Ruth Nemzoff

Areas of Expertise

Parent-Adult Children Relationships; Interfaith Marriage

Email: rnemzoff@brandeis.edu

Current Project

I am writing a book, working title, Don’t Bite Your Tongue: Create Rewarding Relationships With Your Adult Children.

Biography

Ruth Nemzoff is a former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire Legislature and NH’s first female Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Bentley College. While a visiting scholar at the Wellesley Center for Research, she wrote a historical analysis of the “Changing Perceptions of Mother of Children with Disabilities.” She has also published articles about environmental advertising and women in politics and about Jewish intermarriage. Dr. Nemzoff served on the boards of the NH United Way, NH Business Development Corporation, Boston’s Jewish Family and Children’s Services and of Newbury College. She was on the NH Governor’s Commission on the status of Women, and Commission for the Handicapped. She founded a nursery school, a counseling service, and the National Women’s Legislative Lobby. Currently, she serves as the chair of the advisory committee, Center for Women and Politics, University of Massachusetts and on the Board of Temple Emanuel. Ruth is currently studying parenting adult offspring.  She is under contract with Palgrave/Mcmillian to write a book on Parenting Adult Children.  She and her husband, Harris Berman, have four children.

Education

Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education

M.A., Teacher’s College, Columbia University

A.B., Barnard College

Representative Publications

Nemzoff, Ruth. “Making Babies, Making Laws.” NWSACTION 17.1 (2005): 48-50.
 
Adelman, P.; Gullette, M.; Mason, M.; Eini-Pindyck, N. Nemzoff, R.;Tyre, M.  “From Silence to Solidarity: Listening to Mothers’ Voices.” Panel at The Association for Women In Psychology, April 1, 2006.