Miami University

Denise Brothers MS   brothedr@muohio.edu

Education:

Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Michigan

M.S., Exercise & Health Studies, Miami University

Research Interests:

Aging, gender, and issues of equity in relationships; gender ideology, intimate partnership practices, and relationship satisfaction; the formation and maintenance of non-heteronormative relationships in later life; demography of family and households; portrayal of age and gender roles in the media.

Denise’s previous research experience in the field of human resource management and the medical arena helped to prepare her for her job as a research associate at Scripps Gerontology Center, a job she held before beginning her doctoral studies full-time in the 2006. Denise spent her final fall semester in the Netherlands studying aging in the European context at Vrije University, and as a guest research fellow at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, pursuing a cross-cultural comparison of the demography of family and households and the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships in later life. She is also the 2009-2010 recipient of the Department of Sociology and Gerontology Dissertation Fellowship Award at Miami University.

Selected Publications

D. Brothers-McPhail, R.A. Applebaum, & J.K. Straker (2006). The Ohio Long-Term Care Factbook. Oxford, OH: Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University.