Dr. Linda Grant
(Curriculum
Vitae) Dr. Linda Grant, Professor of Sociology,
has been at the University of Georgia since 1985.
She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University
of Michigan in 1981. Her specialty areas include sociology
of gender, sociology of education, qualitative methods,
social psychology, women and science. Dr. Grant's
most recent work examines mentoring and gender and
careers in the social, biological, and physical sciences,
race and gender issues in public education and qualitative
methods in social research.
Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants
2007. Winner of the Feminist Mentoring Award, Sociologists for Women in Society.
Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association, and Linda Grant. In and Out of Academia: Careers and Family Transitions among Sociologists.” $25,000 grant from the Sloan Foundation, 2006-2008.
Linda Grant and Gary Alan Fine. Summer workshop in field work methods. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Sociology Program, 1992-1995. Total funds: $106,679 over four years.
Linda Grant and Kathryn Ward. Mentoring, gender, and publication in the social, natural and physical sciences. Proposal funded July 1990 through December 1991 by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Field-Initiated Studies. Total funds: $63,100 over 18 months.
Selected Publications
Linda Grant. Forthcoming 2008. “Gender and Qualitative Research.” Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Methods, ed. Lisa Givens. Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage Publications.
Kimberly C. Kelly and Linda Grant. December 2007. “State Abortion and Nonmarital Birth Rates in the Post-Welfare Reform Era: The Impact of Economic Incentives on Reproductive Behaviors of Teenage and Adult Women.” Gender & Society (December) 21(6): 878-904.
Linda Renzulli, Linda Grant, and Sheejita Kathuria. August 2006. “Race, Gender, and Wage Gaps: Comparisons of Predominately White and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” Gender & Society 20(4) 491-510.
Grant, Linda, Ivy Kennelly, and Kathryn B. Ward. 2000. "Revisiting the Marriage, Motherhood and Productivity Puzzle in Scientific Research Careers." Women Studies Quarterly 38:62-85.
Grant, Linda, Kathryn B. Ward, and Xue Lan Rong. 1987. "Is There an Association between Gender and Methods in Published Sociological Research?" American Sociological Review 52:856-864.
Grant, Linda. 1984. "Black Females' "Place" in Desegregated Classrooms." Sociology of Education 57:58-76.
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
324 Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-3228 (office)
706-542-4320 (fax)
lgrant@uga.edu
