Noelle Chesley
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office: Northwest Quadrant–Building B, Room 7488
Phone: 414/229-2398
E-mail: chesley@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University
M.P.A., Syracuse University
B.S., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rufus King High School, Milwaukee, WI
Areas of Specialization:
Life Course Studies; Gender; Adult Development and Aging; Health and Well-Being; Work and Family; Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design and Analysis.
Recent Media Events
WISN News on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Read the story and watch the video about working moms.
WUWM's public radio show Lake Effect with Stephanie Lecci. Listen to Prof. Chesley discuss
gender roles in the home.
Teaching Schedule
Spring 2013
Sociol 760-401: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology (pdf)
Fall 2012
Sociol 282-001: Sociology of Aging (pdf)
Sociol 361-201: Research Methods in Sociology (pdf)
Spring 2012
Sociol 442-201: The Work-Family Intersection (pdf)
Sociol 760-401: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology (pdf)
Research Interests:
Prof. Chesley's research 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, her research is primarily concerned with the mechanisms that link work and family processes or that shift work/family boundaries and the (similar or different) consequences of these linkages or shifts for women and men. Chesley's 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, N. Chesley has three specific lines of research. The first includes an examination of the work/family interface, with a particular focus on whether and how information and communication technology use is influencing work, family life, or the intersection of work and personal life. A second research area investigates the ways that an individual's work and family conditions can influence his or her spouse; recent research in this area was supported through a Work-Family Early Career Development Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a supporting grant from the UWM Graduate School. 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.
Selected Publications:
Chesley, Noelle. (Forthcoming). Information and Communication Technology Use, Work Intensification, and Employee Strain and Distress. Work, Employment & Society.
Chesley, Noelle, Andra Siibak, and Judy Wajcman. (Forthcoming 2013). "Information and Communication Technology Use and Work-Life Integration" in Handbook of Work-Life Integration of Professionals: Challenges and Opportunities (Debra A. Major and Ronald Burke, eds.). Elgar Publications.
Fonk, James, Donna Davidoff, Thomas Lutzow, Noelle Chesley, Nancy Mathiowetz. (2012). The Effect of Advance Directives on End-of-Life Cost Experience. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 23(3). 1137-56; DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0098.
Chesley, Noelle and *Briana Fox. (2012). Email Use and its Perceived Effect on Family Relationship Quality: Variation by Gender and Race/Ethnicity. Sociological Focus. 45(1), 1-22.
Chesley, Noelle. (2011). Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Gender, Couple Dynamics, and Social Change. Gender & Society, 25, 642–664.
Chesley, Noelle and Britta Johnson. (2010). Information and communication technology, work, and family. In S. Sweet and J. Casey (Eds.) Work and Family Encyclopedia. Chestnut Hill, MA; Sloan Work and Family Research Network. http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=17210&area=All
Chesley, Noelle. (2010) “Technology Use and Employee Assessments of Work Effectiveness, Work Load, and Pace of Life” (pdf) Information, Communication & Society, 13 (4), 485-514.
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.