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CURRICULUM VITAE
S. MICHAEL GADDIS
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Email:abozg7@r.postjobfree.com
Website: www.stevenmichaelgaddis.com
E DUCATION
May 2013 Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(expected) Dissertation: Are All College Degrees Created Equally? Race, Gender, and
Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education.
Comprehensive Exams: Social Stratification; Race and Ethnicity
2009 M.A., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thesis: What's in a Relationship?: Testing Theories of Social Capital Using Data
from Mentoring.
Committee: Karolyn Tyson (chair), Douglas L. Lauen, and Ted Mouw.
2007 B.B.A., Management Information Systems, University of Georgia, Cum Laude.
2007 A.B., Sociology, University of Georgia, Cum Laude
.
R ESEARCH AND T EACHING I NTERESTS
Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods,
Social Stratification/Inequality, Discrimination, Social Capital, and Cultural Capital
P APERS U
ELLOWSHIPS, AND A WARDS
2011Finalist, Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
2011Graduate student paper award, SSSP Educational Problems Division.
2011Ferdinand Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Graduate School ($4000)
2011Future Faculty Fellowship, UNC-CH Center for Faculty Excellence (declined)
2011Pilot Project Award, Graduate Research Fund, UNC-CH Department of Sociology
($403)
2010Graduate student paper award, SSSP Community Research and Development Division
2010Honorable Mention, graduate student paper award, AERA Sociology of Education SIG
2010Odum Award for outstanding graduate student paper, Southern Sociological Society
2007Distinguished Research Award, University of Georgia, Department of Sociology
C OMPETITIVE T RAVEL AND C ONFERENCE A WARDS
2011Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-CH, conference travel grant ($500)
2011International Sociological Association, RC28, conference travel grant ($500)
2010American Educational Research Association, Div. G, conference travel stipend ($200)
2010Invited participant to the American Educational Research Association Institute on
Statistical Analysis for Education Policy (fully funded)
2009Invited participant to the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Education
section, New Directions in the Sociology of Education mini-conference
C
R ESEARCH E XPERIENCE
2008-currentResearchAssistant for Dr. Douglas Lauen
Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2006Research Assistant for Dr. Jeremy Reynolds
Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
2005-2006Research Assistant for Dr. Stephanie Bohon
Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
T EACHING E XPERIENCE
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Teaching Fellow SOCI 101 Sociological Perspectives;
Summer 2009, Spring 2010
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SOCI 122 Race and Ethnic Relations;
Fall 2010
SOCI 251 Measurement and Data Collection;
Fall 2009, Summer 2010
Teaching Assistant SOCI 250 Sociological Theory; Fall 2007
SOCI 252 Data Analysis in Social Research;
Spring 2008
SOCI 711 Categorical Data Analysis; Fall 2011
SOCI 718 Longitudinal and Multilevel Data Analysis;
Fall 2010
Department of Management Information Systems, University of Georgia
Teaching Assistant MIST 2090 Introduction to Information Systems; Spring
2006 (2 sections), Summer 2006 (1 section), Fall 2006 (4 sections),
Spring2007 (3 sections), Summer 2007 (1
section)
MIST 2190H Introduction to Information Systems (Honors Section);
Spring 2007
PUBLISHED TEACHING MATERIALS AND EXERCISES
2011Quantitative exercises based on U.S. Census data for W.W. Norton's introduction to
sociology textbooks. Under contract.
2010Ancillary review materials for You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like
a
nd
Sociologist (2 edition) by Dalton Conley. Available at
www.wwnorton.com/college/soc/you-may-ask-yourself2/
O THER P RESENTATIONS
April, 2011. An Audit Study of Race, College Degrees, and Horizontal Stratification.
Paper
presented in the Department of Sociology, Race/Ethnicity Working Group, UNC-CH.
February, 2011. Closing Achievement Gaps by 2014? Evidence on the Progress of NCLB.
Paper presented in the Department of Sociology, Inequality Workshop, UNC-CH. (with
Douglas L. Lauen)
November, 2010. Cultural Mobility: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Cultural
Capital
on Academic Attitudes and Educational Outcomes. Paper presented in the Department
of Sociology, Inequality Workshop, UNC-CH. (with Andrew R. Payton)
November, 2010. Discussant for What Does Diversity Do? panel at the annual meeting of
the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston, MA.
April, 2010. What's In a Relationship? Examining Race, Class, and Contact Time as
Determinants of Social Capital in Mentoring Relationships. Paper presented in the
Department of Sociology, Spring Conferences Colloquium, UNC-CH.
October, 2009. Contagion, Institutions, or Selection? The Effect of Peer Poverty on
Student
Test Score Growth. Paper presented in the Department of Sociology, Culture and
Politics Seminar, UNC-CH. (with Douglas L. Lauen)
March, 2009. Using the Emerald Cluster Computing Resources. Workshop presented
to graduate students and faculty in the Department of Sociology, UNC-CH.
November, 2008. Using the Emerald Cluster Computing Resources. Workshop
presented to graduate students in the Department of Public Policy, UNC-CH.
(with Douglas L. Lauen)
March, 2008. What Matters about Mentoring? Increasing Academic Achievement for At-
Risk Youth. Paper presented in the Department of Sociology, new student recruitment
weekend, UNC-CH.
S ERVICE AND O THER P ROFESSIONAL A CTIVITIES
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2011-2012 Faculty Recruitment and Selection Committee, Department of Sociology, UNC
2010 Co-Founder, Inequality Working Group, Department of Sociology,
UNC
2009-2010Associate Editor,
Social Forces
2009-2010Graduate Student Campus Liaison,
American Educational Research Association
2008-2009Co-President, Graduate Student Association, Department of Sociology,
UNC
Reviewer: American Educational Research Journal, American Educational Research
Association (Sociology of Education SIG), Pine Forge Press, SAGE Press,
Sociology of Education Association
STUDENT ADVISING
Undergraduate Thesis, Committee Member
Rachel Arnett, Public Policy
Alternative Spring Break Course and Trip, Advisor
La'Naeschia O'Rear and Jamie Neal, Sociology
P ROFESSIONAL M EMBERSHIPS
Alpha Kappa Delta
American Educational Research Association
Division G Social Context of Education Section
Sociology of Education SIG
American Sociological Association
Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section
Sociology of Education Section
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
International Sociological Association
RC28 Social Stratification
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociology of Education Association
Southern Sociological Society
R EFERENCES
Douglas Lauen, Assistant Professor Karolyn Tyson, Associate Professor
Department of Public Policy Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abernathy Hall, Room
121, CB#3435 Hamilton Hall, Room 264
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-***-**** Phone: 919-***-****
Email: abozg7@r.postjobfree.com Email: abozg7@r.postjobfree.com
Ted Mouw, Associate Professor Guang Guo, Professor
Department of Sociology Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hamilton Hall, Room
263 Hamilton Hall, Room 216
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-***-**** Phone: 919-***-****
Email: abozg7@r.postjobfree.com Email: abozg7@r.postjobfree.com
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Devah Pager, Associate
Professor
Department of Sociology
Princeton University
157 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-***-****
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