Anne B. Shlay Professor
Office: 755 Gladfelter Hall
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Areas of Expertise: Urban policy, child care, women and cities, discrimination, housing finance, poverty, homelessness, program evaluation |
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Education: 1981 - Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Massachusetts/Amherst |
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Research:
Anne B. Shlay received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She has previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University.
Dr. Shlay is an urban sociologist who has focused on a broad range of issues including banking policy, fair housing, poverty, welfare reform, homelessness and child care. She is an applied researcher who builds multi-disciplinary teams to study complex problems.
Dr. Shlay is currently principal investigator of a $1.43 million evaluation of Child Care Matters, a multi-component initiative designed to change child care policy within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia metropolitan region. Team members include Temple faculty from the Department of Psychology, the Department of Educational Leadership and Public Policy, and the Department of Journalism Public Relations and Advertising.
With developmental psychologists Marsha Weinraub and Elizabeth Jaeger, she is leading a new study on Barriers to Child Care Subsidies. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this three year study will examine why families do not use child care subsidies, the impact of subsidies on child care preferences, and the quality of care used by families with subsidies. Under contract to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, she has recently completed a study evaluating the impact of community reinvestment organizing and agreements on bank lending practices. With Marsha Weinraub and Elizabeth Jaeger and with funding from the William Penn Foundation, she has completed an evaluation of the Philadelphia Early Childhood Collaborative, a joining of neighborhood-based organizations that provide training and services to child care providers. This is contained in their report: Partners in Child Care: An Evaluation of the Philadelphia Early Childhood Collaborative. As part of that evaluation she has also written, with Stacie Golin, The Philadelphia Child Care Market Study, a study that examines the range of policies and conditions that affect child care within the City of Philadelphia. Recent publications include "Child Care Improvement on a Shoe-String: Evaluating a Low-Cost Approach to Improving the Availability of Quality Child Care", (2000, Evaluation Review) and "Influencing the Agents of Urban Structure: Evaluating the Effects of Community Reinvestment Organizing on Bank Lending Practices", (1999, Urban Affairs Review).
Her teaching focuses on urban development, public policy and applied research. She teaches a range of courses that present multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of urban policy and problems. Her graduate teaching is largely concerned with training students in how to apply rigorous research methods to pressing political and social problems. |
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