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Angela Bruns

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Gonzaga University
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Bruns’ research focuses on social inequalities and families, with particular attention to the health and economic consequences of adverse experiences that are disproportionately prevalent among low-income families and people of color. Her recent work examines the impact of family member incarceration on women's employment and substance use, the associations between multiple job holding and maternal and child well-being, and the health risks associated with exposure to community gun violence for adolescents.

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Contributions

Can Marriage Promotion Help Children Growing Up with Single Mothers?

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Publications

"The Consequences of Partner Incarceration for Women's Employment" Journal of Marriage and Family (forthcoming).

Shows that, on average, women's hours of work were not significantly impacted by the incarceration of their partners. Reveals that there was a positive relationship between partner incarceration and employment among more advantaged groups of women (e.g. married women, White women).

"Educational and Racial Variation in Women’s Transitions into and out of Single Motherhood," Master of Arts thesis, University of Washington, May 31, 2013.
Investigates women’s chances of being a single mother and how those chances vary by race and educational attainment. The study also examines women’s transitions out of single motherhood to marriage, and presumably to the benefits of marriage, and to cohabitation, an increasingly popular but less advantaged family form.