Faculty

Maxine Baca Zinn (Ph.D., University of Oregon), specializes in gender, racial inequality, and family sociology. Her main research interests lie in unraveling the meanings of race, class, and gender in family life. She is the author and co-author of many books, including Diversity in Families, Social Problems, Women of Color in U.S. Society, Gender Through the Prism of Difference, and Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. Ongoing projects center around: (1) families in varied social locations and the intersecting hierarchies that produce different social and economic supports of family life, and (2) using intersectional analysis to transform social science, its textbooks, and curricula. In 2000, she received the ASA Jessie Bernard Career Award.

457B Berkey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 353-5061
zinnm@msu.edu