Curriculum Vitae

Academic Appointments

2024-         Professor, Sociology, Purdue University

2019- Core Faculty, Advanced Methods at Purdue, Purdue University

2016-  Faculty Associate, Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University

2016-  Faculty Affiliate, Purdue Policy Research Institute, Purdue University

2018-24   Associate Professor, Sociology, Purdue University

2018-24  Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, Purdue University

2016-18  Assistant Professor, Sociology, Purdue University

2013-16  Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Alabama-Birmingham

2012-13  Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Education

2012    PhD, Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 

2011    MS, Statistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 

1998    MA, Sociology, University of Washington 

1996    BA, Sociology, Wake Forest University

Research

Note: * indicates current or former graduate student collaborator.

Books

1. Roos, J. Micah and Shawn Bauldry (equal authors). 2021. Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Sauerteig-Rolston, Madison R.*, Patricia A. Thomas, Shawn Bauldry, Elizabeth A. Richards, and Kenneth F. Ferraro. forthcoming. Are Relationship Patterns Between Parents and Adult Children Associated With ADL Disability Risk in Later Life? Journal of Aging and Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/089826432513427

2. Ferraro, Kenneth F., Madison R. Sauerteig-Rolston,* Shawn Bauldry, and Patricia A. Thomas. forthcoming. Disparities in the life course origins of functional loss in adulthood: Is accumulated stress a threat to dual functionality? Journal of Health and Social Behavior DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241293191

3. Bauldry, Shawn, Patricia A. Thomas, Madison R. Sauerteig-Rolston,* and Kenneth F. Ferraro. forthcoming. Educational Inequalities in Dual-Function Life Expectancy. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae072

4. Wolfe, Joseph D., Mieke Beth Thomeer, and Shawn Bauldry. 2024.Twentieth Century Changes in the Educational Costs of Adolescent Childbearing. American Journal of Sociology 129:1763-1791. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/729819

5. Suitor, J. Jill, Megan Gilligan, Robert Frase*, Destiny Ogle*, Catherine Stepniak*, and Shawn Bauldry. 2024. How Gender Shapes Sibling Tension in Adulthood Following Parental Death. Journal of Marriage and Family. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12951

6. Stryker, Robin, Bethany Anne Conway, Shawn Bauldry, and Vasundhara Kaul.* 2024. Emotional Markers of Disrespect: A Fourth Dimension of Political Incivility? Communication Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502231221926

7. Ferraro, Kenneth F., Shawn Bauldry, Madison R. Sauerteig-Rolston,* Patricia A. Thomas. 2023. Dual Functionality in Later Life. The Gerontologist 63:1110-1116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad031

8. Bauldry, Shawn, Patricia A. Thomas, Madison R. Sauerteig-Rolston,* and Kenneth F. Ferraro. 2023. Racial-ethnic Disparities in Dual-function Life Expectancy. Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 78:1269-1275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glad059

9. Frase, Robert,* Shawn Bauldry, J. Jill Suitor, and Megan Gilligan. 2023. Adult Children’s Education and Mothers’ Psychological Well-Being: Do Adult Children’s Problems Mediate this Relationship?  Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 78:496-505. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac147

10. Wang, Haowei, Emily Smith-Greenaway, Shawn Bauldry, Rachel Margolis, and Ashton Verdery. 2022. Mourning a Pandemic: The Differential Impact of COVID-19 Widowhood on Mental Health. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 77:2306-2316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac085

11. Bauldry, Shawn and Kevin Stainback. 2022. Media Consumption and Psychological Distress Among Older Adults. PLOS One 17(12):e0279587. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279587

12. Cockerham, William C., Shawn Bauldry, and Mario Sims. 2022. Obesity-Related Health Lifestyles of Late-Middle Age Black Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 1S1:S47-S55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.02.014

13. Stryker, Robin, Bethany Anne Conway, Shawn Bauldry, and Vasundhara Kaul.* 2022. Replication Note: What is Political Incivility? Human Communication Research 48:168-177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqab017

14. Frase, Robert* and Shawn Bauldry. 2022. The Expansion of Higher Education and Variation in the Education-Health Gradient in the United States. Social Currents 9:70-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23294965211021645

15. Parcel, Toby L., Shawn Bauldry, Roslyn A. Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, Virginia P. Riel, and Madison Boden. 2022. Using Opinion Polling Data to Replicate Non-Experimental Quantitative Results Across Time and Space: An Exploration of Attitudes Surrounding School Desegregation and Resegregation Policies. American Behavioral Scientist 66:691-716. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211033285

16. Sauerteig, Madison,* Kenneth Ferraro, and Shawn Bauldry. 2022. Life Course Stressors and Functional Limitations in Later Life among White, Black, and Hispanic Adults: Deleterious, Hardening, or Benign? Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 77:249-259. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab066

17. Xu, Jun, Shawn Bauldry, and Andrew S. Fullerton. 2022. Bayesian Approaches to Assessing the Parallel Lines Assumption in Cumulative Ordered Logit Models. Sociological Methods & Research 51:667-698. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119882461

18. Simoni, Zachary* and Shawn Bauldry. 2020. Moving During Adolescence and Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Social Support. Youth & Society 52:639-660. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118x18757149

19. Cockerham, William, Joseph D. Wolfe, and Shawn Bauldry. 2020. Health Lifestyles in Late Middle Age. Research on Aging 42:34-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027519884760

20. Lu, Yun, Jong Hyun Jung, and Shawn Bauldry. 2019. Explaining the Cross-National Variation in the Relationship Between Religious Organization Membership and Civic Organization Participation. Social Science Research 83:1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.06.001

21. Peng, Siyun,* Shawn Bauldry, Megan Gilligan, and J. Jill Suitor. 2019. Older Mother's Health and Adult Children's Education: Conceptualization of Adult Children's Education and Mother-Child Relationships. Social Science & Medicine-Population Health 7:100390. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100390

22. Bauldry, Shawn, Ju Xun, and Andrew S. Fullerton. 2018. Gencrm: A New Command for Generalized Continuation Ratio Models. Stata Journal 18:924-936. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x1801800410

23. Bauldry, Shawn and Kenneth A. Bollen. 2018. Nonlinear Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Models. Sociological Methodology 48:269-302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175018789441

24. Wolfe, Joseph D., Shawn Bauldry, Eliza K. Pavalko, and Melissa A. Hardy. 2018. Multigenerational Socioeconomic Attainments and Mortality Among Older Men: An Adjacent Generations Approach. Demographic Research 39:719-752 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2018.39.26

25. Wolfe, Joseph D., Shawn Bauldry, Melissa A. Hardy, and Eliza K. Pavalko. 2018. Multigenerational Attainments, Race, and Mortality Risk among Silent Generation Women. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 59:335-351. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146518784596

26. Feld, Scott L. and Shawn Bauldry. 2018. Separate, Unequal, and Uncorrelated: Why We Need to Consider Race Specific Homicide Rates in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Socius 4:1-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023118773959

27. Ejem, Deborah,* Shawn Bauldry, Maria A. Bakitas, and Patricia Drentea. 2018. Caregiver Burden, Care Recipient Depressive Symptomology and Social Exchange: Does Race Matter? Journal of Palliative Care 33:100-108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0825859718758120

28. Verdery, Ashton M., Jacob C. Fisher, Nalyn Siripong, Kahina Abdesselam, and Shawn Bauldry. 2017.  New Survey Questions and Estimators for Network Clustering with Respondent-Driven Sampling Data. Sociological Methodology 47:274-306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175017716489

29. Ryberg, Renee,* Shawn Bauldry, Michael Schultz, Annekatrin Steinhoff, and Michael Shanahan. 2017. Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Germany. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 46:2181-2193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0704-6

30. Williams, Redford B., George D. Bishop, Brett C. Haberstick, Andrew Smolen, Beverly H. Brummett, Ilene C. Siegler, Michael A. Babyak, E Shyong Tai, Jeannette Lee, Yik Ying Teo, Shiwei Cai, Xiaodon Zhang, Maureen Tan, Edmund Chan, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Eric A. Whitsel, Shawn Bauldry, Kathleen Mullan Harris. 2017. Population Differences in Associations of Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism (5HTTLPR) Di- and Triallelic Genotypes with Blood Pressure and Hypertension Prevalence. American Heart Journal 185:110-122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2016.12.013

31. Bauldry, Shawn and Magdalena Szaflarski. 2017. Immigrant-Based Disparities in Mental Health Care Utilization. Socius 3:1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023116685718

32. Cockerham, William C., Shawn Bauldry, Bryant Hamby,* James Shikany, and Sejong Bae. 2017. A Comparison of Black and White Racial Differences in Health Lifestyles and Cardiovascular Disease. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 52:S56-S62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2016.09.019

33. Bauldry, Shawn and Kenneth A. Bollen. 2016. tetrad: A Set of Stata Commands for Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis. Structural Equation Modeling 23:921-930. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2016.1202771 

34. Freeman, Jason Alan,* Shawn Bauldry, Vanessa Volpe,* Michael Shanahan, and Lilly Shanahan. 2016. Sex Differences in Associations Between Subjective Social Status and C-Reactive Protein in Young Adults. Psychosomatic Medicine 78:542-551. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000000309

35. Szaflarski, Magdalena, Lisa A. Cubbins, Shawn Bauldry, Karthikeyan Meganathan, Daniel H. Klepinger, and Eugene Somoza. 2016. Major Depressive Disorder and Dysthymia at the Intersection of Nativity and Racial-Ethnic Origins. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 18:749-763. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0293-y 

36. Bauldry, Shawn, Michael J. Shanahan, Rosemary Russo,* Brent W. Roberts, and Rodica Damian. 2016. Attractiveness Compensates for Low Status Background in the Prediction of Educational Attainment. PLOS One 11(6):e0155313. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155313 

37. Bauldry, Shawn, Michael J. Shanahan, Ross Macmillan, Richard A. Miech, Jason D. Boardman, Danielle Dean, and Veronica Cole. 2016. Parental and Adolescent Health Behaviors and Pathways to Adulthood. Social Science Research 58:227-242. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.02.006 

38. Verdery, Ashton, Ted Mouw, Shawn Bauldry, Peter Mucha. 2015. Network Structure and Biased Variance Estimation in Respondent Driven Sampling. PLOS One 10(12):e0145296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145296 

39. Bauldry, Shawn. 2015. Variation in the Protective Effect of Higher Education Against Depression. Society and Mental Health 5:145-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2156869314564399 

40. Miech, Richard, Michael J. Shanahan, Jason Boardman, and Shawn Bauldry. 2015. The Sequencing of a College Degree During the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Obesity. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 56:281-295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146515581618 

41. Bauldry, Shawn, Kenneth A. Bollen, and Linda S. Adair. 2015. Evaluating Measurement Error in Readings of Blood Pressure for Adolescents and Young Adults. Blood Pressure 24:96-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/08037051.2014.986952 

42. Wolfe, Joseph D. and Shawn Bauldry. 2014. Collecting and Organizing Stata Graphs. Stata Journal 14:965-974. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x1401400415 

43. Shanahan, Michael J., Shawn Bauldry, Brent W. Roberts, Ross Macmillan, and Rosemary Russo.* 2014. Personality and the Reproduction of Social Class. Social Forces 93:209-240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sou050 

44. Bauldry, Shawn. 2014. Conditional Health-Related Benefits of Higher Education: An Assessment of Compensatory versus Accumulative Mechanisms. Social Science & Medicine 111:94-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.04.005 

45. Bauldry, Shawn. 2014. Miivfind: A Command for Identifying Model-Implied Instrumental Variables for Structural Equation Models in Stata. Stata Journal 14:60-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x1401400105 

46. Bollen, Kenneth A., Stanislav Kolenikov, and Shawn Bauldry. 2014. Generalized Method of Moments – Instrumental Variables Estimators for Latent Variable Models. Psychometrika 79:20-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-013-9335-3 

47. Shanahan, Lilly, Shawn Bauldry, Jason Alan Freeman,* and Carmen L. Bondy.* 2014. Self-Rated Health and C-Reactive Protein in Young Adults. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 36:139-146. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2013.10.020

48. Shanahan, Lilly, Jason Alan Freeman,* and Shawn Bauldry. 2014. Is Very High C-Reactive Protein in Young Adults Associated with Indicators of Chronic Disease Risk? Psychoneuroendocrinology 40:76-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.10.019 

49. Bauldry, Shawn. 2013. Trends in the Research Productivity of Newly Hired Assistant Professors at Research Departments from 2007 to 2012. American Sociologist 44:282-291. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-013-9187-4 

50. Bauldry, Shawn, Michael J. Shanahan, Jason D. Boardman, Richard A. Miech, and Ross Macmillan. 2012. A Life Course Model of Self-Rated Health through Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Social Science & Medicine 75:1311-1320. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.05.017 

51. Bollen, Kenneth A. and Shawn Bauldry. 2011. Three Cs in Measurement Models: Causal Indicators, Composite Indicators, and Covariates. Psychological Methods 16:265-284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024448

52. Bollen, Kenneth A. and Shawn Bauldry. 2010. Model Identification and Computer Algebra. Sociological Methods & Research 39:127-156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124110366238 

53. Bollen, Kenneth A. and Shawn Bauldry. 2010. A Note on Algebraic Solutions to Identification. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 34:136-145. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222500903221571 

54. Burstein, Paul, Shawn Bauldry, and Paul Froese. 2005. Bill Sponsorship and Congressional Support for Policy Proposals. Political Research Quarterly 58:295-302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3595630

Chapters, Essays, and Book Reviews

1. An, Weihua and Shawn Bauldry (equal authors). forthcoming. Methodological Advances in Quantitative Social Science: In Celebration of the Social Science Research 50th Anniversary. Social Science Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102843 

2. Wolfe, Joseph D., Shawn Bauldry, and Cindy Cain. 2021. Research Methods in Medical Sociology. Pp 45-61 in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology edited by W. Cockerham. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119633808.ch3 

3. Bauldry, Shawn. 2020. Structural Equation Modeling in SAGE Research Methods edited by P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. Sakshaug, and R. Williams. London: Sage. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036883647 

4. Bauldry, Shawn. 2019. Structural Equation Models in Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging edited by D. Gu and M. E. Dupre. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_566-1 

5. Szaflarski, Magdalena and Shawn Bauldry. 2019. The Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Immigrant and Refugee Mental and Physical Health Status. Pp 173-204 in Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 19: Immigration and Health edited by Reanne Frank. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/s1057-629020190000019009 

6. Szaflarski, Magdalena, Shawn Bauldry, Lisa A. Cubbins, and Karthekeyan Meganathan. 2017. Nativity, Race-Ethnicity, and Dual Diagnosis among US Adults. Pp 171-191 in Health and Health Care Concerns Among Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 35) edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/s0275-495920170000035009 

7. Cockerham, William C., Patricia Drentea, Bryant Hamby,* and Shawn Bauldry. 2017. Changing Patterns of Female Smoking: A Comparison of Workers and Full-Time Homemakers by Class, Race, and Community Type. Pp 279-297 in Health and Health Care Concerns Among Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 35) edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/s0275-495920170000035014 

8. Bauldry, Shawn. 2015. Structural Equation Modeling. Pp 615-620 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., vol. 23 edited by James D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.44055-9 

9. Bollen, Kenneth A. and Shawn Bauldry. 2015. Indicator: Methodology. Pp 750-754 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. edited by James D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.44032-8 

10. Shanahan, Michael J. and Shawn Bauldry. 2011. Improving Environmental Markers in Gene-Environment Research: Insights from Life Course Sociology. Pp. 59-78 in The Dynamic Genome and Mental Health: The Role of Genes and Environments in Development edited by K. Kendler, S. Jaffee, and D. Romer. New York: Oxford University Press.

11. Shanahan, Michael J., Shawn Bauldry, and Jason Alan Freeman. 2010. Beyond Mendel's Ghost. Contexts 9:34-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2010.9.4.34 

12. Bauldry, Shawn. 2009. Review of Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling using SPSS and AMOS by Niels Blunch. American Statistician 63:95.

13. Kiser, Edgar and Shawn Bauldry. 2005. Rational-Choice Theories in Political Sociology. Pp. 172-186 in Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and Mildred Schwartz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511818059.010 

Policy Reports

1. Bauldry, Shawn, Danijela Korom-Djakovic, Wendy S. McClanahan, Jennifer McMaken, and Lauren J. Kotloff. 2009. Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative. Philadelphia, PA: Public/Private Ventures.

2. Bauldry, Shawn. 2006. Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth. Philadelphia, PA: Public/Private Ventures.

3. Bauldry, Shawn and Tracey A. Hartmann. 2004. The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative.  Philadelphia, PA: Public/Private Ventures.

4. McClanahan, Wendy and Shawn Bauldry. 2004. Evaluating Amachi.  Pp. 53-60 in People of Faith Mentoring Children of Promise: A Model Partnership Based on Service and Community. Washington, DC: National Crime Prevention Council.

Grants

1. Role: Co-Investigator. "Childhood Misfortune Among Black, White, and Hispanic Americans." National Institute on Aging, Grant #R01-AG043544-04. PI: Kenneth F. Ferraro. 7.1.22-1.31.24.

2. Role: Principal Investigator. "Evolution of Health Lifestyles Among Older Adults." Center on Aging and the Life Course Faculty Research Development Award. 5.1.20-6.30.21. $10,000.

3. Role: Consultant. "Desegregation and Resegregation: Using Public Polls to Understand Citizen Attitudes." National Science Foundation, Grant #1528559. PI: Toby Parcel. 9.1.17-6.30.19.

4. Role: Consultant. "Multivariate Regression with Respondent-Driven Sampling." National Institutes of Health, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Grant #R03-SH000056-01. PI: Ashton Verdery. 7.1.16-6.30.18.

5. Role: Co-Investigator. "African American Health Lifestyles and Cardiovascular Disease in the Deep South: An Analysis of the Jackson Heart Study." Minority Health Research Center. PI: William Cockerham. 5.1.15-7.31.15. $7,500.

6. Role: Subcontract PI. "Genetic Risk, Pathways to Adulthood and Health Inequalities." National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Grant #R01-HD061622. PI: Michael Shanahan. 10.15.13-5.31.15. $103,266.

Fellowships and Awards

2025 Inducted into Sociological Research Association (Honors Society)

2020 Sociology Department Graduate Mentoring Award

2020 Junior Scholar Award, Southern Sociological Society

2018-23 University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University

2018 Emerging Scholar Paper Award from the Research Committee on Aging of the International Sociological Association

2010 Howard W. Odum Award for Excellence (UNC graduate student award)

2006-07 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Merit Fellowship

Seminar and Conference Presentations

• 2025: Population Association of America (Washington, DC), American Sociological Association (Chicago), Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (Fribourg, CH)

• 2024: European Population Conference (Edinburgh, UK), European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (Antwerp, BE), Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (Colchester, UK)

• 2023: Southern Sociological Society (Myrtle Beach, SC), Population Association of America (New Olreans, LA), StarFlame Statistics (online), American Sociological Association (Philadelphia), Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Science (Baltimore, MD), Society of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (Munich, DE), C-SoDA Research Colloquium (State College, PA), Gerontological Society of America (Tampa, FL), Exploring Population Heterogeneities (Vienna, AT) 

• 2022: Southern Sociological Society (Birmingham, AL), Population Association of America (Atlanta, GA), American Sociological Association (Los Angeles, CA), European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (Bologna, IT), Society for Longitudinal Life Course Studies (Cleveland, OH), Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (Minneapolis, MN), Gerontological Society of America (Indianapolis, IN) 

• 2021: Advancing Health Lifestyles Research Mini-Conference (online), Population Association of America (online), American Sociological Association (online), Society for Longitudinal Life Course Studies (online), Gerontological Society of America (online) 

• 2020: Southern Sociological Society, Population Association of America, American Sociological Association, European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, Society for Longitudinal Life Course Studies * all canceled due to covid

• 2019: Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta, GA), Population Association of America (Austin, TX), It's About Time-Conference on Longitudinal Studies of the Life Course (State College, PA), International Network for Social Network Analysis (Montreal, QC), American Sociological Association (New York, NY), Society for Longitudinal Life Course Studies (Pottsdam, Germany)

• 2018: Midwest Sociological Society (Minneapolis, MN), Human Development and Family Studies colloquium (West Lafayette, IN), Advanced Methods at Purdue colloquium (West Lafayette, IN), Southern Sociological Society (New Orleans, LA), Population Association of America (Denver, CO), European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (Lisbon, Portugal), Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (Milan, Italy), International Sociological Association (Toronto, Canada), American Sociological Association (Philadelphia, PA), Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (Washington, DC)

• 2017: Southern Sociological Society (Greenville, SC), American Sociological Association Methodology Section Midyear Meeting (Chicago, IL), Population Association of America (Chicago, IL), Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research (Birmingham, AL), Stata Conference (Baltimore, MD), American Sociological Association (Montreal, QC), Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (Austin, TX)

• 2016: Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta, GA), Population Association of America (Washington, DC), American Sociological Association (Seattle, WA)

• 2015: Southern Sociological Society (New Orleans, LA), Population Association of America (San Diego, CA), American Sociological Association (Chicago, IL), Society for the Study of Social Problems (Chicago, IL), Stata Conference (Columbus, OH), University of Alabama-Birmingham Health Disparities Research Center (Birmingham, AL)

• 2014:  Southern Sociological Society (Charlotte, NC), Population Association of America (Boston, MA), American Sociological Association (San Francisco, CA), University of Kentucky Complex Causality in Structural Equation Modeling (Lexington, KY), Add Health Users Conference (Bethesda, MD)

• 2013: Population Association of America (New Orleans, LA), American Sociological Association (New York, NY), Society for Research in Child Development (Tampa, FL)

• 2012: Population Association of America (San Francisco, CA), American Sociological Association (Denver, CO), Carolina Population Center Research Workshop (Chapel Hill, NC), Johnson & Johnson Analytical Epidemiology Group (Titusville, NJ), Add Health Users Conference (Bethesda, MD)

• 2011: Population Association of America (Washington, DC), American Sociological Association (Las Vegas, NV), Society for Research in Child Development (Montreal, QC)

• 2010: Population Association of America (Detroit, MI), American Sociological Association (Atlanta, GA), ASA Methodology Section Midyear Meeting (Urbana-Champaign, IL), Carolina Population Center Research Workshop (Chapel Hill, NC)

• 2009: Southern Sociological Society (New Orleans, LA), American Sociological Association (San Francisco, CA)

• 2008: American Sociological Association (Boston, MA), Quantitative Psychology Workshop (Chapel Hill, NC), International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (Durham, NH)

Teaching

Purdue University

• Advanced Social Research Methods (graduate): Fall 2016, Fall 2017

• Causal Analysis (graduate): Spring 2020

• Introduction to Quantitative Social Science (graduate): Fall 2022, Fall 2023

• Introduction to Statistics in Sociology: Spring 2017

• Medical Sociology: Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018

• Multilevel and Longitudinal Models (graduate): Spring 2019, Spring 2021 (online)

• Sociology of Mental Health: Fall 2016

University of Alabama-Birmingham

• Advanced Medical Sociology (graduate): Fall 2013, Fall 2015

• Classical Sociological Theory (graduate): Fall 2015

• Classical Sociological Theory: Spring 2016

• Drugs and Society (online): Summer 2016

• Introduction to Statistics (online): Summer 2016

• Longitudinal and Multilevel Data Analysis (graduate): Summer 2015

• Sociology of Mental Health: Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2016 (online)

Advising

Purdue University

• PhD committees: Mallory Bell (present), Monica Farrelly (2020), Robert Frase (co-chair; 2023), Bing Han (co-chair; present), Ranran He (present), Yifei Hou (2022), Baylee Hudgens (present), Blakelee Kemp (2018), Alexandra Marin (2018), Joe Marshall (2020), Jordan Meyer (chair; present), Brian McPhail (2022), Charissa Mikoski (2023), Abigail Nawrocki (2021), Olivia Neff (co-chair; present), Siyun Peng (2019), Renee Pite (chair, present), Marissa Rurka (2021), Madison Sauerteig-Rolston (2024), Kinshuk Sharma (business; 2022), Catherine Stepniak (2024), Callie Zaborenko (2024) 

• MA committees: Mallory Bell (2022), Robert Frase (chair; 2018), Johnny Gao (present), Bing Han (2022), Ranran He (2024), Baylee Hudgens (2021), Yufu Jiang (2022), Ramiro Jimenez (2021), Brian McPhail (2018), Charissa Mikoski (2019), Destiny Ogle (2024), Renee Pite (chair; 2021), Sigrid Ren (2024), Madison Sauerteig (2020), Catherine Stepniak (2020), Callie Zaborenko (2018)

University of Alabama-Birmingham

• PhD committees: Deborah Ejem (2014), Carolyn Robbins (Emory, 2016), Jinhong Guo (psychology, 2016), Tuba Demir-Dagdas (chair, 2017)

• MA committees: Haley Kendrick (2015), Aowen Zhu (chair, 2015)

• Undergraduate Honors Theses: Margaret Deason-Coughlin (2014)

Professional Activities

• Journal Reviewer: Acta Sociologica, Advances in Life Course Research, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, BMC Public Health, Behaviormetrika, Behavior Reearch Methods, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, British Journal of Nutrition, Clinical Obesity, Communications in Statistics, Community, Work & Family, Demographic Research, Demography, Du Bois Review, Ethnicity & Health, European Sociological Review, Health and Place, Historical Methods, Human Communication Research, Industrial Health, International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Journal of Adult Development, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, Journal of Personality, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Urban Health, Learning and Individual Differences, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Nature, Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, PLOS One, Population Research and Policy Review, Psychological Methods, Psychological Science, Research on Aging, Scientific Reports, Social Currents, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Social Science Research, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods & Research, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly, Sociology Compass, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Health and Ilness, Socius, SSM-Population Health, Stata Journal, Structural Equation Modeling, Studies in Educational Evaluation, The Lancet - Public Health, Translational Psychiatry, Youth & Society

• Book Proposal and Manuscript Reviewer: Chapman & Hall/CRC, Routledge, Sage, Taylor & Francis

• Grant Reviewer: European Research Council, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS (Belgium), National Science Center (Poland), National Science Foundation (Ad Hoc and Senior Panel member), Resource Center for Minority Aging Research

• Editorial Board: Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2016-18), Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (associate editor; 2020-), Population Research and Policy Review (2025-), Social Currents (2023-), Social Forces (2014-23), Social Science Research (2019-), Sociological Methodology (2020-22), Sociological Quarterly (2020-24)

• Guest Editor: Social Science Research: 50th Anniversary Special Issues

• Associate Editor: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

• Series Editor (2024-): Sage Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (QASS)

• Discipline Service: Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society (2016-17); Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Methodology Section (2016-17); Chair American Sociological Association Methodology Section Midyear Meetings (2016-17); Mentoring Roundtable organizer, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (2018); Program Committee, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (2019-20); American Sociological Association Methodology Section Mentoring Program (2021); American Sociological Association Department Leaders Preconference roundtable leader (2022)

• Department/University Service: 

  • Purdue University: ad hoc advancement committee (2016), faculty search committee (2017), CLA faculty senate (2017-20), colloquium committee (2017-19), Center on Aging and the Life Course steering committee (2017-20), Discovery Park and Office of the Provost Data Science Education working group (2017), Graduate Methods Task Force (chair, 2017), Eichorn Fellowship selection committee (2018), Advanced Methods at Purdue methods certification committee (2018), Research Advisory Committee (2019-20), University Research Integrity Standing Committee (2021-24), Center on Aging and the Life Course Director search committee (2021-23), Health Disparities search committee (2022), University Graduate Council (2022-25; chair of Area D 2024-26), CLA Curriculum Committee (2023-24), CLA Head Administrative Review committee (2024)

  • University of Alabama-Birmingham: faculty search committee (2014), graduate program and admissions committee (2013-16), colloquium organizer (2014-16)

Statistical Consulting

• 2020-21: Individual client: assisted in the development of measurement models for a project exploring racial/ethnic health disparities.

• 2016-17: RTI Health Solutions and Eli Lilly: prepared report and evaluated methods for addressing uncertainty in class assignment from pattern mixture models.

• 2015-16: Individual client: evaluated statistical analysis for research on stress and health funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• 2014-15: RTI Health Solutions and Eli Lilly: developed Stata program for implementing Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis.

• 2014-15: UNAIDS: evaluated statistical analyses for a research project involving structural equation models used to predict AIDS related mortality.

• 2013-14: Individual client: evaluated statistical analyses for a research project involving causal indicators and the use of vanishing tetrad tests.

• 2008-09: CSR Incorporated: served on a research advisory board for an evaluation of a juvenile justice program conducted by the University of Florida and funded by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice.

• 2006-09: Public/Private Ventures: conducted statistical analyses related to evaluations of programs working with people returning from prison and early education programs targeting the children of immigrants. Drafted reports.

• 2006: Benefits Data Trust: developed statistical models to predict response rates for a program to enroll low-income older adults for health benefits.