Teresa Toguchi Swartz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota where she teaches courses on the intersections of race, class and gender, and on the family. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at San Diego in 2001. Her research interests include families, gender, race and ethnicity, carework, and public policy. Her first book brings together these issues through an analysis of foster family care in a state contracted non-profit children’s services agency. Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care (Routledge 2005), examines how actors in the foster care system—foster parents, social workers, and policy makers—understand and perform their work as care providers to children under state protection within a highly regulated and bureaucratic context. She finds that despite the benevolent intentions of providers, competing cultural logics, inequality, and a fragmented bureaucracy undermine the quality of care that is provided to children. Professor Swartz is currently writing her next book entitled Growing Up But Not Apart: Intergenerational Relations and the Transition to Adulthood . This book uses 489 interviews collected through the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood with young adults from five U.S. cities to examine intergenerational support and relationships between parents and young adult children. Specific comparisons are made by race and ethnicity, class, gender, immigration status, and region of the country. Professor Swartz is also working on papers concerned with intergenerational relations among Hmong families, welfare receipt and civic participation, privatized child welfare services, and work and family tensions faced by young adults.