Madonna Harrington Meyer
Madonna Harrington Meyer is a University Professor at Syracuse University. She is a professor of sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. She is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, faculty affiliate at the Aging Studies Institute and faculty research affiliate at the Lerner Center.
She is co-author, with Ynesse Abdul-Malak, of "Grandparenting Children with Disabilities" (2020). She is co-editor, with Ynesse Abdul-Malak of "Grandparenting in the United States" (2016). She is co-editor with Elizabeth Daniele of "Gerontology: Changes, Challenges, and Solutions" (2016).
She is author of "Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs" (2014), winner of the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Book Award. She is co-author with Pamela Herd of "Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age" (2007), which also won the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Book Award. She is editor of "Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State" (2000).
Her work appears in leading journals including American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Gender & Society, and Social Problems. Her research has been reported in the media including New York Times, NPR, U.S. News and World Report, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and LA Times.
In 2016 she was named winner of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course (SALC) Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award.