Office: SSW 3.212D
Office Hours: On leave
Phone: 512-471-9248
lein@mail.utexas.edu

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Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Research interests:
Households in persistent poverty, NGOs and human services, health insurance, Mexico/Texas comparisons in areas of child welfare and poverty, welfare reform, women's employment, and child care issues. Methodological Interests: Interdisciplinary approaches and the combination of quantitative and qualitative data

Courses taught:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Workshop in Theory and Method

Field(s) of Study: Social Anthropology; Activist Anthropology

Awards/Honors:
1998 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.
Reviewed as one of Choice magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books for 1997."
"Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 1997,"
Princeton University Selected References, Industrial Relations Section.
Nomination for Eastern Sociological Society Book Award.

Recent Publications:
Angel, R., Lein, L., and Henrici, J. Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Lein, L. and Schexnayder, D. with Douglas, K. and Schroeder, D. Life After Welfare. Forthcoming, 2007. Under contract with the University of Texas Press.

Henrici, J., Angel, R., and Lein, L. "Single Mothers, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Growing Health Care Gap." (In Press) In Child Poverty in America Today edited by Barbara Arrighi and David J. Maume, Jr. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Angel, J., Angel, R. and Lein, L. "The Health Care Safety Net for Mexican American Families." In D. R. Crane and T. B. Heaton (eds.) Handbook of Families and Poverty: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.

Angel, R. and Lein, L. "Living on a Poverty Income: The Role of Non-Governmental Agencies in the Scramble for Resources. Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. 2006.

Angel, R. and Lein, L."The Myth of Self-Sufficiency in Health." in Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform (editor Jane Henrici) University of Arizona Press, 2006 (with Ron Angel).

Lein, L., Benjamin, A., McMannus, M. and Roy, K. "When Work Doesn't Work: Mothers in Low Income Jobs." in Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform (editor Jane Henrici) University of Arizona Press, 2006.

Lein, L. "Structural Barriers to Self- Sufficiency: Neither Wages nor Welfare Can Do It." in Good Parents or Good Workers? How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives. (editors Jill Duerr Berrick et al.) Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2005. Lein, L., Benjamin, A., McMannus, M. and Roy, K. "Economic Roulette?: When is a Job Not a Job." Community, Work, and Family, 2005, 8(4): 359-378.

Burton, L., Lein, L., and Kolak, A. "The Walls of Jericho: Health and Mothers' Employment in Low Income Families." in Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being (editors Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, and Rosalind Berkowitz King). Erlbaum Press, 2005.

Lein, L., Douglas, K., and Murphy, K. "U.S.-Mexico Border Families' Responses to a U.S. Poverty Program; Making a Living on the U.S. Side of the Border." (Published as "Respuesta de Familias Norteamericanas-Mexicanas al Programa de Pobreza de Estados Unidos: Viviendo en el Lado Norteamericano de la Frontera" Special issue, Revista Trabajo Social, 2006 (with Karen Douglas and Kathleen Murphy).

Murphy, K., Lein, L. and Brabeck, K. "Cultural and Structural Contexts of Domestic Violence for Mexican-American and Mexican Immigrant Women (Publsihed as "Contextos Culturales y Estructurales de la Violencia Dom©stica de Mujeres M©xico- Americanas y Mexicanas Inmigrantes) for publication in volume by the Universidad Aut³noma de Nuevo Le³n.