   |
SHP Home | MUOT Home | Faculty and Staff | Enid Schatz
Enid Schatz, PhD
Position: Assistant Professor, Director of Social Science Research
Phone: 573-882-7196
Fax: 573-884-2610
Office: 420 Lewis Hall
Email: schatzej@health.missouri.eduEducation:
University Research Council and Andrew Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowships, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
PhD in Sociology and Demography; University of Pennsylvania
MA in Demography; University of Pennsylvania
BA in Women's Studies & Judiaic Studies; Tufts UniversityCourses Currently Teaching:
Research Methods
Research Project
Women's Empowerment (Women's & Gender Studies)Special Interests:
Aging
AIDS
Gender
Mixed Method Research
Reproductive Health
Research Methods
Refereed Articles:
Schatz, E. 2009. Reframing vulnerability: Mozambican refugees’ access to state-funded pensions in rural South Africa. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 24(3), 241-258.
Madhavan, S, Schatz, E & Clark, B. 2009. HIV/AIDS mortality and household dependency ratios in rural South Africa. Population Studies 63(1), 37-51.
Ogunmefun, C & Schatz, E. 2009. Caregivers' sacrifices: the opportunity costs of adult morbidity and mortality for female pensioners in rural South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 26(1), 95-109.
Schatz, E. 2009. Giving meaning to health: Daily occupations among elderly South Africans. Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 30(2), 27, 41. [Commentary].
Schatz, E & Ogunmefun, C. 2007. Caring and contributing: The role of older women in multi-generational households in the HIV/AIDS era. World Development, 35(8), 1390-1403.
Schatz, E. 2007. Taking care of my own blood: Older women’s relationships to their households in rural South Africa. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 35(4), 147-154.
Madhavan, S & Schatz, E. 2007. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 35(4), 85-93.
Schatz, E. 2005. ‘Take your Mat and Go!’: Rural Malawian women’s strategies in the HIV/AIDS era, Culture, Health and Sexuality 7(5), 479-492.
Schatz, E. 2003. Comparing, contextualizing, and conceptualizing: Enhancing quantitative data on women's situation in rural Africa. Demographic Research S1-5.
Recent Grant Awards
Older South Africans’ lives in the HIV/AIDS era, Research Board, University of Missouri. Schatz, Principal Investigator. Research and travel funds to develop and pilot mixed-methods research design that will measure older persons well-being in South Africa. Award period: June 2009 – May 2010.
Planning trip: Older South Africans’ lives in the HIV/AIDS era, University of Missouri-South Africa Education Program. Schatz, PI. Travel funds to conduct November 2009 planning trip for Research Board project. Award period: 2009-2010.
Conference travel to XXVI International Population Conference in Marrakech, Morocco (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population), MU Faculty International Travel Grant; and MU Center for Arts & Humanities Grant. Funds to present one single authored paper and one co-authored poster. Award/Conference: September 27-October 2, 2009.
Recent refereed conference presentations
Schatz, E. 2009. Qualitative data collection along side surveys and censuses: More than the sum of the parts. Paper presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Meeting, Marrakech, Morocco, September 27- October 2, 2009.
Schatz, E, Madhavan, S & Williams, J. Female headship and status attainment among widows in rural South Africa. Poster presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Meeting, Marrakech, Morocco, September 27- October 2, 2009.Schatz, E & Williams, J. 2009. Understanding gender in Africa: Using qualitative methods to enhance Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) analyses of women’s empowerment. Paper presented at International Seminar on Gender and Empowerment in the 21st Century in Africa, Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Gender and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), August 24-25, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya.
Schatz, E. 2009. Navigating nuance through nesting: Qualitative data collection alongside surveys and censuses. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 8-11, 2009.
Schatz, E & Madhavan, S. Headship of older persons in the context of HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 8-11, 2009.
Page last updated on: December 14, 2009
| Contact us | MU Alert | MU Disability Resources
Copyright © 2008–2010 — Curators of the University of Missouri, an equal opportunity/ affirmative action institution. DMCA and other copyright information. All rights reserved.