Sociology Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students

Cheryl Elman, Ph.D.

Cheryl Elman, Ph.D.

Title: Professor
Department: Sociology
Office: Olin Hall 254
Phone: (330) 972-6894
Fax: (330) 972-5377
Email: cheryl2@uakron.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Download in PDF format

Biography

Post-Doctoral Training in Demography of Aging (1995) from Duke University

Ph.D. in Sociology (1993) from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

M.S. in Public Health (1988) from School of Public Health, Department of Health
Policy and Administration at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

B.A. in Psychology/Philosophy (1971) from Syracuse University

Research Accomplishments

Professor Elman’s research areas include the sociology of aging and the life course, historical demography, sociology of health, and sociology of the family.  Her current projects explore early-to midlife educational trajectories and late-life health status; U.S. patterns of multigenerational living arrangement; and regional differences in the family structure, employment and health of the 19th century frontier women.

Publications

Cheryl Elman 2010 (forthcoming) The Midlife Years: Human Capital and Job Mobility.  Chapter In Richard A. Settersten and Jacqueline Angel (Eds.) Handbook of the     Sociology of Aging.  Springer.

Angela M. O’Rand, Jenifer Hamil-Luker and Cheryl Elman. 2009.   Childhood Adversity, Educational Trajectories and Self-Reported Health in Later Life.  Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Special Issue on Aging and Education. 12: 357-384.   

Amy Kroska and Cheryl Elman. 2009. Change in Attitudes about Employed Mothers: Exposure, Interests and Gender Ideology Discrepancies.  Social Science Research. 38: 366-382.

Cheryl Elman and Angela M. O’ Rand.  2007. The Effects of Social Origins, Life Events and Institutional Sorting on Adults’ School Transitions. Social Science Research. 36: 1276-99.

Kristen Hildreth and Cheryl Elman. 2007. Alternative Worldviews and the Utilization of Conventional and Complementary Medicine. Sociological Inquiry. 77:76-103.

Cheryl Elman and Angela M. O’Rand. 2004.  The Race is to the Swift: Socioeconomic Origins, Adult Education and Wage Attainment. American Journal of Sociology. 110:123-160.

Andrew S. London and Cheryl Elman. 2001. The Influence of Remarriage on the Racial Difference in Mother-Only Families in 1910. Demography. 38: 283-297.

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology (1993) from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Courses

Undergraduate courses:

Sociology of Health and Illness

Sociology of Aging

Sociology of The Family

Graduate courses:

Social Epidemiology

Social Gerontology

Family & Work

The Life Course