Ruth Nemzoff

Areas of Expertise

Parenting Adult Children

Email: rnemzoff@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Dr. Nemzoff will be speaking about intergenerational relationships and touring for her new book, Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster 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. While a visiting scholar at the Wellesley Center for Research, she wrote a historical analysis of the “Changing Perceptions of Mothers 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 chair of the Advisory Committee, Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy, and is a commissioner on the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.  Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children is her first book. 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. Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2008.
 
Nemzoff, Ruth, Penina Adelman, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Mary Mason, Nurit Eini-Pindyck, Marcie Tyre,  “From Silence to Solidarity: Listening to Mothers’ Voices.” Paper presented at The Association for Women In Psychology, April 1, 2006.

Links

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Web Page

Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children