Contributing Authors
- Contributing Authors
elizabeth aranda received her PhD from Temple University and is currently associate professor and chair of sociology at the University of South Florida. She recently published Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City with S. Hughes and E. Sabogal (2014). Her previous work includes the book, Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation (2007).
linda m. burton is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University. She also serves as dean of the Social Sciences Division within Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Burton is the principal investigator on the investigation “Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-city Study.” Her current research examines how cognitions, social behaviors, life-course experiences, and contextual inequalities shape the courses of action low-income women take in their intimate unions.
raymond garrett-peters was a data manager and research associate at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute. He passed away during the production process of his publication with WGFC. His interests were in areas of social psychology, inequality, and qualitative research methods and he was working on a set of papers on low-income mothers’ intimate relationships from the rural Family Life Project data.
talia esnard earned her BSC (First-class Honors) and PhD in sociology from the University of the West Indies. She is also the recipient of a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Stanford University’s summer school in 2011, as well as a Taiwanese research fellowship from the Taiwanese [End Page 136] government in 2012. She is currently an assistant professor of sociology in the Center for Education Program at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. She has published on issues related to poverty and entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, work-family balance, and educational leadership in the Caribbean.
roy mccree is a fellow at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad campus. He studied at both the University of the West Indies and Leicester University in the United Kingdom where he received his PhD in the sociology of sport. He currently teaches the sociology of sport at the undergraduate level and several graduate courses that include sport and public policy, qualitative research design, social policy, and public policy. He has published in several journals including Arena Review, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, International Journal of Sport History, Public Management Review, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and the Journal for the Study of Sport and Athletes in Education and Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American Studies.
elizabeth raleigh (BA, Brown University; MA and PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an assistant professor of sociology. Her research interests include race, the family, and transracial adoption. Her research appears in the edited volume Obviously Family (2013) and in the journal Children and Youth Services Review. She is currently working on a project that examines how transracial adoption serves as a lens into the demarcation of the American color line. Her work also examines adoption through a market perspective, exploring how “nontraditional” adoptive parents face more constraints in the adoption marketplace.
fernando i. rivera earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is associate professor of sociology at University of Central Florida. He is the author of “Cultural Mechanisms in the Exchange of Social Support among Puerto Ricans after a Natural Disaster” (Qualitative Health Research) and was a coprincipal investigator on a grant from the USDA that analyzed disaster resilience in Central Florida rural communities. [End Page 137]
