| Title: | Professor |
| Dept: | Sociology |
| Office: | RT 1755 |
| Phone: | 216-687-4509 |
| Fax: | 1-216-6879314 |
| Email: | S.MATTHEWS@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1755, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
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Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Davis, 1976
B.A., Sociology, University of California Irvine, 1969 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| After earning a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California Davis in the mid-1970s, Professor Matthews spent two years at the University of Missouri Columbia on a post-doctoral fellowship in Aging. She taught from 1978-1990 at Case Western Reserve University before joining the faculty at CSU as an Associate Professor. In 1996 she was promoted to Full Professor and awarded the Distinguished Faculty Research Award. Until the early 1990s, her research focused on issues related to the old. Since that time she has also done research on inner-city children. Drawing on her training in symbolic interactionism, she teaches courses on children, marriage and family, aging, deviant behaviorand qualitative methods. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| Distinguished Faculty Research Award, Cleveland State University, 1996
Petersen Visiting Scholar in Gerontology and Family Studies, Oregon State University, 1998 | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Everyday life of inner-city children
Older Families | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Childhood, Aging, Marriage and Family, Qualitative Methods, Deviant Behavior | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| American Sociological Association
Gerontological Society of America (Fellow) Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| Associate Editor, Journal of Marriage and Family
Associate Editor, Journal of Aging Studies Associate Editor, International Journal of Aging and Human Development | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| Principal Investigator, Distribution of Lineage Structures in the US Population. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, October, 2003-September 2004 (with Rongjun Sun).
Principal Investigator, The Urban University through Students' Eyes. Funded by Ernest A. Lynton Grant from Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2000-2002. Co-investigator with William R. Morgan, Principal Investigator, Mother's Drug Treatment and Children's Resiliency. Funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, 1995-2000. | ||