Stacey Oliker

Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Sociology
Office: Bolton Hall 756
Phone: (414) 229-2215

Jewish Studies
Office: Curtin Hall 905
Phone: (414) 229-6551

E-mail: stacey@uwm.edu

Fall Office Hours:  T 12:30–1:30, W 2:00–3:00, R 9:30–10:30 and by appointment

Degree:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California–Berkeley

Research Interests:
Low-tier Care Work; American Time Use Study of Caregiving.

Teaching Interests:
Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Gender, Urban Institutions

Spring 2010 Courses
SOCIOL 440-001: Sociology of the Family

Fall 2009 Courses
SOCIOL 250-001: Sex and Gender
SOCIOL 701-001: Professional Seminar
SOCIOL 927-001: Seminar in Sociology of Contemporary Institutions: Sociology of Gender

Selected Publications:
Stacey J. Oliker, "Gender and Friendship," Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.

Francesca M. Cancian and Stacey J. Oliker, Caring and Gender. Pine Forge Press, 2000.

Stacey J. Oliker, "The Modernization of Friendship: Individualism, Intimacy, and Gender in the 19th Century," in Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan, Placing Friendship in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stacey J. Oliker, "Proximate Contexts of Workfare and Work: A Framework for Studying Poor Women's Economic Action "The Sociological Quarterly 36 (2), May 1995.

Stacey J. Oliker, "Does Workfare Work? Evaluation Research and Workfare Policy," Social Problems 41 (2), May 1994.

Stacey J. Oliker, Best Friends and Marriage: Exchange Among Women, University of California Press, 1989. Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Jessie Bernard Award