Curriculum Vitae
Employment
2014- Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
2007-2014 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University (New York City, NY)
Education
2004 PhD, Sociology and Demography, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
2001 MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
1999 MA, Demography, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
1998 BA, Sociology, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
1998 Minor, Statistics, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Publications
2023 Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the US, 2010-2019, Sociological Science 10:403-428 (Replication package)
2022 Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980-2018, Demography 59 (5):1929–1951 (Preprint; Replication package)
2021 The role of education, religiosity and development on support for violent practices among Muslims in thirty-five countries, PLOS ONE 16(11): e0260429 (Co-authored with Sarah Ahmed; Replication package)
2021 A Counterfactual Choice Approach to the Study of Partner Selection, Demographic Research 44:513-536 (Replication package)
2019 The Racial Identification of Young Adults in a Racially Complex Society, Emerging Adulthood 7(2):150-161 (Replication package)
2018 The Diverging Beliefs and Practices of the Religiously Affiliated and Unaffiliated in the United States, Sociological Science 5:361-379 (Replication package)
2017 Comments on Conceptualizing and Measuring the Exchange of Beauty and Status, American Sociological Review 82(5):1093-1099 (Replication package)
2016 Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference, American Behavioral Scientist 60(4):498-518 (Replication package)
2014 Patterns of racial and educational assortative mating in Brazil, Demography 51(3):835-856 (Co-authored with Florencia Torche; Replication package)
2013 Inequality in the Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: The Distribution of Government Contracts to Nonprofit Organizations in New York City, Social Services Review 87(2):319-353 (Co-authored with Nicole Marwell; Data repository for the analysis)
2013 A Mulatto Escape Hatch? Examining Evidence of U.S. Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era, Demography 50(5):1921-1942 (Co-authored with Aliya Saperstein)
- Winner of the 2013 IPUMS Research Award for Best Article using IPUMS-US data
2011 Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification, Social Science Research 40(2):498-512 (Co-authored with Ann Morning)
2010 Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880, American Journal of Sociology 116(1):187-231
2010 Comment: An Endorsement of Exchange Theory in Mate Selection, American Journal of Sociology 115(4):1243-1251 (Co-authored with Vincent Kang Fu)
2006 Education and Black/White Interracial Marriage, Demography 43(4):673-689
2006 Black-White Interracial Marriage Trends, 1850-2000, The Journal of Family History 31(3):1-24
2005 The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differential in Post-Civil Rights America, Social Forces 84(1): 157-180
2005 Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Slavonia, in Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 277-306 (Co-authored with Eugene A. Hammel)
2004 Kinship Structure and Survival: Maternal Mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian Border, 1750-1898, Population Studies 58(2):145-159 (Co-authored with Eugene A. Hammel)
2004 Population-based prediction of trauma volumes at a level I trauma centre, Injury 35(12):1239-1247 (Co-authored with Greg J. Beilman, Jodie H. Taylor, Lisa Job, and Jesse Moen)
Grants Awarded
2007 The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources and Urban Poverty, National Science Foundation Grant SBR #0648320, $104,452 (Co-Principal Investigator with Nicole Marwell)
2006 The Development and Diffusion of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes in the United States, 1800-1967, Columbia University Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, $3000
2005 Socioeconomic and Kinship Factors in Infant and Child Mortality in Historical Slavonia, National Science Foundation Grant SBR #0514291, $32,367 (Co-Principal Investigator with Eugene A. Hammel)
Recent Presentations
Invited Talks
2015 Essential Measures: Race, Ancestry, and Social Difference, Paper presented at the Demography Training Seminar, Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conferences
2021 Changes in Pan-Ethnicity and Racial Boundaries in the United States based on Interracial Marriage Patterns, 1980-2018, Poster presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting
Courses Taught
Sociological Research Methods, Sociology, University of Oregon
- A two-quarter sequence in graduate level statistics for first-year graduate students that focuses heavily on practical issues of analysis using the R programming language.
- This course uses my open-access statistics textbook available here.
Statistical Analysis in Sociology, Sociology, University of Oregon
- Required statistics course for undergraduate sociology majors.
- This course uses my open-access statistics textbook available here.
Race and Ethnicity, Sociology, University of Oregon
- Undergraduate course which provides introductory and foundational concepts for the study of race and ethnicity.
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociology, University of Oregon
- An upper level undergraduate course that focuses on specific topics in the field of race and ethnicity. I have taught on such topics as segregation, mixed race in the Americas, and whiteness.
Issues in Family Sociology, Sociology, University of Oregon
- Upper level undergraduate course focusing on particular topics in famly sociology. I have taught it on the changing demography of the family.
Global Population, Sociology, University of Oregon
- Introductory undergraduate course on demography and global population trends.
Student Advising
Dissertations Advised
Current Christine Capili, Creating Panethnicity: How Discrimination and Ethnonational Identity Affect Racialized Political Alignments, Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
Current Madison Schroder, Politics of the People? Examining the Effects of Out-of-State Interest on United States Direct Democracy Campaigns, PhD Dissertation Committee, Political Science, University of Oregon
Current Amy Snyder, To Be or Not to Be … a State: the role of the GI BIll in the pursuit of statehood, PhD Dissertation Committee, Political Science, University of Oregon
Current Jason DeHaan, To Be Determined, PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2024 Natasha Erickson, Integrating Social and Neighborhood Contexts to Understand Low
Birthweight Inequalities, Co-Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2024 Robert Apiyo, The Role of Podcasts and Their Influence in Shaping African Diasporic Relationships in the United States, PhD Dissertation Committee, School of Journalism, University of Oregon
2022 Michelle Alexander, Roles of the Dice, PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2020 Katie Warden, Advocacy Strategies of Parents of Children with Disabilities, PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2020 Alberto Lioy, Electoral Revolutions: A Comparative Study of Rapid Changes in Voter Turnout, PhD Dissertation Committee, Political Science, University of Oregon
2019 Drew McNichols, Essays in Labor Economics, PhD Dissertation Committee, Economics, University of Oregon
2019 Nathan Biemiller, Essays in Behavioral Economics, PhD Dissertation Committee, Economics, University of Oregon
2018 Tongy Wu, Coding Productivity: Negotiation of Ethnicized Masculine Boundaries in High-Tech Corporations, PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2017 MeCherri Abedi-Anim, African Immigrant Identities: Black Identity and Racial Solidarity in Post-Civil Rights America, Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2017 Shih-Chi Lin. Structural Changes and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in Post-reform China, Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2017 Martha Camargo, Reinvigorating the Contact Hypothesis, PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2017 Uyen Nguyen, Vietnamese American Racialization and Ethnic Organizations, PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2017 Erica G. Birk, Essays in Health and Labor, PhD Dissertation Committee, Economics, University of Oregon
2016 Joshua Melton, Beyond One-Size Fits All: Using Heterogeneous Models to Estimate School Performance in Mathematics, PhD Dissertation Committee, Education, University of Oregon
Comprehensive Exams Advised
2024 Alejandra Pedraza, Latinx Sociology, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2023 Christine Capili, Race/Ethnicity, Chair of Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2022 Robert Apiyo, Sociology, Comprehensive Exam Committee, School of Journalism, University of Oregon
2020 Natasha Erickson, Sociology of Health, Chair of Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2018 Mirranda Willette, Food and Society, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2016 Kathryn Norton-Smith, Race/Ethnicity, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2015 Katie Warden, Race/Ethnicity, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2013 Kathleen Thomas, Criminology, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2012 Rob Molinar, Social Stratification, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2012 MeCherri Tarver, Race/Ethnicity and Migration, Chair of Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2011 Shi-Chi Lin, Marriage and Family, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2008 Keith Appleby, Statistical Methods, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
Master’s Papers Advised
Current Matthew Guerra, Navigating Ancestry and Racial Classification Amongst Multiracial Indigenous Americans, Chair of MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2022 Justin Szasz, Which Approaches to Climate Policy Decrease Fossil Fuel Use? An Investigation Using Panel Data from US States, 1997-2017, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2022 Christine Capili, Multiraciality: A Disruption in Racialized Politics, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2021 Myra Haverda, Belief in Hell and its Influence on Attitudes towards Capital Punishment for Murder, Chair of MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2021 Megan Betts, African American’s Perceptions of Racial Inequality in Relation to Institutional and Social Trust, Chair of MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2019 Mauricio Betancourt, The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: a quantitative approach to Latin American food production, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2018 Natasha Erickson, Labeling and Delinquency: Assessing the Relationship between Special Education and Gifted Labels and Post High School Arrests, Chair of MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2014 Shauna Dyer, Late to School: Public Transfers and the Educational Opportunities of Poor Mothers, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2014 Justin Fontenot, 3-2-1-Go! Barbells, Paleo, ! and Muscles!, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2012 Tongyu Wu, One Store, Two Fates: Urban and Rural Workers in the Beijing Retail Stores, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2012 Leslie Fulbright, A coffin or a cell: An Urban Family Portrait., MA Paper Committee, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
2011 Uyen L. Nguyen, Vietnamese Americans and Ethnic Authenticity at a Culture Camp for Co-ethnic transracial adoptees, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2010 Kathleen Thomas, Toward a Theory of Transnationalized Transition, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2010 Matt Friesen, Contesting Symbolic Violence: Counter Recruitment and Resistance to the U.S. Military in Public Education, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2009 Shih-Chi Lin, Is there really a demand for sons?, MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
Undergraduates Advised
Current Caitlyn Schreiner, TBD, Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon
2016 Daniel Silberman, The Punitive Hippies: Racial Group-Threat and Criminal Justice Outcomes in Oregon, Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon
2015 Anders Herreid-O’Neill, The Hyper-White City: A Critique of Gentrification-Displacement Theory, Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon
2011 Ellen Hackenmueller, Latino Lockup: Hispanic Cultural Identity and Other Factors Influencing Successful Post-Incarceration Community Re-Entry, Honors Thesis Advisor, Clark Honors College and Department of International Studies University of Oregon
2009 Maggie Price, The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: The Effects of Age at Parental Divorce on Marital Stability in Adulthood, Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon
2009 Yusuke Makino, Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes: Life Chances of the Poor, Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon
Service
Departmental
2020- Joint Curriculum Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon (Chair)
2022-2023 Executive Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2021-2022 Library Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon (Chair)
2020-2021 Executive Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2014-2020 Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
- Received Excellence Award for Director of Graduate Studies from the Graduate School at the University of Oregon in 2018
2014-2020 Admissions and Award Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon (Chair)
2017-2018 Merit Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2016-2017 Executive Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2012-2014 Colloquium Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon (Co-Chair)
2011-2013 Faculty Development Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2008-2010 Colloquium Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2007-2008 Joint Curriculum Committee, Sociology Department, University of Oregon
2006-2007 Admissions Committee, Sociology Department, Columbia University
2004-2007 Graduate Student Travel Grant Coordinator, Sociology Department, Columbia University
University
2021-2023 University Libraries Committee, University Libraries, University of Oregon
2021-2024 Graduate Council, Graduate School, University of Oregon
- Chair for 2022-2024
2022-2024 Academic Council, University Senate, University of Oregon
- Ex-officio representative from Gradutate Council
2019-2021 University Senator, University Senate, University of Oregon
2018-2019 Excellence Awards Selection Committee, Graduate School, University of Oregon
2017-2018 Communites for Accelerating the Impact of Teaching -Teaching Online, Teaching Engagement Program, University of Oregon
2016-2020 Undergraduate Research Award Committee, University Libraries, University of Oregon
2010-2011 Advisory Committee Member, Social Sciences Instructional Lab, University of Oregon
Professional
2019-2024 Editor, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (Co-Editor with CJ Pascoe and Ryan Light)
2018-2019 Selection Committee, James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2014-2019 Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology
2012-2013 Advisory Editor, Sociological Perspectives
2011-2013 Advisory Editor, Sociological Problems