Sangeetha Madhavan Ph.D.
Professor
African American and Africana Studies
Sociology
1119 Taliaferro Hall
College Park , Maryland 20742
College Park , Maryland 20742
Email:
smadhava@umd.edu
Office Phone:
301-405-1166
Education:
- Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
- Certificate, African Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
- M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1994
- B.A., Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1988
Biography:
Sangeetha Madhavan has a wide range of research interests including children’s well-being, household and family change, parenting, intergenerational relationships, transition to adulthood and social capital formation in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. Currently she is working on two projects: 1) fathering among low income Black men in urban South Africa and 2) social connectivity and children’s well-being in rural South Africa. In addition, she has started working on a new line of research on single motherhood and children’s well-being in urban Kenya. Her recent publications appear in Demography, Population and Development Review, Population Studies, and Journal of Family Issues.