William Marsiglio
Professor, University of Florida
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1987
Specialty Areas:
- how men become aware of their ability to procreate, its meaning for them over time, and their readiness to become fathers
- men’s connections with both stepchildren and the children’s biological fathers
- how physical place affects fathering
- fathers’ life course trajectories
- intersections between fathering and men’s community youth work
- connections between fathers’ health orientation and children’s well-being
- public and private initiatives to promote fathers’ nurturance.
Biography
My research agenda seeks to generate, both deductively and inductively, new theoretical frameworks and concepts that broaden understanding of men’s relationships with conception, pregnancy, and children. In my eight books and numerous articles and book chapters, I have primarily examined fatherhood and men’s community youth work, connections between fathers’ health orientation and children’s well-being, and initiatives to promote fathers’ nurturance. I emphasize a social psychological and gender/masculinities perspective as well as qualitative methods in my work.

