Bahira Trask
Dr. Bahira Trask is a Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware. She holds a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on globalization, women’s employment, and family change in Western and non-Western countries, and she presents regularly on these topics at international forums. Recently, Dr. Trask has worked on issues of urbanization and migration from a global perspective for the United Nations. Dr. Trask has authored and edited several 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 (Sage, 2007), as well as having published over 100 peer reviewed articles, chapters, and reports.
Much of Dr. Trask’s scholarship has been informed through participation with a number of international, national and community-based research projects that focus on diversity, gender and work, and strengthening low-income families. Her work has been funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Marguirite Casey Foundation, Blueprints Delaware and various local community initiatives. Dr. Trask is a fellow of NCFR, the National Council on Family Relations, she has won the Jan Trost award for excellence in international scholarship and in 2017 she was awarded the University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2022 she received the prestigious Groves Sussman Award for her work in International Family Studies and Policy.