K. Jill Kiecolt

Associate Professor

K. Jill Kiecolt

Vita

JOINED VPI& SU: 1993

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's

University of Oklahoma

Master's

University of California, Los Angeles

Doctorate

University of California, Los Angeles

OTHER PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Date

Name of Institution

Title

1990-1993

Arizona State University

Assistant Professor

1989-1990

Indiana University

Postdoctoral Fellow

1988-1989

Louisiana State University Center for Life Course & Population Studies

Assistant Professor

1982-1988

Louisiana State University

Assistant Professor

CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:

Family
Social Psychology
Social Research Methods


CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Social Structure and Mental Health  
Self-change and Health over the Life Course
Determinants of Marriage and Family Structure
Work and Marriage

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

E. Gordon Erikson Award for graduate teaching, Department of Sociology, 2006.
Member, Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly, 2003-2006.
Council Member, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association, 1998-2000.
Fellow, Summer Institute on "Individual Development and Social Change," Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1984.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Calasanti, Toni and K. Jill Kiecolt. Forthcoming, 2007/2008. "Diversity among Late-Life Couples." Generations 31(4).

J. Beth Mabry and K. Jill Kiecolt.  "Anger in Black and White: Race, Alienation, and Anger." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46, 2005, 85-101.

Hoffman, Kristi, K. Jill Kiecolt, and John N. Edwards.  "Physical Violence among Siblings: A Theoretial and Empirical Analysis."  Journal of Family Issues, 26, 2005, 1103-1130.

K. Jill Kiecolt.  "Satisfaction with Work and Family Life:  No Evidence of a Cultural Reversal."  Journal of Marriage and Family 65, 2003, 23-35.

K. Jill Kiecolt. "Self-Concept Change in Social Movements." In Self, Identity and Social Movements, edited by Timothy J. Owens and Sheldon Styker. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 110-131.

K. Jill Kiecolt and J. Beth Mabry. "Agency in Young Adulthood: Intentional-Self Change among College Students." In Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 5, edited by Timothy J. Owens. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 2000, 181-205.

Albrecht, Carol Mulford, Mark A. Fossett, Cynthia M. Cready, and K. Jill Kiecolt. "Mate Availability, Women's Marriage Prevalence, and Husbands' Education." Journal of Family Issues 18, 1997, 429-452.

Cready, Cynthia, Mark A. Fossett, and K. Jill Kiecolt. "Mate Availability and African American Family Structure in the U.S. Nonmetropolitan South, 1960-1990." Journal of Marriage and the Family. 59, 1997, 192-203.
 

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