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Kathryn Hynes

Department Affiliation:  Human Development and Family Studies
Education: PhD, Sociology, Cornell University, 2005
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POSITION TITLE:  Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Demography

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Quantitative and qualitative methods to address the question: How can parents with young children successfully manage their work and family roles?

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE: 

2005 Post Doctoral Fellow, Transition to Fatherhood Program Project, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2005-present Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University


HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS: 

2001-2002 Cornell Careers Institute Summer Fellowship

2002 Graduate College Travel Grant, Cornell University

2000-2003 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Cornell Careers Institute

2003 Best Poster Award for Session #3, Population Association of America, Minneapolis, MN


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

Hynes, K. and M. Clarkberg (2005). "Women's Employment Patterns During Early Parenthood: A Group-Based Trajectory Analysis." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):222-239. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Singley, S.G. and K. Hynes (2005). "Transitions to Parenthood: Work-Family Policies, Gender, and the Couple Context." Gender & Society 19(3):376-397. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Dunifon, R. , K. Hynes and H.E. Peters (2006). "Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being." Children and Youth Services Review 28(11):1273-1292. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Hynes, K. and R. Dunifon (2007). "Children in No-Parent Households: The Continuity of Arrangements and the Composition of Households." Children and Youth Services Review 29(7):912-932. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Hynes, K. , K. Joyner , H.E. Peters and F.Y. DeLeone (2008). "The Transition to Early Fatherhood: National Estimates Based on Multiple Surveys." Demographic Research 18:337-376. |Full Text| |Journal Home Page|

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