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CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING
CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of Sociology
Ohio State University Office: 614-***-****
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Columbus, OH 43210 Email: abo1cl@r.postjobfree.com
EMPLOYMENT
Professor2010
Department of SociologyOhio State University
Associate Professor2005-2010Department of SociologyOhio State University
Assistant Professor1999-2005Department of SociologyOhio State University
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Sociology, December 1997
University of Chicago
(Edward O. Laumann, Chair,
Committee members: Robert Sampson,
Linda Waite)
M.A. Department of Sociology, June 1995
University of Chicago
B.A. Political Science, Brown University May 1989
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Divisional Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in the 1998
Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago,
1997
NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship 1998-1999
NICHD Pre-Doctoral Fellowship 1995-1997
University Unendowed Fellowship 1994
University of Chicago
Christopher R. Browning
AREAS OF INTEREST
Community social organization; Crime and deviance; Urban sociology; Health;
Demography; Life course; Multilevel statistical models.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
BOOK REVIEWS
Browning, Christopher R. Canal Town Youth. (Julia Hall). Contemporary Sociology
32(2): 201-202.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Lori A. Burrington and Christopher R. Browning. Forthcoming. Neighborhood Context:
Childhood and Adolescence. In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human
Development, edited by Deborah Carr. (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference
USA).
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Lori A. Burrington and Christopher R. Browning. Forthcoming. Neighborhood Context:
Adulthood. In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by
Deborah Carr. (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA).
Krivo, Lauren J. and Christopher R. Browning. Crime and Delinquency: Demographic
Aspects. In Encyclopedia of Population, Vol. 1. Eds. Paul Demeny and Geoffrey
McNicoll. New York, NY: Macmillan.
Browning, Christopher R. and Kathleen A. Cagney. Neighborhood Disadvantage and
Health. 2006. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
GRANTS
Neighborhood Context and Adolescent Psychological and Aug, 2009-July, 2012
Behavioral Health
Role: PI (R01)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Total: $997,020
Jan, 2010-Dec, 2014
Tobacco Cessation Interventions With Ohio Appalachian
Smokers
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Wewers-R01)
National Cancer Institute
Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (P50
Renewal PI: Paskett)
Total: $580,656
Aug, 2009-July, 2011Spatial Patterns of Social Isolation, Adolescent Marijuana Use,
and Co-Morbid Sexual/HIV Risk
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Peterson-R01)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Total: $697,849
July, 2009-June, 2011
Parenting and Adolescent Risk Behaviors in Context
Role: PI (Multiple PI arrangement w/Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; R01)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Total: $639,423
July, 2008-June, 2009The Sociospatial Context of Health Disparities
Role: Principal Investigator
Ohio State University Initiative on Population Research
Total: $33,000
Neighborhood Social Processes and Adolescent Substance
Jan, 2008-Dec, 2010
Use
Role: Principal InvestigatorOhio State University Criminal Justice Research Center
Total: $20,000
Dynamics of Space and Time Use: Patterns, Causes, and
Jan, 2009-Dec, 2011
Consequences for Crime and Problem Behaviors
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Role: Co-Principal InvestigatorNational Science Foundation, Human and Social Dynamics
Program
Total: $700,000
Neighborhood Social Ecology and Adolescent HealthApril, 2007-Sept, 2007
Ohio State University Targeted Investments in
Excellence/Initiative on Population Research Seed Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Total: $23,000
Space, Networks and Social Influence Workshop. 2006
National Consortium On Violence Research (NCOVR) $19,000
(George Tita, Katherine Faust, and Christopher Browning).
Segregation and Local Crime: An Integrated Spatial Analysis. Sept, 2005-Aug, 2008
Role:
Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation
Children s Exposure to Violence over Space and Time June, 2005-May, 2010
Role:
Co-InvestigatorNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Total: $1,121,250
Neighborhood Context and the Health of Older Adults Oct, 2003-Sept, 2007
Role:
Co-Investigator
National Institute on Aging
Total: $915,000
Life Course and Contextual Determinants of HIV Risk. April, 2003-Jan, 2008
Role:
Principal InvestigatorNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Total: $894,327
Gender, Migration, and HIV Risks Among Mexicans 2002-2005
Role:
ConsultantNational Institute of Nursing
Causes and Consequences of Sexual Victimization. July, 2002-June, 2003
Role:
Principal Investigator
Criminal Justice Research Center Summer Faculty Research
Fellowship
Total: $7,184
Neighborhood Social Organization and Health: A Multilevel July, 2001-June, 2002Analysis
Role:
Principal InvestigatorOSU Seed Grant
Total: $17,071
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HIV Risk Behaviors in Network and Community Context. July, 2000-June, 2003
Role:
Principal InvestigatorNational Institute of Mental Health.
Total: $147,000
Social Networks, Social Cohesion, and Urban Crime: Is Social July, 2000-June, 2001
Organization Always Beneficial?
Role: Principal Investigator
Criminal Justice Research Center Faculty Research Small Grant
Total: $4,375
June, 1999-Sept., 2000
Intimate Violence in Community Context.
Role: Principal Investigator
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
Total: $30,153
GRANTS SUBMITTED OR IN PREPARATION
The Multiple Contexts of Youth Development
Role: Principle Investigator
In preparation (to be submitted in early December
to the WT Grant Foundation Investigator Initiated
Awards competition; Letter of Inquiry submitted,
full proposal invited).
The Sociospatial Context of Health Disparities
Role:
Principal Investigator
In preparation (to be submitted Jan. 6, 2011 to
NICHD RFA on Social Environment on Health:
Measurement, Methods and Mechanisms)
TECHNICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Browning, Christopher R., Edward O. Laumann, and Robert T. Michael. Response
and Measurement Error in Studies of Male Sexual and Fertility-Related Behavior.
Report to the National Center for Health Statistics.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Multilevel Statistical Models2006-2010
Department of Sociology, OSU
Sociological Approaches to Neighborhood Effects 2004
Department of Sociology,
OSU
Advanced Criminology
2000-2006Department of Sociology, OSU
The Sociology of Deviance2000-20048
Christopher R. BrowningDepartment of Sociology, OSU
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Browning, Christopher R. and Kathleen Cagney. Neighborhood Stressors and Health:
Crime Spikes, Social Cohesion, and Short-Term Changes in BMI
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
Browning, Christopher R. and Kathleen Cagney. Neighborhood Stressors a nd Blood
Pressure. National Institute on Drug Abuse Symposium on Crime and Health.
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2009.
Browning, Christopher R. and Kathleen Cagney. The Sociospatial Context of
Cardiovascular Risk. Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research/ Cells to
Society. Chicago, IL, October, 2008.
Browning, Christopher R. and Catherine Calder. Adolescent Substance Use in Urban
Neighborhoods: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach. National Institute on Drug
Abuse sponsored panel on Geography and Drug Addiction: Emerging
Methodologies. Boston, MA, April 2008.
Browning, Christopher R. The Social Ecology of Public Space: Street Activity and
Violence in Urban Neighborhoods.
Center for Family and Demographic Research Seminar Series, Bowling Green State
University, October 2007
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, April 2007
Pennsylvania State University Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice,
December, 2006.
University of Chicago Demography Workshop, December, 2006.
Notestein Seminar Series, Princeton University Office of Population Research,
November, 2006.
Browning, Christopher R., Catherine Calder, and Lisa Nicholson. Neighborhood Social
Ecology and Adolescent Well-Being: Street Activity and BMI Among Urban Youth.
Ohio State University Department of Sociology Symposium: The Many Faces of
Inequality: Inequalities in Health and Well-Being Over the Life Course. June, 2006.
Browning, Christopher R. Bayesian Approaches to Spatial and Multilevel Modeling of
Violence Outcomes. Presentation to the National Consortium on Violence
Research. Dominican Republic, June, 2006.
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Browning, Christopher R. Neighborhood Social Ecology and Adolescent Health. New
York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, April, 2006.
Browning, Christopher R. and Catherine Calder. Neighborhood Social Ecology and
Adolescent Well-Being: Street Activity and BMI Among Urban Youth. Florida
International University School of Public Health, Miami, Florida, April, 2006.
Browning, Christopher R., Catherine Calder, Margo Gardner, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
Exposure to Violence Among Urban Youth: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to
Multilevel Spatial Models. National Consortium on Violence Rese arch Workshop
on Social Networks, Social Influence, and Space. University of California Irvine,
February, 2006.
Browning, Christopher R., Tama Leventhal, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. Sexual Initiation
During Adolescence: The Nexus of Parental and Community Control. University of
Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, January, 2006.
Browning, Christopher R. and Kathleen A. Cagney. Neighborhood Social Processes and
Disaster-Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave. Department
of Sociology, University of Utah, April 2005
Cagney, Kathleen A. and Christopher R. Browning. Neighborhood Inequality and the
Spatial Determinants of Health. Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care and
Health Outcomes, University of Chicago, November, 2003.
Cagney, Kathleen A. and Christopher R. Browning. Racial Differences in Self -Rated
Health at Older Ages: The Role of Neighborhood Context. Department of Health
Studies Seminar Series, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, January, 2002.
Browning, Christopher R. and Kathleen A. Cagney. Neighborhood Socioeconomic
Status, Social Organization and Health. Demography Workshop, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, February, 2002.
Browning, Christopher R. The Social Context of Adaptation to Childhood Sexual
Maltreatment: A Life Course Perspective. Paper presented at the Sexual
Development Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 2001.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS BEFORE PROFESSIONAL AUDIENCES
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Geographical Analysis
Sociological Quarterly
Child Development
Social Science and Medicine
Grant proposal review National Institutes of Health 2005, 2007,
2010
National Science Foundation 2002
Law and Social Science Program
National Science Foundation 2006
Human and Social Dynamics
Centers for Disease Control 2008
Associate Editor Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2008-2010
Consulting editor Demography 2001-2004
American Journal of Sociology 2010-2012
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Book Review American Journal of Sociology 1995-1997
Editorial Board
Discussant American Sociological Association 2001, 2007,
2008
Population Association of America 2002
Co-Chair Section on Community and Urban Sociology 2008-2009
Publications Committee
Chair American Society of Criminology 2008
Section on Multilevel Models
Organizer American Sociological Association 2007
Section on Children and Youth
Reviewer American Sociological Association 2007
Crime, Law, and Deviance
Student Paper Award
American Society of Criminology 2010
Ruth Cavan Award
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Sociological Association
Population Association of America
The American Society of Criminology
Association of American Geographers
International Network for Social Network Analysis
REFERENCES
Robert J. Sampson
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
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33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Linda J. Waite
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
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Office: NORC 363
Phone: 773-***-****
Email: abo1cl@r.postjobfree.com
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
National Center for Children and Families
Teachers College, Columbia University
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525 West 120 Street
New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-***-****
Fax: 212-***-****
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