Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice

Shawn Dorius

504 Oswald Tower
Department of Sociology and The Population Research Institute
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-1047
Email: sdorius@psu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

eDUCATION

PhD. 2010 (expected). Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University.
Dissertation: Inequality Transition Theory: A Generalized Framework for Studying
Long-Run Change in Between-Country and Global Inequality, Chair (Glenn Firebaugh).

MS., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2004

BS., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1998

RESEARCH aND TEACHING INTERESTS

Globalization and Global Inequality

Stratification and Mobility

Demography

Attitudes and Social Change

PUBLICATIONS

Dorius, S.F. and G. Firebaugh. “Trends in Global Gender Inequality.” Social Forces (Forthcoming 2010).

Dorius, S.F. “Global Demographic Convergence? Reconsidering Inequality in National Fertility Estimates.” Population and Development Review. 34 (2008): 519-537.

Brown, R.B., S.F. Dorius, and R.S. Krannich. 2005. “The Boom-Bust-Recovery Cycle: Dynamics of Change in Community Satisfaction and Social Integration in Delta, Utah.” Rural Sociology. 70(1):28-49.

Dorius, S.F. Review of Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland, Sonya Salamon. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Rural Sociology. 2004. Vol. 69(1):152-155.

Brown, R.B., M. Clay, S. Paksima, S. F. Dorius, and K. Rowley. 2003. “Local Flexibility in Spending Mitigation Monies: A Case Study of Successful Social Impact Mitigation of the Intermountain Power Project in Delta, Utah.” Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. 21(3).

Dorius, S.F. and C.J. Dorius. 1998. “Assessment of FINCA International’s African Micro-credit Programs: Malawi and Uganda in Review.” Project Completion Report, FINCA International.

wORKING PAPERS

Dorius, S.F., R.B. Brown, and R.S. Krannich. “Adaptation or Cohort Replacement? Explaining the Long-term Recovery of Community Satisfaction in a Western Boomtown.” Rural Sociology. (Revise and Resubmit)

Dorius, S.F. and D. Alwin “On the Pervasiveness of Gender Ideology and Cohort Effects. A
Decomposition of Worldwide Trends in Gender Ideology.” (Editing final draft)

Dorius, S.F. “Cross-National Variation in Gender Ideology: Individual and Country-level Effects.” (First draft complete)

______. “Is Health Status Converging? Decomposing Self-Rated Health Status in the United States.” (First draft complete)

______. “Promise and Peril: Moving Beyond the Measurement of Income Inequality.” (First draft complete)

______. “Global Stratification and Macro-Level Income Mobility.” (Data collected and first stage analysis complete)

tEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sociology 100, Introduction to Sociology (online, World Campus), Instructor

Sociology 576, Advanced Statistical Methods, Teaching Assistant

Sociology 422, Social Stratification, Instructor

Sociology 300, Research Methods, Instructor

Sociology 111, Introduction to Sociology, Instructor

Sociology 574, Statistical Methods for Social Research, Teaching Assistant

Penn State 2006 Summer GIS Workshop, Assistant Instructor

gRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2008

College of the Liberal Arts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award Recipient, Pennsylvania State University

2007-08

Rock Ethics Dissertation Research Award. College of the Liberal Arts, Rock Ethics Institute

Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Research Award. College of the Liberal Arts, Dissertation Committee

College of the Liberal Arts Crawford Graduate Fellow

2005-07

NICHD Pre-Doctoral Demography Traineeship, Pennsylvania State University.

2004-05

University Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University.

1997-98

Sant Scholarship for Research on the Family. College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University.

1997-04

University Academic Scholarships, Brigham Young University.

1997

Program Evaluation: Project Vision. Office of Research and Creative Activities, Brigham Young University

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATES

2008

Consultant, The Association of Religion Data Archive, Pennsylvania State University

2005

Graduate Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University

2002-04

Graduate Research Assistant, Brigham Young University

1997-98

Field Researcher, Brigham Young University

2002-03

Field Interviewer, Wirthlin Worldwide

2000-03

Data Conversion Manager (directed data entry, survey research, and qualitative coding departments), Wirthlin Worldwide

1999-00

Data Entry & Survey Research Manager (directed data entry and survey research activities), Wirthlin Worldwide

Quantitative Methods Certificate. Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University

GIS Workshop Completion Certificate. Pennsylvania State University

pROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

2008

“Global Demographic Convergence? Reconsidering Inequality in National Fertility Estimates.” Dorius, S.F. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans.

2007

“Global Gender Inequality: Persistent or Declining” Dorius, S.F. and Glenn Firebaugh. Presented at the Mapping Global Inequality: Beyond Income Inequality Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz.

“Change in Beliefs or Change in Populations? A Decomposition of Cross-National
Trends in Gender Ideology.” Dorius, S.F. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York City.

2006

“Gender Inequality: An Assessment of World Trends in Economic, Political, Health, and Educational Gender Differences” Dorius, S.F. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles.

2004

“Revisiting Cosmopolitan-Local Construct: Assessing the Social Impacts of the Mercedes Benz Transplant to Vance, Alabama.” Gibbs, B., R.B. Brown, S.F. Dorius, and K. Young. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Sacramento.

“Tracking the Effects of Mega-Events on Rural Communities, Heber, Utah and the 2002 Olympics.” K. Young, R.B. Brown, S.F. Dorius, and B. Gibbs. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Sacramento.

2003

“The Boom-Bust-Recovery Cycle: Dynamics of Change in Community Satisfaction and Social Integration in Delta, Utah.” Brown, R.B., S.F. Dorius, and R.S. Krannich. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Montreal.

1999

“Assessment of FINCA International’s African Micro-credit Programs: Malawi and Uganda in Review.” 2nd Annual Micro-credit Conference, Brigham Young University