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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

Alison Bianchi, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Director of the Center for the Study of Group Processes

Sarah Harkness, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor

Jennifer Haylett, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Sociology

Karen Heimer, PhD
Title/Position
Professor
Collegiate Fellow

Steve Hitlin, PhD
Title/Position
Professor

Mary Noonan, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor