Sarah A Robert
Biographic Data
| ID | 216412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah A Robert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Robert |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERT S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1455-2768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 487 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
W8banaki Subsistence Patterns During the 18th and 19th Centuries at the Fort Odanak Site, Québec, Canada
Built in the early eighteenth century on the banks of the Saint-François River (Québec, QC, Canada), the fortified Jesuit mission of Saint-François-de-Sales was an important W8banaki centre during the colonial period. Between 2010 and 2021, archaeological excavations conducted by the W8banaki Nation led to the discovery of the mission's remains at the Fort Odanak site (CaFe-7) in the historical centre of the village of Odanak. They revealed numer…
School Meals, Policy Protagonism, and the Politics of Care in the Americas
There is a growing concern over how to address social problems related to care, including children’s need for nourishing food. This article sheds light on care providers’ and care receivers’ roles as policy protagonists, who challenge governments to invest in school meals as care infrastructure. We discuss the gendered nature of school food politics in the Americas, building on Gaddis’s argument that “debates about school lunches are fundamentall…
Getting Rides From Others As a Coping Mechanism in the Transition to Non-Driving
These findings suggest that getting rides from others plays an important role in the transition to non-driving for older adults. Future research should examine whether other aspects of social networks (e.g., type, quality, and closer proximity) might also be key modifiable coping factors for older adults transitioning to non-driving
Re/Definitions of teachers and teaching work in UK and US policy discourses under Covid-19 and their implications for social justice
This article is concerned with the discourses of teachers and teaching work that have circulated in UK and US education policy circles during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on UK and US policy texts published in Spring and Summer 2020, we discuss how the policy discourses underpinning these texts re/define and mis/recognise teaching work. On a theoretical level, the article bears on a poststructuralist tradition calling, inter alia, for a critica…
Remember. (Re)member. Re-member: Theorizing the Process of Healing, Sustaining, and Transforming as MotherScholars
In this article, we examine our efforts as a multiracial collective of mothers, activists, and education scholars to work together to (re)new ourselves – to use our collective energy to harmonize our relationships between home and work and to imagine new possibilities for the future of the academy through this regenerated state. Marginalized women have long used the collective power in this way – turning to one another for support through circums…
Starting a dialogue in difficult times: Intersectionality and education work
This editorial essay is for the special issue “Intersectionality and education work during COVID‐19 transitions.” We reconceptualize intersectionality in the contexts of COVID‐19 to theorize change to education work, introduce the six special issue papers, and provide directions for future research
Examining Consequences Related to Unmet Care Needs Across the Long-Term Care Continuum
Older adults receiving paid care face significant and consequential gaps in care, particularly in comparison to those in other care arrangements. More attention is needed to determine how paid care arrangements can be improved and/or expanded to meet the needs of the growing number of older adults receiving paid care in the community
Housing Cost Burden and Health Decline Among Low- and Moderate-Income Older Renters
Even in the short term, HCB contributes to health decline in later life. Efforts to promote equity and healthy aging in the community must consider how to best address housing affordability among the growing population of older renters
Intersectionality for Contextualizing Teachers’ Work in Transnational Education Policy Research
The article argues for intersectionality as analytical concept for transnational education policy analyses of teachers’ work. We first lay out the conceptual and methodological groundwork, and then revisit two case studies of teachers’ work to deepen understanding of the conceptual framework for intersectional transnational education policy analysis. The multi-scaled (individual-relational-systemic) nature of policy processes melds with intertwin…
Black–White Disparities in Moves to Assisted Living and Nursing Homes Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries
Unmeasured factors related to systemic racism (e.g., residential racial segregation, racial discrimination) and/or black-white differences in care preferences might further explain black-white disparities in moves to assisted living and warrant further investigation
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception
U.S. Teachers as Policy Protagonists in Digital Public Spaces
Teachers engage with policies far beyond the confines of their classroom and seemingly unrelated to their classroom practice, stretching the parameters of theories such as street-level bureaucracy (Lipsky, 2010; Weatherly & Lipsky, 1977) and doing policy in schools (Ball, Maguire, & Braun, 2012). This was observed in ethnographic studies and analyses, suggesting a “policy protagonism” in which teachers engaged in public arenas with the state and …
Neighborhood SES is particularly important to the cardiovascular health of low SES individuals
Extending theorisations of the global teacher: Care work, gender, and street-level policies
This article is concerned with teachers’ negotiation of global transitions premised on improving educational opportunity with implications for professionalism. The study blends sociology of gender, work, and organisations and gender policy analysis to theorise teachers’ policy negotiations. I explore how 20 Argentine teachers mediate 3 programmes’ demands for care work. Policy as practice and street-level bureaucracy are applied to data to interr…
Teachers' Work, Food Policies, and Gender in Argentina: Teachers' Work
Few studies explore teachers' involvement in school feeding, questioning gendered implications within a feminine and feminized profession. Ethnographic data from one public high school in Metropolitan Buenos Aires suggest that teachers' efforts to address student hunger added new work roles: food advocates/activists, food managers, and service providers/caregivers. The data illustrate the collision of gendered roles (feeding and teaching) as well…
(En)gendering responsibility: A critical news analysis of Argentina's education reform, 2001-2002
Education reform continues around the globe, though questioned and critiqued in relation to goals of democratizing educational decision-making. Newspapers are one site of contestation and negotiation where struggles over global reform discourses are contextualized in ‘obvious’ and ‘natural’ local language. In this article, I argue that gender discourses are a powerful heuristic employed to push particular education agendas and particularly gender…
Gender differences in health-related quality-of-life are partly explained by sociodemographic and socioeconomic variation between adult men and women in the US: Evidence from four US nationally repres…
There are clear gender differences in HRQoL in the United States. These differences are partly explained by sociodemographic and SES differentials
Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women
Message Design Strategies to Raise Public Awareness of Social Determinants of Health and Population Health Disparities
Context: Raising public awareness of the importance of social determinants of health (SDH) and health disparities presents formidable communication challenges. Methods: This article reviews three message strategies that could be used to raise awareness of SDH and health disparities: message framing, narratives, and visual imagery. Findings: Although few studies have directly tested message strategies for raising awareness of SDH and health dispar…
Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult health
A multilevel analysis of race, community disadvantage, and body mass index among adults in the US
Thinking the Nation: Representations of Nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian Textbooks
Preview this article: Thinking the Nation: Representations of Nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian Textbooks, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.11.1.08meh-1.gif
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Self-Efficacy
Following Bandura's (1982) social-cognitive theory of self-efficacy, Wilson (1996) hypothesizes a relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic status and individual-level perceptions of efficacy. This article evaluates this hypothesis and pursues the following research questions: (1) Are the socioeconomic characteristics of individual's neighborhoods related to their level of self-efficacy? and (2) if so, is this relationship simply due …
Socioeconomic Position and Health: The Independent Contribution of Community Socioeconomic Context
Is living in a relatively poor community bad for your health; is living in a relatively affluent community good for your health; or is it only your own socioeconomic position that matters to your health no matter where you live? This article (a) presents a conceptual model suggesting the basic pathways that may link community socioeconomic context to individual health, (b) reviews recent research that has examined whether the socioeconomic contex…
Socioeconomic Position and Health: The Independent Contribution of Community Socioeconomic Context
Is living in a relatively poor community bad for your health; is living in a relatively affluent community good for your health; or is it only your own socioeconomic position that matters to your health no matter where you live? This article (a) presents a conceptual model suggesting the basic pathways that may link community socioeconomic context to individual health, (b) reviews recent research that has examined whether the socioeconomic contex…
Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult health
A multilevel analysis of race, community disadvantage, and body mass index among adults in the US
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Self-Efficacy
Following Bandura's (1982) social-cognitive theory of self-efficacy, Wilson (1996) hypothesizes a relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic status and individual-level perceptions of efficacy. This article evaluates this hypothesis and pursues the following research questions: (1) Are the socioeconomic characteristics of individual's neighborhoods related to their level of self-efficacy? and (2) if so, is this relationship simply due …
Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women
Neighborhood SES is particularly important to the cardiovascular health of low SES individuals
Housing Cost Burden and Health Decline Among Low- and Moderate-Income Older Renters
Even in the short term, HCB contributes to health decline in later life. Efforts to promote equity and healthy aging in the community must consider how to best address housing affordability among the growing population of older renters
Black–White Disparities in Moves to Assisted Living and Nursing Homes Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries
Unmeasured factors related to systemic racism (e.g., residential racial segregation, racial discrimination) and/or black-white differences in care preferences might further explain black-white disparities in moves to assisted living and warrant further investigation
(En)gendering responsibility: A critical news analysis of Argentina's education reform, 2001-2002
Education reform continues around the globe, though questioned and critiqued in relation to goals of democratizing educational decision-making. Newspapers are one site of contestation and negotiation where struggles over global reform discourses are contextualized in ‘obvious’ and ‘natural’ local language. In this article, I argue that gender discourses are a powerful heuristic employed to push particular education agendas and particularly gender…
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception
Examining Consequences Related to Unmet Care Needs Across the Long-Term Care Continuum
Older adults receiving paid care face significant and consequential gaps in care, particularly in comparison to those in other care arrangements. More attention is needed to determine how paid care arrangements can be improved and/or expanded to meet the needs of the growing number of older adults receiving paid care in the community
Intersectionality for Contextualizing Teachers’ Work in Transnational Education Policy Research
The article argues for intersectionality as analytical concept for transnational education policy analyses of teachers’ work. We first lay out the conceptual and methodological groundwork, and then revisit two case studies of teachers’ work to deepen understanding of the conceptual framework for intersectional transnational education policy analysis. The multi-scaled (individual-relational-systemic) nature of policy processes melds with intertwin…
U.S. Teachers as Policy Protagonists in Digital Public Spaces
Teachers engage with policies far beyond the confines of their classroom and seemingly unrelated to their classroom practice, stretching the parameters of theories such as street-level bureaucracy (Lipsky, 2010; Weatherly & Lipsky, 1977) and doing policy in schools (Ball, Maguire, & Braun, 2012). This was observed in ethnographic studies and analyses, suggesting a “policy protagonism” in which teachers engaged in public arenas with the state and …
Extending theorisations of the global teacher: Care work, gender, and street-level policies
This article is concerned with teachers’ negotiation of global transitions premised on improving educational opportunity with implications for professionalism. The study blends sociology of gender, work, and organisations and gender policy analysis to theorise teachers’ policy negotiations. I explore how 20 Argentine teachers mediate 3 programmes’ demands for care work. Policy as practice and street-level bureaucracy are applied to data to interr…
Teachers' Work, Food Policies, and Gender in Argentina: Teachers' Work
Few studies explore teachers' involvement in school feeding, questioning gendered implications within a feminine and feminized profession. Ethnographic data from one public high school in Metropolitan Buenos Aires suggest that teachers' efforts to address student hunger added new work roles: food advocates/activists, food managers, and service providers/caregivers. The data illustrate the collision of gendered roles (feeding and teaching) as well…
Thinking the Nation: Representations of Nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian Textbooks
Preview this article: Thinking the Nation: Representations of Nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian Textbooks, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.11.1.08meh-1.gif
Socioeconomic Position and Health: The Independent Contribution of Community Socioeconomic Context
Is living in a relatively poor community bad for your health; is living in a relatively affluent community good for your health; or is it only your own socioeconomic position that matters to your health no matter where you live? This article (a) presents a conceptual model suggesting the basic pathways that may link community socioeconomic context to individual health, (b) reviews recent research that has examined whether the socioeconomic contex…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Self-Efficacy
Following Bandura's (1982) social-cognitive theory of self-efficacy, Wilson (1996) hypothesizes a relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic status and individual-level perceptions of efficacy. This article evaluates this hypothesis and pursues the following research questions: (1) Are the socioeconomic characteristics of individual's neighborhoods related to their level of self-efficacy? and (2) if so, is this relationship simply due …
Thinking the Nation: Representations of Nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian Textbooks
Preview this article: Thinking the Nation: Representations of Nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian Textbooks, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.11.1.08meh-1.gif
A multilevel analysis of race, community disadvantage, and body mass index among adults in the US
Message Design Strategies to Raise Public Awareness of Social Determinants of Health and Population Health Disparities
Context: Raising public awareness of the importance of social determinants of health (SDH) and health disparities presents formidable communication challenges. Methods: This article reviews three message strategies that could be used to raise awareness of SDH and health disparities: message framing, narratives, and visual imagery. Findings: Although few studies have directly tested message strategies for raising awareness of SDH and health dispar…
Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult health
Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women
Gender differences in health-related quality-of-life are partly explained by sociodemographic and socioeconomic variation between adult men and women in the US: Evidence from four US nationally repres…
There are clear gender differences in HRQoL in the United States. These differences are partly explained by sociodemographic and SES differentials
(En)gendering responsibility: A critical news analysis of Argentina's education reform, 2001-2002
Education reform continues around the globe, though questioned and critiqued in relation to goals of democratizing educational decision-making. Newspapers are one site of contestation and negotiation where struggles over global reform discourses are contextualized in ‘obvious’ and ‘natural’ local language. In this article, I argue that gender discourses are a powerful heuristic employed to push particular education agendas and particularly gender…
Teachers' Work, Food Policies, and Gender in Argentina: Teachers' Work
Few studies explore teachers' involvement in school feeding, questioning gendered implications within a feminine and feminized profession. Ethnographic data from one public high school in Metropolitan Buenos Aires suggest that teachers' efforts to address student hunger added new work roles: food advocates/activists, food managers, and service providers/caregivers. The data illustrate the collision of gendered roles (feeding and teaching) as well…
Extending theorisations of the global teacher: Care work, gender, and street-level policies
This article is concerned with teachers’ negotiation of global transitions premised on improving educational opportunity with implications for professionalism. The study blends sociology of gender, work, and organisations and gender policy analysis to theorise teachers’ policy negotiations. I explore how 20 Argentine teachers mediate 3 programmes’ demands for care work. Policy as practice and street-level bureaucracy are applied to data to interr…
U.S. Teachers as Policy Protagonists in Digital Public Spaces
Teachers engage with policies far beyond the confines of their classroom and seemingly unrelated to their classroom practice, stretching the parameters of theories such as street-level bureaucracy (Lipsky, 2010; Weatherly & Lipsky, 1977) and doing policy in schools (Ball, Maguire, & Braun, 2012). This was observed in ethnographic studies and analyses, suggesting a “policy protagonism” in which teachers engaged in public arenas with the state and …
Neighborhood SES is particularly important to the cardiovascular health of low SES individuals
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception
Black–White Disparities in Moves to Assisted Living and Nursing Homes Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries
Unmeasured factors related to systemic racism (e.g., residential racial segregation, racial discrimination) and/or black-white differences in care preferences might further explain black-white disparities in moves to assisted living and warrant further investigation
Examining Consequences Related to Unmet Care Needs Across the Long-Term Care Continuum
Older adults receiving paid care face significant and consequential gaps in care, particularly in comparison to those in other care arrangements. More attention is needed to determine how paid care arrangements can be improved and/or expanded to meet the needs of the growing number of older adults receiving paid care in the community
Housing Cost Burden and Health Decline Among Low- and Moderate-Income Older Renters
Even in the short term, HCB contributes to health decline in later life. Efforts to promote equity and healthy aging in the community must consider how to best address housing affordability among the growing population of older renters
Intersectionality for Contextualizing Teachers’ Work in Transnational Education Policy Research
The article argues for intersectionality as analytical concept for transnational education policy analyses of teachers’ work. We first lay out the conceptual and methodological groundwork, and then revisit two case studies of teachers’ work to deepen understanding of the conceptual framework for intersectional transnational education policy analysis. The multi-scaled (individual-relational-systemic) nature of policy processes melds with intertwin…
Remember. (Re)member. Re-member: Theorizing the Process of Healing, Sustaining, and Transforming as MotherScholars
In this article, we examine our efforts as a multiracial collective of mothers, activists, and education scholars to work together to (re)new ourselves – to use our collective energy to harmonize our relationships between home and work and to imagine new possibilities for the future of the academy through this regenerated state. Marginalized women have long used the collective power in this way – turning to one another for support through circums…
Starting a dialogue in difficult times: Intersectionality and education work
This editorial essay is for the special issue “Intersectionality and education work during COVID‐19 transitions.” We reconceptualize intersectionality in the contexts of COVID‐19 to theorize change to education work, introduce the six special issue papers, and provide directions for future research
Re/Definitions of teachers and teaching work in UK and US policy discourses under Covid-19 and their implications for social justice
This article is concerned with the discourses of teachers and teaching work that have circulated in UK and US education policy circles during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on UK and US policy texts published in Spring and Summer 2020, we discuss how the policy discourses underpinning these texts re/define and mis/recognise teaching work. On a theoretical level, the article bears on a poststructuralist tradition calling, inter alia, for a critica…
Getting Rides From Others As a Coping Mechanism in the Transition to Non-Driving
These findings suggest that getting rides from others plays an important role in the transition to non-driving for older adults. Future research should examine whether other aspects of social networks (e.g., type, quality, and closer proximity) might also be key modifiable coping factors for older adults transitioning to non-driving
School Meals, Policy Protagonism, and the Politics of Care in the Americas
There is a growing concern over how to address social problems related to care, including children’s need for nourishing food. This article sheds light on care providers’ and care receivers’ roles as policy protagonists, who challenge governments to invest in school meals as care infrastructure. We discuss the gendered nature of school food politics in the Americas, building on Gaddis’s argument that “debates about school lunches are fundamentall…
W8banaki Subsistence Patterns During the 18th and 19th Centuries at the Fort Odanak Site, Québec, Canada
Built in the early eighteenth century on the banks of the Saint-François River (Québec, QC, Canada), the fortified Jesuit mission of Saint-François-de-Sales was an important W8banaki centre during the colonial period. Between 2010 and 2021, archaeological excavations conducted by the W8banaki Nation led to the discovery of the mission's remains at the Fort Odanak site (CaFe-7) in the historical centre of the village of Odanak. They revealed numer…
Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Population (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Health equity (6 works)