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Curriculum Vitae (click here for a PDF version)

 

Text Box: Educational Background
2008		Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (anticipated)
Penn State University, University Park, PA
Dissertation: Economic Inequality, Economic Segregation, and Political Participation
Committee: Glenn Firebaugh (chair), Barry Lee, Stephen Matthews, and Eric Plutzer

2005		Master of Arts in Sociology
		Penn State University, University Park, PA
		Thesis: Income and Death Penalty Support

2002		Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in History (minor: Sociology)
		College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA


Research and Teaching Interests
Social Stratification, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Quantitative Methods


Manuscripts Under Review
Glenn Firebaugh and Matthew B. Schroeder.  2008.  “Does Your Neighbor’s Income Affect Your Happiness?”  Revise and resubmit, American Journal of Sociology.

Matthew B. Schroeder.  2008.  “Contextual Effects on Hispanics’ Political Participation: Ethnic or Economic?”  Under review at American Politics Research.
 
Matthew B. Schroeder.  2008.  “What Do Feminists and The Women’s Movement Mean to American Men?”  Under review at Sociological Forum.

Marylee C. Taylor and Matthew B. Schroeder.  2008.  “The Impact of Hispanic Population Growth on the Outlook of African Americans.”  Under review at Social Problems.


Manuscript In Progress
Matthew B. Schroeder.  2007.  “The Disappearance of the White Income Gap in Death Penalty Support, 1974-2004.”

Non-Refereed Publications
Matthew B. Schroeder.  2006.  “Rupert B. Vance: Space and the American South.”  Included in the CSISS Classics compilation of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, available at http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/109.  

Matthew B. Schroeder.  2003.  Review of To Save The Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface and Coal Mining in Appalachia.  Appalachian Journal 31(1). 


Conference Presentations
Matthew B. Schroeder.  2007.  “The Countervailing Effects of Ethnic and Socioeconomic Context on Hispanics’ Political Participation.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Aug. 11-14, New York, NY.

Matthew B. Schroeder.  2006.  “Income and White Death Penalty Support, 1974-2004.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Aug. 11-14, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Matthew B. Schroeder.  2006.  “Men’s Attitudes Toward Feminism.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 18-21, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Marylee C. Taylor and Matthew B. Schroeder.  2005.  “The Impact of Hispanic Population Growth in the Locality on the Outlook of African Americans,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 31 – Apr. 2, Philadelphia, PA.


Research Experience and Specialized Training
2006 – 	Research Assistant to Glenn Firebaugh
		Collaborated with research investigating relative income and happiness

2004 –	Collaboration with Marylee C. Taylor (research assistant 2004 – 2006)
		Collaborated with research investigating contextual influences on racial attitudes

Specialized Training: Event History Analysis, Multilevel Modeling (incl. both contextual analysis and measurement models), Spatial Analysis

Software Experience: Amos, ArcGIS, GeoDa, HLM, SPSS, Stata

Teaching Experience
2007	Instructor, Political Sociology (SOC 446).  Summer.
	Developed and taught an upper-level undergraduate course
		Teaching Assistant, Great Books (SOC 597A).  Fall.
	Graded weekly interpretive essays in course for first-year graduate students

2006	Instructor, Introduction to Sociology (SOC 001).  Summer.
	Developed and taught an introductory undergraduate course
		Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Social Statistics (SOC 470).  Spring.
	Developed and taught the SPSS computer lab component of undergraduate statistics course

2005	Teaching Assistant, Statistical Methods for Social Research (SOC 574).  Fall.
	Graded biweekly homework assignments for an introductory graduate social statistics course
		Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Social Statistics (SOC 470).  Spring, Summer.

2004	Teaching Assistant, Statistical Methods for Social Research (SOC 574).  Fall.
		Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociology (SOC 001).  Summer.


Professional Development and Service
Member, American Sociological Association, 2004 – current

Member, American Political Science Association, 2005 – current

Committee Service, Dept. of Sociology, Penn State University
Colloquium Committee, 2004 – current
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2004 – 2005
Minority Opportunities through School Transformation (MOST) Committee, 2006 – current


Text Box: References

Glenn Firebaugh
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
Penn State University
211 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA  16802
Phone: (814) 865-5001
E-mail: firebaug@pop.psu.edu

Barry Lee
Professor of Sociology and Demography
Penn State University
211 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA  16802
Phone: (814) 863-7430
E-mail: bal6@psu.edu

Stephen Matthews
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
Penn State University
211 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA  16802
Phone: (814) 863-9721
E-mail: matthews@pop.psu.edu

Marylee Taylor
Associate Professor of Sociology
Penn State University
211 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA  16802
Phone: (814) 865-1411
E-mail: taylor@pop.psu.edu