Matissa Hollister

E-mail: Matissa.Hollister@Dartmouth.edu

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Sociology Department
6104 Silsby Hall - Room 104
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755
(603) 646-3524

Harvard University, Ph.D., 2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.A.,  1998
Haverford University, B.A.,  1994

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format requires free Acrobat Reader)

Courses Taught At Dartmouth

• SOCY 7 FS Poverty in the US (course syllabus)
• SOCY 10 Quantitative Analysis of Social Data (course syllabus)
• SOCY 29 The Sociology of Work (course syllabus) (formerly Socy 39)
• SOCY 55 Poverty and Public Policy in the US (Identical to PBPL 86.1) (course syllabus)

Selected Publications

• Hollister, Matissa N. (2004). "Does Firm Size Matter Anymore? The New Economy and the Causes of the Firm Size Wage Effect." American Sociological Review 69:659-676.
• Hollister, Matissa N. (forthcoming, 2011). "Work and Careers in the New Economy." Annual Review of Sociology.

• Hollister, Matissa N. "A New Approach to Optimal Matching Insertion & Deletion Costs."
• Hollister, Matissa N. "The Rise in Occupation Changing Rates in the United States 1979-2007: Evidence from Three National Data Sources."
• Hollister, Matissa N. "Why Didn't the Joneses Keep Up? The Unusual Employment Outcomes of the Late Baby Boomers and the Future of Professional Occupations."

Current Projects

• Hollister, Matissa N. "The Adoption and Co-optation of the Term Downsizing in American News Media 1970-2007"
• An examination of the relationship between professional work and intergenerational mobility in the National Longitudinal Surveys.
• An analysis of U.S. establishment employment patterns 1971-2007 using EEO-1 reports
  • Occupational changes within and between establishments 1971-2007
  • The historical patterns and causes of corporate downsizing and restructuring 1971-2007

Research and Teaching Interests

• Social Stratification
• Sociology of Work
• Economic Sociology
• Organizations
• Quantitative Research Methods