Judith TreasProfessor, Sociology Director, Center for Demographic and Social Analysis (C-DASA) |
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Research Interests |
Inequality, Gender, Family, Aging, Life Course, Social Demography | |
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Academic Distinctions |
President, Pacific Sociological Association Petersen Scholar Award for Aging and Family Sociological Research Association Population Association of America Blue Ribbon Poster Award Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Fellow, Gerontological Society of America Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honorary Society |
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Research Abstract |
Judith Treas joined the UCI Sociology Department in 1989 as its founding chair, having previously served as a faculty member and chair at the University of Southern California. In 1998, she founded the UCI Graduate Program in Demographic and Social Analysis (DASA) and later the campus research Center on Demographic and Social Analysis (C-DASA), which she directs. Engaging issues of inequality, gender, family, and aging and the life course, particularly from a cross-national perspective, her research is represented in over 80 published articles and chapters, as well as in The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Families (edited with Scott and Richards). Her cross-national research on how partners divide the housework is supported by NSF and by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is the U.S. partner in the European Science Foundation (EuroCores Programme HumVIB) collaboration on sustainable gender equality. Her other main line of research, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, considers older adults in America’s immigrant families. Current projects in progress or planning focus on how the study of financial hardship can inform recession narratives, how employment affects family time, and how the prestige of occupations has changed over time. Dr. Treas is President of the Pacific Sociological Association (2009) and has served as the Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Aging and the Life Course. She was facilitator of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee (Population Association of America Subcommittee), which provides technical consultation to the Census Bureau on its projects and products. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America and on the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey. | |
| Publications |
Selected Recent Publications: Judith Treas and Sonja Drobnic (Eds.). In press. Dividing the Domestic: Women, Men and Housework in Cross-National Perspective. Stanford University Press. Judith Treas. 2008. “The Dilemma of Gender Specialization: Substituting and Augmenting Wives’ Household Work.” Rationality and Society 20:259-282. Judith Treas. 2008. “Transnational Older Adults and their Families.” Family Relations 57: 468-478. Judith Treas and Esther de Ruijter. 2008. “Earnings and Expenditures on Household Services in Married and Cohabiting Unions.” Journal of Marriage and Family 70: 796-805. Julianne Ohlander, Judith Treas, and Jeanne Batalova. 2005. "Explaining Educational Influences on Attitudes toward Homosexual Relations." Social Science Research 34:781-99. Esther de Ruijter, Judith Treas, and Philip N. Cohen. 2005. “Outsourcing the Gender Factory: Living Arrangements and Service Expenditures on Female and Male Tasks.” Social Forces 84:306-322. |
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| Grant | "Understanding Gender Inequality in Household Labor". European Science Foundation-EuroCores Programme HumVIB. NSF # SES 0833010 (September 1, 2008-August 31, 2011) $299,165. | |
| Graduate Programs |
Sociology |
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| Research Center | Demographic and Social Analysis | |
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| Last updated | 02/09/2009 | |