University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

 

 

 

Naomi Gerstel

Education and Interests

(Ph.D., Columbia 1978)

Family, Families and Work, Gender, Carework, Race and Care

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

  • “Giving and Taking Family Leaves: Right or Privilege.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, V. 21, #1, Forthcoming.  (Naomi Gerstel and  Amy Armenia)
  •  “Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and EMTs.” Gender & Society, V. 23, # 2:  161-187, 2009.   (Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel)
  • “Employers Meet Families:  Gender, Class, and Paid Work Hour Differences Among Four Occupations.”  Social Indicators Research, Dec. 2008. (Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, and Jillian Crocker)
  • “In Search of Time” Review Essay of Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson, The Time Divide and Harriet Presser, Working in a 24/7 Economy, Science, Vol. 308, Number 5719 April 8, 2005.
  •  “Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy” Contexts, V. 5, #4: 16-22, 2006. (Naomi Gerstel and Natasha Sarkisian)
  • “Extended Family Integration Among Mexicans and Euro-Americans: Ethnicity, Gender and Class” Journal of Marriage and Family, February, 2007. (Natalia Sarkisian, Mariana Gerena, Naomi Gerstel) Race, Class Gender Section Award for Distinguished Article. American Sociological Association, 2008.
  •  "Kin Support Among Blacks and Whites: Race and Family Organization." American Sociological Review, December, 2004. (Natasha Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel).Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries. Nashville: Vanderbilt University.
    Press, 2002. Co-editors Dan Clawson and Robert Zussman.
  • "Caring for Young Children: What the U.S. Can Learn from Some European
    Examples." Contexts, 1(4): 28-35, 2002. (Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel)

Current Grants

  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, “Unofficial Flexibility: An Analysis of Actual Day-to-Day Schedules” (co PI: Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel), 2008-2009.

Pending Grants

  • Contesting Time: Negotiations about Work Hours by Gender and Class. (co-PI Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel)
  • Unpaid Caregiving to Kin and Non-Kin: Race, Gender, and Well-Being. NIH.
    (subcontractor Natasha Sarkisian)

Pending Grants

National Science Foundation Grant & Second Supplemental NSF Grant for “Explaining Job Hours and Schedules: Individual, Familial, and Organizational Processes in Four Health Care Occupations” (co PI: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson), 2006-2009.

2004-05. National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). EMS
Personnel: Work Hours and Schedules. Co-PI: Dan Clawson.

2000-06. American Sociological Association. Editorship of the Rose Series in
Sociology. With Robert Zussman, Randall Stokes, Joya Misra, Dan Clawson, and
Doug Anderton, co-editors.

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