Sarah Deming
Sarah Deming
Assistant Professor — Human Development & Family Studies
Niccolls Building, Room 200
208-885-8752
School of Family and Consumer Sciences
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875 Perimeter Drive MS 3183
Moscow, ID 83844-3183
Sarah employs qualitative and survey methodologies to investigate the impacts of social factors and policy context on maternal health and well-being, particularly in the postpartum period.
Ph.D., Washington State University, 2023
M.S., ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç, 2019
B.S., Western Washington University, 2003
Courses
- HDFS 445: Issues in Work and Family
- HDFS 434: Adulthood and Aging
- HDFS 440: Contemporary Family Relationships
- Maternal well-being
- Transition to parenthood
- Family-supportive policies
- Moore, J. D., Lords, A. M., Casanova, M. P., Reeves, A. J., Lima, A., Wilkinson, C., Deming, S. M., & Baker, R. T. (2024). Exploring healthcare provider retention in a rural and frontier community in Northern Idaho. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), 381. .
- Deming, S. M. (2022a). Beyond measurement of the motherhood penalty: How social locations shape mothers’ work decisions and stratify outcomes. Sociology Compass, 16(6), n/a. .
- Deming, S. M. (2022b). “In Every Decision I’m Making, I’m Thinking About My Son”: How Children Motivate and Constrain the Labor Force Participation of Mothers with Disabilities. Families in Society, 104438942211341. .
- Amorim, M., & Deming, S. (2022). Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents’ postsecondary transfers to adult children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(4), 1024–1045. .
- Schwaner, M. J., Deming, S., Kmec, J. A., & Flammang, B. E. (2020). Parenting Through Academia as a SICB Member. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60(3), 549–558. .
- Outstanding Mentorship Award, WWAMI Medical Education Program
- Best Qualitative Article Award, Families in Society
- WSU Association for Faculty Women’s Harriet B. Rigas Award
- WSU Department of Sociology First Year Graduate Award