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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT M. O'BRIEN November 15, 2017
Department of Sociology Phone: (435) 259-6205
1291 University of Oregon Email: [email protected]
Eugene, Oregon 97403
EDUCATION
1970-74 University of Wisconsin (Madison) Ph.D., Sociology (1974). Dissertation: “Worker's
participation: Morale and communications in fifteen Yugoslav slf-managed enterprises.”
1968-70 University of Wisconsin (Madison) M.S., Sociology (1970). Masters thesis:
“Achievement motivation and economic growth? Literacy and urbanization
as alternative explanations.”
1967-68 University of Wisconsin (Madison) Psychology Department: Ph.D. Program
1963-67 Pomona College (Claremont, CA) B.S., Psychology (1967)
TEACHING POSITIONS
2012- Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon
1985-2012 Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
1981-1985 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
1978-1981 Associate Professor of Sociology, California State College (San Bernardino)
1975-1978 Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State College (San Bernardino)
1974-1975 Lecturer in Sociology, California State College (San Bernardino)
1973-1974 Lecturer in Sociology, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Criminology
American Sociological Association
Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Alpha Kappa Delta (National Sociological Honor Society)
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COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Sociology
Criminology and Delinquency
Social Change
Population Problems
Creating and Testing Social Science Theories (Honors College)
Proseminar for Graduate Students
Seminar for Sociology Honors Students
Introductory Social Statistics
Intermediate Social Statistics
Advanced Social Statistics
Introductory Social Research Methods
Intermediate Social Research Methods
Statistical Programming for Social Scientists
Structural Equation Models (Graduate Seminar)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2015 Age-Period-Cohort Models: Approaches and Analyses with Aggregate-Level Data. New
York: Chapman & Hall.
1986 Controversies in Environmental Policy. New York: State University of New York Press.
Coedited: Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert M. O'Brien, and Michael Clarke.
1985 Crime and Victimization Data. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
1982 Urban Structure and Criminal Victimization. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath. Coauthored:
David L. Decker, David Shichor, and Robert M. O'Brien.
1978 Instructor's Manual and Test Items for O'Brien and O'Brien Introduction to Sociology.
Los Alamitos, CA: Hwong. Coauthored: Betty C. B. Harwick and Robert M. O'Brien.
1977 Introduction to Sociology. Los Alamitos, CA: Hwong. Coedited: Robert W. O'Brien
and Robert M. O'Brien.
Scholarly Refereed Articles
2017 Mixed Models, Linear Dependency, and Identification in Age-Period-Cohort Models.
Statistics in Medicine, 36:2590-2600.
2017 “Dropping Highly Collinear Variables from a Model: Why it Typically is Not a Good
Idea.” Social Science Quarterly,78:360-375.
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
2016 “Recovery of American Peregrine Falcons along the upper Yukon River, Alaska, 1977-
2014.” The Journal of Wildlife Management, DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.1058. Coauthored:
Skip Ambrose, Chris Florian, Robert J. Ritchie, David Payer, and Robert M. O’Brien.
2016 “Model Misspecification when Eliminating a Factor in Age-Period-Cohort Multiple
Classification Models.” Sociological Methodology 46:358-372.
2015 “Age-Period-Cohort Models and the Perpendicular Solution.” Epidemiologic Methods,
Online first DOI 10.1515.
2014 “Estimable functions of age-period-cohort models: a unified approach.” Quality and
Quantity 48:457-474.
2014 “The regional journal in sociology: recent trends and observations” The American
Sociologist, 45:185-196. Coauthored: Jessica Schultz, James R. Elliott, and Robert M.
O’Brien.
2013 “Comment on Liying Luo’s article, ‘assessing validity and application scope of the
intrinsic estimator approach to the age-period-cohort problem.’” Demography, 50:1973-
1975.
2012 “Visualizing rank deficient models: A row equation geometry of rank deficient matrices
and constrained-regression.” PLOS ONE (June 19, 2012) 10.1371/journal.pone.0038923.
2011 “Gendered arrests or gendered sentencing: explaining the narrowing of the gender gap in
imprisonment over time: 1970-2008.” Sociological Perspectives, 54:641-664.
Coauthored: Mark G.Harmon and Robert M. O’Brien.
2011 “The age-period-cohort conundrum as two fundamental problems.” Quality & Quantity,
45:1429-1444.
2011 “Intrinsic estimators as constrained estimators in age-period-cohort accounting models.”
Sociological Methods & Research, 40:467-470.
2011 “Constrained estimators and age-period-cohort models.” Sociological Methods &
Research, 40: 419-452.
2010 “Offender trajectories, crime trends, and costs.” Criminology & Public Policy, 9:313-
319.
2010 “Still separate and unequal? A city-level analysis of the black-white gap in homicide
arrests since 1960.” American Sociological Review, 75:75-100. Coauthored: Gary
LaFree, Eric Baumer, and Robert M. O’Brien.
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
2009 “Race differences in cohort effects on nonmarital fertility in the United States; Reply to
Martin.” Social Forces, 87:1489-1497. Coauthored: Jean Stockard, Joanna Gray, Robert
M. O’Brien, and Joe Stone
2009 “Race differences in cohort effects on nonmarital fertility in the United States.” Social
Forces, 87:1449-1479. Coauthored: Jean Stockard, Joanna Gray, Robert M. O’Brien, and
Joe Stone
2009 “Can cohort replacement explain changes in the relationship between age and homicide
offending?” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 25:79-101. Coauthored: Robert M.
O’Brien and Jean Stockard.
2008 “A mixed model estimation of age, period, and cohort effects.” Sociological Methods
and Research 36:402-428. Coauthored: Robert M. O’Brien, Kenneth Hudson, and Jean
Stockard.
2007 “A caution regarding rules of thumb for variance inflation factors.” Quality and Quantity
41:673-690.
Reprinted in Fundamentals of Regression Modeling, edited by Salvatore Babones.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2007 “The use of mixed models in a modified Iowa gambling task and a prisoner's dilemma
game.” Journal of Judgment and Decision Making 2:9-22. Coauthored: Jean Stockard,
Robert M. O’Brien, and Ellen Peters.
2006 “Cohort variations in suicide rates among families of nations: an analysis of cohorts born
from 1875 through 1985.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 47:5-33.
Coauthored: Jean Stockard and Robert M. O’Brien.
2006 “A common explanation for the changing age distribution of suicide and homicide in the
United States: 1930 to 2000. Social Forces 84:1539-1557. Coauthored: Robert M.
O’Brien and Jean Stockard.
2003 “UCR violent crime rates, 1958-2000: Recorded and offender-generated trends.” Social
Science Research, 32:499-518.
2003 “The cohort-size sample-size conundrum: An empirical analysis and assessment using
homicide arrest data from 1960 to 1999.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19:1-32.
Coauthored: Robert M. O’Brien and Jean Stockard.
2002 “Cohort effects on suicide rates: International variations.” American Sociological Review
67:854-872. Coauthored: Jean Stockard and Robert M. O’Brien.
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
2002 “Cohort variations and changes in age-specific suicide rates over-time: explaining the
recent increase in youth suicide.” Social Forces 81:605-642. Coauthored: Jean Stockard
and Robert M. O’Brien.
2002 “Variations in age-specific homicide death rates: a cohort explanation for changes in the
age distribution of homicide rates.” Social Science Research 31:124-150. Coauthored:
Robert M. O’Brien and Jean Stockard.
2001 “Theory, operationalization, identification, and the interpretation of different differences
in time series models.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 17:359-375.
2000 “Validating the international tourist (ITR) scale.” Annals of Tourism Research 27:964-81.
Coauthored: Jeff Jiang, Mark E. Havitz, and Robert M. O’Brien.
2000 “Age period cohort characteristic models.” Social Science Research 29:123-139.
1999 “Measuring the convergence of ‘serious crime’ arrest rates for males and females: 1960 –
1995.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 15:97-114.
1999 “The enduring effects of cohort characteristics on age-specific homicide rates: 1960-
1995.” American Journal of Sociology 104:1061-1095. Coauthored: Robert M. O’Brien,
Jean Stockard, and Lynne Isaacson.
1998 “Correcting measures of relationship between aggregate-level variables for both
unreliability and correlated errors: An empirical example.” Social Science Research
27:218-234.
1998 “The determinants of deadly force: A structural analysis of police violence.” American
Journal of Sociology 103: 837-862. Coauthored: David Jacobs and Robert M. O’Brien.
Reprinted in Police and Policing Law, edited by Jeannine Bell. Ashgate Publishing:
Burlington Vermont, 2006.
1996 “Police productivity and crime rates: 1973-1992.” Criminology 34:183-207.
1996 “Identification of confirmatory factor analysis models of arbitrary complexity: The side-
by-side-rule.” Sociological Method & Research 24:473-491. Coauthored: Terence
Reilly and Robert M. O’Brien.
1995 “Generalizability coefficients are reliability coefficients.” Quality and Quantity 29:421-
428.
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
1995 “Equality constraints and metric setting in measurement models.” Structural Equation
Modeling 2: 1-12. Coauthored: Robert M. O’Brien and Terence Reilly.
1994 “Identification of simple measurement models with multiple latent variables and
correlated errors.” Pp. 137-170 in Sociological Methodology 1994 (volume 24), edited
by Peter Marsden. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1992 “Effects of sampling on measures of association between variables based on sample
means.” Quality and Quantity 26:409-425. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien, William
Burns, and Paul Slovic.
1992 “Levels of analysis.” Pp. 1107-12 in The Encyclopedia of Sociology (Volume 3), edited
by E.F. Borgatta and M.L. Borgatta. New York: Macmillan.
1991 “Detrended UCR and NCS crime rates: Their utility and meaning.” Journal of Criminal
Justice 19:569-574.
1991 “The reliability of composite referee assessments of manuscripts.” Social Science
Research 20: 319-328.
1991 “Correcting measures of relationship between aggregate-level variables.” Pp. 125-165 in
Sociological Methodology 1991 (Volume 21), edited by P. Marsden. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell.
1991 “Sex ratios and rape rates: A power-control theory.” Criminology 29:99-114. Reprinted
(pp. 99-114) in The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and
Penology, Sex Crimes, edited by Donald West. Aldershot England: Dartmouth.
1990 “Comparing detrended UCR and NCS crime rates over time: 1973-1986.” Journal of
Criminal Justice 18:229-238.
1990 “Estimating the reliability of aggregate-level variables based on individual-level
characteristics.” Sociological Methods & Research 18:473-504.
1989 “Relative cohort size and political alienation: Three methodological issues and a
replication supporting the Easterlin hypothesis (Comment on Kahn and Mason, ASR,
April 1987).” American Sociological Review 54:476-80. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien
and Patricia A. Gwartney-Gibbs.
1989 “Relative cohort size and age-specific crime rates: An age-period-relative-cohort-size
model.” Criminology 25:57-78).
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
1988 “Using LISREL models with crude rank category measures.” Quality and Quantity
22:191-201. Coauthored: Pamela Homer and Robert M. O'Brien.
1988 “Exploring the intersexual nature of violent crimes.” Criminology 26:151-69.
1987 “Corrections for coarsely categorized measures: LISREL's polyserial and polychoric
correlations.” Quality and Quantity 21:349-60. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien and
Pamela Homer.
1987 “The interracial nature of violent crimes: A reexamination.” American Journal of
Sociology 92:817-35.
1986 “Rare events, sample size, and statistical problems in the analysis of NCS city surveys.”
Journal of Criminal Justice 14:441-48.
1986 “The reliability of school-level aggregate variables: An application of generalizability
theory.” Journal of Research and Development in Education 20:21-27. Coauthored:
Robert M. O'Brien and Barnie Jones.
1985 “The validity of occupational data for immigrants: An empirical investigation.”
Sociological Perspectives 28:101-112. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien and Elliott
Barkan.
1985 “The relationship between ordinal measures and their underlying values: Why all the
disagreement?” Quality and Quantity 19:265-277.
1985 “Naturalization trends among selected Asian immigrants, 1950-1976.” Ethnic Forum
4:91-108. Coauthored: Elliott Barkan and Robert M. O'Brien.
1984 “Open and closed systems of decision making: The case of toxic waste management.”
Public Administration Review 44: 334-340. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien, Michael
Clarke, and Sheldon Kamieniecki.
1984 “Are class measures interchangeable?” Political Behavior 6:41-59. Coauthored:
Sheldon Kamieniecki and Robert M. O'Brien.
1984 “A computer program for determining the correlation between categorized variables from
a bivariate normal distribution with a given correlation.” Educational and Psychological
Measures 44:155-158.
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
1984 “Using generalizability theory to estimate the dependability of aggregate-level variables.”
Quality and Quantity 18:193-205.
1983 “Comparing models of class structure.” Social Science Quarterly 64:445-459.
Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien and Vallon Burris.
1983 “Metropolitan structure and violent crime: Which measure of crime?
(A comment on Blau and Blau, ASR, February 1982).” American Sociological Review
48:434-437
1983 “Periodical prestige in criminology and criminal justice: A response.” Criminology
21:457-461. Coauthored: David Shichor, Robert M. O'Brien, and David L. Decker.
1983 “Rank order versus rank category measures of continuous variables (Comment on Bollen
and Barb, ASR, April 1981, and Henry, ASR, April 1982).” American Sociological
Review 48:284-286.
1982 “Using rank-order measures to represent continuous variables.” Social Forces 61:144-
155.
1982 “Urban structure and household victimization of the elderly.” The International Journal
of Aging and Human Development 15:41-49. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien, David
Shichor, and David L. Decker.
1982 “The correlation between variate values and ranks in small size samples.” British
Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 35:106-112.
1981 “Prestige of journals in criminology and criminal justice.” Criminology 19:461-469.
Coauthored: David Shichor, Robert M. O'Brien, and David L. Decker.
1981 “An exploratory study of social class and energy issues.” Political Behavior 2:371-384.
Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien and Sheldon Kamieniecki.
1981 “Reducing grouping distortion in rank category variables.” American Journal of Political
Science 25:605-616.
1981 “Using rank category variables to represent continuous variables: Defects in common
practice.” Social Forces 59:1149-1162.
1980 “The relationship of the number of police per capita and population density to the rate of
criminal victimization.” Journal of Criminal Justice 8:309-316. Coauthored: David
Shichor, David L. Decker, and Robert M. O'Brien.
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Scholarly Articles (cont.)
1980 “An empirical comparison of the validity of UCR and NCS crime rates.” Sociological
Quarterly 21:391-401. Coauthored: Robert M. O'Brien, David Shichor, and David L.
Decker.
1980 “Social structure and games: Revisited.” Pacific Sociological Review 23:243-246.
1979 “Comment on ‘Multivariate analysis of ordinal variables.’” American Journal of
Sociology 85:668-669.
1979 “The use of Pearson's r with ordinal data.” American Sociological Review 44:851-857.
1979 “Population density and criminal victimization: Some unexpected findings in central
cities.” Criminology 17:184-193. Coauthored: David Shichor, David L. Decker, and
Robert M. O'Brien.
1978 “Partial regression coefficients: A recomparison of Kendall's tau and Pearson's r.”
Pacific Sociological Review 21:501-505.
1977 “A solution to the problem of ‘differences in units of measure’ in cross-population
comparisons.” Sociological Methods & Research 5:471-484.
Scholarly Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
2006 “Is the Gap between black and white arrest rates narrowing? National trends for personal
contact crimes, 1960 to 2002.” Pp. 179 – 198 in The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities
of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America, edited by Ruth Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, and
John Hagan). New York: NYU Press. Coauthored: Gary LaFree, Robert M. O’Brien, and
Eric Baumer.
2000 “Crime rates.” Pp. 490-502 in The Encyclopedia of Sociology (Second Edition): Volume
1, edited by E.F. Borgatta and R.J.V. Montgomery. New York: Macmillan.
2000 “Levels of analysis.” Pp. 1591-1596 in The Encyclopedia of Sociology (Second Edition):
Volume 3, edited by E.F. Borgatta and R.J.V. Montgomery. New York: Macmillan.
2000 “Uniform Crime Reports.” Pp. 512-514 in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant
Behavior, edited by Clifton D. Bryant. Brunner-Routledge: Philadelphia.
2000 “Crime facts: victim and offender data.” Pp. 58-83 in Criminology: A Contemporary
Handbook (3rd Edition), edited by Joseph F. Sheley. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
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Scholarly Chapters (cont.)
1999 “National crime and victimization survey.” Pp. 435-436 in Violence in America: An
Encyclopedia (Volume 2), edited by Ronald Gottesman. Charles Scribner’s Sons: New
York, NY.
1997 “Maslow's hierarchy and social adaptation as alternative accounts of value structures.”
Pp. 111-137 in Values, Lifestyles, and Psychographics, edited by L.R. Kahle and L.
Chiagouris. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Coauthored: Pamela Homer, Lynn R.
Kahle, and Robert M. O'Brien, and David M. Boush.
1995 “Crime and victimization data.” Pp. 56-81 in Criminology: A Contemporary Handbook
(2nd Edition), edited by Joseph F. Sheley. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
1986 “Environmental policy aspects of intergovernmental relations.” Pp. 49-61 in D. Morgan
and J.E. Benton (eds.), Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy. Westport CT:
Greenwood Press. Coauthored: Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert M. O'Brien, and Michael
Clarke.
1986 “Political philosophy, pragmatic politics, and environmental decision making.” Pp. 300-
307 in S. Kamieniecki, R. M. O'Brien and M. Clarke (eds.), Controversies in
Environmental Policy. New York: State University of New York Press. Coauthored:
Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert M. O'Brien, and Michael Clarke.
1984 “Decision making in a complex sociotechnical environment: The case of toxic waste
management.” Pp. 187-207 in L. Nigro (ed.), Decision Making in the Public Sector.
New York: Marcel Dekker. Coauthored: Michael Clarke, Sheldon Kamieniecki, and
Robert M. O'Brien.
1982 “Notes on Beale Street forty years later and ‘Beale Street’ and temporal ecology.” Pp.
221-223 in G. A. Theodorson (ed.), Urban Patterns: Studies in Human Ecology.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Coauthored: Robert W.
O'Brien and Robert M. O'Brien.
1979 “Patterns of juvenile victimization and urban structure.” Pp. 88-98 in W. H. Parsonage
(ed.), Perspectives on Victimology. Beverly Hills: Sage. Coauthored: David L. Decker,
Robert M. O'Brien, and David Shichor.
1977 “The sociological perspective.” Pp. 3-19 in R. W. O'Brien and R. M. O'Brien (eds.),
Introduction to Sociology. Los Alamitos, CA: Hwong. Coauthored: Robert W. O'Brien
and Robert M. O'Brien.
1977 “Sociological theory construction and methodology.” Pp. 269-313 in R. W. O'Brien and
R. M. O'Brien (eds.), Introduction to Sociology. Los Alamitos, CA: Hwong.
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REVIEWS, REPORTS, AND “NONPROFESSIONAL ARTICLES”
1996 “Review of Crime and its Social Context: Toward an Integrated Theory of Offenders,
Victims, and Situations,” by Terance D. Miethe and Robert F. Meier. Social Forces 74:
1449-1450.
1990 “Review of SYNTH: tools and exercises for experimental design.” Teaching Sociology
18:126-128.
1988 “Women assaulting men.” CSWS Review: 25-28.
1984 “The accuracy of water analyses: a Forest Service study to ponder.” NCAP NEWS 4 (No.
2):32.
1984 “Risks, costs, benefits, and rights.” NCAP NEWS 4 (no. 1): 26-27.
1983 “Crime rates: a statistical dilemma.” INQUIRY (Spring): 44-45.
1981 “The politics of toxic waste management: the case of the Colorado radium sites.” Report
to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Coauthored with Sheldon
Kamieniecki.
PAPERS AND OFFICIAL PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
American Historical Society (1979)
American Political Science Association (1983, 1985)
American Society for Public Administration (1982, 1983)
American Society of Criminology (1978, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996,
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006,
2007, 2009)
American Sociological Association (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,
1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015)
Pacific Sociological Association (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981,
1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990,
1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (1987)
Third International Symposium on Victimology (1979)
Western Economics Association International (2011)
World Congress of Sociology (1978)
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SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS/SERVICE
Departmental (selected service)
University of Oregon:
2002-08 Head of the Department of Sociology
2002-08 Affirmative Action Officer
2002-06 Human Subjects Unit Review Representative
2003-04 Chair, Qualifying Examination Committee
1993-98 Head of the Department of Sociology
1989-98 Human Subjects Unit Review Representative
1988-90 Affirmative Action Officer
1983-84 Graduate Program Coordinator
1983-84 Chair, Qualifying Examination Committee
1983-84 Chair, Admissions and Awards Committee
1984-90 Head of the Department of Sociology
1982-83 Chair, Staff Development Committee
California State University at San Bernardino:
1979-81 Head of the Department of Sociology
University (selected service)
University of Oregon:
2011 Promotion Committee Member for Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)
2009-13 Off-Campus Scholarships and Grants Committee
2008 Promotion Committee Member for Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)
2008 Search Committee for the Dean of Academic Programs and Student Affairs for
the Oregon State University - Cascades Campus. Appointed by the CEO and Vice
Provost for the OSU-Cascades Campus.
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Administrative Positions (cont.)
2008 Committee to Consider the Departmentalization of Ethnic Studies and
International Studies – Appointed by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and the
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
2008 Special Fourth Year Review Committee for contract extension of a Political Science
Faculty Member.
2006-09 President’s Diversity Advisory Committee (one of four faculty members) –
Appointed by the President.
2006-07 Deans Advisory Group – Elected for one year terms by College of Arts and Sciences
Department Heads.
2006 Co-chair Search Committee Member, Center for the Study of Women and Society
Director (with tenure in Sociology).
2003-05 Student-Faculty Committee on Grievances – Appointed by President.
2002-05 Deans Advisory Group – Elected for one year terms by College of Arts and Sciences
Department Heads.
2003-04 Search Committee Political Science – Appointed by the College of Arts
and Sciences Dean.
2002-03 Central Oregon Coordinating Council – Appointed by the Provost to help facilitate
the University of Oregon’s degree programs in Central Oregon
2002-03 Member, Search Committee for the Vice-Provost of Academic Affairs – we
successfully hired two vice provosts.
2002-03 Member, Ethnic Studies Search Committee – we hired two new Assistant Professors
2001-08 Member, Oregon Survey Research Laboratory Advisory Committee (Appointed by the
Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies).
2000-01 Head, Search Committee for the Director of the Labor Education Research
Center (appointed by the provost).
2000-01 Member and co-associate-chair, “Diversity and Community Committee.” A
committee formed to set up an institute designed to conduct research, provide
opportunities for dialogue, sponsor conferences, and archive research and national
initiatives on diversity issues (appointed by the University President).
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Administrative Postitions (cont.)
2000-01 Created a General Social Science Major for the University of Oregon that in currently
offered on the Cascade Campus in Bend.
1998-01 Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences – with oversight responsibilities for
budgetary, personnel, and curriculum decisions in the following units: Anthropology,
Asian Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Geography,
History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, Political
Science, Social Science Instructional Laboratory, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
1999 Member, Review Committee for the University of Oregon Director of Housing
(appointed by the Vice President for Administration).
1997-98 Member, Grievance Appeals Committee (elected university wide).
1997-98 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Space Committee, which recommends the
allocation of space within the College.
1997 Member, Search Committee for the Head of the Honors College (appointed by the
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences).
1997 Member, University’s Internal Review Committee to review the Department of
Romance Languages graduate and undergraduate programs (appointed by the Dean of
the Graduate School).
1996-97 Member, Promotion/Tenure/Retention Appeal Committee (elected university wide).
1996-97 Convener and Member, Johnson Memorial Award Committee (appointed by the
University President).
1996-97 Member, Faculty Search Committee for the Labor Education Research Center
(Appointed by the Director of the Labor Education Research Center).
1996-97 Member, Ad hoc committee to review access procedures for promotion and tenure
files (convened by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences).
1996 Member, Screening Committee for appointing the Humanities Associate Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences (appointed by the College of Arts and Sciences Dean).
1996 Member, University’s Internal Review Committee to review the Department of
English graduate and undergraduate programs (appointed by the Graduate School
Dean).
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Administrative Postitions (cont.)
1995-97 Member, Honors College Advisory Board (appointed by the College of Arts and
Sciences Dean).
1995 Member, Search Committee for the Head of the Honors College (appointed by the
College of Arts and Sciences Dean).
1995 Member, University’s Internal Review Committee to review the Department of
Economics graduate and undergraduate programs (appointed by the Graduate
School Dean).
1994-95 Chair, Faculty Research Award Committee (appointed by the Vice President for
Research). The committee awarded twenty $4000 research grants to University of
Oregon faculty.
1994-96 Member, Research Advisory Committee (appointed by the Vice President for
Research) to offer faculty input on budgeting, services, and reorganization.
1993-96 Member, Graduate Council (elected by the faculty to make recommendations on
graduate programs and affairs to the Dean of the Graduate School).
1993-94 Member, University Productivity Working Group--Learning Communities Group.
1992-94 Member, Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (appointed by the Faculty Senate to
oversee intercollegiate athletics).
1992-94 Member, Academic Affairs Response Team (committee appointed by the Provost to
make program and personnel cuts in response to reduced State funding).
1991-93 Member, Faculty Senate (elected by the university faculty).
1991-92 Chair, Social Sciences Data Services Laboratory Committee: In charge of setting up a
data services laboratory for the social sciences at the University of Oregon (appointed
by the Vice President for Research). The center is still in operation.
1991 Member, Faculty Interview Panel: To interview candidates for the College of Arts and
Sciences Dean.
1990-91 Head, University Faculty Personnel Committee: This committee reviews all tenure
and promotion cases for the University of Oregon.
1989-91 Member, Faculty Personnel Committee for the University of Oregon (elected by the
university faculty).
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Administrative Positions (cont.)
1988-89 Co-Chair, Committee on Committees: In charge of nominating faculty and officers of
administration for elected and appointed committee positions.
1986-87 Member, Academic Computing Advisory Group.
1985-86 Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Center for the Study of Women in
Society.
1985-86 Member, Status of Women Committee.
California State University at San Bernardino:
1979-81 Head of the Department of Sociology
1980-81 Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Center (California State
University, San Bernardino).
1975-79 Faculty Coordinator, Computer Center (California State University, San Bernardino).
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2017 Invited Presenter at Conference on Age-Period-Cohort-Models at the University of
Sheffield (January)
2016- Editorial Board Member, Sociological Methodology.
2016- Editorial Board Member, Sociological Perspectives.
2014 Invited Presenter at the National Research Council Panel on the Drop in Crime Rates.
I discussed Age-Period-Cohort models in relationship to explaining the crime drop.
2014- Editorial Board Member, Social Forces.
2012-15 Co-editor, Sociological Perspectives, official journal of the Pacific Sociological
Association.
2011-12 Member of the Clifford Clogg Award Committee for the Methodology Section of
the American Sociological Association.
2010-11 Co-Chair of the Dissertation Award Selection Committee for the American
Sociological Association.
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Professional Service (cont.)
2009-11 Member of the Dissertation Award Selection Committee for the American
Sociological Association.
2008-09 Chair of the Nominations Committee for the Crime, Law and Deviance Section of
the American Sociological Association.
2008-09 Program Committee of the Pacific Sociological Association.
2008-09 Co-Chair of the Committee on Committees of the Pacific Sociological Association.
2008-11 Editorial Advisory Board, Criminology (Official Journal of the American Society of
Criminology).
2007-08 Vice President, Pacific Sociological Association.
2007-08 Program Committee of the Pacific Sociological Association
2006 External Reviewer, Sociology Program at the University of New Mexico.
2005-06 Chair of the Hindelang Award Committee: The major annual book award made by the
American Society of Criminology.
2006 Organizer of the Measurement and Methodology sessions for the American Society of
Criminology.
2005 Organizer of the Quantitative Methodology sessions for the American Sociological
Association Annual meeting.
2004 External Reviewer, Sociology Program at California State University at Los
Angeles.
2004 External Reviewer, Sociology Program at the University of Montana.
2001-03 Member, Nominations Committee for the Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the
American Sociological Association.
2001-02 Chair, Nominations Committee for the Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the
American Sociological Association.
2000-02 Panelist, Dissertation Improvement Award Committee, Sociology Program, National
Science Foundation
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Professional Service (cont.
2000-01 Member, Program Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association.
1998-99 Member Program Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association.
1997-99 Member, Freedom of Research and Teaching Committee of the Pacific Sociological
Association.
1994 External Reviewer, Graduate Program in Sociology at the University of Nevada
at Las Vegas.
1994-98 Editorial Advisory Board, Criminology (Official Journal of the American Society of
Criminology).
1994-08 Treasurer, University of Oregon Chapter of the American Association of University
Professors.
1993-94 Secretary, Oregon Conference of the American Association of University Professors.
1991-93 President, University of Oregon Chapter of the American Association of
University Professors.
1989-91 Vice President, University of Oregon Chapter of the American Association of
University Professors.
1989-90 Vice President, Pacific Sociological Association.
AWARDS/HONORS
1986-87 Chair, Local Arrangements Committee of the Pacific Sociological Association.
2014 Presentation on Age-Period-Cohort to the National Research Council of the National
Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering committee on Law
and Justice Roundtable on Crime Trends (Nov 2014)
1999 Distinguished Scholarly Article Prize from the Political Sociology Section of the
American Sociological Association for “The Determinants of Deadly Force: A
Structural Analysis of Police Violence.” American Journal of Sociology (1998) vol.
103: 837-862. Coauthored: David Jacobs and Robert M. O’Brien.
1995 Tom and Carol Williams Recognition Award Program: Developing Teaching
Initiatives to Enhance Undergraduate Education at the University of Oregon. Proposal
for “A Visually Interactive Statistics Curriculum” funded for $3500 (with Terry
Reilly).
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Awards/Honors (cont.)
1995 Research grant ($26,000) from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to study
“The Determinants of Deadly Force: Testing Explanations for Differential Rates of
Killings by the Police” (with David Jacobs).
1995 Principal Investigator/ Project Director of an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Development
Grant ($7500) awarded to Dee Southard for the “Homeless Campers Study.”
1989 Research Grant ($5000) from the Center for the Study of Women in Society to study
the “Impact of Economic Resources on Spousal Assaults by Husbands.”
1988 Selected to participate in a one-week conference in Washington, D. C., on research
using National Crime Survey data. Participants received a stipend of $2,000 from a
grant the American Statistical Association received from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics. (A family medical emergency made it impossible for me to attend.)
1987 Selected to participate in a two-week workshop in College Park, Maryland: The Use
and Redesign of the National Crime Survey. Participants received a stipend of $1000
for their participation.
1981 Awarded the first annual Outstanding Professor Award at California State
University, San Bernardino (the award was based primarily on “teaching
excellence”).
1980 Consultant, United States Environmental Protection Agency funded project to advise
on the social and political effects of radioactive sites in Denver, Colorado. (Report
submitted entitled, “The politics of toxic waste management: the case of the Colorado
radium sites,” Coauthored with Sheldon Kamieniecki
1978-79 Research Consultant, “The letter of recommendation: a key to women's career equity
in academia” (funded by the National Institute of Education)
1978 Research Grant from the Faculty Development Fund of California State University,
San Bernardino
1972-73 Dissertation Research Grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects
of participation in self-managed enterprises in Yugoslavia
1971-73 National Institute of Mental Health, Sociology of Economic Change Trainee
1971-74 National Institute of Mental Health, Medical Sociology Trainee
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REVIEWING FOR JOURNALS, PUBLISHERS, AND FOUNDATIONS
Journals: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, The American
Statistician, BMC Public Health,Criminology, Canadian Studies in Population,
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Demography, Epidemiology,
European Sociological Review, Evolution and Human Behavior, International
Journal of Psycology, Health Services Research, Homicide Studies, International
Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Psychology, International Statistical
Review, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal
of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,
Justice Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society, Mathematical Sociology,
Organizational Research Methods, Organizations and Environment, Pacific
Sociological Review, PLOS ONE, Policy Studies Journal, Population and
Development Review, Population Research and Policy Review, Psychological
Methods, Psychometrika, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Forces, Social
Problems, Social Science Journal, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum,
Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods &
Research, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly, Violence and Victims,
Western Political Quarterly
Publishers: Academic Press, Allyn-Bacon, ASM International, Duxbury Press, Sage,
University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press
Foundations: Australian Institute of Criminology, National Science Foundation, Social Science,
Humanities Research Council of Canada
