Marie Sheneman received a B.A. in Sociology in 2005 from Washington State University. In 2007, she went on to earn a M.A. in Applied Sociology from Northern Arizona University. She is currently working on PhD at Iowa State University. Her research interest areas are Family, Social Psychology, and Statistics, focused on voluntary childlessness. Her previous research was on suicide ideation. She started teaching at the University of South Alabama in the Summer 2009 semester. She teaches Marriage and the Family, and Social Problems, currently exclusively online.