CURRICULUM VITAE
Demie (Dorothy E.) Kurz
ADDRESS
Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania
411 Logan Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8740
email:
EDUCATION
B.A. History, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass, l968
M.A. Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., l971
Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., l976
CURRENT POSITIONS
1988-present: Co-Director, Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Secondary Appointment, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1981- 1988: Senior Research Associate, Phila. Health Management Corp.: Co-Principal Investigator, "Child Support in Philadelphia", a two year research grant from the Pew Memorial Trust beginning April 1987; Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
· August 2000, American Sociological Association, Award from Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
· January 1997, Award from American Sociological Association, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
· Lenore Rowe Williams Award of the Association of Women Faculty and Administrators, April 1997, for outstanding contributions to the university and the community
· 1996: Outstanding Professor Award from the Greek System at Penn
· Grant, Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
PUBLICATIONS- Books
Kurz, D. 1995. For Richer, For Poorer: Mothers Confront Divorce. New York: Routledge.
Paper from the book on “Children and Divorce” reprinted in Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer TROUBLED TIMES: Readings in Social Problems. Roxbury Publishing Co. 2000
Francesca Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew London, Rebecca Reviere, and Mary Tuominen, eds., 2002. Child Care and Inequality: Re-thinking Carework for Children and Youth. New York: Routledge.
Book in Process: Families and Teenagers in Contemporary American Society
PUBLICATIONS- Articles
Kurz, D. Forthcoming. “Keeping Tabs on Teenagers.” In J. Gubrium and J. Holstein, eds. Couples, Kids, and Family Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
Loseke, D. and Kurz, D. In press. “Men’s Violence Toward Women is the Serious Social Problem.” In Current Controversies on Family Violence. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. 2nd edition.
*Kurz, D. and Hirsch, A. Fall 2003. "Child Support and Welfare Reform." Social Politics, Volume 10 (3) (Fall).
*Kurz, D. 2002. “Caring for Teenage Children.” In Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 23 (6): 748-767.
Kurz, D. 2002. “Poor Mothers and the Care of Teenage Children.” In Francesca Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew London, Rebecca Reviere, and Mary Tuominen, eds., Child Care and Inequality: Re-thinking Carework for Children and Youth. New York: Routledge. Pp. 232-36.
Kurz, D. 2001. “Gender and Divorce.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. London: Elsevier.
Kurz, D. 2001. "Violence as a Source of Women's Oppression." In Dana Vanoy, ed. Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives. Mayfield. Pp. 205-215.
*Kurz, D. 2000. “Work-Family Issues for Families with Teenage Children.” Qualitative Sociology 23 (4): 435-451.
Reprinted in Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds, edited by Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman. 2002. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. Pp. 181-197.
Kurz, D. 2000. "Paying for Care: Child Support Policy in the United States." In M. H. Harrington, ed. Gender, Citizenship, and the Work of Caring. New York: Routledge. Pp. 186-201.
*Kurz, D. 1998. “Women, Welfare, and Violence.” Social Justice 25 (1): 105-122.
Reprinted in: G. Mink, ed. Whose Welfare? Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. 132-151.
Kurz, D. 1998. “Old Problems and New Directions in the Study of Violence Against Women.” In Racquel Kennedy Bergen, ed. Issues in Intimate Violence. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Pp. 197-208.
Reprinted in:
C. Albers, ed. Sociology of Families: Readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1999.
Ferguson, Susan J. 2001. Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.
Kurz, D. 1996. “Doing Parenting: Mothers, Carework, and Policy.” In Terry Arendell, ed. Contemporary Parenting: Challenges and Issues. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Pp. 92-118.
Reprinted in M. Anderson, K. Logio, and H. F. Taylor, eds. Understanding Society: An Introductory Reader. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Pp. 320-333.
*Kurz. D. 1996. “Women, Violence, and Divorce,” in Violence Against Women, 2, 1(March):63-81.
Kurz, D. 1993. In R. Gelles and D. R. Loseke, eds. "Physical Assaults by Husbands: A Major Social Problem." In Current Controversies on Family Violence. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Pp. 88-103.
Reprinted in:
Brent Slife, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Psychological Issues, 10th ed. Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill. 1998.
Mary Roth Walsh, ed. The Psychology of Women: Ongoing Debates. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1996.
Laura O’Toole and Jessica Schiffman, eds. Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Kurz, D. 1992. "Battering and the Criminal Justice System: Current Debates." In E. Buzawa and C. Buzawa, eds. Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Response. Westport, CT: Auburn House. Pp. 21-40.
* Kurz, D. 1991. "Corporal Punishment and Adult Use of Violence: A Critique of 'Discipline and Deviance'." Social Problems, pp. 155-161.
Reprinted in James Unnever, ed. Criminology. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 1995.
* Kurz, D. 1990. “Interventions with Battered Women in Health Care Settings." Victims and Violence, 5, 4, Winter, 243-256.
* Kurz, D. 1989. "Social Science Perspectives on Wife Abuse: Current Debates and Future Directions." Gender & Society, 3, No. 4, 489-506.
Reprinted in Pauline Bart and Eileen Moran, eds. Violence
Against Women. Newbury Park: Sage, 1993. Pp. 252-277.
Kurz. D. 1988. "Not So Benign Neglect: Battered Women in the Health Care System." In K. Yllo and M. Bograd, eds. Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse. Sage. Pp. 249-266. (with E. Stark)
Kurz, D. 1988. "Skimming and Dumping at Penrose High: Career Mobility and the Perpetuation of Inequality" In C. Clark and H. Robboy, eds. Social Interaction, St. Martins Press. Pp. 409-420.
* Kurz, D. 1987. "Responses to Battered Women in Hospital Emergency Departments: Resistance to Medicalization." Social Problems, 34, No. 1, 501-513.
Reprinted in E. Rubington and M. Weinberg, eds. 1996. Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective. Sixth Edition. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 129-140.
* Kurz, D. 1984. "The Use of Participant Observation in Evaluation Research", Program Planning and Evaluation, 6(2), 83-89.
* Kurz, D. 1981. "A Comparison of the Professional Values and Career Orientations of Male and Female Medical Students: Some Unintended Consequences of Public Policy." Health Policy and Education 2, 33-45 (with G.L. Burkett).
*Articles in Refereed Journals
Review of Karla B. Hackstaff, Marriage in a Culture of Divorce (Temple University Press). Contemporary Sociology, Dec. 2001, Vol. 30, No. 6: 567-568.
Kurz, D. Review of Martha McCaughey, Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense (New York University Press, 1997). Gender & Society, Feb. 1999, 3 (1):145-147.
Kurz, D. Review of Norval Glenn, "Closed Hearts, Closed Minds: The Textbook Story of Marriage." Footnotes, January 1998, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 10.
Kurz, D. Review of Martha Fineman, The Public Nature of Private Violence (Routledge, 1994), Contemporary Sociology, September 1995.
Invited Panel, “New Directions in Family Studies,” American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2002, Chicago, Ill.
“Parent-Teenage Relations in the New Millenium,” Eastern Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, MA, March 7-9, 2002.
“Work-Family Issues of Parents of Older Children.” American Sociological Assn. Meetings, Irvine, CA, Aug. 2001
“Inequality, Carework, and Mothers.” Carework Conference, Irvine CA, Aug. 2001
Invited Panel on Work-Family Issues and Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, March 2001
“The Study of Carework: Current Debates and Future Directions,” Plenary Presentation, Carework Conference Aug. 2000, Washington, D.C.
“Caring for Teenage Children: Issues and Dilemmas,” Carework Conference, Aug. 2000, Washington, D.C.
“Raising Teenagers: Parenting Work in Contemporary Society.” Paper presented at the Work and Family Conference (sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, the Business and Professional Women's Foundation, and the Center for Working Families at the University of California at Berkeley) San Francisco, March 2000.
Kurz, D. "Work-Family Contradictions in Contemporary American Life," Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, Ill., August 1999.
Kurz, D. “Divorce, Violence, and Gender.” 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women meeting Tromso, Norway, June 1999. (with Terry Arendell)
Kurz, D. "Feminist Perspectives on the Family." Eastern Sociological Association, March 4-7, 1999, Boston, MA.
Kurz, D. "Mothers, Work, and the Care of Teenagers," Work and Family Conference (sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, the Business and Professional Women's Foundation, and the Wellesley
College Center for Research on Women), Nov. 6-7, 1998, Boston, MA.
Kurz, D. "Mothers and the Care of Teenagers." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 1998.
Kurz, D. "Child Support and Welfare Reform." Paper presented at the Institute for Women's Policy Research Conference, June 1998, Washington, D.C.
Kurz, D. “Carework and Child Support.” Paper present at an invited conference on carework, University of Illinois at Urbana, November 1997.
Kurz, D. and Arendell, T. “Divorce, Violence, and Gender.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Toronto, CA, Aug. 1997.
Kurz, D. “Women, Welfare, and Domestic Violence.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Toronto, CA, Aug. 1997.
Kurz, D. “Women, Welfare, and Domestic Violence.” Paper presented at the meetings of the Social Science History Association, October 1996, New Orleans, La.
Kurz, D. “Author Meets Critic Session” on D. Kurz, For Richer, For Poorer, and T. Arendell, Fathers & Divorce. American Sociological Association Meetings, New York City, Aug. 1996.
Kurz, D. “The Aftermath of Violence.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. August 1995.
Kurz, D. “Women, Violence, and Divorce.” Paper presented at the Conference on Feminism and Domestic Violence, Wheaton College, June 22-25, 1995.
Kurz, D. “Divorce and Poverty.” Paper presented at the Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop at Columbia University Law School, June 6-10, 1995.
Kurz, D. "Parting: Women's Reports of Why Their Marriages End." American Sociological Association, Miami, Fla. 1993.
Kurz, D. "Reform of the Child Support System." Annual Meeting, Sociologists for Women in Society, Minneapolis, Feb. 28, 1992.
Council Member, Section on the Sociology of Childhood, American Sociological Association, 2001- present
Jessie Bernard Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 2000-2002
Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member, The Carework Network, a network of researchers and policymakers who focus on the topic of carework.
Organizer and Discussant, Invited Thematic Session, “Inequality and Carework,” American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2002, Chicago, Ill.
Organizer and Discussant, Invited Thematic Session, "Oppression and Resistance Within Families and Households," American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2000, Washington, D.C.
Signator, Amicus Brief, Saenz v. Roe, United States Supreme Court, No. 98-97. This case was successful in the Supreme Court on May 17, 1999.
Signator, Amicus Brief, Child Support case, State of Pennsylvania, 1998.
RECENT CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
Conference on the Study of Mothers and Children, Jan. 19-20, 2001.
Three Conferences on Carework, scheduled as a pre-conferences of the American Sociological Association, August 11, 2000, August 17, 2001, August 15, 2002/
Conference on Carework, University of Illinois at Urbana, November 1997, supported by a grant from the American Sociological Association.
MEDIA:
Cited in Washington Post, NY Daily News, Wall St. Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Lingua Franca
WHYY Radio, appearances on Radio Times; TV appearances on Philadelphia affiliates of CBS and ABC
Reviewer for: American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Gender & Society, Social Forces, Victims and Violence, Violence Against Women, Routledge, Temple University Press, U. of California Press,
MEMBER: American Sociological Association
Eastern Sociological Society
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociologists for Women in Society
OTHER ACTIVITIES
I am currently serving on the Boards of the following organizations:
The Association of Women Faculty and Administrators, University of Pennsylvania (past president)
National Council for Research on Women
Haverford College, Board of Overseers
Friends Select School, Philadelphia, Pa
Penn Women’s Center