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Dr. Sayer is Director, Maryland Time Use Lab, and Professor of Sociology and the editor of Journal of Marriage and Family. Her research agenda focuses on cross-national and historical determinants, patterns, and consequences of inequalities in time use. A Sociologist and Social Demographer, Dr. Sayer has extensive expertise in conceptual and technical advances in analyzing time use data to understand inequalities in daily behaviors, health and well-being. Her research has provided core contributions to social science understanding of durable inequalities in gendered time use that affect individual well-being and relationship quality and the emergence of time inequalities across gender, racial-ethnic, and social class groups. Her work has been published in leading journals in sociology, demography, and family science. Dr. Sayer is currently PI on NICHD RO1 Time Use Data for Health and Well-being. In 2020, Sayer was the Co-PI on two NSF Rapid grants to study time use and mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Long Doan, Associate Professor of Sociology
Long Doan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. He is broadly interested in how various social psychological processes motivate behavior and explain patterns of inequality. In particular, Doan is interested in the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race. His work examines how seemingly subtle differences in evaluations of individuals based on their social characteristics lead to larger, more concrete implications, such as the acceptance or denial of legal rights or decisions related to hiring. |
Dr. Jessica Fish, Associate Professor of Family Science
Dr. Jessica Fish is a human development and family science scholar whose research focuses on the positive development and health of LGBTQ+ people and their families. |
Dr. Melissa Milke, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Melissa A. Milkie is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. She recently served as President of the Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) and is one of the leads for the Care Economies in Context project at the Centre for Global Social Policy at Toronto. Dr. Milkie’s expertise lies in the areas of time use, gender, the work-family interface, culture, and mental health. Her work has examined changing time allocations of and time pressures on parents; refugee mothers’ strains as they integrate children into new communities; and cultural aspects of parenthood in media. Central to her scholarship is highlighting the complexities and social factors linked to how people spend their time and experience their daily lives. Some of her key impacts in family sociology include research that examines the changing work structures and cultural landscapes that shape well-being at work and at home over recent decades. Her work highlight stress processes at individual and family levels and includes contributions to the demands-rewards perspective on parenting. With unique expertise in time use and health, Professor Milkie recent work focuses on how people make meanings about spending time together, including during the pandemic; and her recent work examines cross-country comparisons of “time problems” at the societal and individual levels. Currently, Dr. Milkie is writing a book (with Profs. Liana Sayer and Kei Nomaguchi) entitled Parents Under Pressure: How Mothers and Fathers Spend and Feel about Their Time. Professor Milkie was recently named as one of the top-cited work-family researchers in the world by the Work-Family Researchers Network (WFRN). She’s published in journals such as American Sociological Review (ASR), British Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Society and Mental Health and Social Psychology Quarterly and is author of the award-winning book Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. Dr. Milkie is Principal Investigator of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant and has been supported by a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Professor Milkie has been deputy editor at ASR and Gender & Society and she served as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Advance Professor of Inclusive Excellence at Maryland. |
Dr. Kei Nomaguchi, Professor of Sociology, Bowling Green University
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Dr. Julie Park, Associate Professor of Sociology
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Dr. Joanna Pepin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Dr. R. Gordon Rinderknecht, Associate Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corp.
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Affiliated Students
Layne Amerikaner, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
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Hope Xu Yan, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
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