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Cynthia B. Struthers

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1999
Associate Professor of Sociology
Research Associate, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs

Contact Info

• Office: Stipes Hall 502
  
• Phone: (309) 298-2282
  
• E-mail: Dr. Struthers
  
• Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs homepage: http://www.iira.org

Courses

• WS 410 / Soc 410 Women and Poverty
• Soc 200 Contemporary Social Problems
• Soc 345 Rural Social Organizations
• Soc 312 Community
• Soc 370 American Family

Areas of Specialization

• Family, Community, Rural Sociology

Publications/Presentations

• Struthers, Cynthia B. 2005. Housing Conditions and Housing Options for Older Residents: A Question of Need, A Question of Acceptable Alternatives. Journal of Housing for the Elderly. 19 (1):
• Struthers, Cynthia B. 2004. Meeting Senior Housing Needs as a CD (Community Development) Strategy. Vanguard 36 (2):13-15.
• Struthers, Cynthia B. and Janet L. Bokemeier. 2003. Stretched to Their Limits: Rural Mothers, the ‘New’ Economy, and the Rural Work Ethic. Pp. 291-315 in Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts, A. Tickamyer, W. Falk, and M. Schulman (Eds.). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
• Merrett, Christopher and Cynthia B. Struthers. 2002. Globalization and the Future of Rural Communities in the American Midwest. Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 12 (1): 34-64.
• Struthers, Cynthia B. and Janet L. Bokemeier. 2000. Myths and Realities of Raising Children and Creating Family Life in a Rural County. Journal of Family Issues 21 (1): 17-46.

Organizational Memberships/Affiliations

• Rural Sociological Society, Community Development Society, American Sociological Association.

Dr. Struthers serves as the Faculty Advisor to W.I.U. Habitat for Humanity and is Unity Ally.

Dr. Struthers joined the Department in 1999.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Morgan Hall 404 • 1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455-1390

E-mail: CA-Skiles@wiu.edu • Phone: (309) 298-1056 • Fax: (309) 298-1857