Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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Stephen Matthews
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
507 Oswald Tower Personal: http://athens.pop.psu.edu/CtrPRI/DirBio.cfm?PeopleID=32 |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Wales, Cardiff (United Kingdom), 1991.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Matthews research interests focus on the connections between people and places focusing on vulnerable populations, in particular low-income families in diverse urban and rural contexts across the United States. Matthews is currently exploring the use of geoethnography (the integration of ethnography and GIS) to help better understand the spatial and temporal components of human behavior. He is specifically exploring the degree to which families are able to jump scale to take advantage on non-local resources, opportunities, and social networks. Matthews has a long standing interest in spatial demography and the use of GIS in applied and basic research. Much of the work to date has focused on either population and environment research or health and wellbeing research. Matthews is the Director of the Geographic Information Analysis (GIA) Core and Senior Research Associate in the Population Research Institute. The GIA Core webpage can be found at http://www.pop.psu.edu/gia-core/.
Teaching interests are in Health, Disease & Society/Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Spatial Demography and GIS/Spatial Analysis.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Current and recent research funding as PI or co-PI includes:
Neighborhood Food Environment, Diet and Health: Quasi-Experimental Study
PI: Stephen Matthews; co-PI Steven Cummins (London)
NIEHS 2006-2008
Collaborative Research: Measuring Spatial Segregation
PIs: Sean Reardon (Stanford) & Stephen Matthews (Penn State)
NSF 2005-2008
See project website http://www.pop.psu.edu/mss/
National Children's Study - Westmoreland County
PI: Carol Weisman; co-PI Marianne Hillemeier and Stephen Matthews
NICHD/U Pitt subcontract to Penn State 2007-2011
Advanced Spatial Analysis Training Program for Population Scientists (R25)
PI: Stephen Matthews
NICHD 2008-2012; Pending
See project website http://csiss.ncgia.ucsb.edu/GISPopSci/
Spatiotemporal Dimensions of Population Change in the Northern Orkney
Islands, c. 1735-2000
PI: Jim Wood; Co-PIs Pat Johnson, Tim Murtha, and Stephen Matthews
NSF Agents of Change 2006-2009
Global Health and Georesource Management in Africa."
PI: Collins Airhihenbuwa; co-PIs: Petra Tschakert, Michael Adewumi,
Stephen Matthews & Zhengmin Qian
Fogarty International Center/NIH 2006-2009
GIS Training Program for Population Scientists (R25)
PI: Stephen Matthews
NICHD 2005-2007
Family Resource Allocation in Urban and Rural Communities
PI: Linda Burton; Co-PIs: Debra Skinner (UNC) & Stephen Matthews
NSF 2004-2007"
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Matthews currently serves on the Editorial Board of American Journal of
Preventive Medicine (2005-2008), and served on the editorial board of
Health and Place (1994-2004).
Mattthews is a regular reviewer for the National Institutes of Health,
currently serving a three-year term on the Community Influences on Health
Behavior (CIHB) panel. He has served on the NICHD R24/R21 Population
Infrastructure panel, a special NICHD panel on Infrastructure for Data
Sharing and Archiving, an NCI GIS and Cancer panel, and an NIEHS panel on
Health, Environment, and Economic Development (HEED).
Matthews was the inaugural chair of the GIS Council, The Pennsylvania
State University (2001-2004) and currently serves as a board member
representing both the College of the Liberal Arts and the Social Science
Research Institute (SSRI).
Matthews has served in administrative capacities for the Association of American Geographers (AAG): Medical Geography Specialty Group, as a past chair of the Census Advisory Committee (1996-97), and served as a representative to COPAFS. He has also worked closely with the Population Association of America (PAA) as the GIS workshop coordinator (1998-2003).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Lee, B.A., Reardon, S.F., Firebaugh, G., Farrell, C.R., Matthews, S.A. and O'Sullivan, D. "Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales." (Conditional acceptance, American Sociological Review)
Reardon, S.F., Matthews, S.A., O'Sullivan, D., Lee, B.A., Firebaugh, G., Farrell, C.R. and Bischoff, K. (2008) "The Geographical Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation." (forthcoming in Demography).
Matthews, S.A. (2008) "The salience of neighborhoods: lessons from early Sociology?". American Journal of Preventive Medicine 34 (3) 257-259.
Matthews, S. A., Detwiler, J. E. and L. M. Burton. (2005) “Geoethnography: Coupling Geographic Information Analysis Techniques with Ethnography Methods in Urban Research.” Cartographica 40 (4) 75-90.
Kaduri, P., Gilreath, T. Kilonza, G., King, G., Flisher, A. and Matthews, S.A. (2005) "The influence of social networks on adolescent smoking in Dares Salaam, Tanzania.” Promotion and Education 12 (2), 10-14.
Skinner, D., Matthews, S. A., and Burton, L.M. (2005) “Using Ethnography and Geographic Information Systems Technology to Examine Constructions of Developmental Opportunities in Contexts of Poverty and Disability.” In T. Weisner (Ed.) Discovering successful pathways in Children’s development: Mixed methods in the study of childhood and family life (MacArthur Foundation: University of Chicago Press).
Matthews, S.A. and B. Gubhaju. (2004) “Contextual Influences on the Use of Antenatal Care in Nepal.” DHS Geographic Studies 2. Calverton, MD, USA: ORC Macro International.
Matthews, S. A., Shivakoti, G. P. and Chhetri, N. (2000). “Population Forces and Environmental Change: Observations from Western Chitwan, Nepal. Society and Natural Resources, 13: 763-775.
McLaughlin, D.K. , D.T. Lichter and S.A. Matthews (1999). Demographic Diversity and Economic Change in Appalachia. Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission.
Matthews, S.A. (1999). “Working with PopMap: Integration of Population, Reproductive Health and Geographic Databases.” New York, NY: United States, Statistics Division.
Clogg, C. C., T. Rudas, S.A. Matthews (1998) “Analysis of Model Misfit, Structure and Local Structure in Contingency Tables using Graphical Displays based on the Misture Index of Fit” pp. 425-439 in Visualization of Categorical Data edited by Jorg Blasius and Michael Greenacre, Academic Press: New York.
Matthews, S. A., D. Ribar and M. Wilhelm (1997) "The Effects of Economic Conditions and Access to Reproductive Health Services on State Abortion and Birth Rates" Family Planing Perspectives 29(2): 52-60.
Matthews, S. A. (1990). “Epidemiology Using a GIS: A Need for Caution.” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 14(3): 213-221.