Madonna Harrington Meyer - Gerontology: Changes, Challenges, and Solutions [2 Volumes]

Editors

Madonna Harrington Meyer, PhD, is chair of sociology, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, and faculty associate of the Aging Studies Institute, at Syracuse University. She is co-editor, with Ynesse Abdul-Malak, of the forthcoming Grandparenting in the United States. She is author of Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs, winner of the 2014 GSA Kalish Book Award. She is co-author with Pamela Herd of Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age, winner of the 2008 GSA Kalish Book Award. She is also editor of Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State.

Elizabeth A. Daniele, MS, is a PhD student and fellow in sociology at Syracuse University. She is a co-editor of Student Involvement and Academic Outcomes: Implications for Diverse Student Populations (2015). She also co-authored a chapter about diversity in American graduate education in International Perspectives in Higher Education Admission Policy: A Reader (2015). She has a BA from Smith College and an MS in higher education administration from the University of Rochester.

Contributors

Ynesse Abdul-Malak, MA, MPH, is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Syracuse University. Her work focuses on understanding how social structures impact the aging processes of individuals over the life course with a special emphasis on U.S. Caribbean immigrants. She is the coeditor of Grandparenting in the U.S . (in press). She is currently coauthoring a book manuscript, Grandparenting Children with Disabilities .

Vern L. Bengtson, PhD, is research professor in the Edward R. Royal Institute on Aging at the University of Southern California. A Past President of the Gerontological Society of America, he has published 17 books and over 250 articles in the sociology of aging and family sociology. He is author of Families and Faith: How Religion Is (and Isnt) Passed Down Across Generations (2013), winner of the 2015 GSA Kalish Book Award, and editor (with Richard Settersten) of the Handbook of Theories of Aging (2016).

Heidemarie Blumenthal, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Texas. She is the director of the Teen St. A.R. Laboratory at the University of North Texas; as a developmental psychopathologist, her work reflects an intersection between traditional developmental and clinical domains.

Evan Chartier, BA, is a Colgate University graduate where he majored in sociology, anthropology, and womens studies. Evan is also a student affairs professional, social justice educator, and is currently pursuing a masters degree in global studies and international relations.

Marguerite DeLiema, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity. She received her doctorate in gerontology from the University of Southern California in 2015 and has authored numerous publications on elder abuse and neglect. Her current work at Stanford University centers on measuring the cost and prevalence of financial fraud in the United States, with a particular focus on protecting vulnerable adults from exploitation. She works with fraud investigatory agencies and financial institutions to develop fraud prevention strategies.

Sarah Desai, MA, is a PhD student in sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She coauthored a chapter, Planning for Old Age, in the Handbook of the Sociology of Aging (2011). She has a BS from Houghton College and an MA in sociology from the University at Buffalo.

Nicole Etherington is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation research focuses on gender and well-being over the life course, with particular interests in intersectionality, childhood poverty, and the cumulative effects of disadvantage in womens lives. Her recent work on the intersections of race and gender in shaping womens psychosocial resources and subsequent health outcomes is available in Women & Health . Nicoles commitment to gender- and feminist-based research has been recognized with an Ontario Womens Health Scholars Award.

Bert Hayslip Jr., PhD, is Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. An associate editor of Experimental Aging Research and of Developmental Psychology, his coauthored books include Emerging Perspectives on Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life (2012), Resilient Grandparent Caregivers: A Strengths-Based Perspective (2012), Adult Development and Aging (2011), and Parenting the Custodial Grandchild (2008). He is co-PI on an NINR-funded project exploring interventions to improve the functioning of grandparent caregivers.

Robert B. Hudson, PhD, is professor of social policy at Boston University School of Social Work, where he directs the Lowy-GEM Program in Gerontological Studies. He has served as editor-in-chief of Public Policy & Aging Report, the quarterly publication of the National Academy on an Aging Society since 1996. The third edition of his volume The New Politics of Old Age Policy was published in 2014. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meika Loe, PhD, is professor of sociology and womens studies and director of the Womens Studies Program at Colgate University in New York, where she teaches courses on aging, gender, culture, and medicine. She is the author of Aging Our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond (2011) and The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America (2004). She is coeditor (with Kelly Joyce) of Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness through an Aging, Science, and Technology Lens (2010).

Andrew S. London, PhD, is professor of sociology and affiliated with the Aging Studies Institute, Center for Policy Research, and Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. His research focuses on the health, care, and well-being of stigmatized and vulnerable populations. His research on veterans is published in Archives of Sexual Behavior ; Disability and Health Journal ; Journal of Aging and Health ; Journal of Family Issues ; Journal of Gerontology, Social Sciences ; Journal of Marriage and Family ; Population Research and Policy Review ; Research on Aging ; and Sociology & Social Welfare . With Janet M. Wilmoth, he edited Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service (2013).

Jan E. Mutchler, PhD, is professor of gerontology and director of the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Recent publications include The Elder Economic Security Standard Index: A New Indicator for Evaluating Economic Security in Later Life ( Social Indicators Research , 2015) and The Role of Aging and Disability Resource Centers in Serving Adults Aging with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families: Findings from Seven States ( Journal of Aging and Social Policy , forthcoming). She is the research lead on the Age-Friendly Boston Initiative, a collaboration with the City of Boston and AARP Massachusetts.

Tanya Sanabria is a PhD student in sociology at University of California, Irvine. She is currently a NLSY Postsecondary Research Network fellow. Her research interests focus on the consequences of failure in education, including impacts on marriage and family, through a life-course perspective. She has authored a related entry in The Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society (2015) and coauthored an entry about Asian for-profit after school programs (termed hagwons) in Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia (2014). She received her BA from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.