Authors
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Maria Schmeeckle
Book Reviewer
Abstract
Reviewed work: Children of Katrina by Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
Author Biography
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Maria Schmeeckle
Maria Schmeeckle, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and an affiliated faculty member with the Children’s Studies Minor at Illinois State University. She received her doctorate from the University of Southern California in Sociology in 2001. She created and teaches a course called Children in Global Perspective, as well as courses about family relationships and research methods. Her research explores what the currently available, global data about children reveal about children’s inequality worldwide. Her publications have focused on marginalized children from a global perspective, extended families and kinship, and adult children in stepfamilies.
