Stephan M. Wilson

co-editor of Families in a Global Context

November 4, 2015

Stephan M. Wilson is Dean of the College of Human Environmental Sciences and Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University. His most recent position was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Health and Human Sciences and a Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno.

His PhD and MS are from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He was previously a Professor of Family Studies at the University of Kentucky and a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Kenyatta University. Dr. Wilson also lived in Kenya for three years (1976-1978 and 2000-2001) and has done work in China. He has more than ninety publications, including a recently co-edited volume with Gary W. Peterson and Suzanne K. Steinmetz on Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and Cross Cultural Perspectives (2005). He has served on the editorial board for Family Relations and for Marriage and Family Review and serves as an occasional reviewer for other journals particularly related to family, culture, and adolescent scholarship. In particular, his scholarship has focused on Chinese, Appalachian, and Kenyan families. He is a certified family life educator. He is a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations and winner of the Jan Trost award for lifetime contributions to cross-cultural family scholarship.

How are families the same or different around the world? Families in a Global Context puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an in-depth comparative analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world. Contributors discuss different countries' family life by using a standard framework to review major influences and patterns. The framework allows readers to do comparative refection across several countries on a variety of daily living elements, including social and economic forces, such as urbanization and modernization, changes in gender/courtship/spousal patterns, and war. This book provides an informative illustration of current as well as future trends of family life worldwide.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2009-honorees/stephan-wilson

Last Updated: 9 December 2015