Forrest Briscoe is assistant professor of management, Smeal College of Business at Penn State. Briscoe’s research asks how organizations and institutions change, especially in relation to the needs of diverse workers. He has recently studied the organizational antecedents of career flexibility among professionals, the transitioning of corporate employees to managed health care, and the rapid diffusion of domestic partner benefits.
Kelly Chermack is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of study include organizational change and innovation, as well as social networks.
Kelly D. Davis is a doctoral candidate in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. Her research focuses on how work conditions are related to individual and family well-being. Currently she is examining the connection between work and family experiences, as well as the link between work and health, at the daily level using daily diary and biomarker data from hotel workers and their family members.
Brian Distelberg is a doctoral candidate in the department of Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University. Brian is a practicing marriage and family therapist, and has experience in researching family and work-related issues.
Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesús is visiting assistant professor in psychology and senior research associate, Burton Blatt Institute Centers of Innovation on Disability at Syracuse University. Her research examines the stressors faced by working-poor families of diverse ethnic backgrounds and the impact on family processes and well-being. She also seeks to understand, through the use of qualitative and quantitative data, how family experiences spill over to the work domain and vice versa.
Ellen Ernst Kossek is professor of human resource management and organizational behavior in the School of Labor & Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. She is an internationally recognized scholar who studies workplace flexibility, employer support of work and family, and workplace inclusion and innovation from the manager and employee perspectives. She is associate director of the Center for Work, Family Health and Stress as part of the National Institute of Health’s Work, Family, and Health Network. Her newest book is CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age (with Brenda A. Lautsch, Wharton School Publishing, 2008).
Chai R. Feldblum is professor of law and codirector of Workplace Flexibility 2010 at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for codirecting the strategy, legislative-lawyering, policy-research, media, and constituent-outreach components of Workplace Flexibility 2010. Feldblum served as one of the principal lawyers drafting and negotiating the Americans with Disabilities Act during 1988–1990, as well as the ADA Amendments Act during 2007–2008.
Netsy Firestein is founder/director of the Labor Project for Working Families, a national nonprofit organization working with labor unions to negotiate and advocate for better work-family policies, including child care, paid family leave, elder care, and flexible work hours. As a nationally recognized expert on labor and work-family issues, she has more than 20 years’ experience working with labor unions on work-family issues and developing contract language.
Ellen Galinsky is president and cofounder of the Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based nonprofit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce, and changing community. She codirects two of the most comprehensive and in-depth nationally representative studies of the workforce (National Study of the Changing Workforce) and the workplace (National Study of Employers). Both are updated regularly and provide extensive information about the changing nature of work and family. Findings are widely used by policymakers, employers, and the media.
Jennifer Glass is professor in the department of Policy Analysis and Management and the department of Sociology at Cornell University. Her research interests include work and family life, gender stratification, organizations, and mental health. She is currently researching the effects of family-responsive policies on mothers’ earnings. Another of her projects explores the influence of religiosity and religious fundamentalism on the labor force behavior and occupational attainment of women.
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus is professor and William A. Mackie Chair in the department of Management at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. His primary interest concerns career-related issues, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of work and family lives. He has conducted research on the antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict as well as on the factors that contribute to work-family enrichment, the positive side of the work-family interface. He is currently examining the meaning and determinants of work-family balance and the role of gender in work-family processes.
Erin Kelly is associate professor of sociology at University of Minnesota and an affiliate of the Minnesota Population Center. Kelly studies the adoption, implementation, and consequences of antidiscrimination and family-friendly policies. She received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for work-family research in 2000. Kelly and Phyllis Moen are collaborating with other scholars in the Work, Family, and Health Network to study innovative workplace policies that may reduce work-family conflict.
Susan J. Lambert is associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. She is particularly interested in organizational theory and management, the relationship between work and personal life, and lower-skilled jobs and low-wage workers. Lambert is currently coprincipal investigator of a cluster-randomized field experiment that assesses the worker- and store-level effects of a workplace intervention intended to improve scheduling practices in entry-level retail jobs. Lambert has published extensively on issues of labor market stratification, employer practices, and employee wellbeing.
Shelley M. MacDermid is professor of family studies, director of the Center for Families, and former codirector for the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. The institute assists the secretary of defense in studying and developing policies related to quality of life for military families. Her research focuses on relationships between job conditions and family life, with special interests in organizational size, adult development in the context of workplaces, and organizational policies that are more or less supportive of workers’ lives.
Ruth Milkman is professor of sociology at UCLA. From 2001 to 2008, she served as director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She recently conducted a study of California’s paid family leave program, with a special focus on its impact on low-wage workers. She often writes and lectures about the sociology of work and labor. Her most recent book is L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).
Phyllis Moen holds the McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Moen studies occupational careers, gender, families, and well-being over the life course. She is the founder of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center at Cornell University and the 2008 recipient of the Work-Life Legacy Award from the Families and Work Institute.
Colleen Pagnan is a doctoral student in the department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. Currently, she is a research assistant with the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue. Her research focuses on the relationship between work and family, with a particular focus on the plans and strategies individuals use to achieve career and family goals, the ways that military service shapes family relationships, and policy initiatives that enable individuals to achieve their career and family goals.
Maureen Perry-Jenkins is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work focuses on the ways in which sociocultural factors such as race, gender, and social class shape the mental health and family relationships of employed parents and their children. Her current research involves a 10-year longitudinal study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, that examines the transition to parenthood and the transition back to paid employment for working class, low-wage couples and for African American, Latina, and European American single mothers.
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes directs the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. She is a faculty member at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, has an appointment at the Boston College Carroll School of Management, and has a three-year appointment as a visiting scholar at the Middlesex University School of Business in London. Pitt-Catsouphes founded and directed the Sloan Work and Family Research Network and was a 2007 recipient of the Work-Life Legacy Award.
David J. Prottas is assistant professor of management in the School of Business at Adelphi University. He was awarded his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and human resource management in 2006 after spending more than 20 years as a corporate banker for multinational financial institutions with strong work-primacy cultures. His current research focuses on issues related to work-life and self-employment.
Mary Ann Remnet is a doctoral student in the department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. Her research focuses on challenges specific to National Guard military families and exploring ways to ease and enhance transitions from military service to civilian life after deployment.
Katherine Stamps Mitchell is a doctoral candidate in sociology and demography at Penn State. Her research interests revolve around families and inequality, with a current focus on child well-being. She is now working on a project examining family instability over the course of childhood and adolescent outcomes in high school.
Michael A. Smyer, formerly codirector of the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, is provost at Bucknell University. Active in geriatric mental health research for more than 30 years, he is currently focusing on the impact of the workplace and flexible work options for older workers and their family members. He and his colleagues are assessing the impact of cultural, organizational, and policy contexts for the management of a global workforce facing the challenges of aging.
Cynthia A. Thompson is professor of management in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, CUNY. Her research expertise lies in the integration of work and life, particularly the extent to which supportive work-family cultures affect employee attitudes and organizational effectiveness. She has been studying work-family issues for more than 20 years, during which her work has been published by scholarly journals as well as the popular press.
Anisa M. Zvonkovic is chair of the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University. Zvonkovic’s research has focused on work and family issues, blending her training in relationship processes with her interest in specific job demands. She has studied workers in a variety of occupations, including commercial fishermen, long-haul truckers, flight attendants, and adoption-agency workers. Her current project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, concerns the effect of jobs requiring travel on workers’ family lives.
