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Suzanne
Bianchi
Professor Emerita
Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Michigan, 1978
Email: bianchi@soc.ucla.edu
Specialty
Areas:
Demography;
Gender, Work and Family
Suzanne M. Bianchi
currently holds the Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equities and is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology
at UCLA.
She was chair of Sociology at Maryland from 2005-2009.
In 2003-04, she was named a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
and is a former Director of the Maryland Population
Research Center (MPRC). She is a Past-President of
the Population Association of America (2000) and past
editor of the journal, Demography (2005-07).
Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 1994, she
served as Assistant Chief for Social and Demographic
Statistics in the Population Division of the U.S.
Census Bureau. In 2003, she was awarded the
University Alumni Merit Award from the College of
Arts and Sciences at her undergraduate alma mater,
Creighton University.
Dr. Bianchi’s research focuses on the American family,
time use and gender equality. She has co-authored
four books that investigate the changes in family
life and gender equality in the latter half of the
20th century. Her 2006 book, Changing
Rhythms of American Family Life (with
John Robinson
and
Melissa Milkie)
uses time diary data to chronicle changing parental investments in
childrearing, unpaid work in the home and market
work over the 1965-2000 period. In her 2002 book,
Continuity and Change in the American Family
(with Lynne Casper), she documents changes in U.S.
marriage and fertility patterns, family living
arrangements and economic well-being using Census
and Current Population Survey data. This book
received the 2002 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award from
the Sociology of Population Section of the American
Sociological Association.
 In
American Women in Transition (1986), and
later, in
Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage,
and Employment Among American Women
(1996), both co-authored with Daphne Spain, she
assessed the dramatic changes in the lives of
American women, charting the causes and consequences
of those changes for women themselves, their
families and their workplaces. Her research articles
on work and family life have twice won the Rosabeth
Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family
Research (in 2001 and 2004), the Reuben Hill Award
of National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) for
the best article on the family (2000), and the
Lawrence R. Klein Award for an outstanding
contribution to the Monthly Labor Review
(1999). Most importantly to her, three of these four
award-winning articles were co-authored with
graduate students at Maryland.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology 239T: Revolutions
in American Family Life
Sociology
637: Demography of The Labor Force
Sociology
653: Family Demography: Families and Social Change
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