Contact
Research Areas
Intergenerational Relationships; In-law Relationships
Education
Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education
M.A., Teacher’s College, Columbia University
A.B., Barnard College
Links
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
"Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children"
Ruth Nemzoff
Ruth Nemzoff
Ruth Nemzoff is a former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire Legislature and New Hampshire’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 New Hampshire United Way, New Hampshire Business Development Corporation, Boston’s Jewish Family and Children’s Services and of Newbury College. She was on the New Hampshire 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 member of 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.
Current Projects
Dr. Nemzoff continues to speak about intergenerational relationships and tour for her book, Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children. She is currently preparing a new publication with the working title Don’t Roll Your Eyes: How to Make In-Laws Into Family.
Representative Publications
Nemzoff, Ruth. Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 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.