Kim Price-Glynn

Associate Professor of Sociology

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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:

Kim Price-Glynn is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Hartford and Storrs campuses. She is affiliated with Urban and Community Studies and Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies. Before joining the University of Connecticut faculty, she completed her doctorate in sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2010, she was the inaugural recipient of the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching.

RESEARCH:

Professor Price-Glynn’s research interests center on gender, labor, and carework. She is co-editor of the volume, From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change (Rutgers University Press 2023), with Mignon Duffy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) and Amy Armenia (Rollins College). She is co-editor of the book series, Carework in a Changing World, with Mignon Duffy and Amy Armenia (also with Rutgers University Press). Her current study (under contract with Rutgers University Press) explores the dimensions of parenting groups’ carework that demonstrate both barriers and solutions to more equitable care practices.

Her past research addresses diverse organizational settings including strip clubs, nursing homes, and home health care. Her book, Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (NYU Press 2010), examined the processes through which men and women wield, negotiate, and contest power in a gendered organization. She has published with Gender & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness; Research in the Sociology of Health Care; and Work, Employment & Society as well as other journals and in the edited volume, Caring on the Clock (Rutgers University Press 2015).

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE:

Professor Price-Glynn is an active member and past co-chair of the Carework Network, an international organization of researchers, policymakers, and advocates involved in various domains of care work: https://www.uml.edu/Research/CWW/carework/carework-network/.  In 2020, the Carework Network launched a virtual hub, http://careworknetworkresponds, that examines transformational responses to COVID-19, highlighting what we know and what we are learning about the social organization of care. In June of 2023, the Carework Network held its third biennial Summit at the University of Costa Rica with over 250 attendees from 30 countries and 6 continents. Every session was bilingual in English and Spanish.

She co-chairs The Wood/Raith Living Trust (2018-present) with Professors Vicki Magley (Psychology) and Alaina Brenick (HDFS). The Wood/Raith Living Trust is named for Audrey Wood (UConn graduate, class of 1947) and Edeltraut Raith. Wood and Raith generously gifted the University of Connecticut funds for the study of gender identity. Over the past six years, we have awarded 73 UConn Summer Research Fellowships of $4000 each to graduate students across the university, https://woodraithgender.uconn.edu.

EDUCATION:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts – Amherst
M.A., University of Massachusetts – Amherst
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University