Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences

Sarah Deming

Assistant Professor — Human Development & Family Studies

Office

Niccolls Building, Room 200

Phone

208-885-8752

sdeming@uidaho.edu

Mailing Address

School of Family and Consumer Sciences
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 3183
Moscow, ID 83844-3183

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Sarah employs qualitative and survey methodologies to investigate the impacts of social factors and policy context on maternal health and well-being, particularly in the postpartum period.

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences

Ph.D., Washington State University, 2023
M.S., University of Idaho, 2019
B.S., Western Washington University, 2003

Courses

HDFS 445: Issues in Work and Family
HDFS 434: Adulthood and Aging
HDFS 440: Contemporary Family Relationships

Research/Extension Interests

Maternal well-being
Transition to parenthood
Family-supportive policies

Selected Publications

Moore, J. D., Lords, A. M., Casanova, M. P., Reeves, A. J., Lima, A., Wilkinson, C., Deming, S. M., & Baker, R. T. (2024). Exploring healthcare provider retention in a rural and frontier community in Northern Idaho. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), 381. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10807-5.
Deming, S. M. (2022a). Beyond measurement of the motherhood penalty: How social locations shape mothers’ work decisions and stratify outcomes. Sociology Compass, 16(6), n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12988.
Deming, S. M. (2022b). “In Every Decision I’m Making, I’m Thinking About My Son”: How Children Motivate and Constrain the Labor Force Participation of Mothers with Disabilities. Families in Society, 104438942211341. https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221134148.
Amorim, M., & Deming, S. (2022). Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents’ postsecondary transfers to adult children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(4), 1024–1045. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12845.
Schwaner, M. J., Deming, S., Kmec, J. A., & Flammang, B. E. (2020). Parenting Through Academia as a SICB Member. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60(3), 549–558. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa090.