VITA: MARIETTA MORRISSEY
Office: College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey
973-665-7746
[email protected]
Home: 30 Normal Ave.
Montclair, New Jersey 07043
973-746-1548
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
College level appointments
7/1/09 – present Dean, College of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Montclair State University
7/1/07 – 8/15/08 Acting Associate Dean for the Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Toledo
9/1/99 - 12/31/06, Associate Dean for the Social Sciences,
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Toledo
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Other administrative experience
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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
9/93 – 6/10
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 State
University
Courses taught:
Stratification (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Contemporary Theory (Graduate and Undergraduate)
American Minority Problems (Graduate and
Undergraduate)
Introduction to Sociology (Honors and Nonhonors)
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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; Edited version in (eds.) George Ritzer
and J. Michael Ryan. 2011. Concise 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 State. 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): 8098.
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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. Aztlán 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 Welfare 25(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.
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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; reprinted in
V. Shepherd. Engendering Caribbean History. Kingston,
Jamiaca: Ian Randle Publishers.
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:
Comment. Social Forces 60(March): 883-890.
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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.
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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
2009. On the Move: The Caribbean Since
1989: A Review. Labour/LeTravail. 63 (Spring): 327-329.
2005. Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron in the
History of Puertorriqueñas: A Review. 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): 689690.
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.
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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.
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1997. Course Syllabus: Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
(ed.) Donald Cunnigen. Teaching Race and Ethnic
Relations. American Sociology Association.
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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, 1990-present
2010. Behind Bars: Violence and Social Citizenship in
Costa Rica and Panama. Caribbean Studies Association.
2010. Comparing Panama and Costa Rica: Methodological
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Challenges.
American Sociological Association.
2008. Teaching the Sociology of Gender in
Costa Rica. American Sociological Association.
2008. The State and the TLC Impact on
Costa Rican Social Rights. Caribbean Studies Association.
2007. Health Care and Social Citizenship in Costa Rica
and Puerto Rico, 1990-2007. Latin American Studies
Association.
2006. The Convergence of Federal Welfare Policy in Puerto
and on the U.S. Mainland after the PRWORA. Latin
American Studies Association.
2003. Gender Relations and Farm Labor Migration in
Northwest Ohio. Bowling Green State University Latino
Issues Conference.
2003. 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 a
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
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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.
OTHER PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS, 1990-present
Panel member, Preparing for Program Review. Academic
Workplace Workshop, American Sociological Association, 2000
meetings.
Organizer, Minority Student Recruiting and Retention:
Successful Sociology Programs. American Sociological
Association, 1995 meetings.
Co-organizer (with B. Morrow) and presider, Gender and
Family in the Caribbean. American Sociological Association,
1993 meetings.
Invited speaker, Gender in Caribbean Slavery. Women in the
Americas Conference. State University of New York at
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Albany, 1992.
Organizer and presider, Trends in Workfare and Welfare
Policies. Sociologists for Women in Society Midyear
Meetings, 1992.
SELECTED 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.
Member, Sociology Panel, Fulbright Scholar Review
Committee, 2010-2011.
Member, Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, Caribbean
Studies Association, 2008 – present.
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, 1998-2000.
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.
Program co-chair (with B. Chesney), Sociologists for Women
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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.
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., Coprincipal investigators, $3,941,000
3/08
Outstanding University Woman 2008
University of Toledo Women’s Commission
3/07 - 6/07
Fulbright Lecturer/Research Award
Universidad de Costa Rica
9/93 - 6/94
8/04
12/07
Senior Scholar, Humanities Institute
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Toledo
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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
6/90 - 8/90
6/97 - 8/97
Faculty Research Fellowship
University of Toledo
1/97 - 5/98
Master Teacher
College of Arts and Sciences
7/95 - 11/95
Fulbright Lecturer Award
Universidad de Panamá
3/91
Slave Women in the New World:
Gender Stratification in the Caribbean
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, coinvestigators)
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
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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, coinvestigator)
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
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References
Dr. Samuel Attoh
Dean and Associate Provost for Research
and Contracts
Loyola University
433 Granada Center
Chicago, IL
773-508-8948
[email protected]
Dr. Frank Calzonetti
Vice-President for Government Relations
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft
Toledo, OH 43606
419-530-4749
[email protected]
Dr. Joan Ficke
Graduate Dean
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043
973-655-7537
[email protected]
Dr. David Stern
Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs
Hamline University
1536 Hewitt Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104-1284
651-523-2800
[email protected]
Dr. Debra Stoudt
Associate Dean for Academic Policies and Procedures
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
260C Wallace Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-8714
[email protected]
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