Margaret (Peggy) Nelson: Single Mothers and the Sociology of Family
Margaret (Peggy) Nelson
Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies
Munroe Hall 207
Phone: 802.443.5301
Email: mnelson@middlebury.edu
Topics she can discuss include: - single mothers
- family poverty in rural areas
- women and gender studies
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 medicine.
Her research focuses on women and the law, childbirth, the history of teaching, poverty in rural areas, and single mothers.
Nelson graduated from Swarthmore College and received her master's and doctorate from Columbia University.