Contributors 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 investi- gates 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 undocu- mented students, as well as on how gendered opportunities and expectations and immigra- tion 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 meth- ods. 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 dif- ferent 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 inter- sects 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