Executive Committee

Toni C. Antonucci (ex officio)

Professor Antonucci’s research focuses on social relations and health across the life span, including multigenerational studies of the family and comparative studies of social relations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. She is currently collecting a second wave of data on the Social Relations and Health across the Life Span study.

Professor Antonucci earned her PhD from Wayne State University.

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Elizabeth Cole (ex officio)

Professor Cole’s scholarship examines the social construction of categories such as gender, race, and social class through a combination of theoretical and empirical work employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her empirical work aims to develop historically specific and culturally grounded conceptualizations of race and gender to understand group differences and similarities, with special attention to the ways these social categories depend on one another for meaning and are jointly associated with outcomes.

Professor Cole holds a PhD in psychology (personality) from the University of Michigan.

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Sandra (Sandy) Danziger

Sandra Danziger is director of the Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy at the Ford School. Her primary research interests are the effects of public programs and policies on the well-being of disadvantaged families, poverty policy and social service programs, demographic trends in child and family well-being, gender issues across the life course, program evaluation, and qualitative research methods. Her current research examines the role of welfare policy and programs in addressing barriers to work among single mothers. She is evaluating a family support program provided by Starfish Family Services, and she conducted an implementation study of Michigan's Jobs, Education, and Training pilot projects. She was a principal investigator on the Women's Employment Study. Professor Danziger previously researched how Michigan's General Assistance welfare recipients fared after Governor Engler terminated this income support program.
Professor Danziger earned her PhD in sociology from Boston University.

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Jacquelynne S. Eccles (ex officio)

Professor Eccles has served on the faculty at Smith College, the University of Colorado, and the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on topics ranging from gender-role socialization and gendered life choices, classroom influences on motivation to social development in the family, school, peer and wider cultural contexts. She served as chair of the Combined Program in Education and Psychology repeatedly over the last 30 years and was the assistant vice president for research at the University of Michigan from 1987 to 1989. She is past president of the Society for Research on Adolescence and of Division 35 (the Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and past chair of the National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) Committee on After-School Programs for Youth. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and now serves on its governing board. Most recently, she helped create and then direct two international graduate and postdoctoral training programs in developmental sciences.  Dr. Eccles’s  awards include: the Spencer Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Young Scholar in Educational Research, the Sarah Goddard Power Award for Outstanding Service from the University of Michigan, the American Psychological Society (APS) Cattell Fellows Award for Outstanding Applied Work in Psychology, the Society for the Study of Social Issue’s Kurt Lewin Award for outstanding research, the Life-Time Research Award from SRA, Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the APA and the Society for Research on Human Development, and the Mentor's Award from Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of APA.

Professor Eccles earned her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1974.

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David Halperin

Professor Halperin, a scholar of ancient Greek literature and philosophy as well as a historian of sexuality, helped to establish the fields of lesbian and gay studies and queer theory. In addition to cofounding and coediting GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, he has written or edited nine books, including One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love (Routledge, 1990); The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993); Saint Foucault (Oxford University Press, 1995); What Do Gay Men Want? (University of Michigan Press, 2007; rev. ed. 2009); Gay Shame, with his University of Michigan colleague Valerie Traub, based on a 2003 conference cosponsored by IRWG (University of Chicago Press, 2009); and How To Be Gay (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

Professor Halperin earned his PhD in classics and humanities from Stanford University (1980).

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Carol Jacobsen

Carol Jacobsen is an award-winning social documentary artist whose works in video and photography address issues of women's criminalization and censorship. Her art has been exhibited and screened at venues worldwide, including New York's Lincoln Center, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Centre de Cultural Contemporanea in Barcelona, the Kunstforum in Bonn, the Brussels International Film Festival, Rome's Temple Gallery, the Photography Biennial of Wanganui, New Zealand, Human Rights Watch of Beijing, and by many grass roots organizations.

Professor Jacobsen earned her MFA from Eastern Michigan University in 1980.

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Deborah Keller-Cohen (ex officio)

Professor Keller-Cohen’s scholarly interests are in language and aging, narrative, discourse analysis, and literacy in modern and colonial America. She has conducted research in a wide range of areas using ethnographic, experimental, archival, and textual methodologies. Her work on literacy has examined both contemporary and historical American contexts with a focus on everyday understandings of reading, writing, and speaking. She has examined literate practices in a credit union, how people understand and use the phone bill, and how colonial Americans conceived of literacy.

As a discourse analyst, her work has explored how people tell their life stories with particular emphasis on individual and gender-related differences. Her newest line of work concerns language and aging with a focus on the oldest old, those over 85. In particular, she is examining the relationship between the maintenance of language skills and the nature of one's social environment and how gender, education, and cognition affect that relationship.

Professor Keller-Cohen earned her PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974).

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Michelle McClellan

Professor McClellan is especially interested in issues of place and memory, and has embarked on a study of heritage tourism at the sites associated with the Little House… books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Professor McClellan earned her PhD from Stanford University (2000).

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Hannah Rosen

Dr. Rosen is a historian whose research and teaching have focused on the social and cultural history of the 19th-century United States, and particularly on the intersection of race and gender in histories of slavery, emancipation, and postemancipation society. She is the author of Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (University of North Carolina Press, 2009, recipient of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize, the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians, and the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association of Women’s Historians).

Her current research treats African American experiences surrounding death and mourning during and after the Civil War and the increasing segregation of southern cemeteries in the postemancipation period. In this project, she also explores historical memory and commemoration through black women’s efforts to reclaim and restore African American burial sites.

Dr. Rosen earned her PhD in history from the University of Chicago (1999).

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Carolyn M. Sampselle

Professor Sampselle’s primary research focus is self-management in the context of the prevention and treatment of urinary incontinence in women. She also performs community-based research with an emphasis on establishing productive partnerships with members of the community.

Professor Sampselle earned her PhD from the University of Michigan (1985).

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Rachel Campbell Snow

Professor Snow conducts clinical, epidemiologic, and social research on the implementation of health technologies and services in resource-poor countries. In particular, she has examined the factors that affect the use of reproductive technologies and HIV care, and has helped design and evaluate reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs across Africa and Asia, with sustained work in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, South Africa, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and China.

Professor Snow earned her SD in population sciences from Harvard University (1988).

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