Stacey Oliker

Associate Professor of Sociology

Office:   Northwest Quadrant–Building B, Room 7424
Phone: 414/229-2215
E-mail: stacey@uwm.edu

On sabbatical leave for the 2013-14 academic year

Degree:

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

Areas of Specialization:

Family; Sex and Gender; Sociology of Caregiving

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2013
Sociol 440-202: Sociology of the Family (pdf)
Sociol 911-001: The Sociology of Institutions
Fall 2012
Sociol 250-001: Sex and Gender (pdf)
Sociol 701-001: Professional Seminar (pdf)
Urb Std 981-001: Perspectives Toward Change in Urban Social Institutions

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