Archives: Affiliates

Much of Luke Bergmann’s work is in computational social science and human-environment relations. In one larger project, he studies how populations and distant forests, fields, and carbon emissions are interconnected by economic globalization. In another, he studies how human populations, ecosystems, and influenza co-evolve.

Ann Bostrom joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. Her research focuses on risk perception, communication, and management; and environmental policy and decision-making. Bostrom previously served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) from 1992-2007, where she served as Associate Dean for Research at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Professor in the School of Public Policy. Bostrom co-directed the Decision Risk and Management Science Program at the National Science Foundation from 1999-2001. While in this position she organized, participated in, and made presentations at national and international meetings on research and science policy, including but not limited to, the Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction and the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.

She has authored or contributed to numerous publications, including Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions (Berlin: Springer, 2008), and National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and U.S. EPA Board of Scientific Counselors reports.

She also serves on the editorial board for Risk Analysis and as Associate or Risk Communication Area Editor for the journals  Journal of Risk Research, and Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, and reviews for numerous technical journals. Bostrom has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health, among other sources.

Bostrom is the recipient of several fellowships, including the American Statistical Association/ National Science Foundation/Bureau of Labor Statistics Research Associateship (1991-92), Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship and Lois Roth Endowment Fund grant for studies at the University of Stockholm (1989-90), and Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon (1988-89). She is also the recipient of the 1997 Chauncey Starr award for a young risk analyst from the Society for Risk Analysis for her work on mental models of hazardous processes. Bostrom is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Bostrom is currently a member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Scientific Committee, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Science Advisory Board Environmental Information Services Working Group, and the National Research Council Committee to Review the IRIS process. She is the past president of the Society for Risk Analysis, and is a member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Bostrom holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from Western Washington University, a BA in English from the University of Washington, and completed postdoctoral studies in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and in cognitive aspects of survey methodology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Julie Brines’s research interests include gender stratification, family and household dynamics, parental issues, and labor markets and employment. She conducts research on patterns of resource allocation and work (both paid and unpaid) in families, and their consequences for family stability and members’ well being. One paper currently under review (2nd R&R at American Sociological Review) uses NSFH data to test the relationship between gender differentiation in the division of housework and the frequency of sex in marriage; this paper (co-authored with Sabino Kornrich and Katrina Leupp, both recent CSDE graduate fellows) shows that compared to those with an egalitarian division of labor, gender-traditional couples have more frequent sex and report greater satisfaction with their relationships. Another paper with Leupp and Kornrich examines trends in dual-earner couples’ reliance on nonstandard employment schedules (especially evening and nightshift employment) and shows how this reliance has become increasingly conditioned on educational attainment; this paper is slated for submission to the journal Demography. Brines’s most recent research makes use of ideas from sociology, the economics of the family, and behavioral economics to analyze the effects of changes in local labor and housing markets immediately before and during the Great Recession on county-level rates of filing for divorce. With her collaborator Brain Serafini (another CSDE fellow), she has modeled rates of marital disruption between January 2000 -2010 using data from the Washington State courts to see how recession-driven changes in the environment affect marital stability. One paper from this project shows that unemployment increases filing rates, whereas falling housing prices depress filings, but both of these effects occur only during recessionary periods. These and other findings suggest offsetting effects of local market erosion that impact households differently depending on their income and asset positions. A second paper compares the impact of recession-linked change in unemployment, job-sector composition and wage rates, and housing prices on marital stability among couples with children vs. those without children at home.

Callie Burt is currently an Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where she also holds affiliation with the Center for Research on Interpersonal Violence (CRIV). From 2015-2019 she was an assistant to associate professor in the Sociology Department at the UW. Her research is motivated by the desire to understand how experiences of social adversity profoundly shaped by social position influence development and risky behavior, focusing on psychosocial orientations that induce “choices” shaping health-risk behaviors and perpetuating inequalities. With an NICHD K01 award, she is working to engage in and contribute to interdisciplinary research on population health disparities with training in genomics and statistical genetics.