Ph.D. Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
“The Black-White-Other test score gap: academic achievement among mixed race adolescents,” Sociology of Education, 81, 1 (2009).
“Biracial Youth / Mixed Race Youth,” pp. 50-55 in Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Volume 1, Carr, Crosnoe, Hughes, & Pienta, (Eds.). Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA (2008).
“Ethnicity and Image:Correlates of Crowd Affiliation Among Ethnic Minority Youth,” by Brown, B. B., Herman, M. R., Hamm, J. V. & Heck, D. J. in Child Development, 79, 3, 528-545 (2008).
“Racial Identification among Multiracial Youth: Implications for Adjustment,” pp. 203-225, in The Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, S. Quintana & C. McKowan, (Eds.), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing Group (2008).
"Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multi-Racial Adolescents," Child Development, 75:3 (2004).
“I wouldn’t, but you can: attitudes toward interracial marriage” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008.
“Multiracial Phenotypes: Physician’s perceptions of race” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008.
“Multiracial Phenotypes in an Experimental Study: How observer characteristics affect perceptions of race.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2007.
Adolescent development
Multi-racial children
Achievement
Racial identification