Major Fields
Interpersonal relationships, race/gender, interrelationships between relationships, marital stability and quality, sexuality and sexual norms, account-making and narratives.

Teaching Areas:

• Introduction to Sociology
• Self and Society
• Human Sexuality
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Parent-Child Relations and Families and Individuals over the Life Course

Representative Publications:

• “The Links Between Premarital Parenthood, Meanings about Marriage, and Marital Outcomes,” with S.G. Timmer, Family Relations, 2001.
• “Gender Embedded in Marriage and Family Roles,” with S.G. Timmer, in D. Vannoy, ed., Gender Stratification: Social Construction and Structural Accounts, Roxbury Press:155-164, 2000.
• “The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children,” with A. Thornton and J. Cancio, Marriage and Family Review, 2000. Reprinted in Haworth edited book, Fatherhood, 221-246, 2000.
• “Black Couples, White Couples: The Early Years of Marriage,” with J. Veroff and A. Hunter, in E. Mavis Hetherington, ed., Coping with Divorce, Single-Parenting and Remarriage, Hillsdale, NJ:Erlbaun, 23-43, 1999.

External Web Links

• Curriculum Vitae