Department of Sociology & Criminology |
Faculty Jennifer A. Reich
Background:Jennifer A. Reich, Assistant Professor, received her PhD in Sociology with a designated emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Services Research at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco in 2004. Her recent book, Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System (2005 Routledge), explores how social workers, attorneys, and parents whose children have been removed from their homes by the child protective services system negotiate power to determine if and when children can return home. Fixing Families was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills award in 2006 and received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association section on Race, Gender, and Class in 2007. Professor Reich has two current studies. In one, she is examining how volunteer and government agencies have coordinated assistance to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina living in Colorado, and how evacuees here are faring. In the other, she is exploring how parents make decisions about their children's healthcare, particularly in terms of immunizations. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on multi-racial families, qualitative methods, and state expectations of parents. Her areas of interest include gender, family, public policy and the law, welfare, healthcare, and race and ethnicity. (E-mail: jreich@du.edu) For a copy of Jennifer's curriculum vitae, please click here. |