| Jill
Bouma, Associate Professor of Sociology, received her BA
in Mathematics from Emory University in 1985, her MA in
Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1993, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She has done additional
study in Beijing, the People's Republic of China, and St.
Andrews University, Scotland. She has also taught Math in
Gabon, West Africa, as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1986-88),
and English in the Wuhan Foreign Language School, in the
People's Republic of China (1995-97).
Dr. Bouma's fields of study include demography, gender,
social stratification, work, and education. Her most recent
research has been on gender and the allocation of household
labor in rural China and on educational and economic roles
of Chinese children. In addition to these areas of interest
she teaches courses in sociological research methods and
introductory sociology, as well as contributing to the
college General Studies program with a course Stories,
where she and a group of Freshmen read and discuss literature,
and the U.S. Traditions course.
She joined the Department of Sociology in 1999. She says
the opportunity to belong to an academic community that
honors teaching and at the same time promotes social justice
was what brought her to Berea College at this stage of
a career that is both American and international.
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