Treas named UCI Chancellor’s Professor
Treas named UCI Chancellor’s Professor
- April 4, 2016
- Honor recognizes sociologist’s research contributions
Judith Treas, sociology professor and Center for Demographic and Social Analysis director,
has been named a UCI Chancellor’s Professor. Granted for a five-year term, the distinguished
title recognizes those on campus who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and
who continue notable achievement in scholarship.
Treas specializes in research on family, gender, inequality, aging and the life course.
Her findings on how mixing kids and careers affect men and women and how homemakers
are no more happier than women who work for pay have been featured in leading journals
including American Sociological Review, Journal of Gerontology, Social Forces, and Journal of Marriage and Family, to name a few. Besides The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Families, she’s co-edited Dividing the Domestic, which demonstrated that societal characteristics have a major influence on how couples
divvy up the domestic duties in homes around the globe. Combining international survey
data with sociological analysis, Treas and co-authors report that the lion’s share
of domestic responsibilities still rests with women, even as more women are working
outside the home. While some countries are closing this gender chore gap, other countries
may be inadvertently reinforcing traditional roles through family-friendly policies
that encourage women to take time off work to keep house and raise children.
Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation,
and others. Outside campus, she’s served as a consultant on the research and design
of the 2010 Census, on awards committees for the American Sociological Association
and on editorial boards of many journals. She’s a past recipient of the ASA’s Matilda
White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award for Career Achievement, and in 2015, she was
a co-recipient of best article awards from two ASA sections. In 2009, she was president
of the Pacific Sociological Association. In 2012, she was named the recipient of the
Theoretical Developments in Social Gerontology award. The following year, she was
named a fellow of the National Council of Family Relations. Awarded to no more than
three-percent of the council's 3400+ membership base, the honor recognizes those who
have made outstanding and enduring contributions to the field of family relations
through scholarship, teaching, outreach and/or professional service.
Treas received her master’s and Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA. She was a professor
at the University of Southern California for 15 years, serving as department chair
for a five-year term. When she came to UCI in 1989, she was the founding chair of
the sociology department. In 1997, she founded the Graduate Program in Demographic
and Social Analysis, followed by the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis, a
campus research center.
Treas’s term as Chancellor’s Professor begins in July. There are currently fewer than
50 Chancellor’s Professors on campus, six of whom call social sciences home: Jan Brueckner
(economics); George Marcus (anthropology); Kristen Monroe (political science); David
Neumark (economics); Charles Ragin (sociology) and now Judith Treas (sociology).
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