#  Joseph Frederick Swingle 

 

 



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 (Sociology, March 2001)  
*Thesis Title:* Children in Flux: An Empirical Study of American Children Living with Neither Parent in the 20th Century  
*Committee:* Christopher Jencks (Chair), Christopher Winship, Peter V. Marsden  
*Current Position:* [Senior Lecturer, Wellesley College](http://www.wellesley.edu/sociology/faculty/swingle)

 *I study processes of stratification, higher education and inequality with primarily a U.S. focus.* I began teaching at Wellesley in the fall of 1999 as a lab instructor for Quantitative Reasoning 199 (Introduction to Social Science Data Analysis). I finished my Ph.D. the following year and have remained at Wellesley ever since.

 

 

 





 

 

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