Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1962 - Psychology
M.A., Northwestern University, 1961 - Psychology
A.B., University of Chicago, 1958 - Psychology

• Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing named one of the top 10 university press books of 2006 by ForeWord Magazine.

• Member, University of Minnesota Academic of Distinguished Teachers.

• Rosenblatt's book with Terris Karis and Richard Powell, Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices Winner of an award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights as an outstanding book for the year 1995 on the Subject of Human Rights in North America

• Excellence in Research Award, College of Human Ecology.
• Ernest G. Osborne Award, from the National Council on Family Relations, for outstanding teaching in the family field.
• Fellow, American Psychological Association.
• Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
• Distinguished Service to Families award from the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
• Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology

Family and Couple Systems, Qualitative Family Research, Loss and Families, Grief Theory, Family Theory, African American Families, Family and Cultural Diversity, How Government and Corporate Policies Affect Families, Global Warming and Families

FSoS 3104: Global and Diverse Families
FSoS 8013: Qualitative Family Research Methods

Grief in families - A current project, with John Barner, focuses on how couple relationships are affected by the death of a parent of one of the partners.

Couple relationships - A current project with Professor Wieling focuses on the experience of intimacy in couple relationships.  A theoretical project with graduate student Samantha Rieks focuses on how couples deal with disagreements that seemingly cannot be compromised (like whether or not to have a baby).

Family obliviousness - I am finishing work on a book length theoretical analysis of how and why  families are oblivious to so much going on inside the family and outside, how shared family obliviousness is maintained, how it may be overcome, and how to study it and deal with it clinically.

• Editorial Board Memberships:  Death Studies, Journal of Loss
       and Trauma, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Mortality,
       Journal of Rural Community Psychology
• Many media interviews
• Who's Who in American Education
• Who's Who in America
  

Books

Rosenblatt, P.C. (2006). Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed-Sharing. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Rosenblatt, P. C. & Wallace, B. R. (2005). African American Grief. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2000). Help your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Rosenblatt, P.C. (2000). Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.

Rosenblatt, P.C., Karis, T. A., & Powell, R. D. (1995). Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Winner of an award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights as an outstanding book for the year 1995 on the subject of Human Rights in North America

Rosenblatt, P.C. (1994). Metaphors of Family Systems Theory: Toward New Constructions. New York: Guilford.

Research Papers and Scholarly Essays

Rosenblatt, P. C. (in press). A systems theory analysis of intercultural couple relationships. In T. A. Karis & K. D. Killian (Eds.), Cross cultural couples: Relationships in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Haworth.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (in press). Grief across cultures: A review and research agenda.  In Margaret Stroebe, Robert O. Hansson, Henk Schut, & Wolfgang Stroebe (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research and practice: 21st century perspectives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Yang, S., & Rosenblatt P. C. (in press). Confucian family values and childless couples in South Korea. Journal of Family Issues.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2008). Recovery following bereavement: Metaphor, phenomenology, and culture. Death Studies, 32, 6-16.

Rosenblatt, P.C., & Nkosi, B.C. (2007). South African Zulu widows in a time of poverty and social change. Death Studies, 31, 67-85.

Rosenblatt, P.C., & Barner, J.R. (2006). The dance of closeness-distance in couple relationships after the death of a parent. Omega, 53, 277-293.

Rosenblatt, P.C. (2005). Grieving families and the 9/11 disaster. In Samuel C. Heilman (Ed.), Death, Bereavement, and Mourning. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Books.

Rosenblatt, P.C., Wallace, B.R. (2005). Narratives of grieving African Americans about racism in the lives of deceased familiy members. Death Studies, 29, 217-235.

Rosenblatt, P. C., & Stewart, C. C. (2004). Challenges in cross-cultural marriage: When she is Chinese and he Euro-American. Sociological Focus, 37, 43-58.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2002). Interviewing at the border of fact and fiction. In J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), The handbook of interview research (pp. 893-909). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Reprinted in 2003 in J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), Postmodern Interviewing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2001). Teaching undergraduate family diversity courses. Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family, 1, 1-14.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2001). A social constructionist perspective on cultural differences in grief. In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, W. Stroebe, & H. Schut (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping, and care (pp. 285-300). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2001). Qualitative research as spiritual experience. In K. R. Gilbert (Ed.), The emotional nature of qualitative research (pp. 111-128). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2000). Present tense in parent narratives about their dead child. Bereavement Care, 19, 35-38.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2000). Protective parenting after the death of a child. Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 5, 343-360.