Meet Paul Rosenblatt
Office
293 McNeal Hall
Phone
(612) 625-3120
Mailing Address
Mail Code 6140
290 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St Paul, MN 55108-6140
Additional Information
Paul Rosenblatt
Professor
(Ph.D., Northwestern University)
Scholarly Interests
- Family and Couple Systems
- Qualitative Family Research
- Loss and Families
- Grief Theory
- Family Theory
- African American Families
- Family and Cultural Diversity
- How Government and Corporate Policies Affect Families
Degrees
Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL
Ph.D. Psychology
Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL
M.A. Psychology
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
A.B. Psychology
Honors & Awards
Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing named one of the top 10 university press books of 2006 by ForeWord Magazine.
Member, University of Minnesota Academic of Distinguished Teachers.
Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices written by Paul Rosenblatt with Terris Karis and Richard Powell won an award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights for being an outstanding book for the year 1995 on the Subject of Human Rights in North America
Excellence in Research Award, College of Human Ecology. Ernest G. Osborne Award, from the National Council on Family Relations, for outstanding teaching in the family field. Fellow, American Psychological Association. Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Distinguished Service to Families award from the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology
Teaching & Learning
FSoS 3104: Global and Diverse Families
FSoS 8013: Qualitative Family Research Methods
Research & Discovery
I am working on 15 different project related to my interests. Among
them are:
- How Novels by Widely Read African American Authors Depict the Impact
of Racism on African American Family Life. Taking African American
novels as in part reports of lived experience, cultural knowledge, and
observations of families, I am writing about how 26 African
American-authored novels depict the short run and long run impact of
racism on everyday life in African American families.
- Intimacy, honesty and dishonesty, knowing and not knowing in
couples--Family Social Science faculty colleague Liz Wieling and are I interviewing people about their experience of intimacy in the area of knowing, not knowing, honesty, dishonesty, withholding, and relating aspects of intimacy in their most significant intimate relationship.
- How African American children are socialized to deal with
racism--Family Social Science doctoral student Cherie Collins and I are exploring what is said about experiences of being socialized to deal with racism in the autobiographies of 53 African Americans.
Outreach & Engagement
Editorial Board Memberships: Death Studies, Journal of Loss and Trauma, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Mortality, Journal of Rural Community Psychology, Journal of Marriage and Family
I average 30 media interviews a year
I am a consultant on many research projects in the U.S. and
around the world.
Selected Publications
Books
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2009). Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2006). Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Rosenblatt, P. C. & Wallace, B. R. (2005). African American Grief. New York: Routledge.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2000). Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2000). Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.
Selected Research Papers and Scholarly Essays
Rosenblatt, P.C. (in press). Shame and death in cultural context. In J. Kauffman (Ed.), The shame of death. New York: Routledge.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (in press). Providing therapy can be therapeutic for a therapist. American Journal of Psychotherapy.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2009). The culturally competent practitioner. In K Doka & A. S. Tucci (Eds.), Living with grief: Diversity and end-of-life care (pp. 21-32). Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America.
Rosenblatt, P. C., & Rieks, S. J. (2009). No compromise: Couples dealing with issues for which they do not see a compromise. American Journal of Family Therapy, 37, 196-208.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2009). A systems theory analysis of intercultural couple relationships. In T. A. Karis & K. D. Killian (Eds.), Intercultural couples: Exploring diversity in intimate relationships (pp. 3-20). New York: Routledge.
Barner, J. R., & Rosenblatt, P. C. (2008). Giving at a loss: Couple exchange after the death of a parent. Mortality, 13, 318-334.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2008). Grief across cultures: A review and research agenda. In M. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, H. Schut, & W. Stroebe (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research and practice: Advances in theory and intervention (pp. 207-222). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2008). Recovery following bereavement: Metaphor, phenomenology, and culture. Death Studies, 32, 6-16.
Yang, S., & Rosenblatt, P. C. (2007). Couple rage and emotional distancing when a partner is dying. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 12, 305-320.
Rosenblatt, P. C., & Nkosi, B. C. (2007). South African Zulu widows in a time of poverty and social change. Death Studies, 31, 67-85.
Rosenblatt, P. C., & Barner, J. R. (2006). The dance of closeness-distance in couple relationships after the death of a parent. Omega, 53, 277-293.
Rosenblatt, P.C. (2005). Grieving families and the 9/11 disaster. In S. C. Heilman (Ed.), Death, Bereavement, and Mourning (pp. 85-103). Somerset, NJ: Transaction Books.
Rosenblatt, P. C., & Stewart, C. C. (2004). Challenges in cross-cultural marriage: When she is Chinese and he Euro-American. Sociological Focus, 37, 43-58.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2002). Interviewing at the border of fact and fiction. In J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), The handbook of interview research (pp. 893-909). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2001). Teaching undergraduate family diversity courses. Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family, 1, 1-14.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2001). A social constructionist perspective on cultural differences in grief. In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, W. Stroebe, & H. Schut (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping, and care (pp. 285-300). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2001). Qualitative research as spiritual experience. In K. R. Gilbert (Ed.), The emotional nature of qualitative research (pp. 111-128). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC.
Rosenblatt, P. C. (2000). Protective parenting after the death of a child. Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 5, 343-360.