Bahira Sherif Trask holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on the relationship between family change, growing family complexity, and globalization in Western and non-Western contexts. She concentrates on how economic transformations are impacting family change and gender roles, how concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender are changing through globalizing influences, and what kind of policies can assist and strengthen low-income families. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Women, Work and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge, 2014), Globalization and Families: Accelerated Systemic Social Change (Springer, 2010), and Cultural Diversity and Families: Expanding Perspectives (Sage, 2007).