Karen Miller-Loessi
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Phone: 480-965-4409
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SS 144 TEMPE, AZ 85287-3701
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Karen Miller-Loessi is an Emeritus Professor with the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. She has had a longstanding interest in the social-psychological aspects of education, work, and the life course.
Ph.D. Stanford University 1976
Miller-Loessi has had a longstanding interest in the social-psychological aspects of education, work, and the life course. Among her projects is a study of students who return to college late in the life course, examining how they define and react to their educational experiences as a function of their differential occupational and family experiences. A second is a study of the factors affecting the resiliency of middle-school and high-school students in economically disadvantaged areas of Arizona. One of the factors that she focuses on in this study is work experience, looking at its positive and negative effects on the students. She has also undertaken a project studying the international adoption of Chinese girls who have been abandoned as a result of the one-child policy. Since these girls are being adopted by families in 13 nations, Miller-Loessi sees this as a unique form of diaspora and has made this argument in a paper with Zeynep Ozgen.
- . Cross-Cultural Social Psychology. Handbook of Social Psychology (2003).
- Karen Miller-Loessi. A Review Essay: The Chinese Diaspora. Sociological Inquiry (2002).
- Karen Miller-Loessi, Zeynep Kilic. A Unique Diaspora? The Case of Adopted Girls From the People's Republic of China. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies (2001).
- Miller-Loessi,Karen*. SELF-DIRECTION AT SCHOOL AND AT WORK. SPENCER FDN(10/1/1990 - 3/31/1992).
- Kim, S, Miller-Loessi, Karen, Kilic, Z, Kim, J, Cho, M. Birthparent-adult adoptee reunions: A Korean media event. Pacific Sociological Association annual meetings (Apr 2006).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen, Salas, L, Becerra, D, Ryan, L, Nieri, T, Lee, J, Harrison, J. Community Economic Volatility and Substance Use Among Youth: The Case of Arizona Copper Mining Towns. Pacific Sociological Association annual meetings (Apr 2006).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen. Race, ethnicity, culture, and class in a globalized world: Insights from studies of intercountry adoption. Oxford University Roundtable on Diversity in Society (Mar 2006).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen, Salas, Lorraine, Nieri, Tanya, Ryan, Linda. Arizona Mining Towns Youth Study: A Report of Research-in-Progress. Third SIRC Annual Conference (Apr 2005).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen. The Tiniest Immigrants: Public Views of Intercountry Adoption in a Large U.S. Metropolitan Area. American Sociological Association annual meetings (Aug 2004).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen, Kilic, Zeynep. Where are the Fathers? Birth and Abandonment Explanations Given to Children Adopted from China. Pacific Sociological Association annual meetings (Apr 2004).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen, Kilic, Z. Western Families with Adopted Chinese Daughters: Gendered Communities of Belonging and Imagination. Conference on Transnational Families, University of Amsterdam (May 2002).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen. Family Formation Through Intercultural Adoption: A Consideration of Some Issues with Emphasis on Adoptions from China. Pacific Sociological Association meetings (Apr 2002).
- Miller-Loessi, Karen, Kilic, Z. A Unique Diaspora? The Case of Adopted Girls from the People=s Republic of China. Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (Aug 2000).
1975-80 Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health
1980-84 Research Sociologist, Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health
1984- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University
1988- Affiliated Faculty, Gerontology Program, Arizona State University
1990- Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
- Lincoln Center for Ethics Inaugural Seminar, Invited Mentor (2006 - Present)
- School of Social and Family Dynamics, Honors Disciplinary Advisor (2006 - Present)
- ASU Parents' Association Professor of the Year Award Committee, Member (2000 - Present)
- Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society, Advisor (2000 - Present)
- Sociology Department, ASU, Honors Advisor (1997 - Present)
- Publications Committee, Pacific Sociological Association, Member (2007 - 2009)
- Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society, Faculty Advisor (2006 - 2007)
- American Sociological Assn., Social Psychology Section, Nominating Committee Chair (2006 - 2007)
- Barrett Honors College, Disciplinary Advisor (2006 - 2007)
- Education Committee, Town of Superior Planning Board, Invited Member/Consultant (2006 - 2007)
- Global Comprehensive Ph.D. Exam Committee, Member (2006 - 2007)
- Personnel Committee, Member (2006 - 2007)
- Wilde Scholarship Selection Committee, Chair (2006 - 2007)
- Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Research Faculty Affiliate (2006 - 2007)
- Lincoln Center for Ethics, Invited Mentor, Inaugural Seminar (2006 - 2006)
- Pacific Sociological Association, Session Organizer for Annual Meeting (2005 - 2005)
- Barrett Honors College Molyneaux Scholarship Committee, Member (2005 - 2005)
- Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society, Faculty Advisor (2004 - 2005)
- National Science Foundation, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2005 - 2005)
- Search Committee, Lecturer positions, Member (2004 - 2005)
- Undergraduate Committee, Member (2003 - 2005)
- Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association, Member, Nominating Committee (2004 - 2004)
- Colloquium Committee, Sociology Department, ASU, Member (2003 - 2004)
- Committee of Review, Sociology Department, ASU, Member (2003 - 2004)
- Global Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committee, Member (2003 - 2004)
- Honors Committee, Chair/Advisor (2003 - 2004)
- The Sociological Quarterly, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2004)
- Pacific Sociological Association, Council Member (2001 - 2003)
- Cooley-Mead Award Committee for Lifetime Work in Social Psychology, American Sociological Association, Member (1999 - 2000)
- Personnel Committee, Sociology Department, ASU, Member (1999 - 2000)