Office Hours:
On Leave during 2007-2008 Academic Year

Margaret (Peggy) Nelson
Hepburn Professor of Sociology
Munroe Hall 207
Phone: (802) 443 - 5301
Email: mnelson@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D. (1978), Columbia University; M.Phil. (1976), Columbia University; B.A. (1966), Swarthmore College.

Margaret Nelson is the Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies. She teaches courses in the fields of Women and Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Medical Sociology, and Sociology of the Family. She has conducted research in the fields of Women and the Law, Childbirth, the History of Teaching, Family Strategies in Rural Areas, Caregiving, and, most recently, Single Mothers. Professor Nelson has been a member of the Sociology/Anthropology Department since 1975.