University of Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Editorial Board Member

Joanna M. Badagliacco (Sociology)

1573 Patterson Office Tower 0027
(859) 257-4335
jmb@uky.edu

Professor Badagliacco is the Director of the Freshman Discovery Seminar Program. Her research focuses on housing distress among the poorest families in KY, including rural families. She has completed extensive interviews with over 80 families in Lexington and Louisville, and almost 50 homeless/sheltered/at-risk families in five Eastern KY areas, many of whom are considered the "working poor." Out of this research, she is analyzing data on multi-generational parenting, the intergenerational transmission of poverty, and family violence, and is writing a book on mothers in poverty in Kentucky. She has extended her research to include comparative studies of extremely poor families in southern Italy and rural Mexico. Her teaching includes offering a Freshman Discovery Seminar, introducing students to sociology through the study of family poverty in KY. She regularly teaches undergraduate methods (Social Research Methods I, SOC 302), the Sociology of Family (SOC409), and a graduate seminar (SOC 772) on Motherhood and Reproduction.