CV
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Current position
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University (2016–present) Department Chair (2021–2024) Co-leader, Health Disparities Working Group, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences
Previous positions
Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University (2013–2015) Department Chair, Northwestern University (2010–2013) Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University (2007–2015) Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Harvard University (2005–2007) Assistant/Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2001–2005)
Education
Ph.D., Sociology — Indiana University (2000) B.A., Sociology (with Honors and Highest Distinction) — University of Iowa (1993)
Major ongoing projects
General Social Survey (GSS) — Co-PI (NSF) Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) — Co-PI (NSF) Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) — (NIA)
Research areas
Health & medical sociology, social inequality & stratification, genetics & society, quantitative methods, social demography, social psychology, transparency & reproducibility
Selected honors
Open Science Champion Award, Stanford University (2023) Outstanding Publication Award, ASA Section on Methodology (2021) Chair, ASA Section on Methodology (2019–2021) Chair, ASA Section on Social Psychology (2013–2014) Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy (2005–2007) ASA Doctoral Dissertation Award (2001) National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1994–1998)
Teaching
Stanford: The Data Scientist as Detective; Sport, Competition, and Society; Genetics and Social Inquiry; Sociological Methodology III: Models for Discrete Outcomes Northwestern: Individual and Society; Quantitative Analysis of Social Data; Genetics and Social Inquiry ICPSR Summer Program: Categorical Analysis; Advanced Categorical Data Analysis