Barbara Risman, the first of four finalists for the position of dean of UNL’s College of Arts and Sciences, will give a public presentation and have an open forum from 3:30-5:30 Feb. 25 in the Lied Commons.
Administrators, faculty, students and staff are encouraged to attend the presentation and provide their thoughts via this webpage.
Risman, professor and head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was previously Alumni Distinguished Research Professor at North Carolina State University and the Director of Graduate Studies at NCSU.
She is the author of two books and more than two dozen journal articles in venues including American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Journal of Marriage and the Family. She has been editor of the journal Contemporary Sociology and is one of the editors of a book series. She is president of the board of directors of The Council on Contemporary Families, an organization that brings new research findings and clinical expertise to public conversation.
Risman has several forthcoming projects, including a new book and a qualitative study of gender among today’s young adults and an analysis of the efficacy of grants designed to integrate women into science, technology engineering and math disciplines.
Risman completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Washington.
On Feb. 18, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs announced four finalists for the position. In addition to Risman, they are Stephen Esquith of Michigan State University, Susan Sterett of the University of Denver and Joseph S. Francisco of Purdue University. For more on the Arts and Sciences dean search, click here.
