Cheryl Elman, Ph.D.
Professor

Office Olin 254
Phone:  (330)972-6894
E.Mail: cheryl2@uakron.edu

VITA

   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.

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

Specializes in Sociology of Aging, as well as Social and Historical Demography,
Sociology of The Family and Sociology of Health

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