Jane D. McLeod

Jane D. McLeod is Professor of Sociology and Director of Research for the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research. Jane came to IU in 1998, after serving on the faculties at the University of Minnesota and SUNY-Albany. Her research traverses the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, sociology of mental health, stratification, and the life course. She is currently working on projects concerning the implications of mental health problems for the transition to adulthood, public attitudes towards children with mental health problems, and the social structure and personality paradigm. She collaborates regularly with other faculty and graduate students, and also enjoys working with students on their Masters and dissertation projects. For the past two years, she has had the pleasure of serving on the Core Curriculum development committee for a new interdisciplinary program in Human Biology at IU. When not at work, Jane spends time with her husband and her two daughters, cooking, singing in a choir, and walking her two dogs. Jane recently completed a term as Chair of the ASA Section on Children and Youth.