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Professor Emerita of Sociology Family, Gender, Law and Policy Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1977 Contact Information Phone: 402.554.3356 Email: mlamanna@unomaha.edu

Professor Lamanna received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis, her Master’s in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame.  She came to UNO in 1977, retiring in 2001 as full professor. 

Professor Lamanna was one of the founders of the Women’s Studies program at UNO and served as chair of the American Sociological Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology and of the Midwest Sociological Society’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.

Her teaching and research has focused primarily on family and gender, with another area of interest the intersection of social science and bioethical issues. Recently, Professor Lamanna has returned to writing about Durkheim’s sociology of the family and is also developing a new area, the sociology of literature. She presented a paper on “Novels of Terrorism” at the International Sociological Association Research Forum in Barcelona in 2008 and papers on Proust’s sociological perspective at the 2010 American Sociological Association meeting and the 2011 Eastern Sociological Society meeting.

Publications include:
Mary Ann Lamanna and Agnes Riedmann. Marriages and Families: Making Choices in a
   Diverse  Society, 11th ed. (2011)
Mary Ann Lamanna. Emile Durkheim on the Family (2002)
William T. Liu, Mary Ann Lamanna, and Alice Murata. Transition to Nowhere: Vietnamese
     Refugees in America (1979)

and articles in:
Journal of Family Issues
Journal of Law and Family Studies
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Journal of Medical Humanities
The Sociological Quarterly
Teaching Sociology
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Family Perspectives