Ellen Scott

Professor and Head of Women and Gender Studies

Address: 731 PLC University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403	Phone:	(541) 346-5075
	Fax:	(541) 346-5026
	Email:	escott@uoregon.edu

Professor Scott received her B.A. from Williams College in 1982. She received an M.A. in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Davis in 1997. She taught for four years at Kent State University, and joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2001.

Research Interests

intersections of gender, race, class, and sexualities
Poverty, low-wage labor, and family life
welfare reform
feminist organizations and social movements
qualitative methods

Teaching Areas

social inequality
gender
feminist theory
qualitative methods
race and ethnicity
welfare policy
social movements

Courses Taught

SOC 207	Social Inequality
SOC 455	Issues in Welfare, Low Wage Work, and Carework
SOC 456	Feminist Theory
SOC 613	Qualitative Methods
SOC 615	Gender, Race, Class

Selected Articles

2011 Colleen Heflin, Andrew S. London, and Ellen K. Scott. “Mitigating Material Hardship: The Strategies Low-Income Families Employ to Reduce the Consequences of Poverty.” Sociological Inquiry. 81(2):223-246.

2010 Ellen K. Scott. “ “I feel as if I am the one who is disabled”: the emotional impact of changed employment trajectories of mothers caring for children with disabilities.” Gender & Society 24(5): 672-696.

2008 Ellen K. Scott and Andrew S. London. "Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits." Marjorie DeVault, editor. Embodied Workers in the New Economy. New York: New York University Press.

2007 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Glenda Gross. " 'I Try Not to Depend on Anyone But Me': Welfare-Reliant Women's Perspectives on Self-Sufficiency, Work, and Marriage." Sociological Inquiry 77(4):601-625.

2007 Andrew S. London, Saul Schwartz, and Ellen K. Scott. "Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Welfare Policy Evaluations in the United States." World Development 35(2):342-353.

2007 Ellen K. Scott "Conflicts Between Wage Work and Care Work: How single-parent families of children with disabilities manage to juggle competing demands." Pp. 120-135 Barbara Arrighi and David Maume, editors. Child Poverty in America Today. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press.

2005 Ellen K. Scott. Beyond Tokenism: the Making of Racially Diverse Organizations. Social Problems.

2005 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Allison Hurst. "Instability in Patchworks of Child Care When Moving From Welfare to Work." Journal of Marriage and the Family.

2005 Pamela Morris, Ellen K. Scott, and Andrew S. London. "Effects on Children as Parents Transition from Welfare to Employment: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research". In Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller, eds., Good Parents or Good Workers? How Policy Shapes Families Daily Lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press.

2004 Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, and Vicki Hunter. "Welfare Reform, Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Child Well-Being." Family Relations 53:148-158.

2004 Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Rebecca Joyce Kissane. "Unstable work, unstable income: Implications for Family Well-being in the Era of Time-limited Welfare." Journal of Poverty. 8(1):61-88

2002 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Nancy A. Myers. "Dangerous Dependencies: The Intersection of Welfare Reform and Domestic Violence." Gender & Society. 16(6):878-897

2002 Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, and Vicki Hunter. "Children and Chronic Health Conditions: Welfare Reform and Health-Related Carework" Pp. 99-112 in Francesca Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew London, Rebecca Reviere, and Mary Tuominen (Editors), Child Care and Inequality: Re-thinking Carework for Children and Youth. New York: Routledge Press.

2002 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Nancy Myers. "Living With Violence: Women's Reliance on Abusive Men in their Transitions from Welfare to Work. " Pp. 302-316 in Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman (Editors), Families At Work. Expanding the Bounds. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

2001 Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew London and Joan Mazelis. "My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Tradeoffs and Marriage." Pp. 132-153 in Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (Editors), For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families. New York, NY: Russell Sage Press. Abstracted in Poverty Research News, Vol. 4 (4, July 2000).

2001 Ellen K. Scott. "From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: dilemmas in anti-racist activism." Pp. 132-153 in Kathleen Blee and France Winddance Twine (Editors), Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice. New York, NY: New York University Press.

2000 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Kathryn Edin. "Looking to the Future: Welfare Reliant Women Talk About Their Job Aspirations in the Context of Welfare Reform." Journal of Social Issues 56 (4:727-746).

2000 Ellen K. Scott. "Everyone Against Racism: agency and the production of meaning in the anti-racism practices of two feminist organizations." Theory and Society 29 (6:785-818).

1998 Ellen K. Scott. "Creating Partnerships for Change: alliances and betrayals in the racial politics of two feminist organizations." Gender & Society 12(4:400-423).

Education

Ph.D. -- California, Davis