Faculty / Staff
Kathleen Cloud
Associate Professor of Human Development and Director of Office of Women in International Development
320 International Studies Building, MC-480
1505 South Broadway 6
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: 217.333.1977
E-mail: k-cloud@illinois.edu
Education
Ed.D. 1986, Harvard Graduate School of Education Administration, Planning and Social Policy
M.Ed. 1970, University of Arizona, Education Psychology
B.A. 1953, Nazareth College, Philosophy and Education
Research Interests
Women, families, and international development.
My research history has two cycles. In the first, I concentrated on conditions for optimizing children's development, in the second, on optimizing women's development. Now, I am interested in tracing the public policy implication of the interactions between the development of women and children.
My current research focuses on the interaction between mothering and increases in the quantity of human capital, utilizing the United Nations international data set on women. I am examining national level data on women's education, fertility rates, infant mortality rates and life expectancy and their relationship to social and economic development.
I am also working with a group researching the types of gender training now being done by international development agencies.
Recent Publications
Cloud, K. (1996). A modest proposal for inclusion of women's household human capital production in the analysis of structural transformation. Feminist Economies Fall, 2(3). London: Routledge.
Cloud, K. (1996). Half the human race: The international women's movement at the end of the 20th century. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy.
Cloud, K., with Borooah, R., Sheshadri, S., Saraswathi, T., Peterson, J., & Verma, A. (1994). Capturing Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Look at Women, Households and Development. New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage.
Cloud, K., with Antwi-Nsiah, C. (1993). Annotated Gender Training Bibliography. UIUC/IPS/WID.
Cloud, K., with Rao, A., Feldstein, H., & Staudt, K. (1991). Gender training and development planning: Learning from experience. The Population Council. New York.
Cloud, K. (1988). Where do we go from here? Policies of the future. In J. Davidson (Ed.), Agriculture, Women and Land: The African Experience. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.