Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of "Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family" (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including "Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology" (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.