Save the Date! Families in Perilous Times: A Council on Contemporary Families Policy and Public Scholarship Workshop

The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is excited to host “Families in Perilous Times: A Council on Contemporary Families Policy and Public Scholarship Workshop on October 18, 2024 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

The Fall of Roe Vs. Wade, Student Debt, Immigration,andAnti-LGBTQ Legislationare all policy issues on the ballot in the 2024 elections, and policies that have profound effects on families, the forms they take, the problems they face, and the degree to which they thrive. On October 18th, 2024 we will bring together leading researchers to discuss these and other pressing family policy topics for politicians to consider in 2024.

In the afternoon, we will host a “family public scholarship workshop” focused on workshopping public scholarship pieces about families, which will include workshops on creating podcasts, research videos (e.g., TikTok, Instagram), academic blog posts, op-eds, and brief reports. Participants will gather in small groups to present and workshop their public scholarship pieces with leading CCF scholars.

Tentative Schedule:

8:30 am- Pastries and Coffee available

9 am-12 pm: Invited speakers on recent Family Policy topics

12-2 pm: Free lunch for registered participants and workshops on podcasting and research videos

2-4:30 pm: Workshops on Blog Posts, Brief Reports, and Op-eds, followed by writing workshops with break-out groups

4:30-6 pm: Networking reception and CCF awards ceremony

Public Scholarship Workshops by:

Joshua Coleman, Psychologist (Brief reports and Op-eds)

Cameron Farrar, Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department, Syracuse University https://www.tiktok.com/@cam.farrar (Research Videos)

Elena van Stee, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Editor of the Contexts Blog, and Co-Host of the sociology podcast Moral Matters(Podcasting 101)

Alicia M. Walker, Associate Professor of Sociology, Missouri State University and Editor of the Council on Contemporary Families Blog @ The Society Pages(Blog Posts)

Policy Panels:

Immigration

Zohra Ansari-Thomas, Assistant Professor of Public Health & Sociology, Franklin & Marshall College

Vanessa Delgado, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington State University

Bethany L. Letiecq, Associate Professor of Research Methods, College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University and President, National Council on Family Relations

Student Debt

Fenaba Addo, Associate Professor of Public Policy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of A Dream Defaulted: The Student Debt Loan Crisis Among Black Borrowers (2022, Harvard Education Press)

Daniel Collier, Assistant Professor of Higher and Adult Education, The University of Memphis and Co-editor (Interim), Journal of Student Financial Aid

Arielle Kuperberg, Professor of Sociology, UNC – Greensboro, incoming Associate Professor of Sociology, UMBC, and Chair, Council on Contemporary Families

Joan Maya Mazelis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University-Camden

Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

Kate Drabinski, Principal Lecturer of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Jessica Fish, Assistant Professor of Family Science, University of Maryland

Barbara Risman, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois – Chicago, Author of Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Grapples with the Gender Structure (2018, Oxford University Press)

Stef Shuster, Associate Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University and author of Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender (2021, NYU Press)

Abortion

Aubrey Jackson Soller, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Carole R. McCann, Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (1994, NCROL)

Sameera Nayak, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health, University of Maryland – Baltimore County

Panel by CCF’s 2024 Early Career Scholars:

Mia Brantley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, North Carolina State University

Vanessa Delgado, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington State University

Hope Harvey, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Kentucky

Jamie O’Quinn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Bernadino

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