Pamela Herd
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty
Email: pherd@lafollette.wisc.edu
Office: 3454 Social Science Building
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Pamela Herd is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology. Her research examines
the effects of Medicare and Social Security on gender, race, and class, and
the relationship between socioeconomic status and health.
Herd has co-authored the 2007 book Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age with Madonna Harrington Meyer. The book is part of the American Sociological Association's Rose Series on Public Policy.
Herd is author of numerous articles and chapters
that have appeared in Social Forces, Gender and Society, The
Gerontologist, Journal of Aging and Social Policy and the Blackwell
Companion to Sociology.
Herd is a 2002-04 grant recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. In 2002 she received the
Syracuse University Outstanding Dissertation Prize for Crediting Care,
Citizenship or Marriage: Gender, Race, Class and Social Security Reform.
Other awards include a National Academy of Social Insurance Dissertation
award, a Center for Retirement Research/Social Security Administration
Fellowship in 2001, the National Academy of Social Insurance Internship in
2000 and the AARP/Andrus Foundation Scholarship in 1999.
She has a Ph.D. in sociology from Syracuse University.
Representative Publications:
Early Life School and Cognition & Late Life Financial Literacy in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Early Life School and Cognition & Late Life Financial Literacy