June 2016
JEREMY FREESE
Department of Sociology Stanford University 450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305 (847) 467-3985 (office) (847) 491-9907 (fax) [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
2016-present Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
2013-2015 Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
2007-2015 Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University (Department Chair, 2010-2013)
2007-2015 Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
2013-2014 Visiting Professor, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, University of Queensland
2007 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin– Madison
2005-2007 Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program, Harvard University
2005-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2001-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2000, Indiana University, Sociology Special Concentration: Survey and Experimental Methodology Minor: Social Semiotics of Language
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Dissertation Title: “What Should Sociology Do About Darwin?: Evaluating the Potential Contributions of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to Sociology” (Winner, American Sociological Association Dissertation Major Award, 2001) Committee: Brian Powell (chair), Arthur S. Alderson, Thomas F. Gieryn, J. Scott Long, Sheldon Stryker
M.A. 1995, Indiana University, Sociology Thesis Title: “Prosody in Conversational News Deliveries.” Master’s Committee: Douglas W. Maynard, William A. Corsaro
B.A. 1993, with Honors and with Highest Distinction, University of Iowa, Sociology Minor: English
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Jeremy Freese. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Causes: The Case of Personality Traits.” European Journal of Personality
Forthcoming Kevin Levay*, Jeremy Freese, and James N. Druckman. “The Demographic and Political Composition of Mechanical Turk Samples.” SAGE Open.
Forthcoming Jeremy Freese and Yu-Han Jao*. “Shared Environment Estimates for Educational Attainment: A Puzzle and Possible Solutions.” Journal of Personality.
2016 Mullinix, Kevin J.*, Thomas J. Leeper, James N. Druckman, and Jeremy Freese. “The Generalizability of Survey Experiments.” Journal of Experimental Political Science
2015 Headworth, Spencer* and Jeremy Freese. “Credential Privilege or Cumulative Advantage? Prestige, Productivity, and Placement in the Sociology Job Market.” Social Forces. doi: 10.1093/sf/sov102
2015 Nosek, Brian A., G. Alter, G. C. Banks, D. Boorsboom, S.D. Bowman, S. J. Breckler, S. Buck, C. D. Chambers, G. Chin, G. Christensen, M. Contestabile, A. Defoe, E. Eich, J. Freese, R. Glennerster, D. Goroff, D. P. Green, B. Hesse, M. Humphreys, J. Ishiyama, D. Karlan, A. Lupia, P. Mabry, T.A. Madon, N. Malhotra, E. Mayo-Wilson, M. McNutt, E. Miguel, E. Levy Paluck, U. Simonsohn,
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C. Soderberg, B. A. Spellman, J. Turitto, G. VandenBos, S. Vazire, E. J. Wagenmakers, R. Wilson, T. Yarkoni. “Promoting an Open Research Culture.” Science. 348: 1422-1425.
2014 Jeremy Freese. “Defending the Decimals: Why Foolishly False Precision Might Strengthen Social Science.” Sociological Science 1:532-541.
2014 J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese. Regression Analysis for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata, Third Edition. College Station, TX: Stata Press. [Extensively revised; software completely rewritten.]
2014 Jill D. Weinberg*, Jeremy Freese, and David McElhattan*. “Comparing Data Characteristics and Results of an Online Factorial Survey Between a Population-Based and a Crowdsource-Recruited Sample.” Sociological Science 1:292-310.
2014 Ethan Fosse*, Jeremy Freese, and Neil Gross. “Political Liberalism and Graduate School Attendance: A Longitudinal Analysis.” In Neil Gross and Solon Simmons, Professors and their Politics.
2013 Amelia R. Branigan*, Kenneth J. McCallum*, and Jeremy Freese. “Variation in the Heritability of Educational Attainment: An International Meta-Analysis.” Social Forces 92(1): 109-140.
2013 Jason D. Boardman, Jonathan Daw, and Jeremy Freese. “Defining the Environment in Gene-Environment Research: Lessons from Social Epidemiology.” American Journal of Public Health 103.S1: S64-S72.
2013 Amelia R. Branigan*, Jeremy Freese, Assaf Patir*, Thomas W. McDade, Kiang Liu, and Catarina I. Keefe. “Skin Color, Sex, and Educational Attainment in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Social Science Research 42(6): 1659-1674.
2013 Jeremy Freese. “No Revolution? Don’t Blame Evolution.” (Featured review essay) Contemporary Sociology 42(2): 190-193.
2013 Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dana Garbarski, Jeremy Freese, and Douglas W. Maynard. “An Interactional Model of the Call for Survey Participation: Actions and Reactions in the Survey Recruitment Call.” Public Opinion Quarterly 77(1): 323-351.
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2013 Jeremy Freese and J. Alex Kevern*. “Types of Causes.” Pp 27-44 in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook for Causal Analysis for Social Research.
2012 Chabris, Christopher, Benjamin M. Hebert, Daniel J. Benjamin, Jonathan Beauchamp, David Cesarini, Magnus Johanneson, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Paul Lichtenstein, Craig S. Atwood, Jeremy Freese, Taissa S. Hauser, Robert M. Hauser, Nicholas Christakis, David I. Laibson. “Most Published Genetic Associations with General Cognitive Ability are False Positives.” Psychological Science 23(11): 1314-1323.
2012 Maynard, Douglas W. and Jeremy Freese. “Good News, Bad News, and Affect: Practical and Temporal ‘Emotion Work’ in Everyday Life.” Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds). Pp. 92-112 in Emotion in Interaction Cambridge University Press.
2012 Daniel J. Benjamin, David Cesarini, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward L. Glaeser, David I. Laibson, Vilmundur Guðnason, Tamara B. Harris, Lenore J. Launer, Shaun Purcell, Albert Vernon Smith, Magnus Johannesson, Patrik K.E. Magnusson,Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Nicholas A. Christakis, Craig S. Atwood, Benjamin Hebert, Jeremy Freese, Robert M. Hauser,Taissa S. Hauser, Alexander Grankvist, Christina M. Hultman, Paul Lichtenstein “The promises and pitfalls of genoeconomics.” Annual Review of Economics 4: 627- 662.
2012 Jeremy Freese and Amelia R. Branigan*. “Cognitive Ability and Survey Nonresponse: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies in the United States.” EurAmerica 42(2): 221-248.
2011 Jeremy Freese. “Integrating Genomic Data and Social Science: Challenges and Opportunities.” Politics and the Life Sciences 30(2): 88-92.
2011 Maynard, Douglas W., Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Jeremy Freese. “Improving Response Rates in Telephone Interviews.” Charles Antaki (ed.) Applied Conversation Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan.
2011 Jeremy Freese. “Sociology’s Contribution to Understanding the Consequences of Medical Innovations.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52: 282-284.
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2011 Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk*, Jeremy Freese, Robert M. Hauser. “Using Anchoring Vignettes to Assess Group Differences in General Self- Rated Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52: 246-261.
2011 Jeremy Freese and Karen Lutfey. “Fundamental Causality: Challenges of an Animating Concept for Medical Sociology.” Pp. 67-84 in Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane McLeod, and Ann Rogers (eds.) The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing.
2010 Douglas W. Maynard, Jeremy Freese, Nora Cate Schaeffer. “Calling for Participation: Requests, Blocking Moves, and Rational (Inter)action in Survey Introductions.” American Sociological Review 75(5):791-814.
2010 Lei Jin, Felix Elwert, Jeremy Freese, and Nicholas Christakis. “Preliminary Evidence Regarding the Hypothesis that the Sex Ratio at Sexual Maturity May Affect Longevity in Men.” Demography 47: 579-86.
2010 Sara Shostak and Jeremy Freese. "Gene-Environment Interaction and Medical Sociology." Pp. 418-434 Chloe E. Bird, Allen M. Fremont, Stefan Timmermans, and Peter Conrad (eds.) Handbook of Medical Sociology, 6th Edition.
2010 Jeremy Freese and Eszter Hargittai. “Cache Me If You Can.” Contexts 9(4): 66-68.
2009 Jeremy Freese and Sara Shostak. “Genetics and Social Inquiry.” Annual Review of Sociology 35: 107-128.
2009 Jeremy Freese. “Secondary Analysis of Large Social Surveys.” Pp. 238-261 in Eszter Hargittai (ed.) Research Confidential. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
2009 Jeremy Freese. “Preferences and the Explanation of Social Behavior.” Pp. 94-114 in Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman, Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology.
2009 Sara Shostak, Jeremy Freese, Bruce G. Link, and Jo C. Phelan. “The Politics of the Gene: Social Status and Beliefs about Genetics for Individual Outcomes.” Social Psychology Quarterly 72: 79-93.
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2009 Jeremy Freese. “The Limits of Evolutionary Psychology and The Open-Endedness of Social Possibility.” Sociologia 3.
2009 Jeremy Freese. “Blogs and the Attention Market for Public Intellectuals.” Society 46:45-48.
2008 Jeremy Freese. “Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes.” American Journal of Sociology 114: S1-S35.
2008 Jeremy Freese. “The Problem of Predictive Promiscuity in Deductive Applications of Evolutionary Reasoning to Intergenerational Transfers: Three Cautionary Tales.” Pp. 45-78 in Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne Bianchi, and Judith A. Seltzer (eds.) Caring and Exchange Within and Across Generations. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
2008 Wendy Cadge, Jeremy Freese, and Nicholas Christakis. “The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview.” Southern Medical Journal 101(6): 626-630.
2007 Jeremy Freese. “Overcoming Objections to Open-Source Social Science.” Sociological Methods and Research 36: 220-226.
2007 Jeremy Freese. “Replication Standards for Quantitative Social Science: Why not Sociology?” Sociological Methods and Research 36:153-172. (Reprinted in W. Paul Vogt [ed.], Data Collection, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods.)
2007 Jeremy Freese and James D. Montgomery. “The Devil Made Her Do It?: Evaluating Risk Preference as an Explanation of Sex Differences in Religiousness.” Pp. 187-230 in Shelley J. Correll (ed.), Advances in Group Processes: The Social Psychology of Gender. Oxford: Elsevier.
2007 Jeremy Freese, Sheri Meland*, and William Irwin*. “Expressions of Positive Emotion in Photographs, Personality, and Later-Life Marital and Health Outcomes.” Journal of Research on Personality. 41:488- 497.
2007 Karen Lutfey and Jeremy Freese. “Ambiguities of Chronic Illness Management and Challenges to the Medical Error Paradigm.” Social Science and Medicine 64: 314-325.
2006 Kathryn E. Flynn*, Maureen Smith, and Jeremy Freese. “When Do Older Adults Turn to the Internet for Health Information? Findings
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from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 21:1295-301.
2006 Kristen W. Springer*, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeremy Freese. “Bad News Indeed for Ryff’s Six-Factor Model of Well-Being.” Social Science Research 35: 1120-1131.
2006 Jeremy Freese, Salvador Rivas, and Eszter Hargittai. “Cognitive Ability and Internet Use among Older Adults.” Poetics. 34: 236-249.
2006 Jeremy Freese. “The Analysis of Variance and the Social Complexities of Genetic Causation.” International Journal of Epidemiology 35: 534-536.
2005 J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese. Regression Models for Categorical Outcomes using Stata, Second Edition. College Station, TX: Stata Press.
2005 Karen Lutfey and Jeremy Freese. “Toward Some Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Treatment Design for Diabetes” American Journal of Sociology 110:1326-1372. (An 2013 abridgement and light revision of this paper appears in David Grusky (ed.) Social Stratification [Fourth edition, Westview Press]).
2004 Jeremy Freese. “Risk Preferences and Gender Differences in Religiousness: Evidence from the World Values Survey.” Review of Religious Research 46: 88-91.
2003 Jason Schnittker, Jeremy Freese, and Brian Powell. “Who are Feminists and What Do They Believe?: The Role of Generations.” American Sociological Review 68: 607-622.
2003 Jeremy Freese, Jui-Chung Allen Li*, and Lisa Wade*. “The Potential Relevances of Biology to Social Inquiry.” Annual Review of Sociology 29: 233-56.
2003 Dean Krahn, Jeremy Freese, Robert M. Hauser, Kristen Barry, Brian Goodman. “Alcohol Use and Cognition at Mid-Life: The Importance of Adjusting for Baseline Cognitive Ability and Educational Attainment.” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 27: 1162-66.
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2003 Jeremy Freese and Brian Powell. “Tilting at Twindmills: Rethinking Sociological Responses to Behavioral Genetics.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44: 130-135.
2003 Jeremy Freese. “Imaginary Imaginary Friends?: Television Viewing and Satisfaction with Friendships.” Evolution and Human Behavior 24: 65-69.
2002 Jeremy Freese and Sheri Meland*. “Seven Tenths Incorrect: Heterogeneity and Change in the Waist-to-Hip Ratios of Playboy Centerfold Models and Miss America Winners.” Journal of Sex Research 39: 133-138.
2002 Jeremy Freese. “Evolutionary Psychology: ‘New Science’ or the Same Old Storytelling?” Contexts 1(3) 44-49.
2001 J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese. Regression Models for Categorical Outcomes using Stata. College Station, TX: Stata Press. Revised first edition, Stata Press, 2003.
2001 Jeremy Freese and Brian Powell. “Making Love out of Nothing at All?: Null Findings and the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis.” American Journal of Sociology 106: 1776-1789.
2000 Jason Schnittker, Jeremy Freese, and Brian Powell. “Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor: Black-White Differences in Beliefs about the Causes and Appropriate Treatment of Mental Illness.” Social Forces 72: 1101-1132.
1999 Jeremy Freese and Brian Powell. “Sociobiology, Status, and Parental Investment in Sons and Daughters: Testing the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis” American Journal of Sociology 106: 1704-43.
1999 Jeremy Freese, Brian Powell, and Lala Carr Steelman. “Rebel Without a Cause or Effect: Birth Order and Social Attitudes.” American Sociological Review 64: 207-31.
1999 Jeremy Freese, Julie Artis, and Brian Powell. “Now I Know My ABC’s: Demythologizing Grade Inflation.” Pages 185-94 in The Social Worlds of Higher Education, Bernice A. Pescosolido and Ron Aminzade (eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
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1998 Jeremy Freese and Douglas W. Maynard. “Prosodic Features of Bad News and Good News in Conversation.” Language in Society 27: 195-219.
WORKING PAPERS
(Only includes papers that have not yet otherwise been published.)
2015 Jeremy Freese and David Peterson. “The Emergence of Forensic Objectivity.” Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, Northwestern University (WP-15-10)
2014 Kevin Mullinix*, James Druckman, and Jeremy Freese. “The Generalizability of Survey Experiments” Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, Northwestern University (WP-14-19)
2014 J. Alex Kevern* and Jeremy Freese. “Differential Fertility as a Determinant of Trends in Public Opinion about Abortion in the United States.” Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, Northwestern University (WP-14-11)
2007 James A. Yonker*, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeremy Freese. The Dimensionality and Measurement of Cognitive Functioning at Age 65 in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.
2006 Jeremy Freese and Salvador Rivas. Cognition, Personality, and Individual Response to Technological Change: The Case of Internet Adoption.
BOOK REVIEWS
2014 Jeremy Freese. Review of Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood’s Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. American Journal of Sociology 119:1478-1480.
2006 Jeremy Freese. Review of Paul Kamolnick’s The Just Meritocracy: IQ, Class Mobility, and American Social Policy. Contemporary Sociology 35: 250-252.
2006 Jeremy Freese. Review of Gerhard Lenski’s Ecological-Evolutionary Theory: Principles and Applications. Social Forces.
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2003 Jeremy Freese. Review of Jonathan Marks’s What It Means To Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes. Social Forces 81: 1054-1056.
2003 Jeremy Freese. “Between a Rock and a Blank Slate.” Review of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate. Contexts 2 (2): 63-65.
2002 Jeremy Freese. Review of Lawrence Hamilton’s Statistics with Stata. Stata Journal 2: 223-225.
2002 Jeremy Freese. Review of Stephen Sanderson’s The Evolution of Human Sociality Contemporary Sociology 31: 358-59.
2001 Jeremy Freese. Review of Leon E. Trachtman and Robert Perrucci’s Science Under Siege: Interest Groups and the Science Wars. Contemporary Sociology 30: 266-67.
1998 Jeremy Freese and Brian Powell. Review of Frank J. Sulloway’s Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Contemporary Sociology 27: 57-58.
1996 Jeremy Freese. Review of Howard Nathaniel Boughey’s Ordinary Social Occasions, Sandcastles, and Structural Reproduction: A Sociology of Everybody’s Social Life. American Journal of Sociology, 102: 272-73.
SOFTWARE
(Only includes software published with stand-alone articles.)
2002 Jeremy Freese. “Least likely observations in regression models for categorical outcomes” Stata Journal 2(3): 227-231.
2001 J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese. “Predicted Probabilities for Count Models.” Stata Journal 1(1): 51-57.
2000 Jeremy Freese and J. Scott Long. “Tests for Multinomial Logit.” Stata Technical Bulletin 58: 19-25.
2000 J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese. “Listing and Interpreting Transformed Coefficients for Certain Regression Models.” Stata Technical Bulletin 57: 27-34.
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2000 J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese. “Scalar Measures of Fit for Regression Models.” Stata Technical Bulletin 56: 34-40.
RESEARCH SUPPORT
2015-2019 Principal Investigator (with Stephen Morgan, Michael Hout, Peter Marsden, Tom W. Smith, and Michael Davern) “A Proposal To Continue ‘A National Data Program for the Social Sciences’” National Science Foundation. [This grant will provide the primary funds for fielding the 2016 and 2018 General Social Surveys]
2013-2018 Principal Investigator (with Robert M. Hauser and Pamela Herd). “Developing a Longitudinal Resource for Genetic Research in Behavioral and Health Sciences.” National Institutes of Health (R01 AG041868) $5,100,000
2012-2015 Principal Investigator (with James Druckman) “Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences.” National Science Foundation (#1227179). $2,787,617.
2010-2011 Principal Investigator (with Laura Beth Nielsen and Jill S. Weinberg). “Contested Constructions of Discrimination.” American Bar Foundation. $288,720.
2009-2012 Principal Investigator (with Penny S. Visser). “Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences.” National Science Foundation (#0818839). $2,323,508.
2006-2008 Co-investigator (with Douglas W. Maynard [PI] and Nora Cate Schaeffer). “Recruiting Respondents to the Survey Interview.” National Science Foundation. $360,000.
2002-2007 Co-investigator. “The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: As We Age.” R01 (R01-AG09775), National Insitute on Aging. $9,800,000.
2002-2007 Co-investigator. “The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: Tracking the Life Course” (P01-AG21079-01). $8,220,000.
2002-2007 Co-investigator (with Robert M. Hauser). “Social and Behavioral Contexts of the Aging Mind.” (project of P01-AG21079-01) $1,076,000.
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2002-2003 “Adolescent facial attractiveness and later life outcomes: Using yearbook data and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study” University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Competition. Amount awarded: $17,072
2001-2002 “The Darwin Problem: Confronting the Potential Relevance of Our Evolutionary Past for Understanding Social Life Today” University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Competition. $23,796
2001-2007 Vilas Young Investigator Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison. $50,000.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013-4 Chair, Section on Social Psychology, American Sociological Association
2011 Invited banquet speaker, Sociological Research Association
2010 Elected as Chair, Section on Evolution, Biology, and Society, American Sociological Association
2010 Invited Member, Sociological Research Association
2005-7 Selected as Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Harvard University
2005 William H. Sewell Memorial Lecturer, University of Wisconsin- Madison
2004 Co-winner, Special Competition for Projects for Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (with Devah Pager)
2003 Robert and Clarissa Rees Memorial Alumni Lecturer, University of Iowa
2003 Co-winner, Special Competition for Projects for Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (with Devah Pager)
2001 American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Award
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2001 Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award for the Most Outstanding Dissertation, Indiana University
2001 Outstanding Young Investigator Award, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000 Dissertation Grant-in-Aid, Indiana University
1999-2000 Predoctoral Fellowship, Training Program in Social Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health
1999 Alfred Lindesmith-Elizabeth Ione Mullins Fellowship for Excellence in Research, Department of Sociology, Indiana University
1999 Karl F. Schuessler Award for Graduate Research in Sociology, Indiana University (with Jason Schnittker)
1998 Outstanding Graduate Paper, National Opinion Research Center/General Social Survey Graduate Paper Competition (with Jason Schnittker)
1998 Outstanding Graduate Paper, Division of Health, Health Policy, and Health Services of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (with Jason Schnittker)
1998-99 Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Indiana University
1997 Clifford C. Clogg Award, Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research
1996 Esther L. Kinsley Master’s Thesis Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University
1996 Honors on Ph.D. qualifying examination in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
1996 College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Indiana University
1994-98 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1994 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education (declined)
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1993-94 Fellowship, Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences
1993 E. R. Johnson Prize for Highest Grade Point Average by a Graduating Senior in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Iowa
1992-93 Stevens Scholarship for Most Outstanding Member, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Iowa
1992 Manford Kuhn Award, Most Outstanding Undergraduate Paper, Annual Meetings of the Iowa Sociological Association
1989-93 National Merit Scholarship
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate/predominantly undergraduate courses:
Sport, Competition, and Society, Northwestern University Individual and Society, Northwestern University Introductory Social Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Statistics for Sociology, Indiana University Society and the Individual, Indiana University
Graduate courses:
Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis, Northwestern University Genetics and Social Inquiry, Northwestern University Quantitative Analysis of Social Data, Northwestern University Research Methods in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Categorical Analysis, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan Advanced Categorical Data Analysis, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan
PROFESSIONAL, UNIVERSITY, AND NATIONAL SERVICE
2014-18 Panelist, Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
2014-present Editorial Board, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
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2015 Award Committee, Lazarsfeld Award, Section on Methodology, American Sociological Association
2014 Chair, Subcommittee on Replication, Workshop on Reporting Guidelines and Open Science, Center for Open Science
2013-14 Chair, Section on Social Psychology, American Sociological Association
2012-14 Panelist, National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Measurement of Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion. (Committee Report: National Research Council. 2014. Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion: Measuring Dimensions of Social Capital to Inform Policy. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.)
2012 Program Committee, European Science Foundation for Strategic Workshop, “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Understanding Collaboration Between the Life Sciences and the Social Sciences.”
2010-11 Chair, Section on Evolution, Biology, and Society, American Sociological Association
2010 Invited Participant, National Science Foundation advisory workshop for Genes, Cognition, and Social Behavior
2009-12 Publications Committee, American Sociological Association
2009-10 Committee for Lazarsfeld, Goodman, and graduate student paper competitions, American Sociological Association section on Methodology.
2009-10 Council, Section on Methodology, American Sociological Association
2008-15 General Social Survey Board of Overseers (2011-15, Chair, Long- Range Planning Committee)
2008-10 National Science Foundation, Panel on Measurement, Methodology, and Statistics, Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
2008-11 Executive Committee, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
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2009 Chair, Nominations Committee, Section on Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association
2008-9 Research Subcommittee, Research and Administrative Computing Committee, Northwestern University
2008-9 Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly
2007 Organizer, Symposium on the Social Psychology of Work and Retirement. Annual Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco
2007 Presider, Thematic Session on Aging and Life Course, American Sociological Association Meetings
2007-10 Council member, Section on Social Psychology, American Sociological Association
2006 Presider, Session on Health Policy, Eastern Sociological Society Meetings
2005 Discussant, Session on Psychological Health and the Life Course, Annual Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America
2005-7 Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2004-5 Faculty Senate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2005-7 Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
2005 Presider and Discussant, Session on Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association
2005 Organizer and Presider, Sessions on Biosocial Interaction, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association
2004-7 Consulting editor, American Journal of Sociology
2004 Presider, Session on Biosocial Interaction, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association
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2003 Hacker-Mullins Paper Award Committee, Section on Science Knowledge and Technology, American Sociological Association
2002-5 Organizer, Social Psychology and Microsociology area, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2002-5 Web Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison
2002 Organizer, Regular Sessions on Social Theory, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association
2002 Robert K. Merton Book Award Selection Committee, Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology
2002 Cooley-Mead Award Selection Committee, Section on Social Psychology, American Sociological Association
2001-2 Social Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2001-4 Publicity Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998-present Reviewer, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociology of Education, American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Public Policy and Management, Sociological Science, Evolution and Human Behavior, Acta Sociologica, The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication, Sociology of Religion, Human Nature, National Science Foundation
1997-present Member, American Sociological Association Current section memberships: Evolution, Biology, and Society Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Medical Sociology Methodology Social Psychology
1997-99 Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, Indiana University
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1996-97 President, Sociology Graduate Student Association, Indiana University
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