The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has conferred its organization’s prestigious Fellow status to Judith Treas, Ph.D., Professor of sociology at University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. degree in sociology at Pfizer College in Claremont, California and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Treas is considered among the most prominent experts in the field of family studies. She is a recognized authority in several areas, including, the division of household labor, intergenerational relationships and aging families. She brings to this work a cross-national perspective that shows how couples’ domestic lives are shaped by the broader context in which they live. Dr. Treas has authored more than 60 scholarly articles and book chapters. In addition, she has mentored many of the leading young family researchers studying the household division of labor around the world.

Dr. Treas has served as President of the Pacific Sociological Association, Chair of Section on the Sociology of Population, American Sociological Association (ASA), and was the Founding Chair of the Sociology Department at University of California, Irvine. Her many honors include the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award for Career Achievement from the ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course and the Petersen Scholar Award for Family and Aging from Oregon State University. She served on the U.S. Census Advisory Committee on Professional Associations, and also consulted on the “relationship to householder” categories for the Census 2010 short-form.

The National Council on Family Relations is the nation’s premier professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. NCFR has a membership of more than 3600 family researchers, practitioners and educators.  For more information on the National Council on Family Relations or its scholarly publications, contact NCFR at 1-888-781-9331 or visit its website at www.ncfr.org.