Cheryl Elman, Scholar in Residence

Please note: Cheryl has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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PhD	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MSPH	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (School of Public Health)
BA	Syracuse University

Research Interests: Life Course Research, Historical Demography, Social History

Current projects: Postbellum Southern economic change and effects on maternal child health

I focus on the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century U.S. to study how the modern life course (the structure and content of life circumstance) has been (re)shaped, via rising social institutional forms such as health systems, labor markets, school systems and households. I am especially interested in the variability of life course experience due to social factors, including the selective allocation of institutional access, resources and rewards. Recent articles include: "Extending Public Health: The Rockefeller Foundation and Hookworm in the American South.”(American Journal of Public Health 2014); “Drawn to the Land: Life Course Consequences of Frontier Women’s Settlement." (Social Science History 2013); "Racial Differences in Multigenerational Living Arrangements in 1910.” (Social Science History 2011).

Areas of Interest:

Life Course Studies (Specialty, The Midlife Years)
Social History (Early twentieth century)
Historical Demography (Health, Family Structure)

Recent Publications

1. C. Elman, A.S. London and R.A. McGuire, Fertility, Economic Development, and Health in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. South., edited by Robert I. Rotberg, Theodore K. Rabb, and Reed Ueda, Editors, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 46 no. 2 (2015), pp. 185-233, MIT Press Journals, ISSN 0022-1953 (The first author was supported by a 2013-2014 Rockefeller Archive Center award..) [JINH_a_00831#.VdHamJdRo-I], [doi]  [abs]
2. C. Elman, R.A. McGuire, B. Wittman, Extending Public Health: The Rockefeller Foundation and Hookworm in the American South, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104 no. 1 (2014), pp. 47-58 [doi]  [abs]
3. C. Elman, K. Feltey, B.Wittman, D.Jauk, Drawn to the Land: Life Course Consequences of Frontier Women’s Settlement, Social Science History, vol. 37 no. 1 (Spring, 2013), pp. 27-69 [doi]  [abs]
4. C. Elman, A. London, Racial Differences in Multigenerational Living Arrangements in 1910, Social Science History, vol. 35 no. 3 (2011), pp. 275-322 [doi]  [abs]
5. A. Kroska and C. Elman, Change in Attitudes about Employed Mothers: Exposure, Interests and Gender Ideology Discrepancies, Social Science Research, vol. 38 no. 2 (2009), pp. 366-382 [doi]  [abs]

Selected Grant Support

• Fertility Differentials in the Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century American South (2013), Rockefeller Archive Center.      
• Adult Learning in Modern Societies (2012-2013, US Investigator), European Research Council (H-P. Blossfeld, P.I.).