Scott Coltrane completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and the University of California, and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, Associate Director of the UCR Center for Family Studies, recipient of the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award, and former President of the Pacific Sociological Association. Coltrane studies gender equity and family functioning, with particular attention to the allocation of housework and childcare. He has written about the inter-relationships among fatherhood, motherhood, marriage, parenting, domestic labor, popular culture, ethnicity, and structural inequality.

He is Principal Investigator on a NIH funded 5-year longitudinal study of Mexican American families and stepfamilies in southern California (NIMH 64828-01). Coltrane is the author of Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity (Oxford University Press, 1996, winner of the American Library Association CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award); Gender and Families (Pine Forge/AltaMira, 1998); co-author (with Randall Collins) of Sociology of Marriage and the Family: Gender Love and Property (Wadsworth/ITP, 2001), and editor of Families and Society (Wadsworth/ITP, 2004).

His research has been published in various scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Family Issues, Family Relations, Gender & Society, Sex Roles; and Masculinities, as well as in book chapters (e.g., Men in Families, Fatherhood, Men's Lives, Theorizing Masculinities, Men, Work, & Family, Contemporary Parenting, Gender Stratification, Work and Family). His current research projects explore how economic stress influences families, how fathers fit into families, and how social movements shape family policies.

Expertise: Dual Earner Families; Families of Color: Hispanic; FMLA; Maternity Leave; Paid Family Leave - State; Paternity Leave; Changing Definitions of Families; Community, Work and Family; Work-Family Balance; Work-Family Conflict; Work-Family Spillover; Work/life Integration; Father Involvement in Families; Housework and Child Care