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Mady
Wechsler Segal
Professor Emerita
Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Chicago, 1973
Office: 4127 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:
301 405-6433
Email:
msegal@umd.edu
Specialty
Areas:
Military; Gender, Work and Family; Social
Psychology
Mady Wechsler Segal
earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
She is Professor of Sociology at the University
of Maryland, Distinguished Scholar Teacher,
faculty affiliate of the Women's Studies
Department, and Associate Director of the Center
for Research on Military Organization. She has
been Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at
the University of Maryland, a guest scientist at
the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and
a Visiting Professor at the United States
Military Academy, West Point. She has served as
chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for
the U.S. Army Research Institute's Army Family
Research Program, as a member of the National
Academy of Sciences Committee on the Performance
of Military Personnel, as a Human Resource
Consultant to the Secretary of the Army, as a
Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the
U.S. Army, as a consultant to the Army's Senior
Review Panel on Sexual Harassment, as a member
of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military
Academy, as a member of the Congressional
Commission on Military Training and
Gender-Related Issues, as a member of the Naval
Research Advisory Committee Panel on Quality of
Life, and as Chair of the Section on Peace, War,
and Social Conflict of the American Sociological
Association. She is currently on the Council
of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces
and Society (IUS) and on the Executive Board of
the Research Committee on Armed Forces and
Conflict Resolution of the International
Sociological Association.
 Mady
Segal's recent research has focussed on military
personnel issues, with particular attention to
military women, military families, and
race/ethnicity in the military. Her
publications include "The Military and the
Family as Greedy Institutions" (Armed Forces
and Society, 1986); "Women's Military Roles
Cross-Nationally: Past, Present, and Future" (Gender
& Society, 1995); “The Impact of Military
Presence in Local Labor Markets on the
Employment of Women” (Gender & Society,
2000, with Bradford Booth, William W. Falk, and
David R. Segal); “Professional Leadership and
Diversity in the Army” (with Chris Bourg, in
Snider and Matthews, eds., The Future of the
Army Profession, 2005). Dr. Segal is an
author of a report for military leaders on the
policy implications of research findings on
military families (What We Know About Army
Families: 2007 Update), and an author of
How to Support Families during Overseas
Deployments: A Sourcebook for Service Providers.
She and David R. Segal authored a book on
Peacekeepers and their Wives, and a
Population Bulletin on “America’s Military
Population”
Among the courses Professor Segal teaches at the
University of Maryland are: Military Sociology,
Women in the Military, Military Families, and
Diversity in the Military. She was honored as
the university's Outstanding Woman Faculty
Member in 1988 and with the first Teaching
Mentorship Award by the College of Behavioral
and Social Sciences in 1994. She holds the
Department of the Army Outstanding Civilian
Service Medal. She was named the 1994 Helen
MacGill Hughes Lecturer on Women and Social
Change by Sociologists for Women in Society. In
2001 she received the Morris Rosenberg Merit
Award for Recent Achievement from the District
of Columbia Sociological Society and the Yerkes
Award (with David R. Segal) from American
Psychological Association Division 19 (Military
Psychology) for Outstanding Contributions to
Military Psychology by a non-psychologist. In
2002 she received an award for Distinguished
Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and
Service from the American Sociological
Association Section on Peace, War, and Social
Conflict. She received the 2007 Distinguished
Former Faculty Award from the Department of
Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, U.S.
Military Academy, West Point, NY.
Course
Syllabi:
Honors
Sociology 209A: Women in the U.S. Military
Sociology
464: Military Sociology
Sociology
652: Women in the Military
Sociology
654: Military Families
Sociology
660: Social Psychology
Sociology 699L: Diversity
in the Military
Other
Links:
Center for Research on Military
Organization
Inter-University Seminar
on Armed Forces and Society
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