Margaret K. Nelson

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Office Hours:
Tuesdays: 3:00 - 4:00
Wednesdays: 1:30 - 2:30
Thursdays: 3:00 - 4:00

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 Sociology of Education, Poverty, 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, Single Mothers, and, most recently, Surveillance. Professor Nelson has been a member of the Sociology/Anthropology Department since 1975.