BROOKS-GUNN, Jeanne

BROOKS-GUNN, Jeanne. Also writes as Jeanne Brooks, Brooke Gunn. American, b. 1946. Genres: Education, Psychology, Sociology. Career: University of Pennsylvania, adjunct faculty, 1973-80, adjunct associate professor, 1985-; Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, associate research scientist, 1974-77, research scientist, 1978-83, associate director of Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children, 1977-82, director of Adolescent Study Program, 1982-, senior research scientist for Division of Education Policy Research, 1983-92; St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Pediatric Service, research scientist, 1978-95; Columbia University, assistant professor, 1978-86, Teachers College, Virginia & Leonard Marx Professor, 1991-, director of National Center for Children and Families, co-director of Institute of Child and Family Policy, 1998-; visiting associate professor, Princeton University, 1981-84, Barnard College, 1982-83; Russell Sage Foundation, visiting scholar, 1988-89; writer. Publications: (with Matthews) He and She: How Children Develop Their Sex-Role Identity, 1979; (with Lewis) Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self, 1979; (with Furstenberg Jr. and Morgan) Adolescent Mothers in Later Life, 1987; (with Graber and Petersen) Transitions through Adolescence, 1996; (with Cox) Conflict and Cohesion in Families, 1999. EDITOR: (with Petersen, and contrib.) Girls at Puberty, 1983; (with Baruch, and contrib.) Women in Midlife, 1984; (with Petersen and Eichorn) Time of Maturation and Psychosocial Functioning in Adolescence, 2 vols., 1985; (with Lerner and Petersen, and contrib.) The Encyclopedia of Adolescence, 1990; (with Petersen) The Emergence of Depression and Depressive Symptoms during Adolescence, 1991; (with Chase-Lansdale) Escape from Poverty, 1993; (with Duncan) Consequences of Growing up Poor, 1997; (with Aser) Neighborhood Poverty, 2 vols, 1997. Address: Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.