Jennifer M. Randles

Dr. Randles specializes in the sociology of family, marriage, gender, social inequality/poverty, childhood, and qualitative methodologies. She teaches classes on family/marriage, inequality, childhood, race/ethnicity, research methods, and critical thinking. Her research addresses how social and economic inequities affect family life in the United States and how public policies address these intimate inequalities. She is the author of “Proposing Prosperity: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America,” “Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering,” and "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood."