social policy — şÚÁϲ»´ňěČ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:37:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Madonna Harrington Meyer /faculty-experts/madonna-harrington-meyer/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:49:58 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158964 Madonna Harrington Meyer is a University Professor and professor of sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at şÚÁϲ»´ňěČ. Meyer is also the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence.

Professor Meyer serves as a senior research associate at the and as a faculty affiliate in both the and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. She studies social policy at the intersection of aging, gender and life course.

Meyer is co-author of Grandparenting Children with Disabilities (2020) and co-editor of Grandparenting in the United States (2016), both with Ynesse Abdul-Malak. In 2007 she co-authored Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age, which won the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Book Award. In 2016 she was named winner of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course (SALC) Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award.

Meyer has published over 50 scholarly articles and her work appears in leading journals including American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Gender & Society, and Social Problems. Her research has been reported in the media including New York Times, NPR, US News and World Report, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and LA Times.

]]> Colleen Heflin /faculty-experts/colleen-heflin/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:55:34 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=134318 Colleen Heflin is a Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research. Dr. Heflin conducts policy-relevant research that sits at the boundaries of sociology, economics, public health, public administration, and women’s studies. The broad aim of her research is to understand the processes that create systems and patterns of social stratification and, more specifically, to examine welfare policy and the well-being of vulnerable populations, with a particular emphasis on the causes and consequences of material hardship. In a recent project, Dr. Heflin analyzed how specific shocks to family stability, such as unemployment or becoming disabled, lead to particular kinds of material hardship, such as medical or housing hardship. Other recent projects have examined how the population using food stamps and unemployment insurance has changed with the Great Recession; how the experience of material hardship affects couples’ decisions to marry; how children’s participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) affects their households’ overall food insecurity; and how veterans’ well-being and social program participation compares to that of other groups. Colleen received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2002.

]]> Christopher Faricy /faculty-experts/chris-faricy/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:26:21 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103952 Christopher Faricy is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of şÚÁϲ»´ňěČ.

He specializes in American politics, social policy, political economy, income inequality and public opinion and teaches courses in American Politics, The Politics of Income Inequality, Introduction to Political Analysis, Social Welfare Seminar, Political Parties and Elections Seminar,

Dr. Faricy’s expertise lie in a variety of issues like public policy, political economy, political institutions, and public opinion. He is the author of  and is currently working on a new manuscript Public Opinion, Race, and Social Spending in America coauthored with Christopher Ellis and funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. This research explores how citizens form opinions toward social spending issues, and how policymakers respond to such opinions when crafting policy.

 

 

 

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