Madonna Harrington Meyer
Professor, Sociology at Syracuse University
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- Syracuse University
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Syracuse University
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
Specialties
Social Policy, Aging, Gender, Life Course
Courses
Fall 2018
SOC 102.005 Social Problems, TuTh 9:30-10:50, Newhouse 1 409
SOC 102.001 Social Problems, TuTh 12:30-1:50, Crouse-Hinds 101
Biography
Madonna Harrington Meyer is the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, and Faculty Affiliate at the Aging Studies Institute. Madonna is co-editor, with Ynesse Abdul-Malak, of Grandparenting in the United States (2016). She is 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. In 2016, 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
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Areas of Specialization
Social Policy, Aging, Gender, Life Course
Current Research
Grandparenting
Care Work
Older Women and Social Security
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