HELEN GINN DAUGHERTY

CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT POSITION:

Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, Md. 20686
(301) 862-0396

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., 1982 (sociology), University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Dissertation:
"Women's Market Work and Fertility: Influence of Race."
M.A., 1977 (sociology), University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, North
Carolina. Thesis: "Preference, Identification, Dependence and the Decision to Move."
B.A., 1974 (sociology), University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

8/95 to Present: Professor of Sociology
6/88 to 8/95: Associate Professor of Sociology
8/82 to 6/88: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Division of History and Social Science,
St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Courses Taught: Introduction, Minorities, Family and Sex
Roles, Population Problems, Stratification, Collective Behavior/ Social Movements,
Urban, Policy Evaluation, Social Science Seminar (War and Society; Modernization and
Development; Labor Unions; Sports; Work and Leisure; Human Rights), Culture and The
Social Experience, Seminar in Research Methods.
1/78 to 8/82: Instructor, University College of the University of Maryland. (One course
each semester)
8/79 to 1/81: Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College
Park
8/75 to 6/76: Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina-
Greensboro.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Current: Issues of Welfare Reform in rural communities.
1/87 to 1/95: St. Mary's County Housing, Department of Economic and Community
Development: Conducted policy evaluations for federally-funded program-- Project Self-
Sufficiency/Operation Bootstrap.
6/84 to 1/87: Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland. Conducted
research on women's employment, childbearing, and child care. Analysis of U.S.
Census Current Population Surveys.
5/83 to 1/84: Consultant, St. Mary's Women's Center, Inc., Lexington Park, Maryland.
Prepared data and wrote documentation for employment needs survey of St. Mary's
County. Conducted preliminary analysis of the data.
1/81 to 8/82: Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland,
College Park, Md. Worked for Dr. Jerald Hage and Dr. Joseph Lengermann on the
sponsored project, "Synthesis of Hospital Organization Literature, 1969-
1979." Duties included preparation of codebook and documentation, literature
reviews, coding and abstracting of articles, Meta-analysis.
8/76 to 6/79: Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland,
College Park, Md. Assisted Dr.Harriet Presser on a longitudinal study on the
consequences of adolescent fertility, and on a study of child care constraints among
employed and unemployed women. Responsible for development of codes for open-
ended survey questions; preparing and editing the data for the third interview
questionnaire. Throughout both projects, created and maintained computer files and
tapes; data analysis, including parametric and nonparametric statistics. Assisted with
grant proposals, papers, articles and final reports.
6/79 to 8/79 and 6/80 to 8/80: Computer Data Lab Assistant, Department of Sociology,
University of Maryland, College Park, Md. Wrote fortran program to prepare cross-
sectional and longitudinal data sets for faculty and graduate student use. Wrote
documentation for use of the data sets and provided sample computer runs, using the
statistical package, SPSS. General user consulting.
6/76 to 8/76: Research Assistant, Institutional Research, University of North Carolina-
Greensboro, N.C. Compiled and analyzed data from student questionnaire (CSQ).
1/74 to 6/74: Department of Economics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Worked with Dr. Sonia Conley on a study "Women in the Labor Force and
Subsidized Child Care." Assisted in developing coding schemes and learned
basic research skills.

PUBLICATIONS:

1996, Helen Ginn Daugherty and Kenneth Kammeyer, An Introduction To
Population, 2nd ed., New York: Guilford Press.
1990, Helen L.Ginn, Book Review:"Personal Ethnography" by Karla
Poewe, in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 15(2,3):77-78.
1989, Helen L. Ginn, and Bluford Putnam, "Will Baby Boomers Save
America?" Risk 2(8):64-66.
1987, Helen L. Ginn, Project Self-Sufficiency: Program Evaluation, June 1987,
report submitted to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
1986, Kenneth C.W. Kammeyer and Helen Ginn, An Introduction to Population.
Homewood, Ill: Dorsey.
1986, Helen L. Ginn, "Teenage Pregnancy: On the Decline," The
Tide September 18.
1979, with Mee Yan Cheung and Sock-Foon Chew, "Identity Closure: Religion or
Ethnicity," Presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies,
LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Also Abstracted in Explorations in Ethnic Studies 2(2).
1978, Book Review, Demographic Dynamics in America, in Contemporary
Sociology 7(4): 497-98.

PRESENTED PAPERS:

1996 Helen G. Daugherty, "Welfare Reform and the Status of Women: Policy
Proposals from the Unites States," Paper presented at the 6th International
Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Adelaide, Australia.
1996 Helen G. Daugherty, " Welfare Reform in a Rural Community," Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society For Applied Anthropology, Baltimore
Maryland.
1993 Helen G. Daugherty, "U.S. Families at the Crossroads: Egalitarian Structure
of Ideology," Paper presented at the Fifth International Interdisciplinary
Congress on Women. Costa Rica.
1991 Helen L. Ginn, "Interview with bob Franklin on Cultural Diversity: Like It Is
Syndicated talk show WESM-FM.
1990, Helen L. Ginn, "Rural women and Welfare Reform: Becoming Self-
Sufficient," Paper presented at the fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress
on Women, New York.
1987, With Andrea Hammer, "Experiencing Social Change: Portrait of a Black
Family," Paper presented at the Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on
Women, Dublin, Ireland.
1983, With Tonu Parming, "Problems of Ethnic Categorization,"Paper
presented at the Annual Southern Sociological Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April.
1982, With Tonu Parming evaluation of Country of Origin as an Indicator of
Ethnicity," Submitted for publication.
1981, With Joseph Lengermann and Jay Smale, "Problems in Codifying Social
Science Research: Synthesis of Hospital Organization Research as a Case in
Point," Presented at The Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Toronto, Canada, August.
1979, with Mee Yan Cheung and Sock-Foon Chew, "Identity Closure: Religion or
Ethnicity," Presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies,
LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Also Abstracted in Explorations in Ethnic Studies 2(2).

INVITED SPEECHES:

1995, "Welfare Reform: The Focus in Maryland"The Democratic Club,
Maryland.
1992, "Women, Economic Development and Politics,"Soroptimists Club,
Leonardtown, MD.
1992, "St. Mary's County Women's Center, Historical Notes,"St.Mary's
Women's Center.
1992, "A Journey Into Sociology", AKD Initiation, University of North
Carolina-Greensboro.
1990, "The Status of Women: Worldwide Diversity in Childbearing and
Employment. Margaret Brent, BPW Women of the year program.
1989, "Historical World View of Childbearing: Laws and Practices. St. Mary's
County AAUW.

AWARDS AND GRANT PROPOSALS:

1985-96 Faculty Development Grants, St. Mary's College of Maryland; various projects,
travel and research.
1986/1985, Race and Patterns of Work, Child Care and Fertility, grant proposal
submitted to NIH-NICHD. Priority score, 217, Approved, no funds available.
1984-85, Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland. Funds awarded to
pursue research on Women's Employment.

PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

St. Mary's County:

Chair, Social Services Board, 1991-present
Member, Operation Bootstrap/ Project Self-Sufficiency Task Force, 1/85 to Present. A
Federally-Funded project to coordinate and provide services in housing, employment
training and employment, child care, medical assistance and transportation to selected
low-income families. Responsible for planning and program coordination.
Member, St. Mary's County Commission for Women. 12/87-1/91
Member, Board of Directors, St. Mary's Women Center, Inc., 2/83 to 12/86. The center
provides employment and career counseling for all residents of the county.

St. Mary's College of Maryland: Selected List

Presidential Search Committee, Member, 1995- 1996
Ad Hoc Committee on the Chesapeake Institute, 1994-1996
Chair, Department Anthropology/ Sociology 1993-1995
Planning Committee 1993-1996
Sexual Harassment Policy Ad Hoc Committee 1992-1993
Advising Ad Hoc Committee 1992-1993
Search Committee, Sociology Chair, 1992-93
Curriculum Diversity Ad Hoc Committee (Chair) 1990
Faculty Senate 1/87 to 1/90
President 1/88 to 1/90
Institutional Review Board for Research with Human Subjects, 9/83 to 1/91,
TOOLS Advisor, 9/86 to 5/88
Writing and Quantitative Criteria Ad Hoc Committee, 5/85 to 5/86; 6/87 to 12/87 (chair)
Athletic Recreation Council, Ad Hoc, 8/84 to 8/89
Task Force, Race and Ethnic Diversity, 9/86 to 6/87
Honors Committee, 5/85 to 1/86
Academic Policy Committee, 1/84 to 1/85

CONSULTANT / REVIEWER:

Pine Forge Press, 1996Chase Manhattan Bank, Sykes Wilford, Demographic Analysis,
1989 to present.
Department of Economic and Community Development, St. Mary's County Child Care
Survey, June 1987.
Eastern Sociological Society, Manuscript Reviews, 1987, 1988
Random House, Manuscript Review, 1986

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

  • American Sociological Association
  • Population Association of America
  • Eastern Sociological Association
  • Southern Sociological Association
    Status of Women Committee1979-80
  • National and Capital Area Sociologists for Women in Society.
    Co-editor, Newsletter, Capital Area 1978-79
  • Social Scientists in Population Research

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