Archives: Affiliates

D. Mark Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University.

 

Kim Korinek is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Asia Center at the University of Utah.

Korinek’s research examines the mutually transformative effects of social demographic changes, like population aging and population mobility, and individual and family level experiences of receipt of support, living arrangements, socioeconomic mobility, health care utilization, and other outcomes related to wellbeing.

Claire Rothschild is a Senior Technical Advisor in Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategic Evidence and Learning at Population Services International (PSI).

Oliver Rollins is a qualitative sociologist who works on issues of race/racism in and through science and technology. Specifically, his research explores how racial identity, racialized discourses, and systemic practices of social difference influence, engage with, and are affected by, the making and use of neuroscientific technologies and knowledges. Rollins’s book, Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of The Violent Brain (Stanford University Press, 2021), traces the development and use of neuroimaging research on anti-social behaviors and crime, with special attention to the limits of this controversial brain model when dealing with aspects of social difference, power, and inequality. Currently, he is working on a project that examines the neuroscience of implicit bias, chiefly the challenges, consequences, and promises of operationalizing racial prejudice and identity as neurobiological processes. Rollins teaches courses on science, technology, and society; race/racisms, social inequities and health, and bioethics. Rollins received his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco.

Mia Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the Geography at University of Washington. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, through fieldwork and remote sensing, she researches the geopolitics of development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and along the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. She has conducted fieldwork along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in Canada’s Northwest Territories and is particularly interested in the role of Indigenous Peoples in leading infrastructure development in the North American Arctic. Mia received a Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a Master’s in Philosophy in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar. She has published extensively in both peer-reviewed journals and popular publications and edits a long-running blog on the Arctic at cryopolitics.com.

Samuel Jenness is an infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in mathematical and computational approaches for studying the drivers of and prevention strategies for infectious disease through the framework of dynamic transmission networks.

As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Jenness leads the EpiModel Research Lab and also collaborates on several projects in both methods and applications for infectious disease epidemiology.

Jenness’s methodological research focuses on the development of an open-source software platform for epidemic modeling, EpiModel, which allows users to build, simulate, and analyze complex mechanistic models for transmission of arbitrarily defined infectious disease systems. EpiModel provides a powerful toolkit for modeling dynamic contact networks that are often fundamental for representing transmission of diseases requiring direct contact. EpiModel has been used in over 50 scientific publications, both by his group and modeling researchers around the world!

Jenness’s applied research focuses on the epidemiology of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and other infectious diseases. He is interested in how we can use mechanistic modeling and network science frameworks to understand the drivers of these diseases, and to design and evaluate effective prevention strategies. Recent applications have used models to simulate the co-circulation of multiple co-circulating pathogens within the same population, since the risk factors for acquiring one disease may depend on the epidemic dynamics of other infections transmitted along the same contact network.

More broadly, the work of Jenness’s EpiModel Research Lab involves addressing these questions with research in the following domains:

• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Mechanistic/mathematical modeling of infectious disease
• Network science
• Causal inference methods for epidemiology
• Survey research design and analysis
• Computational epidemiology & scientific software development

Jevin West is Associate Professor and Director at the Information School. He builds models, algorithms and interactive visualizations for understanding the flow of information in large knowledge networks. Two particular areas of interest are scholarly communication and intellectual property. Jevin co-founded Eigenfactor.org (www.eigenfactor.org) — a free website and research platform for mapping science and identifying influential papers, journals and scholars. He is also the Co-Director of DataLab, the nexus for research on Data Science and Analytics at the UW iSchool.

He also serves as Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences and as Adjunct Faculty with Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

Dr. Emma S. Spiro is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and an affiliate of the UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. Dr. Spiro is a Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at UW. At the UW iSchool Dr. Spiro is co-director of the Social Media Lab (SoMeLab). She is also co-founder and current co-director of the Data Science and Analytics Lab (DataLab). She recently co-founded the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) at UW; the CIP is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary effort that brings together faculty, staff, students and community partners in service of a core mission aiming to resist strategic misinformation and strengthen democratic discourse. Dr. Spiro studies online communication and information-related behaviors in the context of emergencies and disaster events. Recently, she has focused on investigating misinformation online. Her work also explores the structure and dynamics of interpersonal and organizational networks in both online and offline environments. Dr. Spiro’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, and through other gifts. Her research has been published in PNAS, Social Networks, Field Methods, Demography and Information, Communication & Society, as well as in premier conferences such as the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). Dr. Spiro earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. She also holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and a B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society from Pomona College, as well as an M.A. from the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Jennifer Hook (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2006) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.  Her research areas include gender, family demography, inequality, work-family, social policy, and comparative sociology. Hook focuses on how social contexts, particularly social policies and opportunities in the labor market, impact individuals and families. Her recent work examines the influence of country context on women’s employment, fathers’ time with children, and the division of household labor, as well as the impacts of state policy and practice on foster children’s outcomes and the economic vulnerability of parents involved with the child welfare system. Her research has appeared in journals including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and the European Sociological Review.

Her book (co-authored with Becky Pettit of the University of Texas – Austin) Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (Russell Sage Foundation 2009) was selected as a Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 2010. A related paper (also with Pettit) was a finalist for the 2006 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.  She has also received the Aldi J.M. Hagenaars Memorial Award given to the best 2015 LIS Working Paper written by a scholar under the age of forty for her manuscript “Incorporating Class into Work-Family Arrangements: Insights from and for Three Worlds.”  And her 2006 paper “Care in context: Men’s unpaid work in 20 countries, 1965-2003” was awarded two ASA Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awards (Sociology of the Family and Sociology of Sex and Gender).

Hook’s work has been funded by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Sloan Foundation, and the Center for Poverty Research at UC-Davis.  She is the recepient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. In AY 2018-19 she was a fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center.

She has served on editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, Social Problems, and Sociological Perspectives. From 2015-2018 she served as Director of Graduate Studies of the Sociology Department, and returned to the role as Co-Director in 2020.

Hook is an award-winning teacher and mentor. She has been awarded the Dornsife General Education Teaching Award (2014) and the USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students (2020). She regularly teaches Soci 169 Changing Family Forms, Soci 464 Gender & Work, Soci 651 Social Stratification, and Soci 680 Writing for Publication in Sociology.

Ethan Sharygin is a demographer and director of the Population Research Center at Portland State University. Sharygin’s recent work concerns demographic consequences of wildfire, in particular on how first responders can more accurately estimate population in fire zones and how applied demographers can estimate migration in and around disaster areas using innovative small area estimates methods. Sharygin recently collaborated with researchers at the CA Energy Commission on projected population at heightened risk of wildfires due to climate change. He also worked with RAND Corporation and the CA Census on a household survey to collect data on housing, population, and neighborhood quality for program evaluation and to facilitate the incorporation of remote sensing data into demographic estimates methodology after the 2020 census. Additionally, Sharygin contributed to the development of the Community Burden of Disease project, an initiative of the CA Department of Public Health.