Aaron Gullickson

727 PLC\
University of Oregon\
Eugene, OR 97403\
541-346-5061\
aarong@uoregon.edu\
https://aarongullickson.github.io\

Employment

2014-
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
2007-2014
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
2004-2007
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Education

2004
PhD, Sociology and Demography, University of California, Berkeley
2001
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
1999
MA, Demography, University of California, Berkeley
1998
BA, Sociology, University of Washington
1998
Minor, Statistics, University of Washington

Publications

Refereed Articles

2019
Gullickson, Aaron. “The Racial Identification of Young Adults in a Racially Complex Society.” Emerging Adulthood, 7(2): 150-161.
2018
Gullickson, Aaron. “The Diverging Beliefs and Practices of the Religiously Affiliated and Unaffiliated in the United States.” Sociological Science, 5: 361-379.
2017
Gullickson, Aaron. “Comments on Conceptualizing and Measuring the Exchange of Beauty and Status.” American Sociological Review, 82(5):1093-1099.
2016
Gullickson, Aaron. “Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference.” American Behavioral Scientist 60(4): 498-518.
2014
Gullickson, Aaron and Florencia Torche. “Patterns of racial and educational assortative mating in Brazil.” Demography 51(3):835-856.
2013
Marwell, Nicole P. and Aaron Gullickson. “Inequality in the Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: The Distribution of Government Contracts to Nonprofit Organizations in New York City.” Social Services Review 87(2): 319-353.
2013
Saperstein, Aliya and Aaron Gullickson. “A Mulatto Escape Hatch? Examining Evidence of U.S. Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era.” Demography 50(5):1921-1942. Winner of the 2013 IPUMS Research Award for best article using IPUMS-USA data.
2011
Gullickson, Aaron and Ann Morning. “Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification.” Social Science Research 40(2):498-512.
2010
Gullickson, Aaron. “Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880.” American Journal of Sociology 116(1):187-231.
2010
Gullickson, Aaron and Vincent Kang Fu. “Comment: An Endorsement of Exchange Theory in Mate Selection.” American Journal of Sociology 115(4):1243-1251.
2006
Gullickson, Aaron. “Education and Black/White Interracial Marriage. Demography 43(4):673-689.
2006
Gullickson, Aaron. “Black-White Interracial Marriage Trends, 1850-2000.” The Journal of Family History 31(3):1-24.
2005
Gullickson, Aaron. “The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differential in Post-Civil Rights America.” Social Forces 84(1): 157-180.
2004
Hammel, Eugene A. and Aaron Gullickson. “Kinship Structure and Survival: Maternal Mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian Border, 1750-1898.” Population Studies 58(2):145-159.
2004
Beilman, Greg J., Jodie H. Taylor, Lisa Job, Jesse Moen, and Aaron Gullickson. “Population-based prediction of trauma volumes at a level I trauma centre.” Injury 35(12):1239-1247.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2005
Hammel, Eugene A. and Aaron Gullickson. “Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Slavonia” in Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 277-306.

Awards and Honors

2018
Excellence Award for Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate School, University of Oregon.

Grants Awarded

External Funding

2007
“The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources and Urban Poverty.” National Science Foundation Grant SBR #0648320. $104,452. Co-Principal Investigator with Nicole Marwell.
2005
“Socioeconomic and Kinship Factors in Infant and Child Mortality in Historical Slavonia.” National Science Foundation Grant SBR #0514291. $32,367. Co-Principal Investigator with Eugene Hammel.

Institutional Funding

2006
“The Development and Diffusion of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes in the United States, 1800-1967.” 2006. Columbia University Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant. $3000.

Recent Presentations

Invited Talks

2015
“Essential Measures: Race, Ancestry, and Social Difference.” Paper presented at the Demography Training Seminar, Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 8.
2010
“Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification.” Paper presented at the Bay Area Colloquium on Population, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, December 2. (co-authored with Ann Morning)
2009
“Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880.” Paper presented at the Sociology Department Colloquium Series, University of Washington, October 6.
2009
“Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880.” Paper presented at the Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, February 9.

Conference Presentations

2011
“A Mulatto Escape Hatch? Examining Evidence of U.S. Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April, Washington DC.
2009
“Red, White, and Black: Interracial Marriage from 1850 to 2000.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April, Detroit, MI.
2009
“Black/Irish: How did Americans understand their multiracial ancestry in Census 2000?” 2009. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April, Detroit, MI.

Teaching

Courses Taught

  • Quantitative Methods in Sociology (undergraduate)

  • Sociology of Race Relations (undergraduate)

  • Mixed Race in the Americas (undergraduate)

  • Residential Segregation (undergraduate)

  • Racial Identities: Whiteness and Mixed Race in America (undergraduate)

  • Global Population (undergraduate)

  • Issues in Family Sociology (undergraduate)

  • Sociological Research Methods (graduate statistics course with research component)

  • Racial and Ethnic Inequality (graduate seminar)

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees

TBD
Katie Warden. Advocacy Strategies of Parents of Children with Disabilities. Sociology, University of Oregon.
TBD
Michelle Alexander. Playing Gods. Sociology, University of Oregon.
TBD
Alberto Lioy. Electoral Revolutions: a comparative study of rapid changes in voter turnout. Political Science, University of Oregon. (outside member)
2019
Drew McNichols. Essays in Labor Economics. Economics, University of Oregon. (outside member)
2019
Nathan Biemiller. Essays in Behavioral Economics. Economics, University of Oregon. (outside member)
2018
Tongyu Wu. Coding Productivity: Negotiation of Ethnicized Masculine Boundaries in High-Tech Corporations. Sociology, University of Oregon.
2017
MeCherri Abedi-Anim. African Immigrant Identities: Black Identity and Racial Solidarity in Post-Civil Rights America. Sociology, University of Oregon. (chair)
2017
Shih-Chi Lin. Structural Changes and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in Post-reform China. Sociology, University of Oregon. (chair)
2017
Martha Camargo. Reinvigorating the Contact Hypothesis. Sociology, University of Oregon.
2017
Uyen Nguyen. Vietnamese American Racialization and Ethnic Organizations. Sociology, University of Oregon.
2017
Erica G. Birk. Essays in Health and Labor. Economics, University of Oregon. (outside member)
2016
Joshua Melton. Beyond One-Size Fits All: Using Heterogeneous Models to Estimate School Performane in Mathematics. Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership, School of Education. (outside member)

Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committees

2018
Mirranda Willette, Food and Society, University of Oregon.
2016
Kathryn Norton-Smith, Race/Ethnicity, University of Oregon.
2015
Katie Warden, Race/Ethnicity, University of Oregon.
2013
Kathleen Thomas, Criminology, Sociology, University of Oregon.
2012
Rob Molinar, Social Stratification, Sociology, University of Oregon.
2012
MeCherri Tarver, Race/Ethnicity and Migration, Sociology, University of Oregon, (chair).
2011
Shi-Chi Lin, Marriage and Family, Sociology, University of Oregon.
2008
Keith Appleby, Statistical Methods, Sociology, University of Oregon.

M.A. Committees

2019:
Mauricio Betancourt. “The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: a quantitative approach to Latin American food production.” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2018
Erickson, Natasha. “Labeling and Delinquency: Assessing the Relationship between Special Education and Gifted Labels and Post High School Arrests.” Sociology, University of Oregon. (chair)
2014
Dyer, Shauna. “Late to School: Public Transfers and the Educational Opportunities of Poor Mothers.” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2014
Fontenot, Justin. “3-2-1-Go! Barbells, Paleo, ! and Muscles!” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2012
Wu, Tongyu. “One Store, Two Fates: Urban and Rural Workers in the Beijing Retail Stores.” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2012
Fulbright, Leslie. “A coffin or a cell: An Urban Family Portrait.” Literary Nonfiction, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon.
2011
Uyen L. Nguyen. “Vietnamese Americans and Ethnic Authenticity at a Culture Camp for Co-ethnic transracial adoptees.” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2010
Kathy Thomas. “Toward a Theory of Transnationalized Transition.” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2010
Matt Friesen. “Contesting Symbolic Violence: Counter Recruitment and Resistance to the U.S. Military in Public Education.” Sociology, University of Oregon.
2009
Shih-Chi Lin. “Is there really a demand for sons?” Sociology, University of Oregon.

Undergraduate Honors Theses Advised

2016
Daniel Silberman. “The Punitive Hippies: Racial Group-Threat and Criminal Justice Outcomes in Oregon.” University of Oregon, Department of Sociology. (primary advisor)
2015
Anders Herreid-O’Neill. “The Hyper-White City: A Critique of Gentrification-Displacement Theory.” University of Oregon, Department of Sociology. (primary advisor)
2011
Ellen Hackenmueller. “Latino Lockup: Hispanic Cultural Identity and Other Factors Influencing Successful Post-Incarceration Community Re-Entry.” University of Oregon, Clark Honors College and Department of International Studies. (primary advisor)
2009
Maggie Price. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: The Effects of Age at Parental Divorce on Marital Stability in Adulthood.” University of Oregon, Department of Sociology. (primary advisor)
2009
Yusuke Makino. “Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes: Life Chances of the Poor.” University of Oregon, Department of Sociology. (primary advisor)

Service

Departmental Service

2014-
Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, University of Oregon
2014-
Admissions and Award Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon (chair)
2017-2018
Merit Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon.
2016-2017
Executive Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon.
2012-2014
Colloquium Series co-Organizer, Sociology, University of Oregon
2011-2013
Faculty Development Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2008-2010
Colloquium Series Organizer, Sociology, University of Oregon
2007-2008
Curriculum Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon
2006-2007
Admissions Committee, Sociology, Columbia University
2004-2007
Graduate Student Travel Grant Coordinator, Columbia University

University Service

2019-
University Senator, University of Oregon
2019-2020
Social Sciences Academic Continuity Team, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
2018-2019
Excellence Awards Selection Committee, University of Oregon Graduate School
2017-2018
Communities for Accelerating the Impact of Teaching-Teaching Online, Teaching Engagement Program, University of Oregon
2016-2019
Undergraduate Research Award Committee, University of Oregon Libraries
2010-2011
Advisory Committee Member, Social Science Instructional Lab, University of Oregon

Professional Service

2019-
Editor, Socius
2018-2019
Selection Committee, James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award from the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2014-2016
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology
2012-2013
Advisory Editor, Sociological Perspectives
2011-2013
Advisory Editor, Social Problems

Manuscript reviewer for: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Demographic Research, Demography, Historical Methods, Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Sociological Perspectives