Anne B. Shlay
Professor of Sociology
Temple University

  Anne B. Shlay

 

Anne B. Shlay, Ph.D. is Professor of  Sociology and Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.  For the fall, 2006 semester, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the School of Public Policy and the Department of Geography at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  She is Chair of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.


Biography

 

Anne B. Shlay is Professor of Sociology and Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.  She is Co-Principal Investigator of After Child Care Subsidies: Family Independent Functioning and Child Success, a study that looks at the family, employment and child outcomes associated with receiving child care subsidies, with funding from the William Penn and Claneil Foundations.  Her work has been funded by the Jesse Ball Dupont Fund, the William Penn Foundation, the Claneil Foundation, other foundations, and local, state and federal government agencies. With Gillad Rosen of Hebrew University, she is currently studying the organization of growth institutions around metropolitan in Jerusalem.  As part of this “Making Place” project, she and Gillad Rosen are working on two papers, 1) “Making Place: The Shifting Green Line and the Development of “Greater” Metropolitan Jerusalem and 2) “Whose Rights to the City: Competing Claims to Spatial Citizenry in Jerusalem.”  She has recently completed Leaving Welfare for Employment: The Role of Child Care Subsidies for White, Hispanic and African American Families and Racial and Ethnic Differences in Welfare Leavers’ Child Care Preferences: A Factorial Survey Analysis, both funded by the William Penn Foundation and the Claneil Foundation. .  She is co-author (with Marsha Weinraub and Tina Armando) of Building Better Child Care: An Evaluation of the Pennsylvania Child Care Challenge Grant Program a collaborative investigation with the Women's Community Revitalization Project. 

 

For the fall, 2006 semester, Professor Shlay was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the School of Public Policy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was recently Chair  of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.  She is on the editorial board of Housing Policy Debate and is the former book review editor for City and Community.  She is a member of the Temple University Family and Children's Policy Collaborative and the University Children's Policy Collaborative -- a Pennsylvania research policy collaboration between Temple University, Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh. She is Faculty Associate, Legislative Office for Research Liaison of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and is a member of the Temple University $1 Million Research Club.  She received the 1999 Temple University Research Award for research productivity.  Professor Shlay directed the Center for Public Policy from 1999-2003 and is the former Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and has held positions at Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. 


Research Interests

Urban sociology, urban development, housing, racial discrimination, housing finance, homelessness, poverty, welfare reform, immigration, child care, evaluation research, and Israel. 

 

Making Place: Institutions and the Growth of Metropolitan Jerusalem

Brochure

Whose Rights to the City: Competing Claims to Spatial Citizenry in Jerusalem (Abstract)

Making Place: The Shifting Green Line and the Development of “Greater” Metropolitan Jerusalem (Abstract)

 

Presentations

A Brief Synopsis of the Politics of Spatial Development in Jerusalem

The Shifting Green Line: The Institutions that Shape the Definitions and Expansion of Metropolitan Jerusalem.

Leaving Welfare for Employment: The Role of Child Care Subsidies for White, Hispanic, and African American Families.

U.S. Housing Mortgage Markets and Space: Reflections

Research, Community Organizing and Political Change

Child Care and Welfare Reform: Child Care Subsidy Utilization and Effects on Employment

Teaching

 

Housing and Inequality, Sociology 3250

Introduction to Sociology, Sociology 1176

Urban Sociology, Sociology 3251

Introduction to Race and Racism, Sociology R059

Seminar in Urban Sociology: Space, Theories and Research, Sociology 691  and Sociology 8361

Teaching Sociology Practicum: Introduction

Teaching Sociology Practicum: Advanced


Recent Grants

After Child Care Subsidies: Family Independent Functioning and Child Success.  $211,271 (with Marsha Weinraub, Ph.D.) 2008-2009. Funders: William Penn Foundation., Claneil Foundation.

One Book, Every Young Child: An Evaluation of the Second Year, $110,000. (with Marsha Weinraub, Ph.D.),2007.  Funder: Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Pennsylvania Department of Education.
 

Pilot Evaluation of the One Book, Every Young Child Program, $24,538  (with Marsha Weinraub, Ph.D.) 2006. Funder: Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Pennsylvania Department of Education. 

An Evaluation of the Pennsylvania Child Care Challenge Grant Program, $56,813 (with Marsha Weinraub, Ph.D.), 2005-2006.  Funder: Women’s Community Revitalization Project. Women's Community Revitalization Project 

Welfare Reform and Child Care Subsidies, $603,000 (with Marsha Weinraub, Ph.D.), 2004-2006.  Funders:  William Penn Foundation., Claneil Foundation.

Philadelphia School District Funding Inequity Project, $135,000 (with the Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project, 2003-2005.  Funder: Jesse Ball Dupont Fund.


Awards

2006-07 Fulbright Research Scholar, Hebrew University, Mount Scopus

2003    Temple University $1 Million Research Club

1999    The Temple University Research Award

Recent Articles

 

2007  Marsha Weinraub, Anne B. Shlay and Anita Kochanoff.  “Demographic and Family Differences in Use of Early Childhood Care and Education in Pennsylvania: A 2002 Baseline.”  Commonwealth: A Journal of Political Science.13 (March)

 

2006 Anne B. Shlay and Gordon Whitman  "Research for Democracy: Linking Community Organizing and Research to Leverage Blight Policy."  City and Community.

2006  Anne B Shlay. “Low-Income Homeownership: American Dream or Delusion.”   Urban Studies.


2005  Marsha Weinraub, Anne B. Shlay, Michelle Harmon and Henry Tran. "Subsidizing  Child Care: How Child Care Subsidies Affect the Child Care Used by Low-Income African American Families."   Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

2005  Anne B. Shlay, Henry Tran, Marsha Weinraub and Michelle Harmon. "Teasing Apart the Child Care Conundrum:  A Factorial Survey Analysis of Perceptions of Child Care Quality, Fair Market Price and Willingness to Pay by Low-Income, African American Mothers."  Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 
      

2004    Anne B. Shlay, Marsha Weinraub, Michelle Harmon, Henry Tran.  “Barriers to Child Care Subsidies: Reasons Why Low Income Families Do Not Use Child Care Subsidies.”  Social Science Research (33). 1, 134-157.

2002      Anne Shlay. “Barriers to Child Care Subsidies: Why Subsidies Are Often Not Used.” In Christina J. Groark, Kelly E. Mehaffie, Robert McCall and Mark T. Greenberg (eds.),  From Science to Policy: Research on Issues, Programs and Policies in Early Care and Education. University City, PA: Universities Children's Policy Collaborative.     

2000    Elizabeth Jaeger, Anne B. Shlay and Marsha Weinraub.  "Child Care Improvement on a Shoe-String:  Evaluating a low-cost Approach to Improving the Availability of Quality Child Care."  Evaluation Review.  Vol. 24, No. 5: 484-515.

1999    Anne B. Shlay.  “Influencing the Agents of Urban Structure: Evaluating the Effects of Community Reinvestment Organizing on Bank Lending Practices.” Urban Affairs Annual Review, Vol. 35, No 2: 247-278.


Recent Book Reviews

2008,   Segregation: The Rising Costs for Americans by James H. Car and Nandinee  Kutty.  New York: Routledge Press., 2008.  In Contemporary Sociology

2006,   A Right to Housing: Founation for a New Social Agenda.  by Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone and Chester Hartman.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2006.  in Contemporary Sociology.

2004   Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods, by Lawrence J. Vale. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2002 in Contemporary Sociology.  33:64-64

2003    The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair Lending Enforcement.  Stephen L. Ross and John Yinger.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  In Journal of Planning Education and  Research


Recent Monographs and Reports

2007    Anne Shlay, Marsha Weinraub and Michelle Harmon. Leaving Welfare for Employment: The Role of Child Care Subsidies for White, Hispanic and African American Families.   Philadelphia, PA: Family and Children’s Policy Collaborative, Temple University.  Funders:  William Penn Foundation and the Claneil Foundation.

2007    Anne Shlay, Marsha Weinraub and Michelle Harmon.  Leaving Welfare for Employment: The Role of Child Care Subsidies for White, Hispanic and African American Families,  Executive Summary.  Appendices.  Philadelphia, PA: Family and Children’s Policy Collaborative, Temple University.  Funders:  William Penn Foundation and the Claneil Foundation.

 

 

2007   Anne Shlay, Marsha Weinraub and Michelle Harmon.  Racial and Ethnic Differences in Welfare Leavers’ Child Care Preferences: A Factorial Survey Analysis.  Philadelphia, PA: Family and Children’s Policy Collaborative, Temple University.  Funders:  William Penn Foundation and the Claneil Foundation.

2006.  Keith Argue, Steve Honeyman and Anne B. Shlay.  Separate and Unequal: The Distribution of Instructional Resources in the School District of Philadelphia. 2001-2005.  Philadelphia, PA:  Research for Democracy.  Funder: Women’s Community Revitalization Project.

2006.  Marsha Weinraub, Tina Armando and Anne Shlay.  Building Better Child Care: An Evaluation of the Pennsylvania Child Care Challenge Grant Program. Philadelphia, PA: Family and Children’s Policy Collaborative, Temple University. 

2006.   Marsha Weinraub and Anne Shlay with the University Children's Policy Collaborative.  Education in Pennsylvania: Early Childhood Education: Universal Pre-K and Other Alternatives.  Fourth in a Series of Essays on the Future of Education in Pennsylvania.  Volume 4, Spring, Harrisburg, PA: The PA House of Representatives.

2004    Gordon Whitman and Anne Shlay.  Uneven Development: Regional Trends that are Reshaping Community and Religious Life in Metropolitan Philadelphia.  Philadelphia, PA: Research for Democracy, A Collaboration between the Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project and Temple University. Funder: The William Penn Foundation.

2004    Henry Tran, Anne Shlay, Marsha Weinraub and Michelle Harmon.  How Low Income, African American Mothers Evaluate Child Care Arrangements:  A Factorial Survey of Parent Preferences, Willingness to Pay and Fair Price.  Philadelphia, PA:  Temple University Center for Public Policy.  Funder:  DHHS Administration for Children, Youth and Families.

2003    Kikombo Ngoy, Michael Rodriguez, Rickie Sanders and Anne Shlay.  Legislative Atlas for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia and Harrisburg, PA: Temple University Center for Public Policy and Legislative Office for Research Liaison.

2002    Marsha Weinraub, Anita Kochanoff, and Anne Shlay.  Benchmarking Early Childhood Care and Education in Pennsylvania: The 2002 Pennsylvania Family Survey.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Center for Public Policy.  Funder: PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

2002    Gordon Whitman, Anne Shlay, Steve Honeyman, and Roy Diamond.  Blight Free Philadelphia:  A Public-Private Strategy to Create and Enhance Neighborhood Value.  Philadelphia, PA:  Temple University Center for Public Policy and Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project, with assistance from Diamond & Associates.  Funder:  William Penn Foundation.

2002    Anne B. Shlay, Marsha Weinraub, Michelle Harmon, and Henry Tran.  Barriers to Subsidies:  Reasons Why Low Income Families Do Not Use Child Care Subsidies.  Philadelphia, PA:  Temple University Center for Public Policy.  Funder:  DHHS Administration for Children, Youth, and Families.

2001    Anne B. Shlay, Elizabeth Jaeger, Priscilla Murphy, Kathleen Shaw, Leonard Gottesman, and Marsha Weinraub.  Making a Case for Child Care: An Evaluation of a Pennsylvania Based Intervention Called Child Care Matters.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Center for Public Policy.  Funder: William Penn Foundation.


Recent Unpublished Papers

2007  Anne Shlay. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in  Welfare Leavers'  Child Care Preferences:  A Factorial Survey Analysis.”  Submitted to Early Childhood Development Research Quarterly.

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Professor Anne B. Shlay
Department of Sociology
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1115 W. Berks Street
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