RESEARCH

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming.  Taking Sociology to Work.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall.

Forthcoming.  "Single Parent Families,"  Chapter in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

"Out of Wedlock: Why Some Poor Women Reject Marriage," Chapter in Thinking Straight: the Power, the Promise, and the Paradox of Heterosexuality . Edited by Chrys Ingraham. New York: Routledge. 2004.

"Teaching Qualitative Analysis Using QSR NVivo," The Qualitative Report, 8(2). Retrieved [Insert date here], from http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-2/walsh.pdf

"Rural Poverty and Family Well-Being," Chapter in Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2003.

"Race and Poverty in the Rural South," Chapter in Challenges to Equality: Poverty & Race in America . Edited by Chester Hartman. Washington, DC : M.E. Sharpe.  (with Cynthia M. Duncan) 2001.

"Doing Good While Doing Well: Professional Black Women in the Mississippi Delta," Chapter in Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race and Class in the South. Edited by Barbara Ellen Smith. Philadelpha: Temple. (with Cynthia M. Duncan and Gemma Beckley) 1999.

Policy-related Reports

"Joining Jobs and Employment." Briefing to the American Sociological Association's Spivack Grant in Applied Social Research and Community Action. 2002.

"Race and Poverty in the Rural South." Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Winter newsletter. (with Cynthia M. Duncan) 1999.

"Rethinking Work: How Community Resources Support Low-income Adults and their Families." Prepared for the Troy Homeless Services Collaborative, January, 2000.

"Strong Families and Neighborhoods in the North Country ." Prepared for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, December, 1998.

Reviews

2001   Margaret Walsh, Review of "Working Hard and Making Do" Contemporary Sociology 30, 1: 70-71.

1997   Margaret Walsh, Film Review of "Hoop Dreams." Teaching Sociology 25, 1: 100-101.