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    Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
    Sociology
    Gerhart House
    Office: GER
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    Education

    Ph.D. in Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, May 2010

    M.A., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, May 2007

    M.A., English/Creative Writing, Boston University, January 1993

    B.A., Sociology and Creative Writing, Oberlin College, June 1991

    Dual Certificate, Substance Abuse Counseling and Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002 

    Research Interests

    • Gender
    • Race-ethnicity and Immigration
    • Poverty and Inequality
    • Families
    • Intersectionality
    • Maternal-Child Health
    • Addiction
    • Media
    • Mixed Methods Research

    Publications

    Cross-Barnet-Caitlin, Marycatherine Augustyn, Susan Gross, Amy Resnik, and David Paige.  “Long-Term Breastfeeding Support: Failing Mothers in Need.” Forthcoming in Maternal and Child Health Journal.

    Cross-Barnet, Caitlin, Andrew Cherlin, and Linda Burton. "Bound by Children: Intermittent Cohabitation and Living Together Apart." (2011) Family Relations 60(5): 633-647.  

    Gross, Susan, Amy Resnick, Joy Nanda, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Marycatherine Augustyn, and David Paige. (2011).  “Early Postpartum: A Critical Period in Setting the Path for Breastfeeding Success.”Breastfeeding Medicine 6(1).   Available at http://www.marylandbreastfeedingcoalition.org/files/Early_Postpartum_Breastfeeding_Medicine_Article_2011.pdf

    Cross-Barnet, Caitlin.  (September 13, 2010).  “Boosting Breastfeeding through Public Policy.” Los Angeles Times. Available at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cross-barnet-breastfeeding-20100913,0,7036470.story

    Susan Gross, Amy Resnik, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Joy Nanda, Marycatherine Augustyn, and David Paige. (2009).  “The Differential Impact of WIC Peer Counseling Programs on Breastfeeding across the State of Maryland.” Journal of Human Lactation 25(4): 435-443. (Awarded Published Article of Distinction for 2010 by the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association)

    McDonald, Katrina Bell and Caitlin Cross-Barnet.  (2009).  Review of Lacy, Karyn R.  Blue Chip Black; Race, Class and Status in the New Black Middle Class.  Journal of Marriage and Family 71(2): 334-336.

    Cherlin, Andrew, Caitlin Cross-Barnet, Linda Burton, and Raymond Garrett-Peters. (2008).  “Promises They Can Keep: Low Income Women’s Attitudes toward Marriage and Motherhood.” Journal of Marriage and Family 70(4): 919-933.  Available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743434/

    Presentations

    Selected Conference Presentations
    • Hospital Breastfeeding Experiences after Cesarean among WIC Mothers, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 2011 
    • Marital Headship in Black Ethnic Perspective, co-presented with Katrina Bell McDonald, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, February, 2011
    • Reality or Ready Excuse?  Reasons Mothers Don’t Breastfeed, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2010
    • The Role of Doctors and Hospitals in WIC Mothers’ Breastfeeding Decisions, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2010
    • Contemporary Black Marriage: Ethnic Perspectives on Egalitarian, Transitional, and Traditional Ideologies, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010
    • Breast Pump Use among Maryland WIC Mothers:  Implications for Education, Distribution, and Breastfeeding Success, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2009
    • Pumping it Up?: Breast Pumps and the Medicalization of Breastfeeding among Maryland WIC Mothers, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2009 
    • Redefining Relationships: Non-marriage Based Cohabitation among Low-income Mothers, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2009
    • Beyond ‘Breast is Best’: Breastfeeding Peer Counselors and WIC Clients’ Economic Assessments of Infant Feeding Options, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2008 
    • Cohabiting on the Edge: Living Together Apart, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2008
    • ‘We are not a Breastfeeding Family’: Cultural Capital and Infant Feeding Decisions, Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, April, 2008
    • Successful Black Marriage: A Qualitative Analysis, co-presented with Katrina Bell McDonald, Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, April, 2008
    • Fictions Truths: Teaching Social Theory through the Contemporary Short Story, CUNY Feminist Pedagogy Conference, New York, NY, October 2007
    • Promises They Can Keep: Low Income Women’s Attitudes Towards Marriage and Motherhood, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2007

    Course Information

    Fall 2011

    • Sociology of Media
    • Social Psychology

    Spring 2012  

    • Introduction to Sociology 
    • Drugs, Mental Illness, and Culture 

    Teaching Interests: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class; Social Inequality; Race and Immigration; Medicine and Health; Media and Culture; Sociology of the Family; Sociology of Education; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods