Assistant University

Jonathan A. Jarvis

Department of Sociology

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Honolulu, HI 96822

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EDUCATION/POSITIONS

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

PhD, Sociology, Expected 2012

M.A., Sociology 2008

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

The Institute of Social Development and Policy Research 2010/2011

Visiting Researcher Conducted Dissertation Research

Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

Korean Language Program 2008/2009

Korea Foundation Fellow

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

M.S., Sociology 2005

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

B.A., Sociology, minor in English 1998

Foreign Languages, Korean and French

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Stratification Globalization, economic change, class resources, mobility and strategies.

Education Globalization of higher education, strategies and skills.

Comparative Criminology Political, economic and cultural change and the impact on

crime and crime control.

Korea Educational strategies, occupational attainment, crime and crime control.

DISSERTATION

Title: In Pursuit of Global Education: Does it Pay?

Committee: Hagen Koo, David T. Johnson, Mooweon Rhee, Hirohisa Saito & Patricia Steinhoff

PUBLICATIONS

Gibbs, Benjamin G., Jonathan A. Jarvis & Mikaela J. Dufur. 2011. The rise of the underdog?

The relative age effect reversal among Canadian-born NHL hockey players: A reply to Nolan

and Howell. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Published first online, August

22, 2011.

Forste, Renata & Jonathan Jarvis. 2007. "Just Like His Dad": Family Background and

Residency with Children among Young Adult Fathers. Fathering: A Journal of Theory,

Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers 5:97-110.

Jarvis, Jonathan. 2005. Is the Party Over? Unmarried Fatherhood and Drug and Alcohol Use.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Jarvis, Jonathan A. Unmarried Fathers, Involvement and Substance Use.

Jarvis, Jonathan A. & Jonathan Hilts. The Ubiquitous Equalizer? Narrowing Educational

Disparities in an Online Society

Jarvis, Jonathan A. & Kitae Park. Neo-Liberal Globalization and the Institutionalization of

Educational Advantage in South Korea.

PAPERS PRESENTED & PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

Jarvis, Jonathan. Globalization, Democracy, Crime & Crime Control. (Paper presented at

American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting Denver, CO: August 2012).

Jarvis, Jonathan. The Global Degree: Where and Why it Matters. (Paper presented at American

Sociological Association s Annual Meeting Las Vegas, NV: August 2011).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Global Skills in Domestic Markets: Globalization & Foreign Education.

(Paper presented at the 6th International Workshop on Korean Studies Seoul, South Korea:

July 2010)

Jarvis, Jonathan. Globalization, Economic Capital and Higher Education in South Korea

(Paper accepted for presentation at American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting

Boston, MA: August 2008 unable to attend).

Jarvis, Jonathan. The Ubiquitous Equalizer? Educational Disparities in an Online Society.

(Paper presented at American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting New York, NY:

August 2007).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Transitions to Teen Fatherhood. (Paper presented at the American

Sociological Association s Annual Meeting Montreal, Canada: August 2006).

Gibbs, Benjamin & Jonathan Jarvis. Reaching the Hard-To-Reach through GEAR UP:

Understanding Poverty by Education, Opportunity and Strategy. (Paper presented at the

Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education Annual Meeting Columbus, OH: June

2005).

Jarvis, Jonathan & Benjamin Gibbs. College Aspirations and Institutional Realities. (Paper

presented at the Pacific Sociological Annual Meeting Portland, OR: April 2005).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Discussant for the session, Placing Family in Public Policy. (Pacific

Sociological Annual Meeting Portland, OR: April 2005).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Responsible Students: Examining Student Assessments of Individual and

Structural Explanations for Academic Achievement. (Paper presented at Brigham Young

University s Mentored Student Research Conference Provo, UT: April 2005).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Development under Communism: A Look at the North Korean Anomaly

(Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting San Francisco,

CA: August 2004).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Is the Party Over? Single Fatherhood and Risk Behavior (Paper presented at

the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA: August 2004).

Jarvis, Jonathan. Fathers and Husbands: Risk Behavior and Adult Roles (Paper presented at

the Pacific Sociological Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA: April 2004).

Jarvis, Jonathan & Brooke Wardle. Understanding the Teen Father Profile: Predictors and

Problems Using NLSY97 (Paper presented at the Utah Council on Family Relations Annual

Meeting Logan, UT: April 2004).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor. Principles of Sociological Inquiry Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012 & Fall

2011 (University of Hawaii at Manoa).

Taught students how to choose appropriate research topics

Design qualitative and quantitative projects based on research questions

Conduct qualitative and quantitative projects

Analyze and report research project

Designed bi-weekly labs for student research projects

Instructor. Introduction to Survey Research Summer 2008 & Summer 2007 (University of

Hawaii at Manoa).

Taught students how to choose appropriate research topics.

Design effective and suitable survey instruments.

Consider appropriate sampling issues.

Properly conduct and analyze survey research using SPSS.

Report results accurately and succinctly.

Lab Instructor/Teaching Assistant. Principles of Sociological Inquiry, Dr. Wei Zhang. Fall 2008,

& Dr. Herbert Barringer Fall 2006, & Fall 2005 (University of Hawaii at Manoa).

Designed curricula and taught weekly lab sessions for quantitative research methods,

focusing on analyzing and reporting US Census and General Social Science data.

Graded worksheets & term papers.

Lab Instructor/Teaching Assistant. Graduate Statistics, Dr. Yeun Ju Lee. Spring 2007

(University of Hawaii at Manoa).

Designed curricula and taught weekly lab sessions for graduate multivariate analysis

seminar.

Helped students perform initial data analysis, data manipulation and OLS and logistic

regression interpretation for seminar research papers.

Teaching Assistant. Survey of Criminology, Dr. Dorothy Goldsborough. Spring 2006 (University

of Hawaii at Manoa).

Graded Assignments and Exams.

Designed Turning-Point interactive lectures.

Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Juvenile Delinquency, Dr. Dorothy Goldsborough. Spring

2006 (University of Hawaii at Manoa).

Graded Assignments and Exams and helped teach lectures.

Teaching Assistant. Survey of Social Psychology, Dr. Barbara Joyce. Fall 2005 (University of

Hawaii at Manoa).

Created and graded exams.

Graded research papers.

Lab Instructor/Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Sociology, Dr. Bruce Chadwick. Fall 2003 &

Spring 2004 (Brigham Young University).

Taught two weekly review sessions.

Graded exams.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant to Dr. Patricia Steinhoff, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at

Manoa, May 2011 December 2012.

Gathering and cleaning data for the Directory of Japanese Studies in the United

States and Canada, fourth edition.

Using Microsoft Access to compile and organize large amounts of data and

information regarding North American Higher Education institutions and Japanese

studies programs.

Research Assistant to Dr. John Gartrell, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at

Manoa, May 2007 September 2008.

Conducted program evaluations for the Coalition for a Drug Free Lana i (CDFL)

Developed a community needs assessment relevant to drug abuse prevention and

associated risk and protective factors.

Helped create participant evaluations of CDFL and its programs and services as they

seek to meet community needs.

Provided an update to the Lana i community profile with particular attention to drug

use prevention.

Research Assistant to Dr. Sun Ki Chai, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at

Manoa, August 2007 May 2008.

Quantitative analysis and description of data from laboratory research.

Wrote literature review on prediction of political violence and cultural change.

Examined previous empirical research using grid/group framework

Created a directory of national level datasets and codebooks dealing with political

violence and cultural attitudes and characteristics.

Analyzed cultural change and political violence data between and within nations

using various data sets (World Values Survey; Schwartz Values Survey, ISSP).

Research Assistant to Dr. Carol Ward, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University,

September 2004 August 2005.

Conducted interviews, created interview schedule and surveys, coded and analyzed

data to investigate the educational obstacles for disadvantaged students.

Research Assistant to Dr. Howard Bahr, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University,

September 2004 July 2005.

Analyzed the structural & behavioral changes in time spent with children, using the

Middletown Data 77 & 99.

Research Assistant to Dr. Renata Forste, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University,

April 2004 July 2005.

Researched and co-wrote an article on intergenerational effects of paternal residency.

Analyzed and coded interviews of single fathers in the Salt Lake City area.

Project Designer along with Benjamin Gibbs and Dr. Carol Ward, Department of Sociology,

Brigham Young University, November 2004 July 2005.

Created interview schedule, interviewed and coded data concerning cultural differences

in perceptions of poverty in Utah County.

Research Assistant to Dr. Vaughn Call, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University,

July 2003.

Conducted telephone surveys for the 2003 phase of Middletown surveys.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Graduate Student Research Travel Award (2011), $1,000

University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies/Donald Kim Graduate Scholarship (2010),

$10,000

Graduate Division/Asia Pacific Achievement Scholarship (2009), $6250

Korea Foundation Fellowship for Language Training (2008/2009), $7000

Arts and Science Advisory Council Award (2007), $1850

Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant (2007), $800

Arts and Science Advisory Council Award (2006), $1500

ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Research on Understanding

the Development of Young Children from an Ecological Perspective, University of

Michigan (2006), $700

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