Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at BC. She received her B.A. from Tufts University, M.S.P. from Boston College, and Ph.D. from Boston University.
Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes brings extensive expertise in the area of organizational studies to the Center on Aging & Work.  She has conducted studies about workplace culture, supervisor-employee relationships, and the adoption of innovative employee policies and programs by small, medium and large organizations. She is currently the Co-Principal Investigator of the National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development and the Study of Aging and Work in Industry Sectors, both of which are being conducted by the Center on Aging & Work.

From 1990-1999, Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes conducted research at the Center for Work & Family at Boston College.  In 1997, she founded the Sloan Work and Family Research Network.  The Network provides resources about working families to business leaders and state legislators as well as to academics around the world. She continues to be the Principal Investigator of the Network.

Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a Co-Principal Investigator of the study, “Understanding the First Job:  Nurturing Families,” also funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  This study gathered in-depth information about work, family, school, and community experiences from the parents and middle school-age children in 199 families.
She is currently a Research Fellow of the Work & Family Roundtable, a corporate membership group organized by the Boston College Center for Work & Family.  Her articles have been published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals.  Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a founding co-editor for the international journal, Community, Work and Family, and co-edited a special issue of the ANNALS of Political and Social Sciences: The Evolving World of Work and Family: New Stakeholders, New Voices.  Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes is the lead co-editor of The Work-Family Handbook:  Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, scheduled for publication by Erlbaum Publishers in 2005.

Expertise: Phased Retirement, Older Workers