Ellen Scott

Associate Professor

Program Director

Office / Phone	323 Hendricks Hall	(541) 346-5923
	346 PLC (Sociology)	(541) 346-2222
Email	escott@uoregon.edu

Interests

• Intersections of race, class and gender
• Poverty and welfare policy in the U.S.
• Carework
• Qualitative methods

Affiliations

• Sociology

Publications

• 2005 Ellen K. Scott. Beyond Tokenism: the Making of Racially Diverse Organizations. Social Problems.
• 2005 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Allison Hurst. "Instability in Patchworks of Child Care When Moving From Welfare to Work." Journal of Marriage and the Family.
• 2005 Pamela Morris, Ellen K. Scott, and Andrew S. London. "Effects on Children as Parents Transition from Welfare to Employment: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research". In Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller, eds., Good Parents or Good Workers? How Policy Shapes Families Daily Lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press.
• 2004 Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, and Vicki Hunter. "Welfare Reform, Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Child Well-Being." Family Relations 53:148-158.
• 2004 Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Rebecca Joyce Kissane. "Unstable work, unstable income: Implications for Family Well-being in the Era of Time-limited Welfare." Journal of Poverty. 8(1):61-88
• 2002 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Nancy A. Myers. "Dangerous Dependencies: The Intersection of Welfare Reform and Domestic Violence." Gender & Society. 16(6):878-897
• 2002 Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, and Vicki Hunter. "Children and Chronic Health Conditions: Welfare Reform and Health-Related Carework" Pp. 99-112 in Francesca Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew London, Rebecca Reviere, and Mary Tuominen (Editors), Child Care and Inequality: Re-thinking Carework for Children and Youth. New York: Routledge Press.
• 2002 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Nancy Myers. "Living With Violence: Women's Reliance on Abusive Men in their Transitions from Welfare to Work. " Pp. 302-316 in Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman (Editors), Families At Work. Expanding the Bounds. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
• 2001 Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew London and Joan Mazelis. "My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Tradeoffs and Marriage." Pp. 132-153 in Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (Editors), For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families. New York, NY: Russell Sage Press. Abstracted in Poverty Research News, Vol. 4 (4, July 2000).
• 2001 Ellen K. Scott. "From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: dilemmas in anti-racist activism." Pp. 132-153 in Kathleen Blee and France Winddance Twine (Editors), Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice. New York, NY: New York University Press.
• 2000 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Kathryn Edin. "Looking to the Future: Welfare Reliant Women Talk About Their Job Aspirations in the Context of Welfare Reform." Journal of Social Issues 56 (4:727-746).
• 2000 Ellen K. Scott. "Everyone Against Racism: agency and the production of meaning in the anti-racism practices of two feminist organizations." Theory and Society 29 (6:785-818).
• 1998 Ellen K. Scott. "Creating Partnerships for Change: alliances and betrayals in the racial politics of two feminist organizations." Gender & Society 12(4:400-423).

Biography

Professor Scott received her BA from Williams College in 1982. She received an MA in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in 1990, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Davis in 1997. She taught for four years at Kent State University, and joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2001.