Professor
Graduate Faculty, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Senior Faculty Fellow, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
B.A., Cornell University; M.P.P., Georgetown University, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Contact
- Room 549, Civic Square Building
- (848) 932-2971
- jocelync [at] rutgers.edu
- www.jocelyncrowley.com
Research Interests
- American social policy
- family policy
- gender and public policy
Jocelyn Elise Crowley is a Professor of Public Policy, a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Political Science, an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is currently studying the impact of sexual harassment within the fashion and ridesharing industries. Before that, she examined the influence of “gray divorce”—divorce at or after the age of 50—on the lives of men and women across the United States. Her book, Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits, was published by the University of California Press in 2018. Prior to this, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded many of her research projects on mothers’ organizations in the United States, parenting challenges and public policy, and workplace flexibility. Her book, Mothers Unite! Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. She has also written extensively on the topic of family law and public policy, including her books The Politics of Child Support in America (2003; Cambridge University Press) and Defiant Dads: Fathers’ Rights Activists in America (2008; Cornell University Press). In addition to contributing to edited volumes on international fathers’ rights movements and motherhood politics, she has published numerous articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Review of Religious Research, Health Education and Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Marriage and Family Review, Justice System Journal, Perspectives on Politics, Social Service Review, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Sociological Inquiry, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Social Forces, Sociological Spectrum, Family Relations, Eastern Economic Journal, The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Family Issues, Survey Practice, Journal of Women & Aging, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, Women’s Studies International Forum, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Gender & Society, Gender, Work & Organization, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Violence Against Women. During the 2005-2006 academic year, she was chosen to be a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. She spent the 2006-2007 academic year at the Department of Politics, New York University and the Social Indicators Survey Center, Columbia University School of Social Work.
In 2018, Crowley received the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), which represents over 300 public policy schools all over the country. In addition, Crowley was the 2018 recipient of the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is Rutgers University’s highest honor in recognition of outstanding service in stimulating and guiding the intellectual development of students at Rutgers University by a tenured faculty member. Dr. Crowley also received the 2018 Jerome Rose Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)
Undergraduate
- Principles of Public Policy
- Gender, the Family, and Public Policy
Graduate
- Public Policy Formation
- American Social Policy
- Gender, the Family and Public Policy
Recent Publications
Books
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2018. Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Chapters in Books or Monographs
- Santucci, Nancy and Jocelyn Elise Crowley. 2016. “Fatherhood Movements.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender
and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples. Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell.
Articles in Refereed Journals
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Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. Forthcoming. “Are They Really Helping Them to “Get Over It’? Bystander Behavior after Sexual Harassment Incidents in the Fashion Industry.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. Forthcoming. “The Life of the Party: Entrepreneurial Labor, Sexual Harassment, and the Fashion Industry.” Women’s Studies International Forum.
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Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2023. “Bystander Behavior and Sexual Harassment: The Case of the Fashion Industry.” Violence Against Women. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231182409 (Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/00000288)
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2023. “Challenging Gendered Power: How Sexual Harassment Perpetrators Respond to Victim Confrontation.” Gender, Work & Organization 30 (1): 112-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12906
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2022. “How Independent Contractors Respond to Sexual Harassment: The Case of the Modeling Industry.” Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 34(1): 57-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-021-09374-2 (Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/00000137)
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2021. “Sexual Harassment in Display Work: The Case of the Modeling Industry.” Gender & Society 35(5): 719-745. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432211036890
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/00000138) - Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2019. “Does Everything Fall Apart? Life Assessments Following a Gray Divorce.” Journal of Family Issues 40(11): 1438-1461. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19839735
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/t3-8zpw-8322) - Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2019. “Once Bitten, Twice Shy? Gender Differences in the Remarriage Decision after a Gray Divorce.” Sociological Inquiry 89 (1):150-176. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12253
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/t3-ax4b-z914) - Crowley, Jocelyn Elise and Jessica Brand. 2019. “Should it Be Easy? Divorce Process Attitudes Among Those Who have Split up in Mid-Life.” Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 60 (1):47-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2018.1488109
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/T3T1579Q) - Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2019. “Gray Divorce: Explaining Mid-life Marital Splits.” Journal of Women & Aging 31(1): 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2017.1409918
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/t3-76w7-w438) - Curenton, Stephanie, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, and Dawne Mouzon. 2018. “Qualitative Descriptions of Middle-Class, African American Mothers’ Child Rearing Practices and Values.” Journal of Family Issues 39(4): 868-895. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X16683984
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/T39026ZP) - Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2018. “Incomplete Role Exit and the Alimony Reform Movement.” Sociological Inquiry 88(1): 32-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soin.12177
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/T3SX6HBH) - Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2017. “Ambiguous Financial Responsibilities: Second Wives and Alimony Reform Activism in the United States.” Journal of Family Issues 38(17): 2474 –2494. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513X16650232
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/T3PR802T) - Weiner, Marc D., Orin T. Puniello, Paul C. Siracusa, and Jocelyn Elise Crowley. 2017. “Recruiting Hard-to-Reach Populations: The Utility of Facebook for Recruiting Qualitative In-Depth Interviewees.” Survey Practice 10(4): 1-13. https://www.surveypractice.org/article/2774
(Accepted manuscript with open access available at: https://doi.org/10.7282/T3P2722C)
Selected Publications
Books
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2013. Mothers Unite! Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2008. Defiant Dads: Fathers’ Rights Activists in America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise. 2003. The Politics of Child Support in America. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Featured Report on Mothers’ Organizations in the United States and Workplace Flexibility
- Crowley, Jocelyn Elise with Marc Weiner. 2010. “What Mothers Want: Workplace Flexibility in the Twenty-First Century.” Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, New York. https://doi.org/10.7282/T3ZG6V3K
Areas of Expertise: Gender and Family Policy, Political Institutions, Qualitative Research, Social Policy/Inequality and Disparities