Margaret (Peggy) Nelson: Surveillance in the Home, "Helicopter Parenting," Relationship Between Parenting Strategies and New Technologies
Margaret (Peggy) Nelson
Hepburn Professor of Sociology
Munroe Hall 207
Phone: 802.443.5301
Email: mnelson@middlebury.edu
Topics she can discuss include: - Relationship between parenting strategies and new technologies
- "Helicopter Parents"
- Surveillance in the home
- Single mothers
- Family poverty in rural areas
Margaret Nelson is the Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. She teaches courses on women and gender studies and sociology of family, education and poverty.
Her research focuses on families in rural areas, single mothers, surveillance, and contemporary parenting practices among the middle class.
Nelson graduated from Swarthmore College and received her master's and doctorate from Columbia University.
