Kim Price-Glynn is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative methods, her research focuses on paid and unpaid carework in the United States by diverse groups, including nursing assistants and parents.
Kim’s current study, Who Cares About Parents?: Temporary Alliances, Exclusionary Practices, and the Strategic Possibilities of Parenting Groups., is a qualitative analysis of care for unpaid caregivers. It examines how parenting groups could and sometimes do expand access to broad forms of care for parents. Its goal is to provide a fuller view of the history, forms of care, and organization of parenting groups in the hope that parents, as well as those studying and organizing around parental caregiving, will find a deeper understanding of these processes.
She joined the Carework Network Steering Committee in the fall of 2017 and served as co-chair from 2019-2021. She is a series co-editor of Carework in a Changing World, with Rutgers University Press. She has published with peer reviewed journals such as Gender & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Work, Employment & Society. At the University of Connecticut, she is co-chair of the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Wood Raith Living Trust for the Study of Gender and was the inaugural recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Select Publications:
Price-Glynn, Kim. Forthcoming. “An Ideology of Collective-Intensive Mothering:The Gendered Organization of Care in a Babysitting Cooperative,” Special Issue: “Social Reproduction: Intra-household relations, organizational initiatives, and public policies.” Gender, Work & Organization.
Duffy, Mignon, Amy Armenia, and Kim Price-Glynn, Eds. 2023. From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change. NJ: Rutgers University Press,
Price-Glynn, Kim and Carter Rakovski. 2019. “Vulnerable Caregivers: A Comparison of Direct Care Workers’ Health Risks in Skilled Nursing Facilities and Private Homes.” Research in the Sociology of Health Care, “Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials,” Edited by Jennie Kronenfeld. Vol 37: 223-236.
