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Maryland Population Research Center
2002-2003 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:	Linda Burton Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
TITLE:	Growing Up A Little Faster: An Ethnographic Life Course Perspective on Adultified Children.
DATE:	Fri. May 9, 2003
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Linda Burton received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California and is currently Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is also Director of The Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts. Dr. Burton's research interests are intergenerational family exchanges, fertility, minority families and neighborhood context. She is currently one of six principal investigators in a four-year multisite collaborative study on the impact of welfare reform on families and children. She is also a recent recipient of the American Family Therapy Academy Award for Innovative Contributions to Family Research and the Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Award for Outstanding Research. Her publications include "One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Neighborhoods and Adolescent Development" in Does It Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families (A. Booth & A.C. Crouter, eds.), 2001; "In the Mix, Yet on the Margins: The Place of Family in Urban Neighborhood and Child Development Research," (with R.L. Jarrett), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2000; and "Dynamic Dimensions of Family Structure in Low-Income African-American Families: Emergent Themes in Qualitative Research," (with R.L. Jarrett), Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 1999.

This seminar is co-hosted by CRGE.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2003.shtml