Dr. Peyman Hekmatpour is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University -  Tulsa. His research focuses on Global & Transnational Sociology, Quantitative Methods, Environmental Sociology, and Religion. More specifically, Peyman's research uses advanced quantitative methods of data analysis to examine the intersection of cultural and material factors, as well as local and global forces contributing to the perpetuation of global stratification and inequalities observed within and between nations. His research has been published in top-tier academic journals.

Peyman received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma in 2022. He was selected the OU Department of Sociology Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year in 2019. Peyman was also awarded the Nancy L. Mergler Dissertation Completion Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma. 

Dr. Hekmatpour also has a diverse teaching portfolio, built over years at both OU and OSU, that includes courses such as Quantitative Methods, Social Research Methods, Database Design for Information Organizations, Applied Regression Analysis, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Inequalities, Social Stratification, Race & Ethnic Relations.

Peyman has substantial experience in longitudinal and cross-sectional data management, dataset construction, and running and interpreting the results of econometric models, hierarchical linear models (HLM), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and structural equation models (SEM). He uses multiple statistical packages and programming languages, including STATA, R, and Python.