EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Davis, 1976.

• M.A., Sociology, University of California, Davis, 1973

• B.A., Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 1969.

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Petersen Visiting Scholar in Gerontology and Family Studies, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University, winter quarter, 1998

• Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, Cleveland State University, 1996

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Sociology of Aging, Qualitative Methods, Marriages and Families, Childhood, Gender, Deviant Behavior

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Older family ties, everyday life of inner-city children, urban university students

PUBLICATIONS

     Books

• Sisters and Brothers/Daughters and Sons: Meeting the Needs of Old Parents.  Bloomington, IN: Unlimited Publishing, 2003.

  (Chapter 2 reprinted in Aging and Everyday Life, Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein, editors.  Malden, MA: Blackwell , 2000.)

  Friendships through the Life Course: Oral Biographies in Old Age. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1986.

• The Social World of Old Women: Management of Self Identity. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1972.

     Recent Articles

• "Meeting Filial Responsibilities in Brothers-only Sibling Groups." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 42B: S278-S286 (September, 1998). (with Jenifer Heidorn)

• "Caught in the Middle: Occupancy in Multiple Roles and Help to Parents in a National Probability Sample of Canadian Adults," Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 40B: S274-S283 (November, 1996). (with C. J. Rosenthal and A. Martin-Matthews)

• "Gender and the Division of Filial Responsibility Between Lone Sisters and Their Brothers," Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 39: S312-S320 (September, 1995).

      Selected Book Chapters

• "Social Change and Aging in a Religious Community.," in Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein (Ed.), Ways of Aging, Blackwell, 2003.

  "Brothers and Parent Care: An Explanation for Sons' Under representation," in Betty J. Kramer and Edward H. Thompson, Jr. (Eds.), Men as Caregivers: Theory, Research, and Service Implications.  New York:  Springer, 2002.

  "Counterfeit Classrooms: School Life of Inner-city Children."  Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Plenum., 2002.

• "Societal Aspects of the Aging Self in the Context  of the Family,"  in K. Warner Schaie and Jon Hendricks (Eds.), The Evolution of the Aging Self.  New York: Springer, 2000.

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

• "Social Support of Unmarried Men During the Depression."  Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston November, 2002. (with Ruth E. Dunkle).

• "School Life for Lesbian and Gay Teachers:  Managing Uncertainty." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002, (with Jason Weiner).

• "Doing Lunch in an Inner City Elementary School: The Construction of Children's Relationship to Authority."  Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Chicago, August, 2002.

• "Viewing Urban Children as Recipients of Carework: The Other Side."  Paper presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the Carework Network Conference, Chicago, August 15, 2002.

• "Acceptable Clients: A Foundation As Social Service Agency To The Elderly In Detroit From 1929-1987.", Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington D.C., November, 2001 (with Ruth E. Dunkle, Amy Schiller, and Nina Rhee).

• "Non-traditional students or non-traditional universities?  Urban students' views of their college experience." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the North Central Sociological Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April, 2001.

• "An explanation for brothers' poor representation in the caregiving literature."  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of  America, Washington D.C., November, 2000.

• "Ethnographic research with inner-city kids:  Applying the new sociology of children."  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the North Central Sociological Association, Troy, MI, April, 1999. 

• "Jobs and parent care:  Is employment status too simple a measure?"  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Philadelphia, November, 1998. 

• "Societal Aspects of the Aging Self in the Context  of the Family." Discussant for paper at Conference on Societal Aspect of the Aging Self, Pennsylvania State University, October 12-13, 1998.  (invited and non-refereed)

• "Where are the Parents in Parent-care Research?"  Petersen Visiting Scholar Public Lecture, Oregon State University, March 3, 1998.

• "Older Sons' Relationships with Very Old Parents."  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Cincinnati, 1997.

• "Taking Parents' Wishes into Account." Paper presented at the European Congress on Gerontology, Amsterdam, September 1, 1995.

• "Filial Role Enactment in Brothers-Only Sibling Groups." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C., August, 1995 (with Jenifer Heidorn).  (Currently under review)

• "Intra-cultural Cross-cultural Research? Middle-aged Ethnographer Meets Early Adolescents." Paper presented at the Qualitative Research Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, May 30-June 2, 1995.

FUNDED PROJECTS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

• Principal Investigator, "The Urban University through Students' Eyes."  Funded by Ernest A. Lynton Grant from Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2000-2002.

• Co-investigator with William R. Morgan, Principal Investigator, "Mother's Drug Treatment and Children's Resiliency." Funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, 1995-2000.

SERVICE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1997-

• Associate Editor, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985-1986; 1989-

• Associate Editor, Journal of Aging Studies, 1986-