Alan Acock (Ph.D., Washington State University) is Professor and former Chair of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University. He has also taught at Louisiana State University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Southern California. Alan has published 4 books, 20 book chapters, and 120 articles. He is a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations, a winner of the Reuben Hill Award, several awards for teaching, and his book on Family Diversity and Well-Being received the 1995 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book. Alan has held elected offices in the American Sociological Association and the National Council on Family Relations. His substantive research has been on the effects of family structure on the well-being of family members and on intergenerational relations. He is currently investigating the effects of fathers returning to families after incarceration. He has served on editorial boards of several substantive journals including the Journal of Marriage and Family. His methodological research has focused on structural equation modeling and missing values. He is currently writing a book on Stata. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Structural Equation Modeling.
Katherine R. Allen (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Professor of Family Studies and adjunct professor of Women′s Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her primary academic interests are in family diversity over the life course, feminism and family studies, and qualitative research methods. She is also interested in feminist and anti-racist pedagogy and women′s leadership in higher education. She serves on the editorial boards of
Journal of Marriage and the Family,
Journal of Family Issues, Family Relations, Journal of Aging Studies, and
Journal of GLBT Family Studies. She was co-editor of the
Handbook of Family Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2000) with David Demo and Mark Fine, the co-author of
Women and Families: Feminist Reconstructions with Kristine Baber (Guilford, 1992), and the author of
Single Women/Family Ties: Life Histories of Older Women (Sage, 1989), has served as a contributing author in a number of Sage titles (e.g., Hendrick & Hendrick′s
Close Relationships: A Sourcebook, McKenry/Price′s
Families & Change, 3/e), and is a prolific author of journal articles.