selected publications academic article Socioeconomic Diversity Among African Immigrants in the United States: An Intra-African Immigrant Comparison. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 17:115-130. 2016 The impact of place? A reassessment of the importance of the south in affecting beliefs about racial inequality. Social Science Journal. 51:12-20. 2014 Socioeconomic Differences among Blacks in America: Over Time Trends. Race and Social Problems. 6:103-119. 2014 The impact of status differences on gatekeeping: A theoretical bridge and bases for investigation. Current Research in Social Psychology. 22:27-38. 2014 Too small to see? African-American under-enrollment in advanced high school courses. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. 18:295-314. 2012 The interactive impact of race and gender on high school advanced course enrollment. Journal of Negro Education. 80:33-46. 2011 Differences in earnings among Black and White African immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000: A cross-sectional and temporal analysis. Sociological Perspectives. 53:573-592. 2010 Trends in marital happiness by gender and race, 1973 to 2006. Journal of Family Issues. 30:1379-1404. 2009 The state of black America on the heels of the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. Western Journal of Black Studies. 33:192-211. 2009 Double jeopardy? Female African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 35:1015-1035. 2009 The interaction of race and gender: Changing gender-role attitudes, 1974-2006. Social Science Quarterly. 90:196-211. 2009 Inclusion and ordering: The compounding effects of two distinct but related structural power conditions. Social Behavior and Personality. 36:1161-1178. 2008 Stereotype threat? Male and female students in advanced high school courses. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. 13:95-118. 2007 Separation and exclusion: Distinctly modern conditions of power?. Canadian Journal of Sociology. 30:41-70. 2005 The gatekeeper. Sociological Theory. 20:180-207. 2002 Applying resistance to ordering in exchange networks: A theoretical extension. Current Research in Social Psychology. 5. 2000 chapter Elementary theory: 25 Years of expanding scope and increasing precision. Advances in Group Processes. 175-217. 2014
research overview Areas of interest: Social psychology, race, ethnic, gender and class inequalities and racial and ethnic contexts of transnational migration
education and training Ph.D. in Sociology, University of South Carolina 2002 M.B.A. in Business Administration, Gardner-Webb University 1995