Madonna Harrington Meyer
University Professor, Sociology
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute
Aging Studies Institute
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Degree
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1991
Specialties
Social policy, aging, gender, life course
Courses
Summer 2019
Maymester: SOC 305 Sex & Gender, Online
Biography
Madonna Harrington Meyer is the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, a Faculty Affiliate at the Aging Studies Institute, and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research. Madonna is co-editor, with Ynesse Abdul-Malak, of Grandparenting in the United States (2016), and co-editor with Elizabeth Daniele of Gerontology: Changes, Challenges, and Solutions (2016). Madonna is author of Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs (2014), and co-author of Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age (2007), both of which won the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Book Award. She is editor of Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State (2000), and co-editor, with Jennifer Karas Montez, of the Baywood Society and Aging Series. In2016, she was named winner of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course (SALC) Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award. Full Biography
Publications
Selected Papers
Research Interests
Areas of Specialization
Social Policy, Aging, Gender, Life Course
Current Research
Grandparenting
Care Work
Older Women and Social Security