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Professor, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
Paul Rosenblatt has a Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University and is a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. His essay "Family Autobiography" builds on a current project based on analysis of more than 50 autobiographies of African Americans, two of his books - "Metaphors of Family Systems Theory" (Guilford, 1994) and "Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems" (SUNY Press, 2009) - and years of teaching, writing, and research about families.
Paul C. RosenblattEnlarge this imageHis scholarly interests include: family and couple systems; qualitative family research; loss and families; grief theory; family theory; African American families; family and cultural diversity; and how government and corporate policies affect families.
His book "Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing" was named one of the top 10 university press books of 2006 by ForeWord Magazine. His book "Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices," written with Terris Karis and Richard Powell, was honored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights for being an outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America.
He has received the Excellence in Research Award from the College of Human Ecology, and the Ernest G. Osborne Award from the National Council on Family Relations, for outstanding teaching in the family field. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He received the Distinguished Service to Families award from the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a fellow for the Society for Applied Anthropology.
