Reflecting recent growth and development in the field, the Iowa program includes changes in marriage and fertility patterns, work and family issues, and cross-cultural family patterns. Current faculty research includes the effects of public and private family support systems, gender and deviance, gender and emotion, gender patterns in interaction, and the role of motherhood in limiting women's labor market success.

Gender and family faculty

Andrea Bianci

Alison Bianchi, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Director of the Center for the Study of Group Processes
Sarah Harkness

Sarah Harkness, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Jennifer Haylett

Jennifer Haylett, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Sociology
Karen Heimer

Karen Heimer, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Collegiate Fellow
Steve Hitlin

Steve Hitlin, PhD

Title/Position
Professor
Mary Noonan

Mary Noonan, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor