I am currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology at NC State.  I have a Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University. My research interests include work and the family, factors affecting the division of household labor, effects of maternal employment on child outcomes, and the effects of the employment of wives on marital stability. My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Social Psychology Quarterly. I am a member of the American Sociological Association and the Southern Sociological Society.

I am the coauthor (with Shannon N. Davis) of Methods of Family Research (3rd ed., Sage, 2015).  My recent projects include Why Who Cleans Counts: What Housework Reveals about Changing Power Dynamics in American Family Life (Policy Press, 2020) and Research Methods on Human Development and Families (Sage, 2019), both coauthored with Shannon N. Davis. I have been on the editorial board or Associate Editor of Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, and Social Science Review.

My email address is Ted_Greenstein@ncsu.edu.

I served on the faculty at NC State for thirty years and all three of my children are Wolfpack alums (no, faculty and staff do NOT get a tuition discount for dependents). In my spare time I enjoy travel, classic rock, reading (science fiction and history), MLB (St. Louis Cardinals), and all Wolfpack sports.

My primary qualification for teaching this course is that I was bass player and lead singer in a rock band in high school.  I’m the Buddy Holly look-alike on the left.