Noelle Chesley

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Office: Bolton Hall 752
Phone: (414) 229-2398
E-mail: chesley@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Fall Office Hours: T 11:00–12:00, W 2:30–3:30 and by appointment

Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University

Research Interests: My intellectual interests revolve around the intersection of gender, work, and family over the life course, with a particular focus on assessing the consequences of different work and family configurations on well-being, health and other measures of life quality. Substantively, my research is primarily concerned with the processes that link work and family roles or that shift work/family boundaries and the (similar or different) consequences of these linkages or shifts for women and men. Methodologically, I am drawn to research questions that utilize the couple as the unit of analysis and that focus on the dynamic study of lives.

My research speaks to the following question: how does the intersection of paid and unpaid work influence life quality for contemporary men and women? Within this general area, I have three specific lines of research. The first includes an examination of the work/family interface, including its structure and consequences for individuals and families. A second research area investigates the ways that an individual's work and family conditions can influence his or her spouse; current work in this area is supported through a Work-Family Early Career Development Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A third area examines how couples' employment patterns influence informal care of parents as well as workers' health and well-being. This research has been supported by grants from the Graduate School and the Center on Age & Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Teaching Interests: Research Methods, Applied Statistics, Work and Family Across the Life Course, Adult Development and Aging

Spring 2010 Course
SOCIOL 361-401: Research Methods in Sociology
SOCIOL 760-401: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology

Fall 2009 Course
SOCIOL 495-201: Seminar in Sociology: The Work-Family Intersection (pdf)

Past Course Syllabi
SOCIOL 282: Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (pdf)
SOCIOL 361: Research Methods in Sociology (pdf)
SOCIOL 760: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology (pdf)

Selected Publications:
Chesley, Noelle. (Forthcoming, 2010). Technology use and employee assessments of productivity, workload, and pace. of life. Information, Communication & Society.

Chesley, Noelle and Kyle Poppie. (2009). Assisting Parents and In-laws: Gender, Couples' Employment, and Type of Assistance (pdf). Journal of Marriage and Family, 71, 247-262.

Moen, Phyllis and Noelle Chesley. (2008). Toxic Job Ecologies, Lagging Time Convoys, and Work-Family Conflict: Can Families (Re)gain Control and Life Course "Fit"? (pdf) Handbook of Work-Family Integration: Theories, Perspectives, and Best Practices; Lero, D.S., Korabik, K., and Whitehead, D.L., eds.)

Reichart, Elisabeth, Noelle Chesley, and Phyllis Moen. (2007). The end of the career mystique? Policies and cultural frameworks that structure the work-family interface in the United States and Germany (pdf). Zeitschrift für Familienforschung/Journal of Family Research 19. Jahrg. 2007, 3-24.

Chesley, Noelle and Phyllis Moen. (2006). When Workers Care: Dual-Earner Couples' Caregiving Strategies, Benefit use, and Psychological Well-Being (pdf). American Behavioral Scientist, 49(9), 1-22.   
Nominee for the 2007 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

Chesley, Noelle. (2006). Families in a High Tech Age: Technology Usage Patterns, Work and Family Correlates, and Gender (pdf). Journal of Family Issues, 27(5), 587-608.

Chesley, Noelle. (2005). Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction (pdf). Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1237-1248. Official nominee for the 2006 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

Chesley, Noelle, Phyllis Moen, and Richard P. Shore. (2003). The New Technology Climate: Work and Family in the Information Age(pdf) in It's About Time: Couples' Strategies, Strains, and Successes, edited by Phyllis Moen.

Book Review:
Chesley, Noelle. (2007). Review of Susan Thistle’s From Marriage to the Market, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 270-277.