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February 12, 2008

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Pamela Herd

Pamela Herd

Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty

Office: 3454 Social Science Building
Phone: 608-262-9451
Fax: 608-265-5389
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Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Pamela Herd is Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology. Her research examines the effects of Medicare and Social Security on gender, race, and class, and the relationship between socioeconomic status and health.

Herd has co-authored the 2007 book Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age with Madonna Harrington Meyer. The book is part of the American Sociological Association's Rose Series on Public Policy. Herd is author of numerous articles and chapters that have appeared in Social Forces, Gender and Society, The Gerontologist, Journal of Aging and Social Policy and the Blackwell Companion to Sociology.

Herd is a 2002-04 grant recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. In 2002 she received the Syracuse University Outstanding Dissertation Prize for Crediting Care, Citizenship or Marriage: Gender, Race, Class and Social Security Reform. Other awards include a National Academy of Social Insurance Dissertation award, a Center for Retirement Research/Social Security Administration Fellowship in 2001, the National Academy of Social Insurance Internship in 2000 and the AARP/Andrus Foundation Scholarship in 1999.

She has a Ph.D. in sociology from Syracuse University.

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