,br> Small compared to other Big10 sociology programs (16 faculty), students engage with research focused on solving real-world problems. Faculty collaborate with each other and with people across disciplines, including computer science, psychology, anthropology, political science, criminology, biology, neuroscience, medicine, public health, art, marketing, and business. Our faculty also work with community stakeholders and community-based non-profit organizations.
These collaborations lead our faculty and students to ask and answer interesting questions. Check out our recent research, including open-access versions of faculty and student publications, to discover how sociology faculty are tackling issues in drug use; pornography addiction; social networks; homelessness; delinquency; domestic violence; survey questionnaire design and polling; minority health disparities; science identity; sexualities and LGBTQ+ rights; religion and politics; hate crime reporting; and sociology pedagogy among many others.
We are committed to equipping undergraduate students with the critical thinking and analytical skills that put them on the path to meaningful and rewarding careers. Alumni have launched their careers with community organizations such as Voice of Hope, Community Learning Centers, and Teach for America; government agencies like the Department of Agriculture, the state legislature, and law enforcement; and private sector businesses such as HUDL, Talent+, Gallup, NelNet, and insurance companies. Our undergraduate students also go on to law school, medical school and professional programs in the health fields, or to complete an MBA or graduate programs in sociology or related disciplines.
Our MA and PhD students can specialize in the sociology of health, families, social inequalities, or research methodology, benefiting from a small student-to-faculty ratio. We train graduate students for both traditional academic jobs at colleges and universities, as well as work in the public and private sector. We have a long tradition of training students for successful placements at non-academic positions, including think tanks, research organizations, government agencies, non-profit service organizations, and for-profit organizations.
2014
Attitudes Toward Motherhood Among Sexual Minority Women in the United States, Emily Kazyak, Nicholas Park, Julia McQuillan, and Arthur L. Greil
A stochastic agent-based model of pathogen propagation in dynamic multi-relational social networks, Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski, and Mohamed Saad
The Importance of Motherhood and Fertility Intentions among U.S. Women, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Shreffler, and Andrew V. Bedrous
Assessing Within-Household Selection Methods in Household Mail Surveys, Kristen Olson, Mathew Stange, and Jolene D. Smyth
Multiple Motherhoods: The Effect of the Internalization of Motherhood Ideals on Life Satisfaction, Kayla M. Pritchard and Lisa Kort-Butler
Birth Cohort Changes in the Association Between College Education and Religious Non-Affiliation, Philip Schwadel
Review of Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine by Wendy Cadge, Philip Schwadel
Movement without mobility: Adolescent status hierarchies and the contextual limits of cumulative advantage, Jeffrey A. Smith and Robert Faris
Social Distance in the United States: Sex, Race, Religion, Age, and Education Homophily among Confidants, 1985 to 2004, Jeffrey A. Smith, Miller McPherson, and Lynn Smith-Lovin
Identifying predictors of survey mode preference, Jolene D. Smyth, Kristen Olson, and Morgan Millar
The Effect of Answering in a Preferred Versus a Non-Preferred Survey Mode on Measurement, Jolene Smyth, Kristen Olson, and Alian S. Kasabian
The Effect of Victimization, Mental Health, and Protective Factors on Crime and Illicit Drug Use among Homeless Young Adults, Kimberly A. Tyler, Lisa Kort-Butler, and Alexis Swendener
“Rebuilding our community”: Hearing silenced voices on Aboriginal youth suicide, Melissa L. Walls, Dane Hautala, and Jenna Hurley
Mental and substance use disorders from early adolescence to young adulthood among indigenous young people: final diagnostic results from an 8-year panel study, Les B. Whitbeck, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, Devan M. Crawford, Melissa L. Walls, Kari C. Gentzler, and Dan R. Hoyt
The New STEM Faculty Profile: Balancing Family and Dual Careers, Patricia Wonch Hill, Mary Anne Holmes, and Julia McQuillan
2013
The differential contributions of teen drinking homophily to new and existing friendships: An empirical assessment of assortative and proximity selection mechanisms, Jacob E. Cheadle, Michael Stevens, Deadric T. Williams, and Bridget J. Goosby
The role of drinking in new and existing friendships across high school settings*, Jacob E. Cheadle and Deadric T. Williams
Out on the Land: Income, Subsistence Activities, and Food Sharing Networks in Nain, Labrador, Kirk Dombrowski, Emily Channell, Bilal Khan, Joshua Moses, and Evan Misshula
Topological and Historical Considerations for Infectious Disease Transmission among Injecting Drug Users in Bushwick, Brooklyn (USA), Kirk Dombrowski, Richard Curtis, Samuel Friedman, and Bilal Khan
Assessing Respondent Driven Sampling for Network Studies in Ethnographic Contexts, Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Joshua Moses, Emily Channell, and Evan Misshula
Theory, Measurement and Hard Times: Some Issues for HIV/AIDS Research, Samuel R. Friedman, Milagros Sandoval, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Diana Rossi, Marya Gwadz, Kirk Dombrowski, Pavlo Smyrnov, Tetyana Basylyeva, Enrique R. Pouget, and David Perlman
Early Life Course Pathways of Adult Depression and Chronic Pain, Bridget J. Goosby
Adolescent Loneliness and Health in Early Adulthood, Bridget J. Goosby, Anna Bellatorre, Katrina M. Walsemann, and Jacob Cheadle
Ethnic Differences in Family Stress Processes Among African- Americans and Black Caribbeans, Bridget J. Goosby, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Anna Bellatorre, and James S. Jackson
The Transgenerational Consequences of Discrimination on African-American Health Outcomes, Bridget J. Goosby and Chelsea Heidbrink
The Importance of Social Cues for Discretionary Health Services Utilization: The Case of Infertility, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Shreffler, Katherine M. Johnson, Julia McQuillan, and Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins
Network Firewall Dynamics and the Subsaturation Stabilization of HIV, Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski, Mohamed Saad, Katherine McLean, and Samuel Friedman
Justice League? Depictions of Justice in Children’s Superhero Cartoons, Lisa A. Kort-Butler
Paradata for Nonresponse Error Investigation, Frauke Kreuter and Kristen Olson
Correlates of bullying behaviors among a sample of North American Indigenous adolescents, Lisa A. Melander, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, and Les B. Whitbeck
Theories of public opinion, Patricia Moy and Brandon Bosch
Do non-response follow-ups improve or reduce data quality?: A review of the existing literature, Kristen Olson
Paradata for Nonresponse Adjustment, Kristen Olson
Collecting Paradata for Measurement Error Evaluations, Kristen Olson and Bryan Parkhurst
Accuracy of Within-household Selection in Web and Mail Surveys of the General Population, Kristen Olson and Jolene D. Smyth
Passionate pedagogy and emotional labor: students’ responses to learning diversity from diverse instructors, April Schueths, Tanya Gladney, Devan Crawford, Katherine L. Bass, and Helen A. Moore
Online and in-person health-seeking for infertility, Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins, Julia McQuillan, and Arthur L. Greil
Supplementary file for Social Science and Medicine article: "Online and In-Person Health Seeking for Infertility" -- Table 2. Descriptive Statistics of Type of Health-Seeking and Independent Variables, Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins, Julia McQuillan, and Arthur L. Greil
Structural Effects of Network Sampling Coverage I: Nodes Missing at Random, Jeffrey A. Smith and James Moody
Engaging Teenagers with Science Through Comics, Amy N. Spiegel, Julia McQuillan, Peter Halpin, Camillia Matuk, and Judy Diamond
Homeless Youths’ HIV Risk Behaviors with Strangers: Investigating the Importance of Social Networks, Kimberly A. Tyler
The Relationship between Victimization and Substance Use Among Homeless and Runaway Female Adolescents, Kimberly A. Tyler, Sarah Gervais, and Meghan Davidson
Family Histories and Multiple Transitions among Homeless Young Adults: Pathways to Homelessness, Kimberly A. Tyler and Rachel M. Schmitz
North American Indigenous Adolescent Substance Use, Melissa Walls, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, and Les B. Whitbeck
Analyzing Paradata to Investigate Measurement Error, Ting Yan and Kristen Olson
2012
Advanced Seminar – Interviewer-Respondent Interaction: Survey Research & Methodology Special Topics 898, Spring 2012, Robert Belli
Book Review: Making Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns, by Christine J. Gardner, Kelsy Burke
Women’s Agency in Gender-Traditional Religions: A Review of Four Approaches, Kelsy Burke
Superstars and Misfits: Two Pop-trends in the Gender Culture of Contemporary Evangelicalism, Kelsy Burke and Amy McDowell
The Small-school Friendship Dynamics of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Jacob E. Cheadle and Bridget J. Goosby
Marijuana use development over the course of adolescence among North American Indigenous youth, Jacob E. Cheadle and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn
The ‘Friendship Dynamics of Religion,’ or the ‘Religious Dynamics of Friendship’? A Social Network Analysis of Adolescents Who Attend Small Schools, Jacob Cheadle and Philip Schwadel
Estimating the Size of the Methamphetamine-Using Population in New York City Using Network Sampling Techniques, Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Travis Wendel, Katherine McLean, Evan Misshula, and Ric Curtis
Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality, Emily Kazyak
Extracurricular Activity Involvement and Adolescent Self-Esteem, Lisa Kort-Butler
Rotten, Vile, and Depraved! Depictions of Criminality in Superhero Cartoons, Lisa A. Kort-Butler
A cluster analysis of service utilization and incarceration among homeless youth, Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kimberly A. Tyler
Adolescent Violent Victimization and Precocious Union Formation, Danielle C. Kuhl, David F. Warner, and Andrew Wilczak
Does the Reason Matter? Variations in Childlessness Concerns Among U.S. Women, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil, Patricia Wonch Hill, Kari C. Gentzler, and John D. Hathcoat
An Examination of Within-Person Variation in Response Propensity over the Data Collection Field Period, Kristen Olson and Robert M. Groves
Does giving people their preferred survey mode actually increase survey participation rates? An Experimental Examination, Kristen Olson, Jolene D. Smyth, and Heather M. Wood
Social Class and Finding a Congregation: How Attendees are Introduced to Their Congregations, Philip Schwadel
Interactive Effects of Church Attendance and Religious Tradition on Depressive Symptoms and Positive Affect, Philip Schwadel and Christina D. Falci
Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Social Capital, Philip Schwadel and Mike Stout
Exploring the Relationships of Perceived Discrimination, Anger, and Aggression among North American Indigenous Adolescents, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, Les B. Whitbeck, and Dan R. Hoyt
Macrostructure from Microstructure: Generating Whole Systems from Ego Networks, Jeffrey A. Smith
The Effects of Item Saliency and Question Design on Measurement Error in a Self-Administered Survey, Michael J. Stern, Jolene D. Smyth, and Jeanette Mendez
Correlates of Service Utilization among Homeless Youth, Kimberly A. Tyler, Sarah Akinyemi, and Lisa Kort-Butler
Poor Parenting and Antisocial Behavior Among Homeless Young Adults : Links to Dating Violence Perpetration and Victimization, Kimberly A. Tyler and Lisa Melander
Individual and social network sexual behavior norms of homeless youth at high risk for HIV infection, Kimberly A. Tyler and Lisa A. Melander
The Intergenerational Effects of Relocation Policies on Indigenous Families, Melissa L. Walls and Les B. Whitbeck
Widening the social context of disablement among married older adults: Considering the role of nonmarital relationships for loneliness, David F. Warner and Scott A. Adams
Correlates of Homeless Episodes among Indigenous People, Les B. Whitbeck, Devan M. Crawford, and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn
Factors Associated with Growth in Daily Smoking among Indigenous Adolescents, Les B. Whitbeck, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, Julia McQuillan, and Devan M. Crawford
2011
Guinea Pigging in Philadelphia, Roberto Abadie
Organs Watch: Possibilities and Perils for Public Anthropology, Roberto Abadie
QUERYARCH3D: QUERYING AND VISUALISING 3D MODELS OF A MAYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN A WEB-BASED INTERFACE, Giorgio Agugiaro, Fabio Remondino, Gabrio Girardi, Jennifer von Schwerin, Heather Richards-Rissetto, and Raffaele de Amicis
Pregnancy and Intimate Partner Violence: Risk Factors, Severity, and Health Effects, Douglas A. Brownridge, Tamara L. Tallieu, Kimberly A. Tyler, Agnes Tiwari, Ko Ling Chan, and Susy C. Santos
Heterogeneity and its Impact on Thermal Robustness and Attractor Density, Yuri Cantor, Bilal Khan, and Kirk Dombrowski
Alcohol Use Trajectories and Problem Drinking Over the Course of Adolescence: A Study of North American Indigenous Youth and their Caretakers, Jacob E. Cheadle and Les B. Whitbeck
Pregnancy and Mental Health of Young Homeless Women, Devan M. Crawford, Emily C. Trotter, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, and Les B. Whitbeck
Propensity for Violence among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents: An Event History Analysis, Devan M. Crawford, Les B. Whitbeck, and Dan R. Hoyt
Archival Methods and the Veil of Sociology, Mary Jo Deegan
Self-Esteem and Mastery Trajectories in High School by Social Class and Gender, Christina D. Falci
Predictors of Change in Self-Reported Social Networks Among Homeless Young People, Christina D. Falci, Les B. Whitbeck, Dan R. Hoyt, and Trina Rose
School racial composition and race/ethnic differences in early adulthood health, Bridget J. Goosby and Katrina M. Walsemann
Are prior pregnancy outcomes relevant for models of fertility-specific distress or infertility helpseeking?, Arthur L. Greil, Katherine M. Johnson, Julia McQuillan, and Naomi L Lacy
Infertility treatment and fertility-specific distress: A longitudinal analysis of a population-based sample of U.S. women, Arthur L. Greil, Julia McQuillan, Michele Lowry, and Karina M. Shreffler
Race-Ethnicity and Medical Services for Infertility: Stratified Reproduction in a Population-based Sample of U.S. Women, Arthur L. Greil, Julia McQuillan, Karina M. Shreffler, Katherine M. Johnson, and Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins
The Social Construction of Infertility, Arthur L. Greil, Julia McQuillan, and Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins
Variation in distress among women with infertility: evidence from a population-based sample, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Shreffler, Lone Schmidt, and Julia McQuillan
Introduction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the Sociology of Families, Marriages, and Children, Michael R. Hill
Disrupting Cultural Selves: Constructing Gay and Lesbian Identities in Rural Locales, Emily Kazyak
Same-Sex Marriage in a Welcoming World: Rights Consciousness of Heterosexuals in Liberal Religious Institutions, Emily Kazyak
School-Based Extracurricular Activity Involvement and Adolescent Self-Esteem: A Growth-Curve Analysis, Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kellie J. Hagewen
Watching the Detectives: Crime Programming, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes about the Criminal Justice System, Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn
Childhood Maltreatment, Parental Monitoring, and Self-Control among Homeless Young Adults: Consequences for Negative Social Outcomes, Lisa A. Kort-Butler, Kimberly A. Tyler, and Lisa A. Melander
Multiple Auxiliary Variables in Nonresponse Adjustment, Frauke Kreuter and Kristen Olson
Women’s Sexual Orientations and Their Experiences of Sexual Assault Before and During University, Sandra L. Martin, Bonnie S. Fisher, Tara D. Warner, Christopher P. Krebs, and Christine H. Lindquist