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Sociology

Graduate

3551 Cullen Boulevard, Room 450
Houston, TX 77204-3012
Phone: 713.743.3940
Fax: 713.743.3943

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Student Publications and Presentations

Publications

  • Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, Angelica Lopez, and Dylan Simburger. 2021. “Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Infection Rates:  A Spatial Analysis of U.S. Cities.” Sociological Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211041967

  • Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, and Lindsay Oncken. 2020. “Racial Residential Segregation, Perceived Neighborhood Conditions, and Self-Rated Health: The Case of Houston, Texas.” Sociological Forum 35(2): 393-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12587

  • Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, and Dylan Simburger. 2021. “Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and Poor Self-Rated Health: The Moderating Role of Immigration.” Race and Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-021-09345-0

  • Baumle, Amanda K. and Ben Dreon. 2019. “The Demography of Sexuality.” In Handbook of Population, Second Edition. Eds. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Michael Micklin. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
  • Cottingham, Michael, Mary Hums, Michael Jeffress, Don Lee, and Hannah Richards. 2018. “Women of power soccer: exploring disability and gender in the first competitive team sport for powerchair users.” Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2017.1421174
  • Haltom, Trenton M. and Meredith G.F. Worthen. 2014. “Male Ballet Dancers and Their Performances of Heteromasculinity.” Journal of College Student Development 55(8):757-778.
  • Purdum, Carlee, Felicia Henry, Sloan Rucker, Darien Alexander Williams, Richard Thomas, Benika Dixon, and Fayola Jacobs. 2021. “No Justice, No Resilience: Prison Abolition as Disaster Mitigation in an Era of Climate Change.” Environmental Justice.  https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0020

Presentations

  • Adeoye, Oluwafunke,  Sarah Elago, Khaled Emam, Sloan Rucker, and Emilie Weski. 2020. “Reimagining the Relationship between Youth and the Law.” Presented at the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development, Virtual Meeting.

  • Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, Angelica Lopez, and Dylan Simburger. 2021. “Racial Residential Segregation is the Structural Linchpin of Racial Inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates in the Urban United States.” Accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 6-10, Virtual Meeting.

  • Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, and Dylan Simburger. 2020. “Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation, Poor Health Outcomes, and the Moderating Role of Immigration.” Paper presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 8-11, Virtual Meeting.

  • Baumle, Amanda K., and Ben Dreon. 2017. “The Demography of Sexuality: Queering Demographic Research, Theory and Methods.” Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, Montreal, Canada.

  • Baumle, Amanda K., and Ben Dreon. 2017. “The Demography of Sexuality: Queering Demographic Research, Theory and Methods.” Paper presented at the 2017 Southwestern Sociological Association Conference, April 12-15, 2017, Austin, TX.

  • Castillo, Sara. 2018. “The Effectiveness of Female Political Leadership Programs on Political Involvement.” Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 12, Philadelphia, PA.

  • Castillo, Sara. 2018. “The Influence of Non-Racial Categories on Race Labeling Decisions of Multiracial Individuals.” Paper presented at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, October 11-13, Norfolk, VA.

  • Jacobs, Fayola, J. Carlee Purdum, Sloan Rucker, Richard Thomas, and Darien Alexander Williams. 2020. “No Justice No Resilience.”  Presented at the Natural Hazards Workshop, Virtual Meeting.

  • Knight, Hannah. 2018. “How Race and Gender Impact Occupation Outcomes: A study of NCAA Division 1 Women’s Basketball Coaches.” Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, Philadelphia, PA. 

  • Livesey, Laura. 2018. “Capitalizing on Sex: Changing Amounts of Sex-based Content in Modern Women’s Magazines.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association’s Media Sociology Preconference, August 9, Philadelphia, PA.

  • Livesey, Laura. 2018. “Rules, Rules, Rules: Bureaucratic Controls and Exotic Dancers.” Presented at the University of Houston-Downtown 11th Annual Gender Conference, April 4, Houston, TX.

  • Lopez, Angelica. 2020. “Likelihood of Using Mental Health Resources Among Asians and Latinos in the U.S.: An Acculturative Approach.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 8-11, Virtual Meeting.

  • Mitchell, Connor. 2021. "Remote Learning and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants." Accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 6-10, Virtual Meeting.

  • Salinas, Suezen. 2018. “What Does Exhaustion Look Like in Graduate Students.” Poster and Oral presentation given at the 2018 International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Evry, France.

  • Salinas, Suezen. 2017. “Best Programs for Student Parents across Colleges in the Southern Region of the US.” Presented at the Workshop on Student Parent Success at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, Montreal, Canada.

  • Salinas, Suezen. 2017. “Can I Pee in Peace?” Poster presented at the 2017 Southwestern Sociological Association Conference, April 12-15, Austin, TX.

  • Simburger, Dylan. 2019. “Asian Americans, Community Integration, and Socioeconomic Attainment.” Poster presented at the Graduate Research Showcase, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

  • Simburger, Dylan. 2019. “The Moderating Role of Community-Level Factors of Assimilation on First- and Second-Generation Asian Americans’ Socioeconomic Attainment.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 10-13, New York, NY.