Sociology Department

Susan Walzer
Professor of Sociology

Office:  224 Tisch Learning Center
Telephone: (518) 580-5424
Email:  swalzer@skidmore.edu

EDUCATION

• PhD, Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1995
• MSW, Smith College School for Social Work, 1983
• AB, English, Brown University, 1980

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Close Relationships, Emotions, Families, Gender, Social Psychology, Social Research Design and Qualitative Methods, Student and Faculty Cultures

COURSES

• Family Connections (SSP100)
• Individual in Society (SO202)
• Families in the United States (SO217)
• Close Relationships (SO224H)
• Social Research Methods (SO227)
• Sociology of Emotions (SO304)
• Studying Student Worlds (SO332)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

• Thinking about the Baby: Gender and Transitions into Parenthood.  1998.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

• Gender and the Culture of Heterosexual Marriage (coauthored with Karyn Loscocco).  2013.  Journal of Family Theory & Review 5:1-14.
• Crossing Generational Divides: Experiences of New Faculty in Higher Education (coauthored with Cathy Trower).  2010.  Metropolitan Universities 21:35-44.
• Redoing Gender through Divorce.  2008.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 25:5-21.
• Children’s Stores of Divorce.  2006.  In Couples, Kids, and Family Life, edited by Jaber Gubrium & James Holstein.  New York: Oxford University Press.
• Encountering Oppositions: A Review of Scholarship about Motherhood.  2004.  In Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future, edited by Marilyn Coleman & Lawrence H. Ganong.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Accounting for Divorce: Gender and Uncoupling Narratives (coauthored with Thomas P. Oles).  2003.  Qualitative Sociology 26:331-349.
• Managing Conflict after Marriages End: A Qualitative Study of Narratives of Ex-Spouses (coauthored with Thomas P. Oles).  2003.  Families in Society 84:1-9.
• Developing Sociologists through Qualitative Study of College Life.  2001.  Teaching Sociology 29:88-94.

SELECTED HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

• Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, August 2013-June 2014
• The Hoffman Lecture in Sociology and Social Policy, Russell Sage College, March 2010
• Radcliffe Fellow, Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Spring 2000
• Finalist, William J. Goode Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section, 1999
• Paul Meadows Award for Excellence in Teaching, University at Albany, 1993