Margaret (Peggy) K. Nelson

Margaret (Peggy) K. Nelson is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology emerita. She taught in the Department of Sociology between 1975 and 2011. As a professor she taught classes in the Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, and Sociology of the Family. Since retirement she has continued to publish. Her most recent books include Sociology Meets Memoir (in press at NYU Press, publication scheduled December, 2024), Farm and Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the 20^th Century, with Emily K. Abel (Rutgers University Press, 2023), Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and silence in Memoirs from the 1950s (New York University Press, 2022), Limited Choice: Mable Jones, A Black Children’s Nurse in a Northern White Household with Emily K. Abel (University of Virginia Press, 2021), Like Family: Narratives of Created Kinship (Rutgers University Press, 2020), and Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, with Rosanna Hertz (Oxford University Press, 2018). She is currently working on a project investigating the lives of Jews in Vermont between 1900 and 2000, with a focus on those involved in retail trade and the scrap business.