Melissa Milkie
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3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
Canada
Melissa Milkie is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the tri-campus Graduate Department. Professor Milkie’s research focuses on structural and cultural changes in gender, work and family life over recent decades and how work-family configurations are linked to mental health and well-being. She has a special focus on time and health, and is Principle Investigator of the 2019-2023 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant on the complexities of family members’ time together and apart in Canada and the U.S. Her current work examines time allocations of and time pressures on parents; work-family conflicts and health; refugee mothers’ strains as they integrate children into new communities; and cultural contestations of family in media. Her research has also been supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has published in journals such as American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Society and Mental Health and Social Psychology Quarterly and is author of the award-winning book Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, written during her time as Professor at the University of Maryland. Professor Milkie was recently named as one of the top-cited work-family researchers in the world by the Work-Family Researchers Network (WFRN). Up-to-date publications and information on Professor Milkie’s Research Team PACT (Parents and Children Together) can be found at https://melissamilkie.com/.
Publications
Recent Selected Publications
Milkie, Melissa A., Neda Maghbouleh, and Ito Peng. 2020. “Stress in Refugee Resettlement: Syrian Mothers’ Strains and Buffers During Early Integration.” In A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada, edited by Leah Hamilton, Luisa Veronis, and Margaret Walton-Roberts. Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Nomaguchi, Kei and Melissa A. Milkie. 2020. “Parenthood and Well-Being: A Decade in Review.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):198-223. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12646
Maghbouleh, Neda, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, and Ito Peng. 2019. “Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Trans-nationalism 18(2):482-507. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7789739
Milkie, Melissa A., Kei Nomaguchi, and Scott Schieman. 2019. “Time Deficits with Children: The Link to Parents’ Mental and Physical Health.” Society and Mental Health 9(3):277-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156869318767488 (Lead Article)
Nomaguchi, Kei and Melissa A. Milkie. 2019. “What Should Children Learn? Americans’ Changing Socialization Values, 1986-2018.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 5:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023119879016
Schieman, Scott, Leah Ruppanner, and Melissa A. Milkie. 2018. “Who Helps with Homework? Parenting Inequality and Relationship Quality Among Employed Mothers and Fathers.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 39:49-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-017-9545-4
Nomaguchi, Kei and Melissa A. Milkie. 2017. “Sociological Perspectives on Parenting Stress: How Social Structure and Culture Shape Parental Strain and the Well-Being of Parents and Children.” In Parental Stress and Early Child Development: Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes, edited by Kirby Deater-Deckard and Robin Panneton. New York: Springer.
Milkie, Melissa A., Joanna R. Pepin, and Kathleen E. Denny. 2016. “What Kind of War? ‘Mommy Wars’ Discourse in U.S. and Canadian News, 1989-2013.” Sociological Inquiry 86(1):51-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12100