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Katherine Stamps Doctoral Candidate 318 Oswald Tower Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA  16802 Office Phone: 814-863-6355 Email: kstamps@pop.psu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Sociology and Demography, expected 2009
M.A., University of Georgia, Sociology, 2005
B.S., University of Georgia, Sociology, 2005

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Families, Child Well-Being, The Life Course, Social Demography, Stratification and Inequality

RECENT GRANTS AND AWARDS

Penn State University College of the Liberal Arts Dissertation Support Grant

NICHD Traineeship in Demography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Publications

Kelly Davis and Katherine Stamps. “Work-life policies and practices in the United States: limited, mismatched, and unequal.” Forthcoming in A.C. Crouter and A. Booth (Eds.) Work-Life Policies that Make a Real Difference for Individuals, Families, and Organizations. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Stephanie A. Bohon, Katherine Stamps, and Jorge H. Atiles. Forthcoming June 2008.  “Transportation and Migrant Adjustment in Georgia.” Population Research and Policy Review.

Stamps, Katherine. 2007. Book Review of Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, by Mark A. Fine and John H. Harvey (Eds.). Journal of Marriage and Family 69(2): 554-556.

Stamps, Katherine and Stephanie A. Bohon. 2006. “Educational Attainment in New and Established Latino Metropolitan Destinations.” Social Science Quarterly 87(5): 1225-1240.

Presentations

King, Valarie, Katherine Stamps, and Dan Hawkins. "Adolescents with two nonresident biological parents: Living arrangements, parental involvement, and well-being." Poster Session, Annual meetings of the Population Association of America, April 2008. New Orleans, LA.

Stamps, Katherine, Claire Kamp Dush, and Valarie King. “Family Instability and Mother-Child Relationship Quality.” Poster Session, Annual meetings of the Population Association of America. March 2008. New York, NY.

Stamps, Katherine and Stephanie A. Bohon. “Educational Attainment in New and Established Latino Metropolitan Destinations.” Annual meetings of the Population Association of America. March 2006. Los Angeles, CA.

Bohon, Stephanie A., Katherine Stamps, and Jorge H. Atiles. “The Role of Transportation in Immigrant Adaptation.” Annual meetings of the Southern Demographic Association. October 2004. Hilton Head, SC.