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Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Teaching Statistics for Social Sciences online to undergraduate upperclassman, including data handling, univariate and bivariate statistics, and tests of significance.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Takoma Park, MD

Teaching Introduction to Sociology, with a focus on the practical application of social science theories and concepts.

Rockville, MD

Survey Manager, Annual National VA Survey of Veteran Enrollees' Health and Use of Health CareDuties include: - Developed and implemented complex sampling plan - Developed and implemented data collection plan, including multimodal instrument development and deployment and contact strategies - Recruited, hired, trained, and managed a staff of 10 call center.

Rockville, MD

Key Responsibilities:Develop study designs, sampling, analytical and implementation plans for complex survey research projectsDesign and test survey instrumentsIdentify areas for improvement in survey processes to reduce cost and/or improve response ratesImplement analytical plans, interpret results, and communicate results to varied audiencesCollaborate.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Duties include: generating national estimates from the School Crime Supplement (SCS), designing training materials for key users of the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) Data for the Distance Learning Dataset Training (DLDT) program, geospatial analyses of English Learner (EL) students, writing proposals and project and budget management

Fairfax, VA

Teaching Sociology of Religion - SOC 385 - to 20 undergraduate students from a variety of majors. The course relies heavily on primary texts and seminar-style directed conversation. The course description:"Sociology of Religion" introduces scholarly methods and theories for the study of religion. It explores the nature of religious beliefs and practices.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Duties include: writing proposals; overseeing survey research including: developing and testing instruments, fielding and collecting data, and analyzing and reporting results; overseeing qualitative data collection, including: creating interview and focus group protocols, conducting qualitative research, and analyzing and reporting results; supervising.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Duties include: maintaining statistics on the more than 250 Catholic colleges and universities across the country; using federal and state data on higher education for briefings for college and university presidents; producing original research on programs and attributes of Catholic higher education

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Duties include: managing and training field interviewers, both CATI and CAPI; data cleaning large data files; project management and budgeting; survey development

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Duties include: developing a qualitative protocol; conducting cognitive interviewing of respondents for decennial 2010 dress rehearsal; analyzing and reporting results of qualitative research; making recommendations for the Race and Ethnicity Working Group

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sociology

Dissertation: Defining Bullying: A Split-Ballot Experiment

Master Of Arts (Ma), Sociology, 3.850

Thesis: The Role of Community amongst African-American Girls and Science Education

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Sociology, 3.514

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor's Society Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities Graduated cum.