Alice Abel Kemp
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Georgia

Dr. Kemp has taught sociology and women's studies courses at UNO for the last 19 years. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in 1981. Dr. Kemp's usual courses are Introductory Sociology, Descriptive Statistics, Social Stratification, and Sociology of Gender, which is cross-listed with the Women's Studies program. She has held the positions of both Graduate and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Sociology and has served as well as Director of the Women's Studies Program.

Dr. Kemp's research concentrates on women's employment and poverty. She authored a textbook on women's work for Prentice Hall in 1994 and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reports on women's employment, occupational sex segregation, poverty, and how women's treatment under welfare assistance programs calls for a reconceptualization of work. As a consultant on the state-funded Welfare Reform Research Project at the SUNO School of Social Work, she co-authored an analysis of women exiting welfare. She also prepared an analysis of social indicators for the 64 parishes in Louisiana and is currently preparing a second-year followup study. In 2000, she was appointed to the Louisiana Women's Policy and Research Commission by Governor Mike Foster. Dr. Kemp retired from UNO in 2001 and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.