Challenging, Expanding, and Reinventing the Family | 2:00 PM
PANELISTS
Mignon MooreMignon R. Moore is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Barnard College. She has research and teaching interests in the sociology of family, race, gender, sexuality, qualitative methods, aging, and adolescence. Although her research spans various age cohorts, income ranges, social environments and methodological frameworks, it is united in its purpose to challenge those assumptions and paradigms drawn from the experiences of the dominant racial and socioeconomic group that cannot explain processes and outcomes for people who occupy a different structural position in society. She analyses race, gender, class and sexuality not just as identity statuses but structural locations that influence individual life chances and the ways individuals experience their social worlds.
Professor Moore’s first book, Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women (2011 California Press) examined the intersection of race with sexual orientation for family-building and lesbian identity among African-American women. Her current research includes a new book project, In the Shadow of Sexuality: Social Histories of African American LGBT Elders, 1950-1975. This work builds on her prior training as a qualitative sociologist of racial and sexual minority populations, while incorporating new archival methods into her repertoire of research tools, to construct a sociocultural history of black sexual minorities. She has published on such topics as LGBT-parent families, adolescent sexual debut and pregnancy, intersectionality, research methods on hard-to-reach populations, and processes of aging and health for racial and ethnic minority seniors. |
D'Lane ComptonD’Lane R. Compton is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Orleans. Compton is a gender and sexualities scholar who specializes in LGBT families, best data collection practices for hidden populations, and sociological methodological innovations. They also endeavor to spur future research on sexualities using quantitative data and improve data and measures regarding the transgender population. Compton’s work has culminated in a number of peer-reviewed articles and two co-authored books that address LGBT and Queer Families. Their most recent co-edited volume titled Other, Please Specify:________: Queer Methods in Sociology addresses methodological challenges when applying traditional sociological methods to LGBTQ population. Compton’s current project analyzes the LGBT community’s attitudes and sentiments toward marriage, marriage equality, and anti-discrimination legislation.
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Brian Powell |
Brian Powell is James H. Rudy Professor and co-director of the Preparing Future Faculty program in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University. He also is affiliated faculty in the Department of Gender Studies and the Kinsey Institute. He served as department chair and recently was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Professor Powell’s research focuses on family, gender, sexuality, and education. His award-winning book, COUNTED OUT: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family, documented the transformation in how Americans define family and, in turn, their views regarding same-sex families. He currently is working on his next book, WHO SHOULD PAY? Higher Education, Responsibility and the Public, which explores Americans' views regarding the role of parents, children, and the government in college funding. He also is completing a series of studies that consider American’s views regarding same-sex parenting, transgender youths and adults, and denial of services to same-sex and interracial couples. Professor Powell has been the recipient of multiple research awards, including the ASA Family Section's Goode Book Award, the North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement Award, the Midwest Sociological Society's Distinguished Book Award, the ASA Sex and Gender Section's Distinguished Article Award, the ASA Section on Sexualities Distinguished Article Award, the ASA Section on Emotion's Recent Contribution Award, and the ASA Section on Aging and Life Course's Outstanding Publication Award. He also recently received the Distinguished Career Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. |