (2011, in Hebrew). John D. Foster is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA. He is the author of White Race Discourse: Preserving Racial Privilege in a Post- Racial Society (2013) and also of several articles published in academic journals, including CONTRIBUTORS 23

Discourse & Society and Ethnic and Racial Studies. John studies the different methods used to rationalize and perpetuate social inequalities. Kara Fransisco is a graduate student at the University of Florida, USA. She studies families, reproductive health, and gender. Her most recent projects focus on infertility, reproductive technology, pregnancy, and childbirth. Alexis T. Franzese is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Elon University, USA. Dr. Franzese completed doctoral degrees in sociology and psychology (clinical) at Duke University, USA. Her clinical internship was completed at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA. Her research is at the intersection of medical sociology and social psychology and addresses issues of self and identity, and the mental health consequences of inauthenticity. Her publications appear in Aging and Mental Health, Demography,andSociology Compass. She has contributed to edited volumes including The Handbook of Social Psychology (2013) and Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society (2009). L. Allen Furr is Professor of Sociology at Auburn University, USA. He received his doctorate in sociology from Louisiana State University. He has published several articles in the areas of Nepali women’s mental and physical health, the effects of modernization on mental health in Nepal, and domestic violence in South and West Asia. He also published an article in India on the Nepali civil war. Aimee Galick is Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA. She has studied gender in the context of African American families, illness, infidelity, medical family therapy, and couples therapy. Some of her research includes using gender as a lens to examine the association between racial discrimination and negative outcomes in African American newlyweds, the process of couples therapy, and women’s experiences of heart disease. Rene Galindo is Associate Professor in Educational Foundations in the School of Edu- cation and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. Examples of his current research include examining the civil disobedience of undocumented immigrant students published in Urban Review and in Harvard Latino Law Review.Previous research on immigrant rights appeared in the journal Aztlán. Other research areas include nativismdirectedagainstLatinospublishedinthejournalsEducational Studies and Latino Studies. M. Paz Galupo isProfessorofPsychologyatTowsonUniversity,USA.Shecurrentlyserves aseditor-in-chiefofboththeJournal of GLBT Family Studies and the Journal of Bisexuality. Lawrence H. Ganong is Professor of Nursing and Professor and Co-chair of Human Devel- opment and Family Science at the University of Missouri, USA. He has coauthored over 200 articles and book chapters as well as eight books, including Stepfamily Relationships (2004) and Handbook of Contemporary Families (2004), with his wife, Marilyn Coleman, and Family Life in 20th Century America (2007) with Coleman and Kelly Warzinik. His primary research program has focused on postdivorce families, especially stepfamilies and what stepfamily members do to develop satisfying and effective relationships. 24 CONTRIBUTORS

Agnaldo Garcia is Associate Professor in the Social and Developmental Psychology Department at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. His areas of research interest include friendships, family relations, and culture. Dr. Garcia teaches graduate and undergraduate courses related to personal relationships. He is co-operating with colleagues from the United States and Latin American countries in investigations into family relations and friendships. Dustin Garlitz isadoctoralstudentinphilosophyattheUniversityofSouthFlorida,USA. Heholdsanadvanceddegreeinsocialandpoliticalthoughtandisanarticleeditorofthe London School of Economics-supported journal Critical Contemporary Culture.Hehas served as a contributor to reference works including Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness (2014), The Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics (2014), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (2014), The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology (2014), The Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (2013), Multicultural America (2013), and Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2013). Chelsea Garneau is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri, USA. She studies complex family structure, relationship dynamics in remarriages and stepfamilies, and family therapy and relationship education with stepfamilies. She has published papers on remarriage beliefs in stepfamilies and outcomes for individuals from divorced and remarried families. Larissa Gata is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Forestry and Forest Gover- nance of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. She is working on a research project under the Emerging Interdisciplinary Research Grant of the said university to pursue problem areas in nationalism, transnational advocacy networks, social movement, and race. She is teaching sociology of natural resources, which covers general topics such as sociological theories on environment, mass media and culture, demography, and gender issues in natural resource management. Marcella Gemelli is Online Lecturer in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, USA. She has studied the lives of low-income and homeless single mothers, focusing on their understanding of motherhood and the lived realities of doing motherhood under alternative arrangements. She has published a number of encyclopedia entries as well as the article “Understanding the Complexity of Attitudes of Low-Income Single Mothers toward Work and Family in the Age of Welfare Reform” in Gender Issues. Mark Alan Generous is a doctoral student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Com- munication, USA. His research focuses on communication during significant relational events within close interpersonal relationships, such as end-of-life (i.e., final conversations) and sexual interaction. He also explores communication between teachers and students within the classroom, with a specific emphasis on how teacher behaviors influence student learning outcomes. His most recent research explores the associations between instructor swearing (i.e., using taboo words), student emotional responses, and student learning. CONTRIBUTORS 25

Clara Gerhardt is Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Samford Uni- versity, USA. She is a Clinical Psychologist, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and aCertifiedFamilyLifeEducator.SheisacoauthorofthetextbookParent–Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting (2013) and has authored dozens of articles and several book chapters. She writes a regular column for a publication of the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Gerhardt is the product of three continents, has professionally presented on sixcontinents,andspeaksfivelanguagesfluently. Giovanna Gianesini is a social psychologist and Researcher at the University of Bologna, Italy. She completed her BS in psychology and MA in applied sociology with a focus on domestic violence at the University of Central Florida, USA, while her other academic cre- dentials (MA in marriage and family therapy and MA in human resources) are from Italy. She has published in the area of workplace mobbing, organizational culture and climate, the dynamics of violence in intimate relationships, bullying, family policies, and education and has an active research program on resilience. She has been a member of the Interdis- ciplinary Center for Family Studies at the University of Padua, Italy; editor of the column “Family Crucial Matters” for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies;andexecutive board member of the European Society on Family Relations. Brian Joseph Gillespie is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, USA. His primary research interests are in demography, family, and the life course. He has published a number of papers on the impact of geographic and residential mobility on individuals, families, and communities. His research has been supported by the American Sociolog- ical Association Section on Methodology, the Center of Expertise on Migration and Health, the National Science Foundation, and University of California Regents. Denise L. Gilmore is Full-Time Staff Faculty at the University of Phoenix, USA. She teaches associate, bachelor-level courses to first-year students within the College of Humanities and Sciences. She has many years of social work experience and has worked with diverse populations. This is her first published work. Ingólfur V.Gíslason is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iceland. He has studiedgenderissuesandfamilylifewithafocusondivisionoflabor,childcare,andthe use of parental leave. With Guðny Björk Eydal, he has edited Parental Leave, Childcare and Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries (2011) and Equal Rights to Earn and Care: The Case of Iceland (2008). Judith R. Gordon is Professor of Management in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and Chairperson of the Management and Organization Department. Her research and publication interests focus on the career development of women, the special issues faced by midlife and older working women, work–life balance, and organizational change. She is the author of organizational behavior, human resource management, and information systems textbooks and has published numerous articles in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management, Information Sys- tems Management, Journal of Family Issues, Research on Aging,andSloan Management Review. 26 CONTRIBUTORS

Pedro Goulart is Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a researcher at the Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies, University of Lisbon, where he is Deputy Director for Research and Coordinator of the Administration and Public Policies research group. His research interests lie in applied economics with contributions from history, sociology, and geography and in understanding public policies and particularly labor market and education policies. He has published three journal articles, five book chapters, andsixbooksandhehasinteractedwith16coauthors.

Rebecca K. Grady is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana Univer- sity, USA. Her research and teaching interests include gender, family, work–life intersection, mental health/well-being, and methods of social research.

Roderick Graham is Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, USA. His current research focuses on the social implications of information and communication technologies. His work has appeared in the Journal of Black Studies and New Media & Society. Erin M. Gregoria is a Case Manager who worked for more than three years providing direct services and support to victims of human trafficking and exploitation as part of the Catholic Charities of the Arch Diocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, USA. She also conducts various educational and outreach opportunities to educate various public sectors, law enforcement, and community members on the social dynamics of human trafficking. Prior to her position as a Case Manager she lived in two South American countries. Erin has seen firsthand the global impacts of poverty and how vulnerability is used to manipulate and lure individuals into being trafficked. Lawrence P. Greksa isProfessorandChairoftheDepartmentofAnthropologyatCase Western Reserve University, USA. His research has examined developmental and genetic adaptation to high-altitude environments and the demographic impact of sociocultural changesintheOldOrderAmish. Scott Grether is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, USA. He received his MA in sociology from George Washington University and his BA in sociology and history from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His dissertation is a comparative analysis of divorced interracial and same-race couples with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of divorce and how it may compare or contrast among these marriages.

Carolyn E. Gross is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lynchburg College, USA. She also has a postgraduate certificate in gender violence intervention. Her areas of specialization are marriage and the family, socialization, domestic violence, and race and ethnic relations. Her teaching experiences include sociology, cultural anthropology, and criminology courses. She has published on feminism, internal colonialism, peace education, and mutual battering. Iwona Grzegorzewska is a psychologist and Associate Professor at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. CONTRIBUTORS 27

Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri, USA. Tianhan Gui is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. James S. Guseh is Professor of Political Economy, Law, and Public Administration at North Carolina Central University, USA. His teaching and research interests include the political economy of development, the politics of demography, and public policy. He is a coauthor of American Democracy in Africa in the Twentieth-first Century? (2000) and the editor of the Liberian Studies Journal. Other publications have appeared in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2003) and in the Journal of Macroeconomics, Presidential Studies Quarterly,andThird World Studies Journal,amongothers.Hehasalsoworkedfor the government of Liberia and the United Nations. Kristin Hadfield completed her PhD in psychology at the School of Psychology, Trinity CollegeDublin,theUniversityofDublin,Ireland,andisapostdoctoralresearcheratthe University of Illinois – Chicago, USA. Broadly, Dr. Hadfield’s research focus is on family processes and structures, with a particular interest in how risk at a personal and familial level influences children throughout their childhood. Jennifer Halpin is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. She is working toward her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy at the Forest Institute. Jennifer F. Hamer received her PhD in sociology from the University of Texas. She is Pro- fessor at the University of Kansas, USA, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of African and African-American Studies. Her general area of research is the qualitative study of families, especially those within the United States. Within this broad field, her primary research interests are working-class African American fathers, mothers, and families. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as the Journal of Black Studies and the Jour- nal of Marriage and Family. In addition, she is the author of What It Means to Be Daddy: FatherhoodforBlackMenLivingAwayfromTheirChildren(2001). Her most recent book, Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis (2011), explores how working-class African American men and women negotiate work, kin care, and family in a poor suburb. She is former Department Head of the Graduate College of the Department of African American Studies and Associate Dean of Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is former editor of Race & Society,theofficialjournalof the Association of Black Sociologists. She was the founding editor of Black Women, Gender &Families, a black women’s studies journal published by the University of Illinois Press, and is founding editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color, also published by the University of Illinois Press. Raeann R. Hamon is Distinguished Professor of Family Science and Gerontology and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Messiah College, USA. ShereceivedherPhDinfamilyandchilddevelopmentandhergraduatecertificateingeron- tology from Virginia Tech. She has published numerous books and journal articles on topics 28 CONTRIBUTORS such as the discipline of family science, intergenerational relationships, family theories, and mate selection across cultures.

Shaiem Hampton is a master’s student in mental health counseling at Bowling Green State University, USA, where he also teaches human development and family studies courses. His research interests include diverse families and communities and ethnic minority fathers. He is the senior pastor of the Body of Christ Fellowship in Toledo, Ohio, where he has served his community for nearly a decade. After completing his master’s degree, he plans to pursue a PhD as a counselor educator with a background in human development and family studies.

Yoonsun Han is Assistant Professor in the Department of Child Psychology and Education at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. She received a joint doctoral degree in social work and sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Her primary area of research includes family, peer, and community factors related to youth mental health and health-risk behaviors in various international contexts. Her work has been published in journals such as Child Abuse and Neglect, Children and Youth Services Review,andJournal of Family Issues.

Jason D. Hans is Professor in the Department of Family Sciences at the University of Ken- tucky, USA, and he is the eleventh editor of Family Relations. The majority of Dr. Hans’s research has focused on three content areas – reproduction, sexuality, and divorce – and he also has methodological expertise using multiple-segment factorial vignettes. He has authored over 50 scholarly publications; has received the US Department of Agriculture’s Excellence in Teaching Award as well as several other national and university teaching, research, and career awards; and has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Ukraine.

Karl Hanson isProfessorinPublicLawattheUniversityofGeneva,Switzerland.Along with Olga Nieuwenhuys, he has edited Reconceptualizing Children’s Rights. Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations (2013) and is an editor of Childhood. A Journal of Global Child Research. He teaches at the University of Geneva in the Master interdisciplinaire en droits de l’enfant and is the Program Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights. Hanson is also a member of the Directive Committee of the European Network of Masters in Children’s Rights. His publications and main research interests are in the emerging field of interdisciplinary children’s rights studies and include theorizations on children’s rights andchildhoodstudies,childlaborandworkingchildren,juvenilejustice,andtheroleof independent national children’s rights institutions.

Brittany M. Harder is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami, USA. Her research in LGBTQ studies includes identity formation and negotiation, parenting, health, sexuality, education, and policy. She has previously worked with the Human Rights Campaign, gay and lesbian youth groups, camps, and student groups. Brit- tany has facilitated “coming out” workshops and safe-sex forums on college campuses. She isapartoftheLGBTQcommunityandadvocatesforequalityandvisibilityforallpeople regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. CONTRIBUTORS 29

Heather Harper isAdjunctInstructorofSociologyatCollegeoftheCanyons,USA,and a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her main research interests include economic sociology, political sociology, sociological theory, organized labor, and academic pedagogy. Kathryn E. Harrison is a master’s candidate in the School of Communication at San Diego State University, USA. Her research examines how early childhood relationships with friends and family members contribute to coping skills in early adulthood. Jaimee L. Hartenstein is Assistant Professor in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University, USA. She received her BS degree in human ecology and mass communications and her MS and PhD in family studies from Kansas State University. She is a certified family life educator and has received a Certificate in Conflict Resolution. Her primaryresearchinterestisintheareaofdivorceandchildcustody.Shehasalsoconducted research on the use of portfolios in family science. Caroline Sten Hartnett is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, USA. Angela J. Hattery is Professor and Director of Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University, USA. In addition to researching intimate partner violence she has published on race and ethnic families, prisons, interracial relationships and work–family balance. Marie C. Haverfield is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Rut- gers University, USA. Her research focuses on family communication patterns in families with an alcoholic parent and the implications for children of alcoholics. She received a top paper award from the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association and was competitively selected to attend the Contested Substances Workshop at the Centre of Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University. Melanie Heath is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University, Canada. Her research addresses the consequences of family, gender, and sexual politics on social inequality. She is author of One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (2012). She has published in Contexts, Gender and Society, Qualitative Sociology,andSociological Quarterly. Her work also appears in the edited volume Families as They Really Are (2010; 2nd ed., 2015). She is conducting comparative research on government regulation of polygamy. Heather M. Helms is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. She studies the work and family experiences of married couples with particular attention given to the gendered, cultural, social, and economic contexts in which marriages are embedded. Her recent pub- licationshaveappearedinFamily Relations,theJournal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Marriage and Family,andJournalofSocialandPersonalRelationships. Tammy L. Henderson is Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oklahoma State University, USA. She conducts research in the areas of family policy, law, 30 CONTRIBUTORS and diversity. She holds a doctorate from Oregon State University, USA, and other degrees from Louisiana State University, USA. Dr. Henderson has worked on several translational projectsfocusedonchildcareneeds,kinshipcareissues,homelessnessandneighborhood redevelopment, improving the capacity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities to address health disparities, and disaster preparedness. Dr. Henderson has received National Science Foundation grants focused on Hurricane Katrina and older adults and Alaska Native grandparents rearing grandchildren, has served on editorial boards, and has completed guest editorships. Her publications have appeared in Family Relations,theInternational Jour- nal of Aging and Human Development,theJournal of Applied Gerontology,theJournal of Family Issues,theJournalofPopulationResearchandPolicyReview, Oklahoma Bar Journal, and more. Justin J. Hendricks is a predoctoral fellow at the University of Florida, USA, in the Depart- ment of Sociology and Criminology & Law. He studies gender and family with a focus on fatherhood. Joshua Hendrix is a research criminologist at the Center for Justice, Safety, and Resilience at RTI International, USA. His research areas are in family processes, adolescent delinquency, and law enforcement. He has had papers accepted by the Journal of Family Issues and Soci- ological Spectrum. Natalie D. Hengstebeck is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. With a particular emphasis on social inequality, her research focuses on the impact of social policies on individual well-being and couple relationships and ecologi- cally informed strategies for improving couple functioning. Her work has been published in Journal of Family Issues and Journal of Family Psychology. Following a Fulbright award to study family policies and couple relationships at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 2015–16, she expects to complete her PhD in 2017. Daphne C. Hernandez is Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Obesity Studies in the Department of Health and Human Performance at the University of Houston, USA, and an executive board member and internship and outreach coordinator of the University of Houston’s Texas Obesity Research Center. She also serves on several community advisory boards, including the Hunger Free Texans Steering Committee. She specializes in health disparities research with a specific focus on the determinants and consequences of food insecurity and family structure instability. Her research has been previously funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her work has been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Journal of Marriage and Family,andJournal of Women’s Health and highlighted in Time magazine and on Yahoo Parenting. Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Stud- ies and the Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, USA. The author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice (2006), she has recently completed one of the first US studies on the formation of donor-conceived sibling groups. With Margaret K. Nelson, she has written articles on donor-conceived offspring from different kinds of families. Her CONTRIBUTORS 31 interests include how people weave together a family life on their own, despite the lack of government or workplace supports, and how new forms of kinships are developing as a by-product of gamete donors and advances in medical and social technologies.

Laura V. Heston is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Univer- sity of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her dissertation concerns nonnormative parenting structures among LGBTQ communities. The chapter “Utopian Kinship? The Possibilities of Queer Parenting” based on her dissertation work can be found in A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias edited by Angela Jones (2013).

Toni Hill is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA. She teaches courses focused on interpersonal relationships and human behavior. Her research area focuses on kinship caregiving including grandparent caregivers and other cross-generational caregivers.

Eva Maria Hohnerlein is Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany. She has studied family and child benefits from a comparative perspective, with special emphasis on single-parent families, the social protection of women and mothers, and the international coordination of family benefits. She has coordinated an interdisciplinary research project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Fam- ily Affairs on changing gender role models in family law and social law in selected European countries. She is the author of Internationale Adoption und Kindeswohl (International Adop- tion and Best Interests of the Child, 1991). Other publications have appeared in Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht and Zeitschrift für Sozialre- form.

Jeanne Holcomb is Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton, USA. Her research focuses on experiences of life transitions, especially experiences of parenthood. Specific research areas include experiences of breastfeeding and experiences of early pregnancy among youth in foster care. Her publications have appeared in Cinematic Sociology, Environmental Justice,andtheJournal of Family Issues. Nichole Huff is an Extension Specialist and Assistant Professor of Youth, Family, and Com- munity Sciences at North Carolina State University, USA. She is a Certified Family Life Educator with the National Council on Family Relations and holds advanced degrees in marriage and family therapy (MS) and family sciences (PhD). Her areas of research include childdevelopment,biopsychosocialandneuralhealth,andparent–childcommunication practices. Teresa Shehan Hughes has more than 30 years of experience in education. She has served public schools as an elementary and middle school teacher, a secondary gifted education teacher, a teacher consultant for at-risk students, an elementary and middle school administrator, an assistant superintendent, and a superintendent. Among her experiences at the university level are the supervision of preservice teachers, teaching foundations of education, coordinating and supervising a survey research center, writing and managing grants, editing the alumni magazine for a college of education, and working with academic technology. 32 CONTRIBUTORS

She has served as a reviewer for professional journals, provided leadership seminars, and served as a consultant for a US national middle school survey. Her interests include student diversity, teacher and administrator preparation and training, gifted education, and early childhood education. Andrea N. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Alabama, USA. Her recent research focuses on families with children with disabilities and the effects of caregiving on parental employment and mental health. She is also active in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Some of her research in this area focuses on implementing problem-based learning in introductory courses, teaching first-year students to do research, inquiry-guided learning, the pedagogical effectiveness of distance education, training graduate students to teach, and the role of academic advising in student retention. Nashaat Hussein is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Childhood at Misr International University,Egypt.HehasstudiedseveralissuesrelatedtochildrenandyouthinEgypt,with particular focus on substance abuse, street children, disability, and sport. He is the author of The Social Significance of Street Soccer in Greater Cairo: Game Structure and Social Functions (2011). Other publications have appeared in the African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies, Cairo Papers in Social Sciences, Families, Relationships and Societies, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy,andJournal of Middle East Research. Taiwo Ibinaiye is a graduate student in the department of Demography and Social Statistics of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is working on the health migration nexus in Nigeria. Alyssa M. Isaacs is a Lecturer in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, USA. She teaches classes ranging from intercultural and family communication courses to communication theory and public speaking. Her research focuses on how family communication impacts emerging adults’ sexual outcomes including sexual beliefs, efficacy, and behavior. She has presented her research via national and international conferences hosted by organizations such as the National Communication Association, the International Communication Association, and the International Association for Relation- ships Research. Joseph S. Jackson is Associate Director of the Center on Children and Families and a senior lecturerattheLevinCollegeofLaw,UniversityofFlorida,USA.Heisacoauthorof“The Parentless Child’s Right to a Permanent Family” (Wake Forest Law Review, 2011). He teaches several courses in the College of Law, including a course on the law of sex and sexual orientation. Michelle Janning is Professor of Sociology at Whitman College, USA. She has done research on gender, work and occupations, family, sexualities, culture and popular culture, sports, intersections of design and social relations, teaching sociology, comparative family studies (focusing on Scandinavia), early learning, and student learning in higher education. She was a Fulbright Specialist Scholar, served as guest editor of Journal of Family Issues,published articles on families and material culture, has been quoted in Women’s Health and Real Simple CONTRIBUTORS 33 magazines and numerous online sources, and served as a visiting researcher at the University of York’s Centre for Women’s Studies and as a Visiting Professor in Sociology at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. She is listed as one of the Sloan Foundation’s Work-Family Lead- ersandisamemberoftheBoardofDirectorsfortheCouncilonContemporaryFamilies, an organization dedicated to connecting good research on families with journalists. Thomas Janousek, is a student at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. He completed his master’s in marriage and family therapy in 2013 and is a doctoral candidate for his PsyD in clinical psychology. Aaron J. Jeffrey is an associate professor of Counselor Education at Minnesota State Uni- versity, Mankato. He teaches courses in couples and family counseling, and as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist has worked for over ten years with LDS individuals, couples, and families in his practice. Dr. Jeffrey has published in national and international journals and presented at regional, national, and international conferences on clinical intuition, supervision, and therapy related topics. Cody Jeffries received his BA in psychology at Concordia University Nebraska and his MA in marriage and family therapy at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Insti- tute, USA. His interests include religious and spiritual issues in marriage and family, and individual psychological assessment.

Tiffany Jenkins is a graduate student in sociology at the University of West Georgia, USA. Her research focuses on workplace bullying. María Isabel Rubio Jociles is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Her main publications address topics such as the methodology/epistemology of ethnographic research, education, family structures, and collective identities. She has conducted research on “Single Parenthood by Choice: Strategies of Self-Definition, Distinction and Legitimation of New Family Models,” with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and currently heads the investigation “Revelation and Secret of the Origins in the Families with Offspring by Gamete Donation: Variations by Family Models.”

Benjamin E. Johnson,agraduatefromthemarriageandfamilytherapymaster’sdegreepro- gram at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, is a mental health outpatient clinic director in Greater New Orleans, USA.

Rumaya Juhari is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She is head of the Family, Adolescent and Child Research Center (FACE) at the university, running research and extension programs related to children, adolescents, and family. Graduating in family and child ecology from Michigan State University in 1997, she has been involved in research especially in human development, family studies, marital quality, and fathering. Her current research is on marital investment among Malaysian couples, and psychosocial well-being among children and adults in Malaysian divorced families. 34 CONTRIBUTORS

Hyeyoung Kang is Assistant Professor of Human Development at the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. She received her doctorate in human and community development at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. Her research interests include Asian American immigrant youth and families, parent–adolescent relationships, andpositiveyouthdevelopment.

Sunwoo Kang is Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at South Dakota State University, USA. Her scholarship focuses on understanding the psychosocial factors and processes (e.g., family caregiving relationships, marital quality, spiritual- ity/religiosity, gender) that contribute to optimal physical health and psychological well- being across the life span. Her work draws on a life course perspective, a biopsychosocial model, and a resilience framework in conceptualizing individual health and well-being as a dynamic developmental process over time. Her recent publications and research have explored how caregiving for a parent is linked to biomarkers of health and how the health effects of caregiving for a parent and caregiving for a young or adult child with special needs are moderated by gender and marital quality.

Young Jin Kang isadoctoralstudentintheDepartmentofHumanDevelopmentandFamily Studies at the University of Missouri, USA. She recently received the Issues in Aging Award from the National Council on Family Relations in recognition of her contribution as a coauthor of Stepgrandparents’ Relationships with Stepgrandchildren (2014). Her research interests include family structure, family process, divorce, stepfamily relationships, and parent–child relationships in postdivorce families.

Emily Karas is an undergraduate student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is pursuing a degree in family and consumer sciences education with a minor in child and family studies. Her achievements include making the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dean’s List and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Provost Scholar List.

PeterM.Kellettis Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. His research focuses on narrative approaches to understanding and transforming conflict, particularly within South Asian cultures.

Jenell Kelly is Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University, USA. Her area of focus is childdevelopmentwithinthecontextsoffamilies,schools,andcommunities.Sheispartic- ularly interested in resilience among children and families with limited resources.

Haley Medved Kendrick is pursuing a PhD in medical sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, where she serves as Teaching Assistant in the Sociology Department. She was chosen by the Sparkman Center for Global Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to participate in an exchange program with Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, in the summer of 2013. Her interests include gender and sexuality, mental health, religion, and global health. Katie Kerstetter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropol- ogy at George Mason University, USA. Her research employs qualitative and quantitative CONTRIBUTORS 35 methods to examine issues related to poverty and inequality, education, and social policy. Currently, she is studying the work of teachers in schools serving students from lower income households to better understand what factors contribute to teacher retention in these contexts. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Rural Social Sciences and Sociological Spectrum. Razieh G. Khazaie has a PhD in sociology from Shiraz University, Iran. She has studied social changes in Iran, with a focus on behavioral changes. Her field of study is environmental sociology and the sociology of religion. She is a member of the Iranian National Elite Foundation. She is the coauthor of Cultural Sociology (with Taghi Azadarmaki, 2015) and The Environmentalism in Religions (with Nasser Karami, 2015), and has translated Zygmunt Bauman’s Thinking Sociologically into Farsi. Mark Killian is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Whitworth University, USA. His main research interests focus on urban religious ecologies and the effect of religion on family processes. Julie Kim is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her current research, funded by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, explores the meaning of marriage migration among brides in transnational marriages. Mary E. King is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA, and earned her doctorate at Rutgers Uni- versity, USA, in 2011. Her primary research interests include examining close, personal relationships and how communication develops during a time of transition. Her dissertation “The Communicative and Physiological Manifestations of Relational Turbulence during the Empty-Nest Phase of Marital Relationships” was awarded the Top Dissertation Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the International Communication Association in 2012. Her research has been published in Journal of Family Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,andWestern Journal of Communication. Deeb Paul Kitchen is Instructor in Sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He studiesandteachesonsociologicaltheoryandfamilyculture. Andrzej Klimczuk is a doctoral candidate at the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. His research focuses on gerontology, labor economics, public management, and social policy. His recent publications include Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy (2015), Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkanców´ miasta Białystok (Social Capital of Old People Based on the Example of Bialystok Residents, 2012), and Experts and Cultural Narcissism: Relations in the Early 21th Century (2012). Alexandra S. Kokkinakis is a Lecturer in both the Department of Sociology and the First-Year Experience Program at California State University, Chico, USA. Her research background is in deviance, adolescence, and identity. She received the 2012 Outstanding Social Science Masters Student Award for her thesis work titled “Stigmatization and Self- Perception in Alternative School Students Who Have Transitioned from a Traditional High School: A Qualitative Study in Chico, California.” 36 CONTRIBUTORS

Jill E. Korbin is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Schubert Center for Child Stud- ies, and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve Uni- versity, USA. Her past research has included child maltreatment and well-being, and Amish use of mental health services.

Burak Köse is a doctoral candidate on the York University graduate program in sociology and is affiliated with the City Institute of York University, Canada. He holds BA degrees in political science and international relations and in sociology from Bogazici University, Turkey, and an MA in social and political thought from the University of Sussex. His academic interests are in urban studies, development studies, political ecology, political sociology, governmentality studies, theories of biopolitics, critical social theory, poststructuralist social theory, and postcolonial thought.

Erin Kostina-Ritchey is a doctoral student in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University, USA. She has researched both family policy and identity development and has lived in several countries overseas. Erin is a coauthor (with Jacki Fitzpatrick) on a number of publications appearing in various locations including Family Relations, Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal,andHandbook of Family Policies across the Globe (2014). She has also had work published with Valentina Bodrug- Lungu (ImpactofParents’MigrationonMoldavianYouths’PerceptionsofFamily, 2013) on research concerning immigration, “remaining family,” and adolescent adjustment.

Albert Kpoor is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, Ghana. He teaches multiple sociology courses including social anthropology, social psychology, theories of social development, and population studies. He has studied emerging family structures and household maintenance with special emphasis on single-mother households and female household headship in Ghana. He has published about Ghanaian single mothers and how they maintain their households in the Journal of Family Issues. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor in the Sociology Program at the Sanford School of Family and Social Dynamics, Arizona State University, USA. She has studied health, health policy and health and life course concerns. She published Medicare (2011) and was coeditor of Debates on U.S. Health Care (with Wendy E. Parmet and Mark A. Zizza, 2012). She serves as the editor of the annual Research in the Sociology of Health and Health Care,coeditorof Health, and associate editor-in-chief of American Journal of Health Promotion. Małgorzata Krywult-Albanska´ is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland. Her interests include methodology of social sciences and population studies (with a focus on family, health, and issues relating to migration). Brett R. Kuhn is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psy- chology at the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation and University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. Dr. Kuhn’s interests include pediatric sleep disorders, behavioral parent training (including parent–child interaction therapy), elimination disorders, and disruptive behavior disorders. He is certified in behavioral sleep medicine CONTRIBUTORS 37

(CBSM)bytheAmericanAcademyofSleepMedicine.Hehaspublishedmorethan30 professional journal articles and book chapters on children’s behavioral health issues. George Kurian, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada, established the Journal of Comparative Family Studies in 1970, serving as editor for over 40 years and as managing editor since 2010. His extensive authorship includes book chapters, conference papers, presentations, and journal articles, as well as seven books that expanded scholarly understanding of family and culture, particularly in India, and he is the recipient of multiple awards. His lifetime contribution in comparative family studies was recognized in 2010 when he was distinguished with the Jan Trost Award. Anastassia Kurilova holds a master’s degree and three-year PhD in sociology from the Peo- ple’s Friendship University, Russia, where she has also been employed. She is coauthor of the book People in the World of Things (with Dmitry Tikhaze, 2010), which concerns the sociology of material and consumer culture, and is author of a number of articles in scientific journals and encyclopedias. Andrea Lambert South is Associate Professor of Communication at Northern Kentucky University, USA. She has studied affinal and post-affinal kinships in families where multiple divorces have occurred. In particular she studies the communication characteristics that maintain step-relationships after the legal marriage has ended. She also studies death, end- of-life care and decisions, and family conversations surrounding death. Her publications appear in Communication Research Reports and Journal of Divorce and Remarriage. Sarah Terrebonne Landry is an MSW and doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, USA. Sarah has worked in the area of aging for over a decade. Her work has included research into the impact of the changing demographics of the Baby Boom generation on long-term care supports and services and peer support interventions forolderadults.Shehastaughtsocialwelfarepolicyandsocialworkpracticewitholder adults at the MSW level. She is now a Senior Research Assistant with the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. Her research interests broadly include understanding and improving how communities work together to address social determinants of health experienced by vulnerable populations across the life span. Tracey A. LaPierre is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, USA. She specializes in family studies, life course/aging, and medical sociology and teaches courses on death and dying, gender, family and the life course, health and social behavior, and quantitative methods. Katie M. LaPlant is a Family and Consumer Sciences Educator at Ohio State University Extension, USA. She has a master of science in human development and family studies from Central Michigan University, USA. Her interests include developing and using family strengths, as well as youth and family resilience. Katie is also a Certified Family Life Educator through the National Council on Family Relations. Joanna Lara is a doctoral student at Texas Woman’s University, USA. Her research interests are medical sociology, immigration, gender, and research methods. 38 CONTRIBUTORS

Robert E. Larzelere is the Endowed Professor of Parenting in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University, USA. The most cited of his 99 publications are on research methods, survey measures, and child outcomes of parental disciplinary actions, such as reasoning and nonphysical and physical punishment. His latest book (co-edited) is Authoritative Parenting (2013), featuring Diana Baumrind and 26 other experts on the latest scholarship about that optimal type of parenting.

Kenzie Latham is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Indiana Univer- sity–PurdueUniversityIndianapolis,USA.Previously,Dr.LathamwasaNationalInstitute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA. Dr. Latham received her PhD from the University of Florida, USA, in 2011, and her research interests include health and aging with an emphasis on func- tional health as well as chronic disease epidemiology. Much of Dr. Latham’sresearch focuses on identifying and understanding health disparities among older adults.

Jay L. Lebow is Clinical Professor of Psychology and a senior therapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University. Since 2012, he has been editor-in- chief of the journal Family Process. He has engaged in clinical practice, supervision, and research on couple and family therapy for over 30 years, and is board certified in family psychology and an approved supervisor and clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is the author of six books, including Couple and Family Therapy: An Integrative Map of the Territory and 100 book chapters and articles, most of which focus on practice of couple and family therapy, the relationship of research and practice, integrative practice, and intervention strategies with divorcing families. He served for many years on the Board of Directors and as a committee chair of the American Family Therapy Academy and is a past president of the Society for Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He received the AFTA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and the Society of Family Psychology’s award for Family Psychologist of the Year in 2006.

Jaerim Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Consumer and Family Sciences at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. She has a PhD with a major in family social science and a minor in family policy from the University of Minnesota, USA. She has published extensively in the areas of maternal employment, intergenerational relationships, low- income families, marriage, childlessness, sibling relationships, and migrant wives, both in English and Korean. Her dissertation was an investigation of child care by grandmothers in South Korea and was later published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Amy Leisenring is Associate Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University, USA. She has studied the ways in which the criminal justice system influences the experiences of victims of intimate partner violence and how these women view themselves. She teaches courses in gender, family, and qualitative research methods. Her work has appeared in Jour- nal of Police Crisis Negotiations, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology Compass, Symbolic Interac- tion,andTeaching Sociology. CONTRIBUTORS 39

Ashley Leschyshyn is an Instructor at the University of North Dakota, USA, where she earned her MA in 2012. Her thesis, which is under review at a peer-reviewed journal, explores factors shaping the loyalty of professional mothers to their employers. She has also coauthored an entry on “Gender Ideology and Quality of Life Outcomes” in the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (2014). Ashlie Lester is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Human Develop- ment and Family Science at the University of Missouri, USA. Her research interests center on the intersection of religion and family life, specifically religious socialization and religious heterogamy in marriage. Magdalena Leszko is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, USA. She holds a PhD in gerontology from the University of Kansas, USA, and an MSc in clinical psychology and psycho-oncology from Poland. Her research interests are focused on grief among caregivers, with particular emphasis on caregivers of individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Bethany L. Letiecq is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at George Mason University, USA, and works in partnership with immigrant and refugee communities to understand the lived experiences, meaning-making, and context of immigrant families in the United States and to promote social change and justice. Dr. Letiecq teaches courses on family functioning, family law and public policy, and family diversity. ShecurrentlyservesasChairoftheFamilyPolicysectionoftheNationalCouncilonFamily Relations. John Leustek is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Rutgers Uni- versity, USA. His research focuses on the dark side of family communication and the ways that families cope communicatively with difficult transitions during the family life span. He has presented his research at conferences for the National Communication Association and the International Association for Relationship Research. Hanna Liberska is Associate Professor at Kaziemierz Wielki University, Poland. She is the author of many articles and books in family and developmental psychology. Frances E. Likis is Associate Director of the Vanderbilt University Evidence-based Practice Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, the official journal of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Jeni Loftus is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis, USA. Her research focuses on gender, health, family, sexuality, and social psychology. Her current research focuses on the causes and consequences of age-discordant relationships among adolescents. Amy Lucas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, USA. She has studied the quality of romantic relationships among young adults, with particular focus on the role of socioeconomic resources. Her publications appear in Journal of Marriage and Family and Sociological Methodology. 40 CONTRIBUTORS

Jason R. Malousek is a doctoral candidate at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. He has worked over 10 years in the provision of mental health treatment as direct care staff and as a provisionally licensed therapist. He has completed a certification program in marriage and family therapy. His professional interests include family therapy, trauma-informed treatment, and the progression of child welfare. His research interests include outcome-based studies and foster care.

Namita N. Manohar is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Stud- ies at Brooklyn College, USA. She specializes in international migration and gender and families, with a focus on Indians in the United States. Her current research examines Tamil professional women’s migration, work, and family in the United States.

Margaret M. Manoogian is Associate Professor of Gerontology at Western Oregon Univer- sity, USA. Her work investigates intergenerational transfers among older parents and adult children. She currently conducts intergenerational research focused on individuals and families who experience genocide, poverty, or poor health due to type 2 diabetes. Her Armenian grandparents were genocide survivors.

Anna Manzoni is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, USA. She received her PhD from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University, USA. Her research, grounded in social stratification theory and the life course perspective, concentrates on the analysis of the life course, the ways in which individual lives are linked to social change, and on the relation of earlier phases of life to later phases. She has done research on labor market mobility patterns over time and across cohorts; cohort differences in the effect of childbirth on mothers’ labor supply in different European countries; the effect of early unemployment on future career; occupational mobility, analyzing class, education, and cohort differences; and the causal effect of migration on occupational status. Most recently, she has focused on the transition to adulthood, merging the sociological life course and social stratification perspectives with amoredevelopmentalapproach. Alison Marganski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. She specializes in interpersonal violence and victimization. Her work has appeared in Violence and Victims as well as in other peer-reviewed journals. In 2012 she was the recipient of the Mednick Memorial Fellowship Award for her cross-cultural work exploring the influence of socially interactive technology on contemporary intimate relationships, with particular emphasis on sexual deviance, aggression, and perceptions of virtual relationship violence. She continues research in this area and teaches various courses across the curriculum including those grounded in theory, research, and violence studies. Kyriakos S. Markides is Annie and John Gnitzinger Professor of Aging Studies at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, USA. His research has focused on Hispanic health and aging with special focus on the Mexican American population of the CONTRIBUTORS 41

Southwestern United States. He is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Aging and Health. Nadine F. Marks is Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Guided by a life course and biopsychosocial theoretical perspective, her research and publications have used data from large longitudinal population studies to examine psychosocial factors linked to mental and physical health in adulthood and aging, including socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender, caregiving for family members and friends, marital status continuity and change, marital quality, and filial bereavement. Ashley R. Marshall is a graduate of North Carolina Central University, USA. She has studied public administration and public policy. She has a professional background working with community, youth and family programs. N. Jane McCandless is Professor of Sociology at the University of West Georgia, USA. She teaches and writes in the area of race, class, and gender. She spends much of her time mentoring her students as well as working with nonprofit organizations that focus on issues specific to women. Brandy Renee McCann is an independent scholar. Her research focuses on intimacy in later life. Megan M. McCullen is Instructor of Anthropology at Alma College, USA. Her research focusesoncolonialismandtheimpactofforcedmigrationonindigenouscommunities, particularly in the Great Lakes region of North America. Amy L. McCurdy is a Mental Health Behavioral Aide at the Fernbrook Family Center in Owatonna,Minnesota,USA.ShecompletedaBAdegreeinpsychologywithaminorin sociology at Elon University, USA, in 2015. Amy recently completed a research project concerning the influence of adoption in decisions about family-building. She plans to pursue graduateworkinhumandevelopmentandfamilystudies. Molly McGuire is an MS student in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University, USA. Her professional interests focus on providing services to children and families. Josephine Ngo McKelvy is a graduate student at North Carolina State University, USA. Her research interests include family and the life course, the transition to adulthood, and identity formation. Emily McKendry-Smith is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of West Geor- gia, USA. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion, family life, and developmental social change in Nepal, including women involved with the Brahma Kumaris and the role of religion in the transition away from arranged marriage. Rachel M. McLaren is Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Iowa, USA. She studies interpersonal communication, social cognition, 42 CONTRIBUTORS and emotion in response to significant experiences, such as hurtful interactions, within personal relationships. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Com- munication, Communication Research,andJournal of Social and Personal Relationships.She teaches courses on communication and conflict as well as the dark side of communication. Jill D. McLeigh isAssistantProfessorattheUniversityofColoradoSchoolofMedicine, USA. She currently serves as the associate editor for Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal and symposia editor for American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.Shehasamaster’s degree in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in international family & community studies from Clemson University. She has been the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychologists in Public Service Outstanding Stu- dent Award and the Kimbrough and Melton Parents Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Family & Community Studies. Chesney McOmber is a doctoral student at the University of Florida, USA, studying comparative politics with a focus on gender, social capital, and community political development in Morocco and East Africa. Justin K. McPheters isaLicensedMarriageandFamilyTherapist.Heisadjunctfacultyat Argosy University, Salt Lake City, USA. He also works at LDS Family Services and in private practice. Gerardo Meil is Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. His working fields include family change, family policy, balancing family and working lives, job mobilities, and gender violence. Cecilia Menjívar is Cowden Distinguished Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, USA. Her research focuses on the effects of immigration laws on different aspects of immigrants’ lives, with attention to family separations, educational aspirations, religious participation, identity, and belonging; and on workandexperiencesinthelaborforce.Herpublicationshaveappearedinjournalsand edited collections; she is also the author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Everyday Lives in Guatemala (2011) and FragmentedTies:SalvadoranImmigrantNetworksinAmerica (2000). Gina Alvarado Merino is a Gender and Evaluation Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women, USA. Her portfolio includes capacity-building projects to improve the monitoring and evaluation practices of nongovernmental organizations in East Africa; research on comprehensive sex education and gender-based violence. She has also done research on women and rural development in Latin America. Robert M. Milardo isProfessorofFamilyRelationsattheUniversityofMaine,USA.He has published extensively in leading journals and books, and served as the founding editor of the Journal of Family Theory & Review (2007–14) and editor of the Journal of Marriage &Family(1996–2001). He is the author of Crafting Scholarship in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (2015) and The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and Uncles (2010). CONTRIBUTORS 43

Bobbi J. Miller is Associate Professor in the Division of Counseling and Family Therapy at Regis University, USA. Her research focuses on interracial families and adoption. She is a licensed marital and family therapist, an American Association for Marriage and Fam- ily Therapy Approved Supervisor, and has a background working with foster and adoptive families. Laura E. Miller is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Studies at the Uni- versity of Tennessee, USA. She studies communication about cancer between patients, partners, and social networks and the implications such conversations may have on uncertainty and identity management. Her work has appeared in publications such as Communication Monographs, Health Communication, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Lisa R. Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana Univer- sity, USA. She specializes in the sociology of gender, sexualities, aging and the life course, and families. Her recent research investigates the nature and consequences of prejudice and discrimination against LGBTQ individuals. Her recent publications appear in the Ameri- can Sociological Review, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Social Forces,andSociological Forum. Her dissertation examines how American singles navigate dating and sexual partnerships throughout the life course. Sarah Miller-Fellows isagraduatestudentintheDepartmentofAnthropologyandMas- ter of Public Health program at Case Western Reserve University, USA. She is conducting research projects on Amish use of mental health services and Amish women’s experiences of reproduction in the context of genetic disorders. Monica Miller-Smith isProfessorintheHumanDevelopmentandFamilyStudiesDepart- ment at the University of Connecticut, USA. She holds an EdD in education from the Uni- versity of Southern California, an MA in speech communication from Emerson College, and a BA in communications from the University of California, San Diego. In addition to working as a professor, she has served as an educational consultant with nonprofit organizations developing educational programs for youth. She is very dedicated to service and civic engagement. She instructs the majority of her courses using a service-learning framework. Her students have performed local service in Stamford, Connecticut, with Inspir- ica, Stamford Public Education Foundation’s Mentoring Program’s after-school program and Springdale Elementary School’s parent board. She is working on a cross-cultural service course which will involve her students mentoring elementary youth and performing collaborative service that will benefit children in the West Indies. Her teaching practices earned her the University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus Faculty of the Year Award for 2011–12. Krista Lynn Minnotte is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Dakota, USA. Her research centers on exploring the interrelationships between gender, work, and family, with special attention to couple-level dynamics and emotion work. She has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Journal of Family Issues, Sociological Quarterly,andSocial Science Journal. 44 CONTRIBUTORS

Barbara A. Mitchell is Professor of Sociology and Gerontology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and is serving a four-year term as social sciences editor for the Canadian Journal on Aging. Her work has been published in numerous journals and other outlets, including Canadian Journal of Sociology, Family Relations, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family,andSociological Perspectives. Her recent books include Family Matters: An Introduc- tion to Family Sociology in Canada (2nd ed., 2012) and The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families (2006), the latter being the recipient of a 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award from the American Library Association. Katherine Stamps Mitchell is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University, USA. She studies complex family processes over the life course. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Science Quarterly,andSocial Science Research. Stephen W. Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Medical Family Therapy program at Saint Louis University, USA. His research interests include grief and loss associated with mis- carriage and the connection between attachment and transformational leadership. He is a licensed professional counselor and has a background working with children with complex trauma. Nicole Mixson-Perez is Qualitative Research Strategist at Baptist Health South Florida, USA, and Adjunct Faculty at Florida International University, USA. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, USA, with a major in sociology and a minor in women’sstudies.Shereceivedhermaster’sdegreeinsociologyfromtheUniversityofMiami, USA, with specializations in medical sociology and race/ethnic relations. She received her doctorate from the interdisciplinary department Global and Sociocultural Studies that integrates sociology, anthropology, and geography at Florida International University. As part of her doctoral dissertation, titled “Sizing Up Miami: A Multilevel Analysis of the Discourses andPoliticsofObesity,”sheemployedcontentanddiscourseanalysisaswellasin-depth ethnographic interviews to examine and question assumptions and beliefs about bodies and health. Her research interests reach across disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences and humanities. She is more broadly concerned with questions addressing policy issues and lived experiences related to health, bodies, food, and place and the role of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Paul A. Mongeau is Professor in, and Associate Director of, the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, USA. His research centers primarily on sexual interaction in the earliest stages of romantic (and nonromantic) relationships. He haspublishedwidelyandispasteditoroftheJournal of Social and Personal Relationships. He is also President-Elect of the Western States Communication Association. Mel Moore is Professor of Sociology at the University of Northern Colorado, USA. She receivedherPhDfromtheUniversityofWashington,wasapostdoctoralfellowatIndiana University, and was awarded a Freeman Fellowship from the Japan Studies Association to CONTRIBUTORS 45 participateinanintensiveinstituteonJapaneseculture.Herrecentteachingandresearch work addresses parenting practices, communities and identities, and Japanese culture.

Amanda Moras is Professor of Sociology at Sacred Heart University, USA. Her current research explores the prevalence, causes, and consequences of vicarious trauma in sexual assault crisis work.

Almudena Moreno Mínguez isProfessorofSociologyattheUniversityofValladolid,Spain. She is an expert on family issues, welfare states, and comparative research on gender. She is the editor of Family Well-Being: European Perspectives (2013) and author of “The Transition to Adulthood in Spain in a Comparative Perspective: The Incidence of Structural Factors” (Young Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 2012) and “Family and Gender Roles in Spain from aComparativePerspective”(European Societies, 2010). She has other publications in various international journals.

Virginia Morrow is Senior Research Officer and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK. She is Deputy Director of Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty which is led by a team in the Department of International Development at the Uni- versity of Oxford in association with research and policy partners in the four study countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Along with Priscilla Alderson, she has edited The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People: A Practical Handbook (2011). She is also a coauthor, along with Berry Mayall, of You Can Help Your Country: English Children’s Work during the Second World War (2011), and an editor of Childhood:AJournalofGlobalChildResearch. Her research and publications focus on children’s work in developed and developing countries, sociological approaches to the study of childhood and children’s rights, the ethics of social research with children, children’s understandings of family, and children and “social capital.” Shannon Murphy is a graduate student in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at Iowa State University, USA. She has two undergraduate degrees in sociology and family studies from Central Washington University. Her research interests include sexual attitudes as they relate to behaviors, femininity and masculinity, and gendered issues in relationship initiation and longevity. Karen S. Myers-Bowman is a Faculty Member in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University, USA. Her research focuses on cross-cultural parenting and parent–child communication about difficult issues, including war and peace. She has published articles exploring this phenomenon around the globe. Judith A. Myers-Walls is an Emerita Faculty Member in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University, USA. She has conducted several studies to investigate how children and parents talk about and what children understand regarding war and peace issues. Her publications include Families as Edu- cators for Global Citizenship (2001), Peace Works: Young Peacemakers Project Book II (1999), Young Peacemakers Project Book (1988), and websites including Purple Wagon (https://www.extension.purdue.edu/purplewagon). 46 CONTRIBUTORS

Aarthi Nagarajan is an undergraduate student in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. Namjil Tumur-Ochir Borjigin-Tulga has taught history at Ulaanbaatar University, Mon- golia, for 40 years. His doctoral dissertation was titled “Comparing the Mongolian Family’s Traditions of Upbringing with Other Northeastern Asian Countries.” His research focuses on the Mongolian family and culture, and he has published 160 articles, some in Korean and Chinese, as well as a 15-part series entitled “The Mongolian Family.” Ruchira Tabassum Naved is a scientist engaged in gender research at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international research organization based in Bangladesh. She has made major contributions in identifying factors contributing to violence against women at different levels of Bangladeshi society. Using a cluster ran- domized trial, she is testing out an intervention that addresses the denial of sexual and reproductive health treatment to women, women’s rights, and violence against women and girls in the urban slums of Bangladesh. Annie Neimand is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. Her areas of research include gender, intersectionality, social movements, and strategic social change communications. April L. Nellum is a doctoral candidate at the University of Memphis School of Public Health in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, USA. She has studied HIV prevention among vulnerable populations, with particular interest in heterosexual HIV transmission. Her research interests include understanding the role that media plays in sexual risk-taking behaviors of minority women. She expects to receive her doctoral degree in May 2015. Margaret K. Nelson is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury Col- lege, USA. She is the author of many books including Parenting Out of Control: Anxious ParentsinUncertainTimes(2010). She is working on what are known as “fictive kin” rela- tionshipsandhaswrittenseveralarticlesonthistopic.WithRosannaHertz,shehaswritten several articles on donor-conceived offspring and edited Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (with Anita Ilta Garey, 2014). Barbara Barbosa Neves is Research Associate and Associate Director of TAGlab, Univer- sity of Toronto, Canada. She is also Research Fellow at the Center for Public Administration and Policies and at the E-Planning Laboratory at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. For- merly, she was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Lisbon. Her research intersects the study of social capital, social networks, aging, and information and communication technologies. Her publications have appeared in International Review of Sociology, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Social Science Research, Sociological Research Online, Sociology Compass,andYoung, among others. Patricia Neville is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of gender, media and cultural analysis, sociology of mental health and well-being, and contemporary Irish society. She is Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research has been CONTRIBUTORS 47 published in such journals as Health Sociology Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Men’s Studies,andNew Media & Society.

Kimmery C. Newsom is Assistant Professor in Family Studies within Human Ecology at Kansas State University, USA, at the Salina campus. She holds a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and earned her doctorate in family studies from Kansas State University in 2013 and, upon completion, was hired as faculty at Kansas State. She teaches classes on the family, family diversity, and working with parents. She also maintains a private practice asaLicensedMarriageandFamilyTherapist.

Hoa N. Nguyen is a doctoral candidate at the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Human Development at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. Nguyen was the editorial assistant for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy for two years (2012–14), under the mentorship of Fred Piercy.

Nguyen Thi Van Hanh is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam. She is a member of the Family Research Committee of the Interna- tional Sociological Association. Her publications on family research appear in national and international journals.

Elizabeth Nixon is Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology at the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Nixon’s research focuses on parenting and the experiences of children growing up in divorced families, single-parent families, and stepfamilies. Her research has been published in outlets including Family Relations,theJournal of Family Issues,andtheJournal of Family Psychology.

Kris R. Noam earned her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her dissertation focused on the childrearing practices of intramarried and intermarried second-generation Chinese. She made a cross-national comparison between the United States and the Netherlands to examine the impact of national opportunities and constraints on parenting strategies.

Chamunogwa Nyoni holds a BEd degree in education and an MSc degree in population studies from the Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe, and a DPhil in sociology from the University of South Africa. Currently, he is Chairperson for the Department of Social Work at Bindura University of Science Education. His areas of expertise are health and forgetfulness in old age, intergenerational support and care provision in old age, civic participation and aging, and quality of life among the aged.

Kelly Finch Oakes has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. She currently lives in Canberra with her husband and two stepchildren.

Sharon N. Obasi isAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofFamilyStudiesattheUniversity of Nebraska at Kearney, USA. She teaches courses on human life span development, research 48 CONTRIBUTORS methods and design, and family policy. Her research focuses on parental investment, and hormonalinfluencesontasteandpalatability. Josip Obradovic´ is Full Professor at the Croatian Catholic University. He holds a degree in psychology and sociology and a PhD in sociology. He was employed as Professor at the Fac- ultyofSocialSciences,UniversityofZagreb,formostofhisprofessionallife.Presentlyhe is teaching at the Catholic University of Croatia. He has also taught as a Visiting Professor atmanyuniversitiesinBritain,Canada,andtheUnitedStates.Hismainresearchinterest since the 1990s has been marriage and family with an emphasis on family processes and interactions. He has published more than 100 research papers both in Croatian and English and coauthored the textbook Psychology of Marriage and Family (2006) for students of psychology and similar sciences. Evgeniya Obreshkova is a master’s student at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She was an exchange MA student at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she was also a research assistant. She undertook her undergraduate degree at the University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria. Her main research activities are in the areas of sociology, humancapital,educationpolicies,anddataanalysis.Sheisworkingonvariousprojects studying gender issues.

Ruth M. Olmer is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Springfield, Missouri. She completed her master’s in marriage and family therapy at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA, in 2012 and is a PsyD candidate in clinical psychology. She has also been trained in civil and family mediation through the Center for Dispute Resolution at Missouri State University, USA.

Steven D. Olmer is a Provisionally Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a predoctoral intern at the Burrell Behavioral Health Center in Springfield, USA. He completed his master’s in marriage and family therapy at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA, in 2012 and is a doctoral candidate for a PsyD in clinical psychology.

Loreen N. Olson is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of the Program to Advance Community Responses to Violence against Women at the Uni- versity of North Carolina Greensboro, USA. Dr. Olson’s research focuses, in general, on challenging communication within relationships and families and, in particular, on the dark side of communication, including intimate partner violence, child sexual predator’s lur- ing communication patterns and traumatic brain injury and intimate partner violence. Her work has appeared in several academic outlets including Communication Theory, Journal of Applied Communication, Journal of Family Communication, Communication Monographs, and Human Communication Research. Along with her coauthors, Dr. Olson has published a book entitled The Dark Side of Family Communication (2012) and is working with Dr. Mark A. Fine on an edited volume of empirical research on dark family communication. HatimA.OmarisProfessorofPediatricsandObstetricsandofGynecologyandisChief of Adolescent Medicine and of the Young Parent Program at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is Founder and Chairman of the Stop Youth Suicide Campaign. He has served as CONTRIBUTORS 49 a member of the executive committee of the Section on Adolescent Health of the Ameri- can Academy of Pediatrics and the board of directors of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Dr. Omar has published extensively in all areas of care for adolescents in various peer-reviewed scientific journals, has authored many books, and has been featured in many media outlets. He was the recipient of the Founders of Ado- lescent Health Award: Community Leadership from the American Academy of Pediatrics: Section on Adolescent Health 2007; the Commonwealth of Kentucky Governor’s Award for Community Service and Volunteerism in 2000; the William Lions Award and the Miracle Maker Award in various years; and many others. Elizabeth Omoluabi is Executive Director of the Centre for Research, Evaluation, Resources and Development, Nigeria, and Researcher at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is an accomplished demographer and international consultant. She is an expert in censuses and surveys and a founding member of the Africa Migration Alliance, a research group committed to improving information and policy on African migration. Sunday Tunde Omoyeni works for the International Organization for Migration in Nigeria. He is a demographer by profession and currently serves as a national migration officer in Nigeria. Jamie Oslawski-Lopez is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Her research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods and often uses social psychological perspectives to illuminate processes that create and reproduce inequality by gender, attheworkplace,withinandacrossfamilies,andattheintersectionwheregender,work,and family meet. Her work with Kathryn Lively and Brian Powell, titled “Unequal but Together: Inequality Within and Between Families,” appeared in Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality (2014). Additionally, her work with Rebecca Grady, Rachel LaTouche, Alyssa Powers, and Kristina Simacek, titled “Betwixt and Between: The Social Position and Stress Experiences of Graduate Students,” appeared in Teaching Sociology. Ayça Özen studied social psychology at Middle East Technical University. Her research focuses on close relationships and emotion regulation. She currently works at the Depart- ment of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. Christina Panagakis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Her research explores how social network members influence variation in the timing of pathways, and definitions of adulthood during the transition to adulthood. Nicole C. Panaggio was a sociology and public health major at Elon University, USA. Her honors thesis research investigated the public health implications of family-building choices and reproductive decision-making. She will be attending law school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the fall of 2015. Konstantinos Papazoglou is a psychology doctoral candidate and Vanier Scholar at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. After obtaining his master’s degree in mental health counseling at New York University, USA, as an Onassis Foundation Scholar in 2010, 50 CONTRIBUTORS he worked as a clinician with military personnel and police cadets in Athens, Greece, and inmates in correctional facilities in the state of New York. He has numerous publications on his work in the conceptualization of complex police trauma and community-based trauma prevention through culturally relevant interventions, and he has presented his work throughout North America and Europe. Konstantinos is a lifetime member of the Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society and a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Toby L. Parcel is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University, USA. She has published in the areas of parental work and family effects on child well-being, and also studies the intersection of families and schools, with particular attention to social capital. Her major publications have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family,andSocial Forces. Her current work addresses school–family conflict in Wake County, North Carolina, regarding public school assignment policies, with implications for school resegregation. She is a coauthor of The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments (with Andrew J. Taylor, 2015). Kay Pasley is Norejane Hendrickson Professor Emerita and former Chair of Family and Child Sciences at Florida State University, USA. She is best known for her work on remarriage and stepparenting and on fathering in complex families. She has published numerous papersandbookchaptersaswellasseveralbooksonthesetopics. Perry M. Pauley is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University, USA. His research examines the intersection of interpersonal communication, relationship development, and physical health. Justin W. Peer is Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, USA, where he teaches various undergraduate clinical and developmental psychology courses. His research focuses on stress and coping, with particular focus on the impact of various coping strategies on both mental and physical health. His research has been published in various scholarly journals including Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities. Clayton D. Peoples is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. He earned his PhD in sociology at Ohio State University. His research focuses primarily on issues of social stratification/inequality and political sociology. He teaches in related areas, and has also taught sociology of the family for nearly a decade. Daniel Perlman is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He is editor of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ Contemporary Social Issues book series and served as President of the International Association for Relationship Research (2011–13). He was a student of the distinguished premarital sexual standards scholar Ira L. Reiss, and has intermittently published on young adult sexual behavior throughout his career. Most recently he has focused on the intertwining of sex and close relationships. CONTRIBUTORS 51

Raymond E. Petren is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Relations at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He studies fatherhood across diverse family structures, father identity, nonmarital birth parents, and multiple partner fertility. He has published papers on single fathers and parenting competence. Dang Thi Viet Phuong is a Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, a state academic institution based in Hanoi. She holds an MA in sociology. Her fields of interests are development studies, including social development, civil society, rural development, and gender studies. She has published single-authored and jointly authored articles and books focusing on her fields of interest. Pham Thi Thu Phuong is a Researcher at the National Centre for Socioeconomic Infor- mation and Forecast, Vietnam, and a graduate student in human development and family studies at Penn State University, USA. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to support her master’s work at Penn State. Her research focuses on familial relationships, gender issues, and the labor market transition in Vietnam. She is also interested in connecting research outcomes and policymaking processes for better implementation of development programs. She has publications in the Journal of Family Issues among others. Fred P.Piercy has been the editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy since January 2012. Piercy has written over 175 published articles and 35 funded grants, and has won both university and national teaching awards. Nicole Pierski is a doctoral student in the Sociology Department at the University of Cal- ifornia, Irvine, USA. Her work focuses on issues of gender and culture in various settings, including the public sphere and higher education. Her dissertation examines the persistence of students from traditionally underrepresented groups in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Joy Rayanne Piontak is a Research Analyst at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, USA, where her research focuses on the effect of social context on the health of children and families. Her work examining the role of intergenerational households on the likelihood of depression among mothers of young children has been published in the Journal of Family Issues. She holds a PhD in sociology from North Carolina State University, USA. Hannah Plauche is a doctoral candidate in child and family studies at Louisiana State Uni- versity, USA. Her dissertation project is a qualitative study of couples who have legally separated but decided to reconcile rather than divorce. Chelsea C. Plevinski is a graduate student in human development and family studies at Central Michigan University, USA. She has an associate’s degree in psychology and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and human development. Her current areas of interests are mediation for mothers and couples’ dyadic stress coping. Aaron Poppy received his master of science degree in clinical and community mental health psychology from Western Illinois University and a postgraduate degree certificate 52 CONTRIBUTORS in marriage and family therapy and a doctoral degree in psychology at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. Nick J. Porta received his MA in marriage and family therapy from the School of Profes- sional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. He is pursuing a doctorate degree in clinical psychology at Forest Institute. His professional interests include college counseling, couple therapy, and adult therapy. Stephen Pridgen received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from the Univer- sity of Florida, USA. His areas of research interest include social psychology, social stratification, and political sociology. Daniel J. Puhlman is Assistant Professor in the Child Development and Family Rela- tions Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include co-parenting, fathering, and maternal gatekeeping. Dr. Puhlman primarily teaches under- graduateclassessuchasintroductiontomarriageandfamilies,familyissues,andfamily dynamics. Hanyao Qiu is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. Her research focuses on social stratification, health disparities,andaging.ShehashadanarticlepublishedinSocial Science & Medicine. Nekehia T. Quashie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She received her PhD in sociology at the University of Utah, USA, and has a master’s degree in sociology from the same institution. Her dissertation research involved a comparative assessment of intergenerational support in seven cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research interests include migration and family support, family structures and support and their association with the psychological and physical health of older adults, and older adults’ health including noncommunicable diseases and mental health. In each of these areas she has a keen focus on gendered patterns and comparative methods. Additionally, she is engaged in research on social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, retirement planning and well-being among older adults in Thailand, and the relationships between fertility regimes and socioeconomic development in various regions of Brazil. Marlize Rabe is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Africa. Her research interests are in intergenerational relations and gender dynamics within families. She is a past vice president of the South African Sociological Association and part of the editorial collective of the South African Review of Sociology. Marina Rago is a researcher in sociology and techniques of social research. She was awarded a degree in social studies with greatest honors at the University of Molise after defending an empirical thesis in childhood sociology. She obtained her PhD at the University of Florence in the methodology of social research. She currently works as a content analyst of historical documents, theoretical studies, and investigations that concern children, adolescence and family development at Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence, Italy. Her main research interests are the history of children, human rights, models of family evolution, and social policy. She CONTRIBUTORS 53 is also interested in the critical use of research strategies and in the limits of methods for investigating children, family, and society. Ladan Rahbari is a doctoral candidate in sociology and Lecturer at Ghent University, Belgium. She teaches anthropology and sociology courses at the Department of Social Sciences. She has published several journal and conference papers on gender politics, sexuality, and human rights.

R. Kelly Raley is Professor of Sociology and Training Director at the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her research investigates family trends, the socialdeterminantsoffamilyformation,andtheimpactoffamilychangeonsocialstrat- ification. Kelly Raley is the editor of The Journal of Marriage and Family.

Jennifer Randles is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Fresno, USA. Her research addresses how social and economic inequities affect American family life and how policies address intimate inequalities. Her publications have appeared in Contexts, Gender & Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,andSociology Compass,andalsointheeditedvolume Families as They Really Are (2010; 2nd ed., 2015). Her book Learning and Legislating to Love: Marriage Politics, Education, and Inequality in America is forthcoming.

Avishek Ray hascompletedhisPhDinculturalstudiesatTrentUniversity,Canada.Hisdis- sertation is on what loosely may be called an archaeology of vagabonds; it analyzes cultural representations of the vagabond as a figure seemingly incommensurable with the family, private property, and the state. He has edited an anthology in Bangla on Religion and Popular Culture (2008). Wendel A. Ray is Professor of Family Systems Theory at the University of Louisiana at Mon- roe, USA, and Senior Research Fellow at Mental Research Institute, USA. Siobhan Reilly is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Mills Col- lege, USA. Claire M. Renzetti istheJudiConwayPattonEndowedChairforStudiesofViolenceagainst Women,andProfessorandChairoftheDepartmentofSociologyattheUniversityofKen- tucky, USA. She is the editor of Violence against Women: An International and Interdisci- plinary Journal; coeditor of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press; and editor of the Gender and Justice book series for University of California Press. She has authored or edited 21 books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Rebecca Reviere isProfessoroftheDepartmentofSociologyandAnthropologyat Howard University, USA. She co-founded and directed Howard University’s Graduate Certificate Program in Women’s Studies. She teaches courses in the areas of medical sociology and social psychology. Her recent research focuses on the physical and mental health of women in prison and African American students’ attitudes to romantic relationships. 54 CONTRIBUTORS

Kennon V. Rider is Associate Professor in the College of Education at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates, and is a Certified Family Life Educator. In addition to his academic work, he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and practices in Dubai. Personally and professionally his life has been enriched by living and working in the Middle East for 13years.Hisresearchinterestsincludemateselectionandmaritalquality. Barbara J. Risman is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Univer- sity of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of Families as They Really Are (2010) and Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition (1998), and over two dozen journal articles in journals including American Sociological Review, Gender & Society,and Journal of Marriage and Family.ShewaseditorofthejournalContemporary Sociology.In 2005 she was honored with the Katherine Jocher Belle Boone Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. In 2011 she was honored with the American Sociological Association’s Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. She has served as co-chair and executive officer and is now president of the board of directors of the Council on Contemporary Families. She is vice president oftheAmericanSociologicalAssociationandpresidentoftheSouthernSociological Society. Ana María Rivas holds a doctorate in sociology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM), Spain. She is the Director of the Department of Social Anthropology at UCM and a member of research groups on Employment, Gender and Social Cohe- sion (UCM) and Work and Family Life Encounters (University of Seville). Her research focuses on the new forms of kinship and family, family and public policies, family and labor market, and the anthropology of work. Her latest publications include Hombres y mujeres en conflicto: trabajo, familia y desigualdad de género (Colombian Transnational Families: Transformations and Continuities in Family and Gender Relations, 2009) and Familias transnacionales colombianas: transformaciones y permanencias en las relaciones familiares y de género (Men and Women in Conflict: Work, Family and Gender Inequality, 2008). Tharinia Dukes Robinson is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Piedmont College, USA, where she teaches criminal justice and forensic science curriculum within the School of Arts and Sciences. She is the coauthor of “Oh … It’s Like CSI … ”: A Qualitative Study of Job Satisfaction Experiences of Forensic Scientists (with Ashraf Esmail, 2014). Andrea A. Rodriguez is a graduate of the College of Health and Human Services’ Bachelor of Science in Public Health program at Montclair State University, USA. She has studied African American health, HIV in disadvantaged populations, maternal/child health issues, and the social determinants of health disparities. She is expected to begin her MPH in September 2015. Cassaundra Rodriguez is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the Univer- sity of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her areas of interest focus on the intersections of race, gender,labor,immigration,andthefamily.Hertwopreviousresearchprojectshavedoc- umented the experiences of Latina domestic workers in southern California, and policies CONTRIBUTORS 55 associated with the gendered racialization of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans. Her most recent research project focuses on the discourses surrounding Arizona’s contested Senate Bill 1070.

Yuliana Rodriguez is a doctoral student in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Her research interests focus on the marital experiences of immigrant families, with a particular emphasis on sociocultural context.

Jesús Rogero-García is Lecturer at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid. His research interests include the care of elderly people, child care, time use, and inequalities in education. He was awarded the 2009 IMSERSO Prize in Social Research.

Shirley Rosario-Perez is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy, USA.

Katherine K. Rose is Associate Professor in Early Child Development and Education in the Department of Family Sciences at Texas Woman’s University, USA. She teaches courses on infant/toddler development, early child development, childhood and adolescence, research methods,andlifespandevelopmentatbothundergraduateandgraduatelevels.Her research focuses on parental decision-making about nonparental child care arrangements, and her work has been published in state, national, and international professional journals, such as the Community, Work & Family, Journal of Family Issues,andTexas Child Care Quarterly.

Michael Rosino is a doctoral student and instructor in sociology at the University of Con- necticut, USA. He received his BA in sociology and anthropology from Ohio Wesleyan University, USA, and his MA in sociology from the University of Cincinnati, USA. While his work covers a broad array of topics including families, he also specializes in race, media, and politics. The common theme of his work is a focus on the symbolic dimension of social structures including culture, knowledge, meaning, and communication.

Susan M. Ross is Professor of Sociology at Lycoming College, USA. She is the coauthor of Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq (with Michael Musheno, 2008) and editor of American Families Past and Present: Social Perspectives on Transforma- tions (2006). She teaches across Lycoming’s curriculum, contributing courses in the Sociology–Anthropology Department, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and the interdisciplinary Criminal Justice–Criminology Department. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of New Hampshire and is the recipient of teaching awards from both Lycoming College and the University of New Hampshire. Amy Roth is a student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Chestnut Hill Col- lege, USA, where she is completing a concentration in marriage and family therapy. She is interested in the issues and needs of stepfamilies on both professional and personal levels. Currently, she is mentored and supervised by Scott W. Browning in her clinical work, research, and any family-based coursework. 56 CONTRIBUTORS

Gaston Rougeaux-Burnes is a doctoral student at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. He received his MA in marriage and family therapy in October 2012 and received his doctorate in clinical psychology in October 2014. His doctoral project research focused on young adults’ attitudes toward their decision to choose or not choose cohabitation. Mark Rubens is in the master’s in marriage and family therapy program at the School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute, USA. Marissa M. Rurka is a student in the doctoral program in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University, USA, pursuing a dual title in sociology and gerontology. Sharon E. Rush isAssociateDeanforFacultyDevelopmentandtheIrvingCypenProfessor of Law at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida, USA, where she is also cofounder of theCenterfortheStudyofRaceandRaceRelationsandanAssociateDirectoroftheCenter for Children. She received her BA and JD cum laude from Cornell University, and practiced with the Wall Street firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft in their Washington, DC office before starting her teaching career at DePaul University in Chicago. She joined the University of Florida faculty in 1985 and teaches constitutional law, federal courts, and the Supreme Court. Her research focuses on issues of education and equality. Elisabetta Ruspini is Senior Associate Professor in Sociology (with promotion to Full Professor) at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and Coordinator of the Associazione Italiana di Sociologia (Italian Sociological Association) Research Section Studi di Genere (Gender Studies). She is a board member of the European Sociological Association’s RN33 (Women’s and Gender Studies). She has extensive teaching and research experience, and has published widely on gender issues. She is the main editor of the book series Generi, Culture, Sessualita (Gender, Cultures, Sexualities). Among her recent publications are Diversity in Family Life: Gender, Relationships and Social Change (2013) and Men and Masculinities around the World: Transforming Men’s Practices (ed. with Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle, 2011). Luke T. Russell is a doctoral student in human development and family science at the Uni- versity of Missouri, USA. He studies and has published on health and resilience processes in postdivorce family structures. Julie M. Rutledge is Assistant Professor of Family and Child Studies in the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana Tech University, USA. Her broad area of interest is the social development of children in the context of both families (parent–child relationships especially as theserelatetoobesity)andpeers(youngchildren’ssocialinteractions). Helle Rytkønen is Academic Director at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Denmark and Program Director for the Gender and Sexuality Studies program. She has a PhD in modern thought and literature from Stanford University and taught anthropology, philosophy, and rhetoric at Stanford University from 2002 to 2012. She also taught classes at Hope House, a rehabilitation center in Redwood City, California, for female substance abusers and crimi- nals, from 2008 to 2011. She recently published “Drawing the Line: A Rhetorical Analysis of CONTRIBUTORS 57 the Mohammed Cartoons Controversy as It Unfolded in Denmark and the United States,” in Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora,editedby Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat (2013). Monica Santoro is Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, where she teaches sociologyoffamily.ShehasstudiedthetransitiontoadulthoodinEuropeandfamilychange, with specific focus on the permanence in the family of origin and cohabitation among young people. Lily Sanya works in the area of research and program on migration for the International Organization for Migration. She is originally from Kenya and is working with the Interna- tional Organization for Migration in Abuja, Nigeria. John Scanzoni has a long-standing interest in both historic and contemporary changes in families. These changes are linked to shifts in understandings of gender and of sexuality. Issues of power, conflict, and decision-making are also central to his research and writing. From a theoretical perspective, his concern has been to approach primary relationships as a broad construct under which to conceptualize social bonds based on blood, law, and friendship.Thesebondsmayalsoincludesocialsupportnetworkscalled“fictivekin.” Kristina M. Scharp gainedherPhDattheUniversityofIowa,andisnowAssistantProfes- sorofCommunicationStudiesatUtahStateUniversity.Herprogramofresearchcoalesces around family disruption contexts and includes publications pertaining to adoption, adoption reunion, family estrangement, and social support seeking. In particular, she is interested in the ways communication constitutes what it means to be a family and the ways communication helps families cope with distressing life events. Maria Schmeeckle is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University, USA. She has studied extended families and kinship, adult children in stepfamilies, and, more recently, marginalized children from a global perspective. She is working (with Brian Gran) on a website called Worldwide Outlook for Children, which will display indicators of children’s well-being, rights, and interests globally. Her publications have appeared in the Routledge Handbook of Family Communication (2nd ed., 2013) and the Encyclopedia of Human Rela- tionships (2009) and in the journals Humanity & Society,theJournal of Family Issues,and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Jennifer Schon is a doctoral student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas, USA. Her research examines how information communication technologies influence interpersonal relationships and processes and on the intergroup communication that occurs within marriages. She received the 2014 Outstanding Thesis Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of NCA and work stemming from her thesis won CSCA’s Nancy Burrell Top Student Paper Award. She teaches courses on interpersonal relationships, group communication, and quantitative methods. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan is Professor in the Departments of Human Sciences and Psychol- ogy at Ohio State University, USA, and an affiliate of the Crane Center for Early Childhood 58 CONTRIBUTORS

Research and Policy, USA. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. Dr. Schoppe-Sullivan’s research interests include co-parenting relationships, fathering behavior, and the transition to parenthood. Her research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Schoppe- Sullivan has also received numerous awards recognizing the high quality of her teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students. David G. Schramm is Associate Professor and State Extension Specialist in the Department ofHumanDevelopmentandFamilyScienceattheUniversityofMissouri,USA.Hehas studied religiosity in newlyweds in first marriages and remarriages. Katie A. Schubert is a therapist at a Transitional Living Program for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, run by Family Resources, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. She has an MA in clinical mental health counseling from Adams State University and a PhD in sociology from the University of Florida, with a specialty in sexuality and gender. Walter R. Schumm isProfessorofFamilyStudiesintheSchoolofFamilyStudiesand Human Services at Kansas State University, USA, where he has taught courses in family theory, research methodology and statistics, and marriage preparation since 1979. He has also been teaching a class on Islam for about 10 years. He earned his doctorate in family studies from Purdue University, USA, in 1979. He is a coeditor of the Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach (with Pauline G. Boss, William J. Doherty, Ralph LaRossa, and Suzanne K. Steinmetz, 2009) and a coauthor of Transition to Parenthood (with Roudi Nazarinia Roy and Sonya L. Britt, 2014). He has also published over 250 refereed journal articles or book chapters. In 2002 he retired from the Army Reserve as a colonel, with over 25 decorations for service or merit, including the Legion of Merit. He also serves as a substitute pastor at Ashland Community Church in Manhattan, Kansas. Seth J. Schwartz is Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, USA. He received his master’s degree in family and child sciences from Florida State University and his PhD in developmental psychology from Florida International University. His research interests include parenting and family functioning, identity, acculturation, well-being, and health-risk behaviors. He is President-Elect for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and senior editor of the Handbook of Acculturation and Health (forthcoming) and the Handbook of Identity Theory and Research (2011). Paulo Castro Seixas is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. With degrees in anthropology and in sociology, he has had a career of 25 years in polytechnics and universities as well as a consultancy career. His main research areas are transnational urban studies (with fieldwork in Portugal, Brazil, Roma- nia, and East Timor), as well as the socioanthropology of East Timor. He has 15 published books and dozens of articles. Since 2013 he has been president of the board of Iberoamerican Association for Southeast Asian Studies. CONTRIBUTORS 59

Debbie Sellnow-Richmond is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University, USA. Her interests include participatory community development in the health context and a critical approach to transnational aid. Her research in public relations is forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Communication and Communication Studies. Her professional experiences in community-centered campaigns at the state, national, and international level significantly influence her scholarly approach. Scott Sellnow-Richmond isadoctoralcandidateatWayneStateUniversity,USA.Hestudies interpersonal and family communication and communication pedagogy. Primary research interests address the communicative nature of identity, including LGBTQ, gender, work, and relational identities. He has studied memorable messages concerning body weight and identity, family communication patterns concerning gender displays, and how various identities impact the decision on whether or not new fathers take paternity leave. His work has previous been featured in Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Tamanna Shah is pursuing her doctoral research on how traumatic experiences have recon- figured social life in the Kashmir Valley since the inception of armed insurgency in that state in 1989 at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. She is a former Assistant Pro- fessor of Sociology at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India, and is an alumnus of Kansas State University, USA. Her teaching and research interests include conflict sociology and sociology of religion and culture.

Elizabeth A. Sharp is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Affiliate Faculty Member of Women’s Studies at Texas Tech University, USA. Sheis a Visiting Scholar at the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, and an Associate Researcher for the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, Edin- burgh, UK. She was the Chair of the Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations from 2011 to 2013. Recent publications include “Feeling Like Feminist Frauds: Theorizing Feminist Accountability in Feminist Family Research ina Neoliberal, Post-feminist Context” and “Modeling Innovative Methodological Practices in a Dance/Family Studies Transdisciplinary Project,” both in Journal of Family Theory & Review. With her dance colleague, Genevieve Durham-DeCesaro, she currently has a book contract exploring feminist theoretical and methodological transdisciplinary issues. She serves as an editorial board member for Journal of Marriage and Family and Journal of Family Theory & Review and is chair of the Campus-Wide Gender Equity Council, Texas Tech University.

Constance L. Shehan is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida, USA. Her research and scholarship focus on gender and families, particularly women’s work inside and outside the home. Dr. Shehan coauthored Gendering Bodies (with Sara Crawley and Lara Foley, 2013) and Marriages and Families: Reflections of a Gendered Society (with Kenneth J. Kammeyer, 1997) and edited Through the Eyes of the Child: Re- visioningChildrenasActiveAgentsofFamilyLives(2000). She has published widely on household labor, women’s employment, work and health, and parent–child relationships. She is editor of the Journal of Family Issues. Dr. Shehan is a Fellow of the National Council 60 CONTRIBUTORS of Family Relations and received the organization’s Ernest G. Osborne Award for excellence in teaching about families. She has also served as Chair of the National Council on Family Relations’ Feminism and Family Studies section and has served on its Board of Directors.

Daniel T. L. Shek is Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Associate Vice Presi- dent at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Advisory Professor of East China Normal University, and Honorary Professor of Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, China. He is chiefeditoroftheJournal of Youth Studies andpastconsultingeditoroftheJournal of Clini- cal Psychology. He is Chair of the Action Committee against Narcotics and Chairman of the Family Council of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He has published 85 books, 154 book chapters, and more than 500 articles in international refereed journals.

Kristy Y. Shih is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Central Michigan University, USA. Using qualitative in-depth interview methods, her research engages a critical race feminist analysis of gender and power dynamics as well as mothering and mother-in-law ideology in Taiwanese, Taiwanese American, and Mexican American families. She is the recipient of the Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award (2010) and the John L. and Harriette P. McAdoo Dissertation Award (2010) from the National Council on Family Relations as well as a dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Her current project examines the phenomenon of adult former “parachute kids” and their parents from Taiwan. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Family Issues and the Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology (2010).

Zeinab F. Shuker is a graduate assistant in the master’s program at the Department of Soci- ology, University of Memphis, USA. Her research interests include the political economy of the Middle East, power structures, and patriarchy. Diogo Silva is a sociology undergraduate and a research assistant at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His main research interests are in economic sociology, society and globalization, education, inequalities, and the sociology of sports. He is working on a project on educational evolution in Portugal. Ray Sin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His research interests include sexuality, immigration, race, and gender. He is working on a project together with Barbara Risman, looking at the relationship between acculturation and acceptance of same-sex relationships. Nirbhay N. Singh is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medi- cal College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, USA. His current research interests include systems of care in disability services, mindfulness-based programs for health and well-being as well as for personal transformation, and assistive technologies for people with severe/profound and multiple disabilities (including post-coma persons in a minimally con- scious state and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease). He has over 600 publications and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Family Studies and Mindfulness. CONTRIBUTORS 61

Beth Pamela Skott is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Social Sciences program at the University of Bridgeport, USA. With the help of her husband, four-year- old daughter, and 14-month-old twins, she is striving to find a balance between her work andhomelife.Sheteachesmarriageandfamily,criminology,socialproblems,andresearch methods at the University of Bridgeport and is the coeditor of Research Methods through Active Learning (2013). Noël Slesinger is the editorial assistant for Family Process, which is published at the Family InstituteatNorthwesternUniversity.ShereceivedaBAincreativewritingandpsychol- ogy at Northwestern University and will be completing her PhD in clinical psychology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. EarlSmith isProfessorofSociologyandAmericanEthnicStudiesatWakeForestUniversity, USA. In addition to researching intimate partner violence, he has published in the areas of race and ethnic families, prisons, and extensively in the area of sport sociology. Gregory C. Smith is Professor of Human Development, Family Studies, & Gerontology and Director, Human Development Center in the College of Education, Health, & Human Services at Kent State University, USA. His primary research interests involve informal caregiving within aging families, and his work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Mental Health, and National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Smith is editor of the International Journal of Aging and Human Development, and a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Psychological Association (Divisions 20 and 43). Suzanna Smith is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Relations in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida, USA. Dr. Smith’s research has focused on impacts of changing economic and environmental conditions on women and families in agricultural production in Florida, Haiti, and Burkina Faso. Dr. Smith has developed and delivered extensive training programs on gender and women’s empowerment to international faculty and students in the United States, Cameroon, and Paraguay. In 2014 Dr. Smith helped launch a career resource center at the Agricultural University of Paraguay, and works with a team to develop and expand the presence of women students and leaders at the university. Dr. Smith teaches courses in comparative family studies, family problems, policy, human services, and family violence. Dr. Smith directed Family Album Radio, an award-winning outreach program, for a decade, and recently guided the program’s transition to an online and social media platform. Dr. Smith’s PhD is in child and family development, and she has a master’s in social work from theUniversityofGeorgia.SheistrainedinsocialimpactanalysisandisaCertifiedFamily Life Educator. With Bron Ingoldsby, she coauthored and edited Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective (2nd ed., 2006). Suzanne R. Smith is Associate Professor of Human Development at Washington State Uni- versity Vancouver, USA, where she also serves as Director of Academic Planning. In addition to serving as an administrator, she teaches courses on balancing work and family, human development theories, and family diversity. She is the first author of the book Exploring 62 CONTRIBUTORS

Family Theories (with Raeann R. Hamon, 2012). Dr. Smith’s primary area of research is parent–child relationships, and she has studied these relationships among rural families in poverty as well as among the Hutterites. She has served as president of both the North- west Council on Family Relations and the Teaching Family Science Association, as well as havingservedasamemberoftheBoardoftheNationalCouncilonFamilyRelations. Thomas J. Socha is Professor of Communication, University Professor (of Distinguished Teaching), and Director of the Graduate Program in Lifespan and Digital Communica- tion at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. He has published seven edited or authored books (an eighth is on the way), over 40 chapters/articles, and more than 60 conference papers in family communication, children’s communication, life span communication, and positive communication. He is the recipient of more than 15 awards for teaching and research that include a Finalist for the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year (State Council for Higher Education in Virginia) and the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstand- ing Scholarship and Distinguished Service in Family Communication.

Daniel J. Solernou is a graduate of the University of Florida, USA, with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and political science.

Vladimir V. Solodnikov isProfessorofSociologyattheRussianStateUniversityforthe Humanities in the Sociology Department. He is the author of the monograph Sociology of Socially Maladapted Family (2007, in Russian) and several articles about the problems of modern society, family, and personality.

Irina V. Solodnikova is Professor of Sociology at the Russian State University for the Humanities in the Psychology Department. She has studied development of personality in middle adulthood in Russia. She has published the monograph The Self-Actualization of Personality in Middle Age (2011, in Russian) and several articles about this subject in Russian humanitarian and sociological journals.

Travis D. Speice is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of gender and sexuality and constructions of identity in various social spaces.

Beverly J. Spray is the Research Specialist at the School of Professional Psychology at For- est Institute, USA. She has over 25 years of experience as a researcher and statistician. She currently oversees the Research Office and Writing Center at Forest Institute.

Steven Stack is Professor of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University, USA. He is a prolific writer and one of the most frequently cited scholars in his field. The focus of much of his work is on the risk and protective factors for suicide. Also included are streams of work on the effect of executions on homicide rates, public opinion on crime, the political economy of global income inequality, sociology of research productivity, religiosity, divorce, and deviant sexual behavior. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Barber Fund for Legal Research. CONTRIBUTORS 63

Katie Stamper served as Project Manager for the eXtension Child and Family Learning Network, housed at North Carolina State University, USA. Paul S. Stanford received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Texas A&M University, USA, in 2003. He then attended Nova Southeastern University, USA, and received his master’s degree in marriage and family therapy in 2006. In 2012 he received his doctorate of philosophy in marriage and family therapy. He currently resides in Maryland, USA, where he sees individuals, couples, and families in private practice. Heidi Steinour is a doctoral student and Instructor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. She studies family and work policies, the gendered nature of parenting, and men’s changing roles in family and the workforce. She also writes about theoretical frameworks and qualitative methodologies that advance family studies within sociology. Keli Ryan Steuber is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the College of New Jersey, USA. Her work focuses on how individuals and couples manage privacy and seek support during relational and health transitions, most recently within the context of infertility. She has published in journals such as Family Issues, Journal of Applied Communication Research,andJournal of Social and Personal Relationships. Pearl E. Stewart is Associate Professor of Family Studies at Montclair State University, USA. She has studied African American extended family and kinship networks, including the influence of changes in socioeconomic status within the network, the influence of college attendance on the family relationships of first-generation college students, and West African polygamy. Her publications appear in Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Human Services, Journal of Family History, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, and Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. Darla Still is a doctoral student of sociology at the University of Arizona, USA. Her research interests are health, marriage and families, social relationships, and gender. Her most recent project evaluates the importance of relationship quality in protecting individuals against suicidal thoughts who are currently in a relationship, married, or dating. Stephanie J. Stockburger is Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, USA. She completed her medical school and pediatrics residency at the University of Kentucky. She is part of the Division of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Jodi N. Stooksberry is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Stephen E. Stratton is a tenured librarian at California State University, Channel Islands, USA, and currently serves as the Interim Dean of the Library. He is the author of The Ency- clopedia of HIV and AIDS (2012, Facts on File) as well as other articles and reviews. He has served as co-chair of the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table, the oldest GLBT professional organization is the USA. Debra Street is Professor of Sociology and chairs the University at Buffalo (UB) Depart- ment of Sociology, USA. She is the recipient of the 2011 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for 64 CONTRIBUTORS

Excellence in Teaching, the 2013–14 UB Gender Institute Janice L. Moritz Distinguished Lecture Award, and is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Cara Streit is a doctoral student in the Human Development and Family Studies Depart- ment at the University of Missouri, USA. Her main research interests are in moral development and prosocial behaviors in early childhood, as well as family relationships, including parenting and sibling relationships. Katherine Scott Sturdevant, Professor of History at Pikes Peak Community College, USA, has taught many different American history courses across more than 25 years of full-time teaching, receiving local, state, and national awards for teaching excellence. She designed andtaughtAmericanfamilyhistoryandgenealogycoursesthatmakescholarlymethods accessible to nonscholars and published two related books, Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents (2002) and Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social His- tory (2000). Among her many public presentations, she offers oral history workshops and has specialized in senior citizen and gerontology programs. She contributes regularly to periodicals, conferences, and encyclopedias on social history topics. As a baby boomer, she is a daughter, granddaughter, daughter-in-law, and niece of the Greatest Generation. Amanda M. Stylianou is Director of Research and Evaluation at Safe Horizon and a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University School of Social Work, USA. Ms. Stylianou focuses her career on improving services at the intersection of trauma, mental health, and poverty. In her role at Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading victim services agency, she works with her team to ensure the organization is providing the most effective and efficient services to clients throughout New York City. She is the Principal Investigator on a one-year, longitudinal evaluation of Safe Horizon’s six domestic violence emergency shelters. Ms. Stylianou has published in a variety of journals including Children and Youth Services Review, Journal of Interpersonal Violence,andSocial Work. Ann Swallow is Assistant Professor and Manager of Technical Services at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. She received a bachelor of arts in European history from McGill Uni- versity, Canada, and a master of science in library and information science from Simmons College, USA. She has worked with two research centers, three universities, and one public library. Her research interests focus on challenged materials and censorship in libraries Elizabeth M. Sweeney is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Cincin- nati, USA. Her research interests include the fields of science, knowledge, and technology; medicine; the political landscape of the United States and other nations; inequality; and the family processes associated with bullying behavior. Her master’s thesis, entitled “Defin- ing Reality: How Biomedical Researchers Determine the Existence of Pain,” focused on the reductionistic and objectivist methods characteristic of the biomedical approach to mea- suring pain. Her dissertation work expands on this foundation to examine the moral com- plexities of treating chronic pain. She is the 2010 recipient of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Graduate Student Paper Award in the division of Health, Health Policy, and Health Services. CONTRIBUTORS 65

Taren M. Swindle is Assistant Professor in Family and Preventive Medicine at the Univer- sity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA. She is Co-investigator for a US Department of Agriculture-funded effort to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in low-income children and their families with the aim of preventing obesity. Dr. Swindle’s research focuses on reducing risk factors and promoting health outcomes for families living in poverty.

Jaclyn A. Tabor is a doctoral candidate in sociology from Indiana University, USA, with researchinterestsincludingfamily,gender,socialpsychology,andchildhood.Theseinterests are incorporated into her dissertation, which examines the unique experiences of children of transgender individuals. Other current research projects examine changing popular por- trayals of children over the twentieth century, the association between relationship tenure and household division of labor, and the construction of music festival supportive “communities of need.”

Jane L. Tavares is the current managing editor of Research on Aging.Sheisadoctoralcan- didate in gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research focuses on social engagement and social relationships in later life, aging and health, and race and ethnicity in older adulthood. She is a member of the Gerontological Society of America as well as Sigma Phi Omega, the national gerontological honor society.

Alan C. Taylor is Associate Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Relations at East Carolina University, USA. His research interests are in the areas of grandparent–grandchild relationships, grandfathering, family life education and family theory.

Morgan Sanchez Taylor is a doctoral student studying sociology at the University of Florida, USA. She is studying disabilities and families, focusing specifically on how disability experiences such as stigma are shared by disabled and non-disabled family members. Her master’s thesis explored how the social model of disability could be extended to the sibling experience. Nathan Terrell isagraduatestudentinfamilyandhumandevelopmentatArizonaState University, USA. He is studying the contribution of parenting and peer and teacher relationships to academic achievement, with a particular focus on emotion and regulation. Jennifer A. Theiss is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Rut- gers University, USA. Her research focuses on the role of interpersonal communication in managing turmoil and stress during transitional periods in close relationships and families. She is the recipient of the Early Career Award from the Interpersonal Communi- cation Division of the National Communication Association. She also received the 2012 ArticleAwardfromtheInternationalAssociationofRelationshipResearch,theJohnGarri- son Award for Applied Communication Research from the International Communication Association, and several top paper honors at national and international conferences. She also coauthored the book Interpersonal Communication: Putting Theory into Practice (with Denise Solomon, 2013). 66 CONTRIBUTORS

Dmitry Tikhaze holds a master’s degree and three-year PhD in sociology from the People’s FriendshipUniversity,Russia,wherehehasalsobeenemployed.Heisacoauthorofthebook People in the World of Things (with Anastassia Kurilova, 2010), which concerns the sociology of material and consumer culture, and author of a number of articles in scientific journals and encyclopedias. His scientific interests include the sociology of social changes and everyday life, the sociology of consumer and material culture, and the sociology of language. Funmi Togonu-Bickersteth is a Professor of Psychology with research interest in the area of Gerontology. She is well referenced in gerontology literature in Africa and beyond. She is a member of several editorial boards of gerontology journals across the globe.

Susan D. Toliver is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology, Co- coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, and former Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Science at Iona College, USA. She holds a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her areas of specialization include family, especially work–family intersections, multicultural diversity, race and ethnic relations, sociologicaltheory,andsexandgenderstudies.ShehaswrittenaboutandresearchedUS and especially African American families, multicultural organizational transformation, various aspects of black life and culture, and other subjects. In 2013 she received the American Council on Education, New York State, Women’s Empowerment Award.

Deanna C. Tomasetti is a graduate student at the University of Florida, USA, in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

Kelly Amanda Train holds a PhD in sociology from York University, Canada. She has published several articles and book chapters on issues of race, ethnicity, Canadian immigration policy, families, and Jewish identity. She is writing a book on North African and Indian Jews within the Toronto Jewish community and editing a book on families in Canada. She teaches in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University, Canada. Judith Treas is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA, where she directs the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis. Emphasizing how couples manage their relationships, she has written on household budgeting, the division of housework, child care, and sexual fidelity. Her recent books include The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (ed. with Jacqueline Scott and Martin Richards, 2014) and Dividing the Domestic:Men,Women,andHouseholdWorkinCross-nationalPerspective(ed. with Sonja Drobnic,ˇ 2010). Emily I. Troshynski is Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Her research and teaching focus on the social causes of deviance, violence, and victimization, with a particular focus on gendered violence. Her work has been published in International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, The Handbook of Critical Criminology,and Theoretical Criminology. Ozcan Tunalilar graduated from the University of Florida, USA, in 2012 with an MA in sociology. He is continuing his graduate studies toward a PhD in sociology and is serving CONTRIBUTORS 67 as a Graduate Instructor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. Jenny Uhrich isassistanteditoroftheJournal of Family Social Work.Shehasamaster’sin public administration from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, USA. Rebecca L. Utz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, USA. With training as a social demographer and gerontologist, she has amassed over 35 peer-reviewed publications related to health and aging in America since obtaining her PhD from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 2004. Her recent work with Drs. Dale Lund and Michael Caserta hasbeenfundedbytheNationalInstituteonAgingandtheNationalCancerInstitute, and has focused on evaluating the effectiveness of interventions for recently bereaved older adults. Irem Uz studied social psychology, economics, and business administration in Turkey and the United States. Her research focuses on cross-cultural psychology and judgment and decision-making. She currently works at the Department of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. Manfred van Dulmen is Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, USA. His research areas include adolescent and young adult romantic relationships, developmental psychopathology, and measurement and methodology. Amy M. VanMullekom received her master of science degree in human development and family studies at Central Michigan University, USA. Her thesis work focused on risky sexual behaviors among college students. Lisa J. van Raalte isadoctoralstudentandGraduateTeachingAssociateintheHughDowns School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, USA. As an interpersonal communication and health communication scholar, her research interests focus on how communication in close personal relationships influence psychological and physiological health. Her core research topics include social support, stress, affection, sexual communication, and relational satisfaction. Her methodological design focuses on quantitative survey and experimental research. She aims to examine how communicative behaviors influence physiological responses through salivary measures in future studies. Bethany L. van Vleet is Lecturer at Arizona State University, USA, teaching graduate and undergraduatecoursesinstatistics,researchmethods,andlifespandevelopment.Sheisalso Director of the online master’s program in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. Dr. Van Vleet’s research has covered measurement of ethnic identity, as well as power analyses in latent growth modeling. Masoumeh Velayati is Lecturer in Gender and Development at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK. She has a multidisciplinary educational background in Islam and social science, with particular focus on development, gender, and Islamic feminism. She is the author of Islam, Gender and Development: Rural–Urban Migration of Women in Iran 68 CONTRIBUTORS

(2011). She has also published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books. She has worked in the field of international development for eight years. Haley C. Vellinga is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, USA, in the Depart- ment of Communication Studies. She focuses on adoptees’ discourse of adoptive identity outside familial boundaries. She is interested in understanding the dialectical tensions of nonnormative identities of adoptees and foster care children.

Alaina M. Veluscek is a master’s candidate in the School of Communication at San Diego State University, USA. Her research examines the communication among siblings during life transitions.

Colleen K. Vesely is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science and EarlyChildhoodEducationintheCollegeofEducationandHumanDevelopmentatGeorge Mason University, USA. She received her doctorate in family science from the University of Maryland, USA. Dr. Vesely’s research focuses on understanding how immigrant parents of young children negotiate parenthood, particularly as they navigate the education, child care, healthcare, and social welfare systems in the United States.

Ruben P. Viramontez Anguiano is Associate Professor and founding program leader ofHumanDevelopmentandFamilyRelationsintheSchoolofEducationandHuman Development at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. His research interest focuses on understanding the intersections between underrepresented families, schools, and communities and particularly on immigrant and multigenerational Latino families and educational success. Mindy L. Vulpis is a doctoral candidate in sociology at North Carolina State University, USA, specializing in the sociology of the family and the sociology of work and the economy. Her dissertation research focuses on the relationships between culture, gender ideology, and the allocation of family labor. Phillip E. Wagner is Director of the Core Curriculum and a faculty member at the Univer- sity of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA. His research explores the intersections of body politics and healthcare reform, with a specific focus on gender and inclusivity. Phillip has served as a consultant and advocate for a variety of educational projects, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, including as a content specialist and technical writer with the Dynamic Learning Maps national special education assessment consortium through the United States Department of Education. Laquitta M. Walker is a doctoral candidate in sociology in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, USA. She has studied the racial and ethnic differences in marriage dynamics, African American internal migration patterns, and the relationship between community context and cognitive outcomes for children of immigrants. She is particularly interested in how social and geographic contexts shape a variety of demographic processes. She has a coauthored publication in Social Science Research. CONTRIBUTORS 69

Jill K. Walls is Assistant Professor of Child Development in the Department of Family and ConsumerSciencesatBallStateUniversity,USA.Shehasstudiedtopicsaroundtheinter- sections of work and family, with a focus on employed mothers’ beliefs about mothering and their well-being. She has coauthored articles published in Family Relations, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Family Theory & Review,andWomen &Health. Clare F. Walsh received her doctorate from the University of Florida in 2013. Her dissertation focused on intersectionality and her research interests include sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity, and families. Cheng-Tong Lir Wang is a sociology doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her research primarily centers on globalization (from the perspective of sociological neoinstitutionalism), social movements, law, and East Asian societies. She also has a broad interest in the sociology of gender. Currently, she is working on her dissertation project on the supranational influence on changes in marriage. Kirsten M. Weber is Assistant Professor of Communication at Central Michigan University, USA. Her research interests lie at the intersection of interpersonal and health communication. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how interpersonal relationships both influence and are influenced by illness experiences. Dr. Weber’s most recent work explores how social and medical network members influence treatment decision-making among cancer patients. Her work has been published in Health Communication and Human Com- munication Research, and she has coauthored a number of book chapters on related topics. Donald Weinbrenner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Univer- sity of Florida, USA, and Research Assistant at the Institute for Child Health Policy, USA. He received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Florida, USA, where he also received his master’s degree in sociology. His areas of research interests include family, media, and public health. Carrie Wendel holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas, USA, with a focus on medical sociology. She has taught sociology of families for several semesters as a graduate instructor, and is Research Project Manager in the University of Kansas Office of Aging and Long Term Care. She has worked on research related togrand- parents raising grandchildren and long-term supports and services program evaluation. Her current interests include mental health over the life course, family social policy, and healthcare policy. James M. White is Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and is interna- tionally known for his work in the area of family theory. He is the author of several books, and served as a coauthor on his most recent, Families across the Life Course (2012), with Todd Martin and Silvia Bartolic. He has authored over 35 journal articles and chapters. He is past editor for the Journal of Comparative Family Studies and has served as past president of the Northwest Council on Family Relations and as past chair of the Theory Construction and Research Methodology Workshop hosted by the National Council on Family Relations. 70 CONTRIBUTORS

Mark Whiteley is a graduate student at Arizona State University, USA. He completed an MS in psychology at Brigham Young University, where he studied intermodal affect recognition in infants. He currently studies bullying, specifically its relationship to temperament. JeffriAnne Wilder is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida. As a race scholar specializing in issues of cultural diversity, her primary areas of research include race and ethnic relations – specifically the contemporary experience of black Americans; families; the intersections of race, class, and gender; and the experiences of women of color in higher education. Marion C. Willetts is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University, USA. Her main areas of research interest are coupling policies (including registered domestic partnerships, civil unions, and same-sex marriage) and long-term cohabitation. Her research has been published in Family Relations, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, Journal of Family Issues,andJournal of Marriage and Family. Vinetta Goodwin Witt is Professor of Sociology at Newberry College, USA. She teaches courses on the problems of the population and the environment, race and ethnicity, sociology of aging, social research, and the family in society. Her recent research interest focuses on cancer. She is exploring hereditary and environmental connections in families with a high incidence of cancer. With multiple authors, recent publications on multiple myeloma have appeared in the Blood Journal and the New England Journal of Medicine. Claire Wood is a graduate student in the Human Development and Family Studies Depart- ment at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. She is in a combined MS/PhD program and is expecting to graduate in May 2017. Her research interests revolve around romantic relationships. She graduated from the University of Missouri in 2011 with a BA in psychologyandaBSinhumandevelopmentandfamilystudies. Alesia Woszidlo obtained her PhD from the University of Arizona, USA, and is an interpersonal communication scholar whose specialty is family communication. She examines the intersection of family of origin experiences, mental health (i.e., anxiety, depression, negative affectivity, and stress), communication processes (i.e., conflict resolution strategies, coping, family cohesion and adaptability, and social skills), and relationship quality (i.e., commitment, dedication, divorce proneness, and satisfaction) among young adult and adult family relationships (i.e., marital dyads, parent–child dyads and triads). Ying Yang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylva- nia, USA. Her research interests are race and ethnicity, inequality, social stratification, and wealth. Erica Owens Yeager is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at Anne Arundel Community College, USA. She is also associate editor of the Journal of Family Issues. Her areas of emphasis include romantic dyadic relationships, liminal relationship states, high-conflict couple interaction, blame theory, and social psychology. CONTRIBUTORS 71

Ismael A. Yepes is a fourth-year political science major at the University of Florida, USA. He is actively involved in the politics of the city of Gainesville and the state of Florida. His passions include civic issues and community involvement. He plans to pursue graduate school in the areas of law and government. Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute and Director of Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore. Professor Yeung was a co-principal investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, one of the longest running social science panel surveys. Her research interests are in family demography, education, and stratification in the United States and Asia. She is the Cluster LeaderoftheChangingFamilyinAsiaresearchclusterattheAsiaResearchInstituteandthe Family,Children,and Youthcluster in the Facultyof Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. Professor Yeung is on the editorial boards for Demography, Journal of Family Issues,andJournal of Marriage and Family. She has received numerous awards and published in American Sociological Review, Child Development, Journal of Family Issues,and Journal of Marriage and Family. Samantha K. Yianitsas isamaster’sstudentintheDepartmentofHumanDevelopmentand Family Studies at Texas Tech University, USA. She is also completing a graduate program in women’s studies. Ms. Yianitsas is planning to pursue a doctoral degree in gender studies. She plans to focus her professional pursuits on the impact of sexual histories/choices on adults’ relational status (e.g., singlehood, cohabitation, marriage, divorce). Yuanting Zhang trained as a family demographer at Bowling Green State University and is a Consumer Science Specialist at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), USA. Marc A. Zimmerman is Professor in the Departments of Health Behavior and Health Edu- cation, Psychology, and the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the Uni- versity of Michigan, USA. He is also the current editor of Youth & Society.Dr.Zimmerman’s research focuses on adolescent health and resiliency, and empowerment theory. His work includes analysis of alcohol and drug use, violent behavior, sexual risk behavior, and positive youth development. He also studies developmental transitions and longitudinal models of change. Dr. Zimmerman’s work on empowerment theory includes measurement and analysis of psychological and community empowerment. His work also includes community intervention research and evaluation. Rena Cornell Zito is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Elon University, USA. Her research focuses on the influence of family structure histories on parent–children interaction and adolescent outcomes, with a particular emphasis on the link between family instability and youth deviance. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family,andSociological Perspectives. Barbara Zsembik is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA.