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Marietta Morissey

VITA 

College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft Street
Toledo, OH 43606
Phone: 419-530-5507
Marietta.Morrissey@utoledo.edu

EDUCATION

9/73 - 8/77           
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Department of Sociology
Dissertation: "Aspects of Jamaican Economic Development, 1830-1930" 
    
9/71 - 8/73
M.A., Michigan State University
Department of Sociology
Thesis:  "Ideology and Indian Economic Development"

9/67 - 8/70
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Major:  Sociology;  Minor:  Psychology

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

8/99 – 8/08
Associate Dean
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Toledo

9/91 - 8/94
Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
University of Toledo

9/89 ‑ 8/91
Director, Graduate Studies
Sociology, University of Toledo

9/87 ‑ 6/89
Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies
Sociology, Texas Tech University

6/83 ‑ 8/85
Coordinator, Women's Studies Program,
Texas Tech University

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Selected college and university committee memberships, University of Toledo, 1990 - present

Academic Honors Committee, 2005-2008
Arts and Sciences Council, 1991-1993
Arts and Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Student Grievances, Chair, 1992-1993
Demography Committee, 2000-2003
Disability Studies Advisory Committee, 2002-present
Graduate Council (three terms spanning 1993-present):
   Graduate Enrollment Committee, 2003-2005
   Best Practices Committee, 2004-2005
   Executive Committee, 1996-1997
   Membership Review Committee, 1990-1991
   Scholarship Committee, 1989-1990
   Graduate Program Review Committee, 1993-1994
Intermodal Transportation Institute Advisory Board, 2002-present
Institutional Administrative Data Base Committee, 2003-2005
International Education Committee, 2003-2004
Outstanding Advisor Selection Committee, 1992-1994, 2000-2003
Outstanding Research Award Committee, 1993-1994
Program Review Committee, Emergency Medical Technology Program, Chair, 1996-1997
Selected search committees:
   Dean of the Graduate School(2003-2004)
   Institutional Research Data Analyst(2003-2004)
   Disability Studies Endowed Chair (2003-2004,Chair)
   College of Education Dean (2002-2003),
   Arts and Sciences Recruitment Coordinators (2004-2005)
   Study Abroad Coordinator (2001-2002, Chair)
Service Learning Committee, 2001-2004; Chair, 2004-present
Sexual Harassment Committee,1996-1997
University Committee on Academic Personnel, 1998-1999
University Mission Statement Committee, 1993-1994
UT Travel Grant Committee, 2001-2003
UT Board of Trustees, Academic Affairs Committee, Non-voting member, 2002-2004
Women's Studies Task Force, 1990-1999; Chair, 1990-1993

Selected college and university committee memberships, Texas Tech University, 8/77 – 9/89

Academic Programs Committee
Faculty Development (1987‑1988, Chair)
Grade Appeals (1983‑1984, Chair)
International Education
Affirmative Action
Teaching Improvement

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

9/93 ‑ present
Professor (Associate Professor,1989-1993)
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
University of Toledo

9/82 ‑ 8/89
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Texas Tech University

7/77 ‑ 8/82
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Texas Tech University

9/71 ‑ 8/77
Teaching Assistant, Instructor
Department of Sociology
James Madison College
College of Urban Development
Michigan StateUniversity

Courses taught:

Stratification (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Contemporary Theory (Graduate and Undergraduate)
American Minority Problems (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Honors and Non-honors)
Social Problems
Women in the Work Force
Women in the Modern World (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Comparative Sociology (Graduate)
Honors Social Science Seminar
Women in Cross‑Cultural Perspective (Writing Intensive)
Gender Roles
International Development
Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (for University of Toledo - University Studies Abroad Consortium
   Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)
Sociology of Latin America and the Caribbean (Distance Learning)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1989. Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean. University Press of Kansas (Studies in Historical Social Change).

Journal Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

2007. Third World Feminism/Subaltern. Pp. 4995-5000 in (ed.)George Ritzer.  Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Blackwell.

2006. The Making of a Colonial Welfare State: U.S. Social Insurance and Public Assistance in Puerto Rico. Latin American Perspectives 33 (January): 23-41.

2005. Gender, Economic Development and the Puerto Rican Welfare. Pp. 89-110 in Advances in Gender Research. Volume 9.

2002. Gender Relations and Farm Labor Migration in Northwest Ohio. Latino(a)Research Review 5(Spring):80-98.

2002. Tres Mujeres: Reclaiming National Culture in the Post-Colonial Telenovela. Pp.221-232 in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.  Volume 21.

1999. Serving Farm Workers, Serving Farmers: Migrant Social Services in Northwest Ohio. Aztlan 24(2):95-118.

1999. The Political Economy of Northwest Ohio Agriculture: Options for Farm Labor Organization. Migration World 27(3): 18-22.

1998. Working Class Women, Their Unions, and Social Commitments: A Potential Source of Activism (B. Coventry, first author). Sociological Spectrum 18(3): 285-310.

1998. Contested Workplace (B. Coventry, first author). Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare25(June): 3-22.

1998. Explaining the Caribbean Family: Gender Ideologies and Gender Relations. Pp. 78-90 in (ed.) C. Barrow. Caribbean Gender Ideologies. London: Ian Randle.

1997. Woman-Headed Households: Gender, Labor Markets and Social Policy. Pp. 79-107 in Advances in Gender Research. Volume 2.

1996. Divided Against Itself: Local vs. International Union Interests in a Toledo Supermarket Strike (B.Coventry, coauthor). Critical Sociology 22(1): 53-71.

1996. Women Heading Households: Gender in Research and Social Policy. Pp. 157-173 in Perspectives on Social Problems. Vol. 16.

1995. Protecting Women's Jobs: Unions and Deindustrialization. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 12(June): 77-92.

1994. Marxist-Feminist Theory and the Dual Oppression of Women (R. Stoecker, coauthor). Pp. 47-65 in (eds.) P. McGuire and D. McQuarie. Marxist Sociology: Surveys of Contemporary Theory and Research. General Hall.

1992. Exploring Social Distance in Race and Ethnic Relations Courses. Teaching Sociology 20(2): 121-124.

1992. Feminist Sociology: Methodology and Politics in Disciplinary Change. Humanity and Society 16(August): 297-311.

1992. Gender, Race and Kinship: Searching for the Matrifocal Family. Critical Sociology 18(2): 103-115.

1992. Historical Sociology and Freedom. Qualitative Sociology 15(2): 213-218.

1989. Female‑Headed Households in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sociological Spectrum 9(July): 197‑210.

1987. Female-Headed Households: Poor Women and Choice. Pp. 501-514 in (eds.) N. Gerstel and H. Gross. Families and Work: Towards Reconceptualization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

1986. Women's Work, Family Formation and Reproduction among Caribbean Slaves. Review: Journal of the Braudel Center 9(Winter): 339‑367; appears also in Working Papers on Women in International Development, Michigan State University, 1984, No.76; reprinted in (eds.) H. Beckles and V. Shepherd. Caribbean Slave Society and Economy: A Student Reader. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

1985. Poverty and Female-Headed Families. Midwest Feminist Papers 5: 83-97.

1983. Ethnic Stratification and the Study of Chicanos. Journal of Ethnic Studies 10(Winter): 71‑99.

1982. The Dual Economy and Labor Market Segmentation:  A Comment. Social Forces 60(March): 883‑890.

1982. Sociological Pedagogy in a Conservative Era. American Sociological Association Teaching Newsletter 7(May): 4‑5.

1982. Agricultural Self‑Sufficiency: The Recent History of an Idea. Studies in Comparative International Development 17(Spring): 73‑95.

1981. Towards a Theory of West Indian Economic Development. Latin American Perspectives 8(Winter): 4‑27.

1981. A Political Class Theory of the Satellite State: The Jamaican Case, 1830-1930. Pp. 173-198 in Research in Political Economy. Vol. 4. 

1981. Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches and Cannibals and Kings: A Review Essay (J. VanAllsburg, coauthor). Review of Radical Political Economics 13(Summer): 56‑59. 

1978. A Note on Reviewing Harrington. Insurgent Sociologist 8(Winter): 56‑57. 

1978. Dependency and Transformation: The Economics of the Transition to Socialism: A Review Essay. Review of Radical Political Economics 10(Summer): 74‑77. 

1976. Imperial Designs: A Sociology of Knowledge Study of British and American Dominance in the Development of Caribbean Social Science. Latin American Perspectives 3(Fall): 97‑116.

Book Reviews

2005. Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron in the History of Puertorriqueñas. Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora 8(1).

2005. The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean: A Review. Contemporary Sociology 33(6): 689-690.

2002. The Political Economy of Gender in the Twentieth Century Caribbean: A Review. Gender & Society 16(June):423-424. 

1996. Social Change and Cultural Transformation in Australia: A Review. American Journal of Sociology (May): 1733-1735.

1995. Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus: A Review. Teaching Sociology 23(April): 185-186.

1995. Women and Change in the Caribbean: A Review. Journal of Political Ecology 1: 6.

1992. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, 1830-1848: A Review. Contemporary Sociology 21(2): 200.

1991. Women and the Ancestors: Black Carib Kinship and Ritual: A Review. Gender & Society 3(September): 435-436.

1990. Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Review. American Journal of Sociology 96(1): 1114-1116.

1988. The Persistence of Patriarchy: A Review. Contemporary Sociology 17(5): 596.

1987. Women and Change in Latin America: A Review. Gender and Society 1(June): 224‑225.

1986. Doctors and Slaves: A Review. Contemporary Sociology 15(January): 114‑115.

1982. Uprooting and Development: A Review. Contemporary Sociology 11(September): 547‑548.

1982. A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881‑1905: A Review. Journal of Peasant Studies 10(October): 132‑136.

1981. Mexican‑Americans in a Dallas Barrio: A Review. Contemporary Sociology 10(March): 307.

1977. The Dialectical Imagination: A Review. Summation 6: 57‑62.

Other Publications

2000. Introduction. Gender & Society 14(March): 365-367.

1999. Sociology and the Internet: Learning about Gender From Telenovela Viewers. SWS Network News 16(2): 6-7.

1999. Introduction. Gender & Society 13(June): 285-286.

1998. Introduction. Gender & Society 12(June): 253-254. 

1997. Introduction. Gender & Society 11(June): 227-278.

1997. Course Syllabus: Racial and Ethnic Minorities.  In (ed.) Donald Cunnigen. Teaching Race and Ethnic Relations American Sociology Association.

1996. Course Syllabus: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Pp. 248-252 in (ed.) D.A. Smith. Teaching Comparative and Historical Sociology. American Sociological Association.

1991. Facts about Workfare. Sociologists for Women in Society, Social Issues Committee Occasional Pamphlets.

1990. Work and Family Lifestyles: A Profile of Television Families (V. Felstehausen, A. Couch, coauthors). In (ed.) Claudia J. Peck. Abstracts of American Home Economics Association Meetings.

1989. Socialist Feminism. Pp.351-352 in (ed.) H. Thierny. Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Westport,CT: Greenwood Press.

1982. Title XII and Women in Development at U.S. Universities. Pp. 67‑71 in (ed.) P.S. Horne. Women in International Development. President's World University Series, No.2. Texas A & M University.

1979. Pedagogical Theories: Problems and Possibilities (J. Gamso coauthor). Eric Document Reproduction Service, ED 174602, SP 014 512.

1979. Manufacturing Investment in the South and Southwest: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968‑1978 (with C. Rogers). Vance Bibliographies, Public Administration Series (October).

1974. Introduction to A Review Symposium on Women's Estate. Summation 4: 62‑63. 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

2003. Gender Relations and Farm Labor Migration in Northwest Ohio. Bowling Green State University Latino Issues Conference.

2003. The U.S. Federal Welfare State and the Politics of Puerto Rican Status. Association of Caribbean Historians.

2001. U.S. Federal Welfare in Puerto Rico and the Implementation of Welfare Reform. Association of Caribbean Historians.

2000. Gender, Race and Class in U.S. Labor Migration. Association of Black Sociologists.

1999. The Political Economy of Northwest Ohio Agriculture: Options for Farm Labor Organization. American Sociological Association.

1998. Migrant Social Services: The Northwest Ohio Case. American Sociological Association.

1997. Systems of Worker and Customer Control in Midwestern Supermarket (B. Coventry, coauthor). American Sociological Association.

1996. Gender and Dependency: The Cases of Panama and Puerto Rico. Caribbean Studies Association.

1996. Striking Out: A Case Study of a Toledo-Area Supermarket Strike (B. Coventry, coauthor). American Sociological Association.

1995. From Supermarkets to Nursing Homes: Established Unions in New Industries (B. Coventry, coauthor). North Central Sociological Association.

1994. Female-Headed Households in Industrial Countries: Sweden, Japan and the United States. American Sociological Association.

1993. Women Heading Households: Gender Relations, Social Policy, and Family Income. American Sociological Association.

1992. Gender Relations in Caribbean Slavery. Society for Historical Archaeology.

1991. State Influences on Female-Headed Family Formation in the Twentieth Century Caribbean. Association of Caribbean Historians.

1990. The Effects of Economic Restructuring on the Work and Family Lives of Unskilled Working Women: The Case of Toledo, Ohio. American Sociological Association.

1990. Work and Family Lifestyles: A Profile of Television Families (V. Felstehausen, A. Couch, coauthors). American Home Economics Association.

1989. Sociological Methods and Feminist Knowledge. American Sociological Association.

1989. Work and Family on Prime Time Television (A. Couch, V. Felstehausen coauthors). National Council on Family Relations.

1988. Gender, Development and Female-Headed Households. Society for the Study of Social Problems.

1988. Caribbean Slave Women: Family and Work. University of Kansas Women's Studies Program Symposium, Women and Work: A Comparative Perspective.

1987. Recent Research on Women in the Global Economy. Southern Sociological Society.

1987. Marxism and Slave Studies: The Case of Caribbean Slave Women. American Sociological Association.

1985. Female‑Headed Households in Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin American Studies Association.

1985. Social Orders and Fertility in Caribbean Slave Societies. American Sociological Association.

1984. Poverty and Female-Headed Families. American Sociological Association.

1981. Production, Reproduction and Social Control: New World Slavery. Southern Sociological Society.

1983. The Effects of Women's Work on Family Formation and  Reproduction among Caribbean Slaves. American Sociological  Association.

1982. Theories of Stratification and the Study of Mexican‑Americans. Southern Sociological Society.

1980. A Political Class Theory of the Satellite State: The Jamaican Case, 1830-1930. American Sociological Association.

1979. Excellence in Teaching: Mixed Signals from Above. Southwestern Social Science Association.

1978. Metropolitan Capitalist Development and the Colonial State: The Jamaican Case. Mid‑South Sociological Association.

1978. Pedagogical Theories: Problems and Possibilities (J. Gamso, coauthor). Southwestern Social Science Association.

OTHER PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

2000. Panel member, Preparing for Program Review. Academic Workplace Workshop. American Sociological Association.

1995. Organizer, Minority Student Recruiting and Retention: Successful Sociology Programs. American Sociological Association.

1993 Co-organizer (with B. Morrow) and presider, Gender and Family in the Caribbean. American Sociological Association 

1992. Invited speaker, Gender in Caribbean Slavery. Women in the Americas Conference. State University of New York at Albany.

1992. Organizer and presider, Trends in Workfare and Welfare Policies. Sociologists for Women in Society Midyear Meetings.

1988. Organizer and presider, Children, Poverty and Economic Justice. Society for the Study of Social Problems.

1987. Organizer and presider, Political Sociology. Southern Sociological Society.

1987. Panel member, Publishing in Gender Journals. Southern Sociological Society.

1987. Roundtable organizer, Research on Women in the Third World. American Sociological Association.

1985. Organizer and presider, Women and Work in Latin America. Latin American Studies Association.

1985.Organizer and presider, Stratification. Southern Sociological Society. 

1982. Panel member, Women and International Development. Southwestern Social Science Association.

1981. Discussant, Undergraduate Teaching. Southwestern Social Science Association.

1981. Panel member, Marxist Sociology.  Southwestern Social Science Association.

1981. Roundtable discussion leader, Teaching Sociology. American Sociological Association.

1981. Organizer and presider, Women in the Third World. Southern Sociological Society.

1978. Discussant, Potpourri. Southwestern Social Science Association.

1978. Organizer and presider, Sociology of Knowledge. Mid‑South Sociological Association.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Manuscript reviewing: Studies in Comparative International Development; Social Problems; Social Psychology; Sociological Spectrum; Gender & Society; Sociological Focus; Teaching Sociology; Journal of Caribbean History; Journal of Marriage and the Family; Journal of Women's History; Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora; International Sociology; Gender, Work and Organization.

Proposal evaluation: National Science Foundation; City University of New York Research Award Program.

Member, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association, 2004-2007.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2004-2007.

Member, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 1998-present.

Book Review Editor, Gender & Society, 1996 – 2000.

Member, Advisory Council, ESRC project, Living Arrangements, Family Structure and Social Change of Caribbeans in Britain, 1995 – 2000.

Chair, Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities. American Sociological Association, 1994-1995; member, 1993-1996.

Associate Editor, Teaching Sociology, 1992-1995.

Member, Review Board, Michigan Sociological Review, 1991-1995.

Program co-chair (with B. Chesney), Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meetings, 1992.

Chair, Social Issues Committee. Sociologists for Women in Society, 1989‑1991.

Editor, Sociologists for Women in Society ‑ South Newsletter, 1987‑1989.

Associate Editor, Gender & Society, 1986‑1989, 2001-2004.

Member, Nominations Committee, Comparative Historical Section Council.  American Sociological Association, 1985‑1986.

Chair, Nominations Committee, Marxist Section Council American Sociological Association, 1984-1985.

Secretary, Sociologists for Women in Society – South, 1983-1985; Liaison to S.W.S.-National, 1986.

Member, Committee on the Profession. Southern Sociological Society, 1983-1984.

Member, Committee on the Status of Women. Southern Sociological Society, 1981-1983. 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

5/08
Choose Ohio First Scholarship Award
Choose Ohio First for Engineering Entrepreneurship(COFFEE)Scholarship, Brian Randolph, Principal Investigator; Marietta Morrissey,et al., Co-principal investigators, $3,941,000

9/93 - 6/94; 8/04 - 5/05
Senior Scholar, Humanities Institute
College of Arts and Sciences

6/97 - 8/97
American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
Research Award
Work and Settlement Experiences of Migrant
Farm Families in Sandusky, 1945-1997  

6/97 - 8/97; 6/90 - 8/90
Faculty Research Fellowship
University of Toledo

1/97 - 5/98
Master Teacher
College of Arts and Sciences

7/95 - 11/95
Fulbright Lecturer
Universidad Nacional de Panama

3/91
Slave Women in the New World
Finalist for Jessie Bernard Award
American Sociological Association                                

4/88
Arts and Sciences Council Teaching Award
Texas Tech University

9/88 ‑ 12/88
Communications Institute Research Grant
Texas Tech University
Work, Family and Primetime Television
(V. Felstehausen, S. Couch, co-investigators)

6/84 ‑ 8/84
Travel Grant, American Philosophical Society
Work and Family Patterns among Caribbean
Slave Women
Visiting Fellow, Latin American Studies,
Yale University

6/82 - 8/82
Graduate Student Support Grant
Texas Tech University
Women, Labor Supply and Lifestyle Choice

6/81 ‑ 8/81
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar, Harvard University
The Comparative Study of Slavery

2/80
Improvement in Teaching Grant
Texas Tech University
Multi‑media presentation on Women in the Work Force (J. Reinier, co-investigator)   

11/79
Travel Grant, Center for Study of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, Texas Tech University
Agricultural Diversification in Jamaica and Cuba                 

6/78 ‑ 8/78
New Faculty Research Grant
Texas Tech University
Manufacturing in Lubbock since 1960

CONSULTING

Outside evaluator, Program Review, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Virginia Commonwealth University, April, 2000.

Post-representation election survey of workers, for United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local #954 (B. Coventry, co-consultant), June-August, 1994.

Advisory Board, Texas Tech University ‑ Texas Education Agency
Job Training Grant, for rural single and displaced homemakersin economically depressed rural areas, 1985‑1986.

Texas Tech University, under contract to Agency for International Development for evaluation of agricultural projectsin Guatemala.
Assessment of social impact of rural road construction, January, 1985.

United Methodist Church Women's Division. Provided resources and expertise in organizing workshops on Caribbean and
Latin American development for World Development Year Conference, San Antonio, 1981.

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Latin America and the Caribbean (colonial states, class and gender relations, agricultural production and marketing)
Mexican-American migration, work and settlement patterns in Northwest Ohio
Gender and labor relations in service sector industries

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