Elizabeth Harris
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Mail code: 3920Campus: Dtphx
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Elizabeth Harris is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she has taught courses in introductory sociology and nonprofit management. Dr. Harris conducts research nationally on child welfare system improvement efforts. She has led or played a lead role in evaluations of large-scale Federal projects, including a waiver initiative and a pilot study on the effect of combining early family finding and family group decision making on permanency. She served as the project lead and expert consultant for the Children’s Bureau, a project of the Civil Rights Division of the California Attorney General’s Office. In that capacity, she worked on projects initiated by then Attorney General Kamala Harris to study civil rights violations, and racial inequities, in child welfare practice in California. She also evaluates nonprofit models for reducing child maltreatment and preventing child welfare system involvement, with a goal of helping those programs to demonstrate their efficacy. More recently, since the 2018 passage of the Family First Prevention Services Act, she focuses her evaluations on helping effective programs to qualify for Federal prevention funding. Dr. Harris has a PhD in Sociology from Washington State University, with an emphasis on the Sociology of Families and the Sociology of Education.
PhD Sociology, Washington State University
Parenting, child welfare system reform, program evaluations
Burnson, Cynthia, Sarah Covington, Bertha Arvizo, Jun Quio and Elizabeth Harris. 2021. “The Impact of Parents Anonymous on Child Safety and Permanency.” Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.105973
Fischer, Sierra, Elizabeth Harris, Hailey Smith and Rachel Polivka. 2020. “Family Visit Coaching: Improvement in Parenting Efficacy Through Coached Visitation.” Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105604
Garcia, Antonio, Peter Pecora, Audrey Schnell, Cynthia Burnson and Elizabeth Harris. 2020. “Strategies and Recommendations for Conducting Technical Reviews for the Title IV-E Family First Prevention Services Act.” Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105597
Harris, Elizabeth and Miguel Becerra. 2020. “Setting the Stage for Family Reunification. Child & Family Social Work. http://doi/org/10.1111/cfs.12762
Harris, Elizabeth and Mychel Estevez. 2017. “The Role of Gender and Motherhood Ideologies in Perpetuating Workplace Inequality.” Journal of Research in Gender Studies 7(2).
Trimble O’Connor, Lindsey, Julie A. Kmec and Elizabeth C. Harris. 2015. Pp. 249–276 in Giving Care and Perceiving Discrimination: The Social and Organizational Context of Family Responsibilities Discrimination, edited by S.K. Ammons, E.L. Kelly Work. United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Fussell, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Harris. 2014. “Homeownership and Vulnerability to Housing Displacement after Hurricane Katrina.” Social Science Quarterly 95(4):1086-1100. Sherman,
Jennifer and Elizabeth Harris. 2012. “Social Class and Parenting: Classic Debates and New Understandings.” Sociology Compass 6(1):60-71.
Courses
2025 Fall
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2025 Spring
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2024 Fall
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2024 Spring
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2023 Fall
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2023 Spring
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2022 Fall
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2022 Spring
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |