Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Duke University 2001
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Scholar In Residence in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • SEP 2, 2014

    American Sociological Association Honors Three Duke Faculty

  • SEP 2, 2014

    Duke Today

    American Sociological Association Honors Three Duke Faculty
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  Awards & Honors

  • Leo Goodman Award. American Sociological Association Methodology Section. 2014
  • Methodology Section/Leo Goodman Award. American Sociological Association. 2014
  • Elected Fellow. Gerontological Society of America. 2008
  • Dissertation Award for Paper. Gerontological Society of America. 2001
  • Glaxo-Wellcome Long Term Care Research Award. Glaxo-Wellcome. 1999
  • Vorsanger-Smith Scholar Award. Duke University Department of Sociology. 1999
  • Acceptance into ICPSR workshop on the Study of Aging: Use of Multiple Surveys. Sponsored by NACDA and NIA. 1998
  • Glaxo-Wellcome Long Term Care Research Award. Glaxo-Wellcome. 1997
  • NIA Pre-doctoral fellowship. NIA. 1995
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • A Life Course Approach to Identify Risks of Hospitalization in Older Adults with Heart Failure awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
  • Integrating Risk Trajectories and Social Determinants to Enhance Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Older Adults awarded by National Institutes of Health 2021 - 2026
  • Center for Population Health and Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2025
  • A Patient-Centered Approach for Addressing Access to Care to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2022
  • Understanding US Regional Health & Mortality Disparities: A Life Course Approach awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2018
  • Social, Medical and Economic Demography of Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 1997 - 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Lynch, S. M., and B. Bartlett. Bayesian Statistics in Sociology: Past, Present, and Future. Vol. 45, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073018-022457.
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    • Lynch, Scott M. Using Statistics in Social Research. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
    • Lynch, S. M. Using statistics in social research: A concise approach, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8573-5.
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    • Lynch, Scott M. Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.

  • Academic Articles

    • Lynch, S. M., and E. Zang. “Bayesian Multistate Life Table Methods for Large and Complex State Spaces: Development and Illustration of a New Method.” Sociological Methodology 52, no. 2 (August 1, 2022): 254–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750221112398.
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    • Zang, Emma, Scott M. Lynch, Chen Liu, Nancy Lu, and Julia Banas. “Racial/Ethnic and Educational Disparities in the Impact of Diabetes on Population Health Among the U.S.-Born Population.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 77, no. 8 (August 2022): 1519–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab149.
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    • Steele, L. G., A. Bostic, S. M. Lynch, and L. Abdelaaty. “Measuring Ethnic Diversity.” Annual Review of Sociology 48 (January 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-030420-015435.
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    • West, Jessica S., and Scott M. Lynch. “Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 76, no. 5 (April 2021): 944–55. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa166.
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    • Read, Jen’nan Ghazal, Scott M. Lynch, and Jessica S. West. “Disaggregating Heterogeneity among Non-Hispanic Whites: Evidence and Implications for U.S. Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities.” Population Research and Policy Review 40, no. 1 (February 2021): 9–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-020-09632-5.
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    • Bardo, Anthony R., and Scott M. Lynch. “Cognitively Intact and Happy Life Expectancy in the United States.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 76, no. 2 (January 2021): 242–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz080.
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    • Zang, Emma, Scott M. Lynch, and Jessica West. “Regional differences in the impact of diabetes on population health in the USA.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75, no. 1 (January 2021): 56–61. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214267.
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    • Dupre, Matthew E., Hanzhang Xu, Bradi B. Granger, Scott M. Lynch, Alicia Nelson, Erik Churchill, Janese M. Willis, Lesley H. Curtis, and Eric D. Peterson. “Access to routine care and risks for 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease.” Am Heart J 196 (February 2018): 9–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2017.10.001.
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    • Taylor, Miles G., Scott M. Lynch, and Stephanie Ureña. “Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey.” Journal of Aging and Health 30, no. 2 (February 2018): 167–89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264316673178.
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    • Berchick, Edward R., and Scott M. Lynch. “Regional Variation in the Predictive Validity of Self-Rated Health for Mortality.” Ssm  Population Health 3 (December 2017): 275–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.010.
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    • Dupre, Matthew E., Alicia Nelson, Scott M. Lynch, Bradi B. Granger, Hanzhang Xu, Erik Churchill, Janese M. Willis, Lesley H. Curtis, and Eric D. Peterson. “Socioeconomic, Psychosocial and Behavioral Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized With Cardiovascular Disease.” Am J Med Sci 354, no. 6 (December 2017): 565–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjms.2017.07.011.
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    • Dupre, Matthew E., Alicia Nelson, Scott M. Lynch, Bradi B. Granger, Hanzhang Xu, Janese M. Willis, Lesley H. Curtis, and Eric D. Peterson. “Identifying Nonclinical Factors Associated With 30-Day Readmission in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: Protocol for an Observational Study.” Jmir Res Protoc 6, no. 6 (June 15, 2017): e118. https://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.7434.
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    • Bardo, Anthony R., Scott M. Lynch, and Kenneth C. Land. “The Importance of the Baby Boom Cohort and the Great Recession in Understanding Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns in Happiness.” Social Psychological and Personality Science 8, no. 3 (April 2017): 341–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616673874.
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    • Lynch, Scott M. “Commentary on "Disability Trajectories at the End of Life: A Countdown Model" The Problems With Time-to-Death as a Predictor of Disability.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 70, no. 5 (September 2015): 753–56. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbv001.
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    • Vasunilashorn, Sarinnapha, Scott M. Lynch, Dana A. Glei, Maxine Weinstein, and Noreen Goldman. “Exposure to stressors and trajectories of perceived stress among older adults.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 70, no. 2 (March 2015): 329–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbu065.
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    • Olson, William H., Yi-Wen Ma, Concetta Crivera, Jeff Schein, Patrick Lefebvre, François Laliberté, Katherine Dea, Guillaume Germain, and Scott M. Lynch. “Economic outcomes with prasugrel versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients: observations from prasugrel users and matched clopidogrel users.” Journal of Medical Economics 18, no. 12 (January 2015): 1074–84. https://doi.org/10.3111/13696998.2015.1076429.
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    • Olson, W. H., Y. -. W. Ma, F. Laliberté, P. Lefebvre, C. Crivera, J. R. Schein, L. E. Fields, K. Dea, G. Germain, and S. M. Lynch. “Prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients treated with prasugrel.” Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 39, no. 6 (December 2014): 663–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpt.12209.
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    • Olson, William H., Concetta Crivera, Yi-Wen Ma, Jessica Panish, Lian Mao, and Scott M. Lynch. “Bayesian data analysis in observational comparative effectiveness research: rationale and examples.” Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research 2, no. 6 (November 2013): 563–71. https://doi.org/10.2217/cer.13.73.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and L. Steele. “The Pursuit of Happiness in China: Individualism, Collectivism, and Subjective Well-Being During China's Economic and Social Transformation.” Social Indicators Research 114, no. 2 (2013): 441–51.
    • Owens, J., and S. M. Lynch. “Black and Hispanic Immigrants' Resilience against Negative-ability Racial Stereotypes at Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States.” Sociology of Education 85, no. 4 (2012): 303–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/41725490.
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    • Taylor, Miles G., and Scott M. Lynch. “Cohort differences and chronic disease profiles of differential disability trajectories.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 66, no. 6 (November 2011): 729–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbr104.
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    • Haller, W., A. Portes, and S. M. Lynch. “Dreams fulfilled dreams shattered: Determinants of segmented assimilation in the second generation.” Social Forces 89, no. 3 (March 1, 2011): 733–62. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2011.0003.
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    • Haller, W., A. Portes, and S. M. Lynch. “On the dangers of rosy lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters.” Social Forces 89, no. 3 (March 1, 2011): 775–81. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2011.0018.
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    • Haller, W., A. Portes, and S. M. Lynch. “On the Dangers of Rosy Lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters.” Social Forces 89, no. 3 (2011): 775–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/41290087.
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    • Haller, W., A. Portes, and S. M. Lynch. “Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation.” Social Forces 89, no. 3 (2011): 733–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/41290085.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and M. Taylor. “Cohort Differences in Chronic Disease Profiles of Differential Disability Trajectories.” Journals of Gerontology: Series B 66, no. 6 (2011): 729–38.
    • Lynch, Scott M., and J Scott Brown. “Obtaining multistate life table distributions for highly refined subpopulations from cross-sectional data: A Bayesian extension of Sullivan's method.” Demography 47, no. 4 (November 2010): 1053–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03213739.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Race, socioeconomic status, and health in life-course perspective: Introduction to the special issue.” Research on Aging 30, no. 2 (March 1, 2008): 127–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027507312086.
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    • Kimbro, R. T., S. M. Lynch, and S. McLanahan. “The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans.” Population Research and Policy Review 27, no. 2 (2008): 183–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/41217944.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health Across the Life Course: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Research on Aging 30, no. 2 (2008): 127–36.
    • Lynch, Christopher R., Suresh Khandekar, Scott M. Lynch, and James A. DiSario. “Sublingual L-hyoscyamine for duodenal antimotility during ERCP: a prospective randomized double-blinded study.” Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 66, no. 4 (October 2007): 748–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2007.02.052.
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    • Agarwala, R., and S. M. Lynch. “Refining the Measurement of Women's Autonomy: An International Application of a Multi-Dimensional Construct.” Social Forces 84, no. 4 (2006): 2077–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/3844490.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Explaining Life Course and Cohort Variation in the Relationship between Education and Health: The Role of Income.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47, no. 4 (2006): 324–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/30040325.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and J. S. Brown. “A New Approach to Estimating Life Tables with Covariates and Constructing Interval Estimates of Life Table Quantities.” Sociological Methodology 35, no. ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: 2005 / Copyright © 2005 American Sociological Association (2005): 189–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/4148847.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and J. S. Brown. “A new approach to estimating life tables with covariates and constructing interval estimates of life table quantities.” Sociological Methodology 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 177–225.
    • Zajacova, A., S. M. Lynch, and T. J. Espenshade. “Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Academic Success in College.” Research in Higher Education 46, no. 6 (2005): 677–706. https://doi.org/10.2307/40197441.
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    • Cornman, Jennifer C., Scott M. Lynch, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, and Hui-Sheng Lin. “Stability and change in the perceived social support of older Taiwanese adults.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 59, no. 6 (November 2004): S350–57. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/59.6.s350.
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    • Taylor, Miles G., and Scott M. Lynch. “Trajectories of impairment, social support, and depressive symptoms in later life.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 59, no. 4 (July 2004): S238–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/59.4.s238.
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    • Mustillo, S., J. Wilson, and S. M. Lynch. “Legacy volunteering: A test of two theories of intergenerational transmission.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66, no. 2 (May 1, 2004): 530–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2004.00036.x.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and B. Western. “Bayesian Posterior Predictive Checks for Complex Models.” Sociological Methods and Research 32, no. 3 (February 1, 2004): 301–35. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124103257303.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and J. Scott Brown. “Race, Aging, and Health: The History and Future of the Double Jeopardy Hypothesis.” Contemporary Gerontology 10, no. 3 (2004): 105–9.
    • Lynch, S. M., J. S. Brown, and K. G. Harmsen. “Black-white differences in mortality compression and deceleration and the mortality crossover reconsidered.” Research on Aging 25, no. 5 (September 1, 2003): 456–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027503254675.
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    • George, Linda K., and Scott M. Lynch. “Race differences in depressive symptoms: a dynamic perspective on stress exposure and vulnerability.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44, no. 3 (September 2003): 353–69.
    • Lynch, Scott M., J Scott Brown, and Katherine G. Harmsen. “The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 58, no. 3 (May 2003): S171–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/58.3.s171.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Cohort and Life-Course Patterns in the Relationship between Education and Health: A Hierarchical Approach.” Demography 40, no. 2 (2003): 309–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3180803.
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    • Lynch, Scott M., and Linda K. George. “Interlocking trajectories of loss-related events and depressive symptoms among elders.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 57, no. 2 (March 2002): S117–25. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/57.2.s117.
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    • Lynch, S. M., W. D. Magold, L. G. Bean, D. J. Adams, and W. A. Schwab. “Who Goes, Who Stays: An Assessment of the Effects of a Freshman Mentoring and Unit Registration Program on College Persistence.” Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice 4, no. 2 (2002): 107–34.
    • Morgan, S. P., and S. M. Lynch. “Success and future of demography: the role of data and methods.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954 (December 2001): 35–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02745.x.
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    • Brown, J. S., S. M. Lynch, and K. G. Harmsen. “Effect of measurement of disability on active life expectancy estimayes: Does measurement matter?” Gerontologist 41 (October 1, 2001): 116–116.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Where biodemographic theory and demographic data meet: a review of the Quest for Immortality (by Olshansky and Carnes). Essay review.” Social Biology 48, no. 3–4 (September 2001): 329–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2001.9989042.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and J. S. Brown. “Reconsidering mortality compression and deceleration: an alterative model of mortality rates.” Demography 38, no. 1 (February 2001): 79–95. https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2001.0007.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Measurement and prediction of aging anxiety.” Research on Aging 22, no. 5 (January 1, 2000): 533–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027500225004.
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    • Barrett, A. E., and S. M. Lynch. “Caregiving networks of elderly persons: variation by marital status.” The Gerontologist 39, no. 6 (December 1999): 695–704. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/39.6.695.
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  • Book Sections

    • Lynch, S. M., K. C. Land, Y. C. Yang, and Z. Yi. “28 Mathematical Demography.” In Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 747–74, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10910-3_29.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and M. G. Taylor. “Trajectory Models for Aging Research.” In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences: Eighth Edition, 23–51, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-417235-7.00002-0.
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    • Lynch, S. M. “Bayesian Theory, History, Applications, and Contemporary Directions.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition, 378–82, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.43013-8.
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    • Brown, J. S., and S. M. Lynch. “A demographer’s view: Population structures tell a story about lifecourses.” In Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective: Critical and International Approaches, 13–27, 2015.
    • Lynch, S. M., and M. G. Taylor. “Trajectory Models for Aging Research.” In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, 23–51, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-417235-7.00002-0.
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    • Lynch, S. M., and H. Kugelmass. “Types of stressors.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Behavior, and Society, edited by W. C. Cockerham, R. Dingwall, and S. Quah. Blackwell, 2014.
    • Lynch, S. M. “How Many Lags of X?” In Taxing the Poor:  Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged, edited by K. Newman and R. O’Brien, 163–74. University of California Press, 2011.
    • Lynch, S. M., and J. S. Brown. “Demographic Approaches and Their Potential Applications in Third Age Research.” In Gerontology in the Era of the Third Age: Implications and Next Steps, edited by D. C. Carr and K. Komp, 89–106. Springer, 2011.
    • Lynch, S. M., and J. Scott Brown. “Stratification and Inequality over the Life Course.” In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by R. H. Binstock and L. K. George, 105–17. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2010.
    • Lynch, S. M., J. Scott Brown, and M. G. Taylor. “The Demography of Disability.” In International Handbook of Population Aging, edited by P. Uhlenberg, 567–82. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
    • Lynch, S. M., and J. Scott Brown. “Race, Ethnicity, and Aging.” In Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, edited by K. Markides, 204–8. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.
    • Lynch, S. M. “Bayesian Statistics.” In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, edited by K. Kempf-Leonard, 135–44. Elsevier, Inc, 2005.
    • Lynch, S. M., and S. Philip Morgan. “Demography's Success and Its Future: The Role of Data and Methods.” In Population Health and Aging: Strengthening the Dialogue Between Epidemiology and Demography., edited by M. Weinstein, A. I. Hermalin, and M. A. Stoto, 954:35–51, 2001.

  • Conference Papers

    • Kaye, S. M., M. G. Bell, R. E. Bell, E. D. Fredrickson, B. P. Leblanc, K. C. Lee, S. Lynch, and S. A. Sabbagh. “Energy confinement scaling in the low aspect ratio National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX).” In Nuclear Fusion, 46:848–57, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/46/10/002.
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    • Kaye, S. M., M. Valovic, A. Chudnovskiy, J. G. Cordey, D. McDonald, A. Meakins, K. Thomsen, et al. “The role of aspect ratio and beta in H-mode confinement scalings.” In Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 48, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/48/5A/S44.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • SOCIOL 701: Current Debates and Professional Concerns in Sociology 2023
  • SOCIOL 791: Individual Research in Sociology 2023
  • GLHLTH 340: Social Determinants of US Health Disparities 2022
  • SOCIOL 361: Social Determinants of US Health Disparities 2022
  • SOCIOL 701: Current Debates and Professional Concerns in Sociology 2022
  • SOCIOL 726S: Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis 2022
  • SOCIOL 890: Special Readings 2022
  • GLHLTH 340: Social Determinants of US Health Disparities 2021
  • SOCIOL 361: Social Determinants of US Health Disparities 2021
  • SOCIOL 701: Current Debates and Professional Concerns in Sociology 2021
  • SOCIOL 729S: Structural Equation Modeling 2021
  • SOCIOL 890: Special Readings 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Mortality Selection and Its Benefits: Modeling Long-Term Cohort Survival Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. Institute for Population Research, Ohio State University. April 2014  2014
  • Region of Socialization vs. Region of Current Residence and Mid-to-late Adulthood Health Outcomes in the US.. REVES. 2014  2014
  • Mortality Selection and Its Benefits: Modeling Long-Term Cohort Survival Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. Duke University Department of Sociology. October 2013  2013
  • African American Utilization of Healthcare by Region Socialized: A Life Course Perspective. GSA. 2013  2013
  • Early Life Region of Residence vs. Current Residence and Later Life Health: Patterns and Preliminary Explanations. GSA. 2013  2013
  • Explaining the Effect of Current U.S. Region of Residence on Health Expectancies: The Role of Health Care Infrastructure. REVES. 2013  2013
  • R03/R21/R01 Ad Hoc Study Section Reviewer. NIH. 2013  2013
  • Regional Variation in Happy Life and Healthy Life Expectancies in the U.S.. REVES. 2013  2013
  • Regional Variation in Self-rated Health and Subjective Well-Being. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education. 2013  2013
  • Regional Variation in the Relationship between Self-Rated Health and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Age-Period-Cohort. GSA. 2013  2013
  • The Importance of Region of Birth and Early Life vs. Current Residence to Healthy Life Expectancy in the U.S.: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. REVES. 2013  2013
  • Applied Bayesian Statistics. Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, NYU School of Nursing. November 2012  2012
  • Selective Mortality in Life Course Research: Consequences, Usefulness, and Solutions. Population Research Center, NORC, University of Chicago. November 2012  2012
  • Cognitive Function, Education, and Earning Potential. 12th International Conference on Long-Term Complications of Treatment of Children and Adolescents for Cancer. June 2012  2012
  • Example of Applied Bayesian Statistics: Estimating the Effect of Covariates on Survival in Cross-Sectional Data. Annual Social Science Methodology Conference. Penn State University. May 2012  2012
  • Application of Bayesian Statistics in Social Science. CSU-LB. March 2012  2012
  • Estimating the Influence of Fixed Covariates on Long-Term Survival Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. Presented at PAA. 2012  2012
  • Missing Data: Emergent Issues in the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 2001-2010. Presented at GSA. 2012  2012
  • Trajectories of Perceived Stress and Exposure to Stressors Among Older Adults. Presented at GSA. 2012  2012
  • Selective Mortality in Life Course Research. 2011 Nam Lecture . College of Social Sciences and Public Policy. March 2011  2011
  • The Application of Bayesian Statistics in Social Science. Maxwell School. February 2011  2011
  • Estimating and Employing Survival Weights for Life Course Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. Presented at GSA. 2011  2011
  • Regional Variation in the Effect of Race on Depression: Residence in Early Life vs. Current Residence. Presented at GSA. 2011  2011
  • Role of SES in Producing Sex Differences in HLE in the US, 1972+. Presented at REVES. 2011  2011
  • The Importance of Region of Birth and Early Life vs. Current Residence t Health and Mortality. Presented at PAA. 2011  2011
  • Black-White Difference in Health and Mortality Since the Civil Rights Movement: The Role of Socioeconomic Status. Department of Policy Analysis and Management. November 2010  2010
  • Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics. ICPSR. June 2010  2010
  • Black-White Differences in Health and Mortality Since the Civil Rights Movement: The Role of Socioeconomic Status. 2010 P.K. Whelpton Lecture. Scripps Gerontology Center. April 2010  2010
  • Happy Life and Healthy Life in the US. Department of Sociology, New York University. January 2010  2010
  • Immigrant and Domestic Minorities’ Racial Identities and College Performance. Presented at PAA. 2010  2010
  • Inequality in the Third Age. Presented at GSA. 2010  2010
  • Life Table Methods. Upper Midwest Training Conference Series in Population Studies. January 2010  2010
  • Selective Mortality and Life Course Research: Consequences and Solutions. Presented at GSA. 2010  2010
  • Selective Survival: Consequences and Solutions in Demographic Research. Presented at PAA. 2010  2010
  • The Use of Simulation in Demography. Upper Midwest Training Conference Series in Population Studies. University of Minnesota. January 2010  2010
  • Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics. ICPSR Seminar. June 2009  2009
  • Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation. April 2009  2009
  • Happy Life and Healthy Life in the US. Department of Sociology, Brown University. March 2009  2009
  • Happy Life and Healthy Life in the US. Duke University Population Research Center. March 2009  2009
  • Happy and Healthy Life Expectancy. Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. February 2009  2009
  • Depressive Symptom Trajectories after an Unexplained Loss in Later Life: The Role of Locus of Control. Presented at PAA. 2009  2009
  • Handling Sampling Design in Bayesian Multistate Life Table Estimation. Presented at PAA. 2009  2009
  • Health and Quality of Life: Investigating Years to be Lived Healthy and Satisfied with Life. Presented at GSA. 2009  2009
  • US Population Aging and Its Consequences to Health Care. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2009  2009
  • Use of Bayesian Multistate and Sullivan Life Table Methods Software. Presented at REVES. 2009  2009
  • Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics. ICPSR Seminar. June 2008  2008
  • The Changing Role of Socioeconomic Status in Explaining Black-White Disparities in Healthy Life Over the Last Three Decades. Department of Sociology, Columbia University. February 2008  2008
  • Applied Bayesian Statistics. Odum Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill. January 2008  2008
  • Cohort Change in the Relationship between Education and Health: Human Capital vs. Credentials in Life Course Perspective. Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill. January 2008  2008
  • Growth Curve Modeling and Disentangling Age and Cohort Patterns. Presented at ASA. 2008  2008
  • Happy Life and Healthy Life and the Compression of Morbidity Reconceptualized. Presented at GSA. 2008  2008
  • Subjective Health and Income Since 1972. Presented at PAA. 2008  2008
  • The Changing Role of Socioeconomic Status in Explaining Black-White Disparities in Healthy Life. Presented at PAA. 2008  2008
  • Growth Curve Modeling. RWJ Society of Scholars Program. December 2007  2007
  • The Changing Role of Socioeconomic Status in Explaining Black-White Disparities in Healthy Life Over the Last Three Decades. California Center for Population Research. November 2007  2007
  • The Changing Role of Socioeconomic Status in Explaining Black-White Disparities in Healthy Life Over the Last Three Decades. CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. October 2007  2007
  • Growth Curve Modeling. Princeton University. June 2007  2007
  • Change in the Relationship Between Education and Health. Center for Inequality and the Life Course, Yale University. May 2007  2007
  • The Changing Role of SES in Explaining Black-White Disparities in Healthy Life Across Time Since the Civil Rights Movement. The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University. April 2007  2007
  • An Alternative to Sullivan’s Method for Estimating Multistate Life Table Quantities from Cross-Sectional Data. Presented at GSA. 2007  2007
  • Estimating Program Participation Expectancies by ADL: A Policy Application of Active Life Expectancy Methods. Presented at REVES. 2007  2007
  • Including Covariates and Constructing Interval Estimates of Multistate Life Table Quantities Using Cross-Sectional Data: An Alternative to Sullivan’s Method. Presented at PAA. 2007  2007
  • Multistate Life Table Distribution for Highly Refined Subpopulations from Cross-Sectional Data: A Bayesian Alternative to Sullivan’s Method. Presented at JSM. 2007  2007
  • Regional Variation in Healthy Life Expectancy in the US: Patterns and Explanations. Presented at REVES. 2007  2007
  • Multistate Life Tables with Covariates from Cross-Sectional Data: A Bayesian Alternative to Sullivan's Method. Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. December 2006  2006
  • Cohort Change in the Relationship between Education and Health: Human Capital vs. Credentials in Life Course Perspective. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. June 2006  2006
  • Bayesian Statistics. 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. 2006  2006
  • Differences in Death and Recovery Probabilities by Specific IADL Limitations. Presented at GSA. 2006  2006
  • Examining Patters in Divorced Life Expectancy by Race: An Application of a Bayesian Approach to Sullivan’s Method. Presented at PAA. 2006  2006
  • Racial Differences in Reporting Assistive Use in the United States: The Effects of Question Order. Presented at REVES. 2006  2006
  • Sullivan’s Method with Covariates: A Bayesian Approach for Obtaining Interval Estimates of Healthy Life for Specific Subpopulations.. Presented at REVES. 2006  2006
  • The changing Role of Socioeconomic Status in Explaining Back-White Disparities in Healthy Life Expectancy Across Time Since the Civil Rights Movement. Presented at GSA. 2006  2006
  • A Bayesian Approach to Multistate Life Tables for Use in Social Epidemiology. The Department of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University. November 2005  2005
  • Social Change in the Relationship between Education and Health: Human Capital vs. Credentials in Life Course Perspective. Department of Sociology, Penn State University. November 2005  2005
  • Structural Equation Modeling. Duke University. July 2005  2005
  • Active Life Expectancy by Region of Birth and Region of Current Reseidence. Presented at GSA. 2005  2005
  • Black-White Differences in Active Life Expectancy in the United States and the Explanatory Role of SES: Illustrations of a Bayesian Approach to Assessing the Importance of Intervening Variables in Multistate Life Tables. Presented at REVES. 2005  2005
  • How Does Use of Special Equipment Affect the Black-White Gap in Active Life Expectancy?. Presented at PAA. 2005  2005
  • Status-Based Estimates of Active Life Expectancy by type of Initial Limitation. Presented at PAA. 2005  2005
  • The Theory of and Methods Behind ADL Hierarchy: A Meta-Analysis. Presented at GSA. 2005  2005
  • Structural Equation Modeling. Duke University. June 2004  2004
  • Disability in Later Life: Exploring Patterns of Limitations Across Age. Presented at PAA. 2004  2004
  • Education and Active Life Expectancy: Years of Schooling versus Credentials. Presented at REVES. 2004  2004
  • Patterns of Disability Across Time: Differences in Death and Recovery Chances by Specific ADL. Presented at GSA. 2004  2004
  • Population and Status Based Active Life Expectancy Estimates by single ADL Patterns. Presented at REVES. 2004  2004
  • Refining the Measurement of Women’s Autonomy: The Case of rural India. Presented at PAA. 2004  2004
  • Socioeconomic Status, Recovery from Disability, and Mortality: Education and the Outcomes of Distinct Patterns of Limitation. Presented at GSA. 2004  2004
  • Double Jeopardy and Related Hypothesis: Racial Differences in Cause-Specific versus Overall Mortality. Carolina Population Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. March 2003  2003
  • Race Differences in Causes of Death: Double Jeopardy for Blacks, but for Which Causes?. Presented at PAA. 2003  2003
  • Racial Differences in Mortality by Cause of Death: the Mortality Crossover across Highly Selective and Less Selective Causes. Presented at GSA. 2003  2003
  • Socioeconomic Differences in US Active Life Expectancy: Application of a Bayesian Approach to Estimating Multistate Life Tables Using Multiple Waves of Data. Presented at REVES. 2003  2003
  • The Acculturation Hypothesis and the Hispanic Paradox: Breastfeeding in the Fragile Families Sample. Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Demographic Association. 2003  2003
  • Trajectories of Physical Disability and Distress: The Longitudinal Effects of Social Support. Presented at PAA. 2003  2003
  • Years of Education versus Credentials in Predicting Health: A Cohort Perspective. Presented at GSA. 2003  2003
  • A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Multistate Life Tables with Covariates. Conference: Progress in Estimating Active Life Expectancy. National Center for Health Statistics. October 9, 2002  2002
  • Bayesian Estimation of Life Tables. Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. August 2002  2002
  • Cohort and Life Course Patterns in the Education-Health Relationship. Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. August 2002  2002
  • Structural Equation Modeling with Fragile Families Data, Parts I and II. Office of Population Research, Princeton Universtiy. July 2002  2002
  • Structural Equation Modeling with Fragile Families Data, Parts I and II. Office of Population Research, Princeton University. June 2002  2002
  • A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Single Decrement, Multiple Decrement, and Increment-Decrement (Multistate) Life Tables: Inclusion of Covariates and Construction of Empirical Confidence Intervals for Life Expectancies. Presented at the annual meeting of the methodology section of ASA. 2002  2002
  • Cohort and Life course Patterns in the Education-Health Relationship: A Hierarchical Approach. Presented at PAA. 2002  2002
  • Disability Question Formats and Active Life Expectancy Estimates: A Comparison of Two Major National Surveys. Presented at PAA. 2002  2002
  • Explaining Temporal Variation in the Relationship Between Education and Health. Presented at GSA. 2002  2002
  • Socioeconomic Status and Active Life Expectancy: Are the Differences that Dramatic?. Presented at GSA. 2002  2002
  • Education and Life Course Health Trajectories. Notestein Seminar. Office of Population Research, Princeton Universtiy. November 2001  2001
  • A Bayesian Approach to Computing Confidence Intervals for Multistate Life Table Estimates. Presented at PAA. 2001  2001
  • Demography’s Success and Its Future: The Role of Data and Methods. Presented at the NIA Conference on Demography and Epidemiology: Frontiers in Health and Aging. 2001  2001
  • Effect of Measurement of Disability on Active Life Expectancy Estimates: Does Measurement Matter?. Presented at GSA. 2001  2001
  • Mortality Selection and the Life-Course Pattern of the Education-Health Relationship. Presented at GSA. 2001  2001
  • The Effect of Population Age Structures on Interest Rates and Stock Market Returns. Presented at GSA. 2001  2001
  • Black-White Differences in Mortality Deceleration and Compression and the Mortality Crossover Reconsidered. Presented at PAA. 2000  2000
  • Comparing Life Expectancy Estimates across Demographic Subpopulations: A Bayesian Approach to Hypothesis Tests. Presented at GSA. 2000  2000
  • Cross-National Differences in the Deceleration and Compression of Mortality. Presented at PAA. 2000  2000
  • Does Demography Determine the Dow's Density?. Presented at GSA. 2000  2000
  • Does Demography Determine the Dow’s Destiny?. Presented at GSA. 2000  2000
  • The Effects of a Program to Strengthen Social Support on College Persistence. Presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. 2000  2000
  • Who Goes, Who Stays: An Assessment of the Effect of a Freshman Mentoring and Unit Registration Program on College Persistence. Presented at the 40th annual AIR Forum. 2000  2000
  • Assessing Cohort Change in Disability Time Before Death: Results from Bayesian Regression Models for Censored Data. Presented at GSA. 1999  1999
  • Boom or Bust? The Macroeconomic Impact of the Baby Boom Generation. Presented at GSA. 1999  1999
  • Declining Disability Time Before Death Across Cohorts: Evidence for the Compression of Morbidity. Presented at PAA. 1999  1999
  • Modeling Death Rates with an Arctangent Curve: A Method for Examining Compression of Mortality and the Deceleration in Old-Age Mortality. Presented at GSA. 1999  1999
  • Trends in Private Pension Income Inequality between Women and Men, 1976-1995. Presented at PAA. 1999  1999
  • Macro Level Determinants of Elder Abuse: An Investigation of County Level Predictors of Abuse Rates. Presented at PAA. 1998  1998
  • Trajectories of Loss-Related Events, Depression and Self-Rated Health Among the Aged. Presented at GSA. 1998  1998
  • Quantifying Old: An Examination of the Age at Which Men and Women Become Old. Presented at GSA. 1997  1997
  • Aging Anxiety and the Midlife Crisis Revisited. Presented at GSA. 1996  1996
  • Rave Culture: The Commodification of a Counterculture. Presented at the University of Arkansas Graduate Student Conference. 1995  1995
  • Fictitious Capital, Postmodernity, and ideology: A Post-Marxist Examination of the Movie Wall Street. Presented at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Sociological and Anthropological Association. 1994  1994
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  Service to the Profession

  • Dissertation Committee. OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2015  2015
  • Dissertation Committee. OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2015  2015
  • Dissertation Committee. OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2015  2015
  • Dissertation Committee. OPR/WWS (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2015  2015
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology and OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2015  2015
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Princeton University. 2014  2014
  • Editorial Board. American Sociological Review. 2014  2014
  • Editorial Board. Social Forces. 2014  2014
  • NIH P01 proposal reviewer. NIH. 2014  2014
  • Study Section Member (Populations Sciences Committee). NIH. 2014  2014
  • Behavioral and Social Science Section Student Award Committee Member. Gerontological Society of America. 2013  2013
  • Cliff Clogg Award Committee member. Population Association of America. 2013 - 2016  2013 - 2016
  • Dissertation Committee (co-chair). Sociology, Princeton University. 2013  2013
  • Dissertation Committee (co-chair). Sociology, Princeton University. 2013  2013
  • Dissertation Committee. OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2013  2013
  • Gerontological Society of America, Behavioral and Social Sciences Representative. GSA Information Technology Committee. 2013 - 2016  2013 - 2016
  • Organizer, chair, and discussant. Statistical, Spatial, and Network Methods. session at PAA (Population Association of America). 2013  2013
  • Organizer. Methods and Models in Fertility Research. session at PAA (Population Association of America). 2013  2013
  • R03/R21/R34/R01 Ad Hoc Study Section Reviewer. NIH. 2013  2013
  • Discussant. Modeling Health and Disability. session at PAA (Population Association of America). 2012  2012
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Princeton University. 2012  2012
  • Editorial Board. Sociological Methodology. 2012  2012
  • Principle Investigator. "Understanding US Regional Health & mortality Disparities: A Life Course Approach. September 2011 - 2015  2011 - 2015
  • Chair. Early Life Health and Later Life Outcomes. session at PAA (Population Association of America). 2011  2011
  • Chair. Longevity. session at GSA (Gerontological Society of America). 2011  2011
  • Dissertation Committee (chair). OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2011  2011
  • Dissertation Committee. OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2011  2011
  • R03/R21/R01 Ad Hoc Study Section Reviewer. NIH. 2011  2011
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). Sociology, Princeton University. 2010  2010
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Princeton University. 2010  2010
  • Member. University Committee on Examinations and Standing. 2010 - 2013  2010 - 2013
  • R03/R21/R01 Ad Hoc Study Section Reviewer. NIH. 2010  2010
  • Discussant. Population Processes and Cognition. session at NIH funded "Cognition and Aging". 2009  2009
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology and OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2009  2009
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology and OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2009  2009
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Princeton University. 2009  2009
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Princeton University. 2009  2009
  • Dissertation Committee. WWS, Princeton Universtiy. 2009  2009
  • Editorial Board. Demography. 2009 - 2011  2009 - 2011
  • Editorial Board. The Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 2009 - 2011  2009 - 2011
  • Organizer and Chair. SALC session on Methodological Advances in Aging Research. ASA (American Sociological Association) meeting. 2009  2009
  • R03/R21/R01 Ad Hoc Study Section Reviewer. NIH. 2009  2009
  • Chair, Behavioral and Social Science Section Student Award Committee. GSA (Gerontological Society of America). 2008  2008
  • Dissertation Committee (co-chair). OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2008  2008
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). Sociology and OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2008  2008
  • Dissertation Committee. OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2008  2008
  • Chair. session on Specific Chronic Conditions. REVES (International Network on Health Expectancy and the Disability Process). 2007  2007
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). Sociology, Princeton University. 2007  2007
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). Sociology, Princeton University. 2007  2007
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). Sociology, Princeton University. 2007  2007
  • R03/R21 Ad Hoc Study Section Reviewer. NIH. 2007  2007
  • Special Issue Guest Editor. Social Sciences. 2007 - 2008  2007 - 2008
  • Behavioral and Social Science Section Student Award Committee. GSA (Gerontological Society of America). 2006 - 2008  2006 - 2008
  • Chair. Geographic Variation in Active Life Expectancy. session at REVES (International Network on Health Expectancy and the Disability Process). 2006  2006
  • Dissertation Committee (chair). Sociology and OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2006  2006
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. Demography of Disability. session at PAA (Population Association of America) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. International Demography of Disability . session at PAA (Population Association of America) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. Qualitative Methodology II. session at ASA (American Sociological Association) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. Quantitative Methodology I. session at ASA (American Sociological Association) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. Quantitative Methodology II. session at ASA (American Sociological Association) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. Race Differentials in Aging . session at PAA (Population Association of America) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer and Chair. Statistical/Computational Techniques in Demography. session at PAA (Population Association of America) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Organizer, chair, and discussant. Applications of Special Computational Methods. session at PAA (Population Association of America) meeting. 2006  2006
  • Principle Investigator. "Explanations of Racial disparities in Active Life". National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. July 2005 - June 2008  2005 - 2008
  • Chair. Research Methods & Issues. session at GSA (Gerontological Society of America) meeting. 2005  2005
  • Dissertation Committee (examiner). OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2005  2005
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology and OPR (Office of Population Research), Princeton University. 2005  2005
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Duke University. 2005  2005
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Duke University. 2005  2005
  • Dissertation Committee. Sociology, Princeton University. 2005  2005
  • Editorial Board. The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 2005 - 2008  2005 - 2008
  • Session Chair. Social Environment and Adult Health in Developing Countries. PAA (Population Association of America) annual meeting. 2004  2004
  • Co-Investigator (with Rachel T. Kimbro). "The Hispanic Paradox in Breastfeeding Behavior: The Role of Accultration". Centers for Migration and Development Summer Research Award, Princeton University. May 2003 - August 2003  2003
  • Brown Prize Committee. Award for best senior thesis. 2003 - 2005  2003 - 2005
  • Chair of Population and Aging Subcommittee. Program Committee. PAA (Population Association of America). 2003  2003
  • Computer Committee and OIT Liason. Dept. of Sociology, Princeton University. 2003 - 2005  2003 - 2005
  • Behavioral and Social Science Section Student Award Committee Member. GSA (Gerontological Society of America). 2002  2002
  • Editorial Advisory Board. Demographic Research. 2002  2002
  • Faculty Fellow and Academic Advisor. Wilson College. 2002 - 2007  2002 - 2007
  • Member. University Committee on Classrooms and Schedule. 2002 - 2005  2002 - 2005
  • PAA Program Committe, Member of Data & Methods and Health & Mortality Subcommittees. PAA (Population Association of America). 2002  2002
  • Library Oversight Committee. Office of Population Research, Princeton Unviersity. 2001  2001
  • Editoril Assistant. Demography. 1999 - 2000  1999 - 2000
  • Session Chair. Physical Disability, Religion, Positive Affect, Functional Ability, and Survival. annual GSA (Gerontological Society of America) meeting. 1999  1999

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