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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, Social Work, and Women's Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
  • Women’s Studies Department
  • Institute for Social Research

• Fields of Study

  • Poverty and Social Welfare
  • Gender and Family

• About

  Mary Corcoran is Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Women's Studies. Her research focuses on lawyers’ careers, on how welfare mothers' employment has changed as a result of welfare reform, and on the intergenerational transmission of economic inequality. She is examining the effects of temporary employment on welfare mothers’ long term employment outcomes. A second project examines the links between income, work, and material hardship. A third project examines the sex differences in lawyers’ career trajectories.
  

• Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (Social Policy and Education)
  • Pembroke College, B.A. (Mathematics)

• Awards

  • Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award (2010)
  • Sarah Goddard Power Award, University of Michigan (2004)
  • Faculty Recognition Award (1983)

• Grants

  • Casey Foundation (2004-2005, 2002-2004)
  • National Poverty Center, Health and Human Services (2002-2007)
  • Joyce Foundation and Mott Foundation (2002-2005)

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (1999) Cycles of Disadvantage

• Articles

  • (2010) Temporary Employment and the Transition from Welfare-to-Work, Social Service Review
  • (2008) Is the Partnership Gap Closing for Women? Cohort Differences in the Sex Gap in Partnership Chances, Social Science Research