Professor of Sociology




Department of Sociology
Grinnell College
1210 Park Street
Grinnell, IA 50112
(641) 269-3133
fax (641) 269-4985

fergusos@grinnell.edu

• B.A. Spanish and Political Science, Colorado State University, 1984
• M.A. Sociology, Colorado State University, 1988
• Ph.D. Sociology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 1993

• Sociology of the Family
• Never Married Asian American Women
• Medical Sociology
• Women's Health
• Women and Work
• Feminist Sociology
• Scholarship on Teaching and Learning

• During 2007, Ferguson edited manuscripts for new book series on Families in the 21st Century. Click here for more information.
• During 2006, Revised Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology, Fifth Edition, (McGraw Hill, 2008). Click here for more information.
• During 2005, Ferguson revised her family anthology, Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families, Third Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2007). Click here for more information.
• 2003-2004. Revised Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology, Fourth Edition, (McGraw Hill, 2005). Click here for more information.
• 2003-2004, Created website and "Instructor's Manual" for Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Granted a Harris Fellowship for 1997-98. This full-year research fellowship is awarded competitively to two Grinnell College junior faculty members each year. During her fellowship year, Professor Ferguson was in the Bay Area interviewing never married Chinese American and Japanese American women.
• Won American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, 1996-1998 to continue research on Never Married Asian American Women. See Press Release.

• Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill. Fifth Edition. 2008. Click here for more information.
• Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families New York: McGraw-Hill. Third Edition. 2007. Click here for more information.
• Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill. Fourth Edition. 2005. Click here for more information.
• 2004. Article co-authored with former Grinnell student, Julie Dona. "Gendering Processes in Immigration: The Effects of Spousal Immigration Order and Women's Labor on Chinese American and Japanese American Gender Roles in Equal Opportunities International. Volume 23. Issue 3/4.
• Co-editor. Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. (Fall, 2000). Co-editor is Anne S. Kasper. Click here for more information.
• "Challenging Traditional Marriage: Never Married Chinese American and Japanese American Women." Gender and Society 14(1): 136-159. February, 2000.
• "Re-Writing Menopause: Challenging the Medical Paradigm to Reflect Women's Experiences." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 19(1). April, 1998. Co-author is Carla Parry.