Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2003
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of the Practice of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2022
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020 - 2021
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2015
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2007
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Childhood Exposures and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2007
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • O’Rand, Angela M., and Jenifer Hamil-Luker. “Landfall After the Perfect Storm: Cohort Differences in the Relationship Between Debt and Risk of Heart Attack.” Demography 57, no. 6 (December 2020): 2199–2220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00930-3.
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    • O’rand, A. M., and J. Hamil-Luker. “Late employment careers, transitions to retirement, and retirement income in the united states,” December 1, 2011, 283–307.
    • O’Rand, Angela M., Jenifer Hamil-Luker, and Cheryl Elman. “Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among U.S. women and men at the turn of the century.” Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft : Zfe 12, no. 3 (September 2009): 409–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-009-0081-3.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J., and A. M. O’Rand. “Gender Differences in the Link between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Heart Attack Risk in Adulthood.” Demography 44, no. 1 (2007): 137–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137225.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J. “Trajectories of public assistance receipt among female high school dropouts.” Population Research and Policy Review 24, no. 6 (December 1, 2005): 673–94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-005-5751-0.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J. “Women's wages: Cohort differences in returns to education and training over time.” Social Science Quarterly 86, no. SPEC. ISS. (December 1, 2005): 1261–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0038-4941.2005.00345.x.
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    • O Rand, A. M., and Jenifer Hamil-Luker. ““Processes of cumulative adversity linking childhood disadvantage toincreased risk of heart attack across the life course.”.” Journal of Gerontology—Social Sciences 60B (October 2005): 117–24.
    • Hamil-Luker, J. “Trajectories of Public Assistance Receipt among Female High School Dropouts.” Population Research and Policy Review 24, no. 6 (2005): 673–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/40230930.
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    • Hamil-Luker, Jenifer, Kenneth C. Land, and Judith Blau. “Diverse trajectories of cocaine use through early adulthood among rebellious and socially conforming youth.” Social Science Research 33, no. 2 (June 2004): 300–321. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0049-089x(03)00060-7.
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    • Hamil-Luker, Jenifer, and Peter Uhlenberg. “Later life education in the 1990s: increasing involvement and continuing disparity.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 57, no. 6 (November 2002): S324–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/57.6.s324.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J. “The prospects of age war: Inequality between (and within) age groups.” Social Science Research 30, no. 3 (January 1, 2001): 386–400. https://doi.org/10.1006/ssre.2001.0703.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J., and C. Smith. “Religious Authority and Public Opinion on the Right to Die.” Sociology of Religion 59, no. 4 (1998): 373–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/3712123.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Hamil-Luker, J. “Ahead of the class: Health trajectories among women who return to school later in life.” In Gerontologist, 45:412–412. GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AMER, 2005.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J., and A. O’Rand. “Enduring effects of childhood health and life circumstances on disease in later life.” In Gerontologist, 44:321–321. GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AMER, 2004.
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    • Hamil-Luker, J., and P. Uhlenberg. “Older adults' participation in formal and informal education.” In Gerontologist, 41:375–76. GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AMER, 2001.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GLHLTH 257: From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health 2022
  • PSY 267: From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health 2022
  • SOCIOL 257: From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health 2022
  • SOCIOL 332: Methods of Social Research 2022
  • SOCIOL 393: Research Independent Study 2022
  • GLHLTH 257: From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health 2021
  • SOCIOL 257: From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health 2021
  • SOCIOL 265: Drug Use and Abuse: Getting High in the United States 2021
  • SOCIOL 332: Methods of Social Research 2021
  • SOCIOL 393: Research Independent Study 2021
  • SOCIOL 257: From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health 2020
  • SOCIOL 265: Drug Use and Abuse: Getting High in the United States 2020
  • SOCIOL 332: Methods of Social Research 2020
  • SOCIOL 393: Research Independent Study 2020

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