Jeylan T. Mortimer
Professor - On Sabbatical 2006-07
Ph.D. 1972 University of Michigan
Room 1014a Social Sciences
tel.: 612-624-4064
email: morti002@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Interest Areas
The Life Course, Social Psychology, Work.
Current Research
The “Youth Development Study,” supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (previously by the National Institute of Mental Health), examines work experience, mental health, achievement, and the transition to adulthood.
Recent Publications
“Judgments about Work: Dimensionality Revisited,” with M. K. Johnson, J. C. Lee, and M. J. Stern. Forthcoming. Work and Occupations.
“Adolescent Paid Work and Career Development,” with M. Zimmer-Gembeck. Forthcoming. Chapter in Career Development in Childhood and Adolescence. V. Skorikov and W. Patton, eds. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
“Educational and Work Strategies from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Consequences for Educational Attainment,” with J. Staff. 2007. Social Forces, 85(3):1169-1194.
“Selection Processes and Vocational Development: A Multi-Method Approach,” with M Zimmer-Gembeck. 2007. Advances in Life Course Research, 11:121-248.
“Adolescent Work, Vocational Development, and Education,” with M. Zimmer-Gembeck. 2006. Review of Educational Research, 76 (4): 537-566.
“Age Norms, Institutional Structures, and the Timing of Educational Markers of Transition to Adulthood,” with S. Oesterle and H. Krüger. 2005. Advances in Life Course Research 9: 175-203.
“Agency and Structure in Educational Attainment and the Transition to Adulthood,” with J. Staff and J. C. Lee. 2005. Advances in Life Course Research 10: 131-153.
“Subjective Age Identity and the Transition to Adulthood: When Does One Become an Adult?” with M.J. Shanahan, E. Porfeli, and L. Erickson. 2005. Pp. 225-255 in On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy, R.A. Settersten, et al., eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
“Volunteerism during the Transition to Adulthood,” with S. Oesterle and M. K. Johnson. 2004. Social Forces 82 (3): 1123-1149.
Working and Growing Up in America. 2003. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Handbook of the Life Course, co-edited with M. J. Shanahan. 2003. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New York: Springer.