About Us

Carol Walther, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Carol Walther

Research Interests

Demography and Statistics, Gender and Sexualities, Demographic Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Demography of China, and Family

My areas of interest are demography, gender and sexualities, and the sociology of race and ethnicity. My current work examines same-sex households in the U.S. Census. I examine settlement patterns of same-gender couples and how they fill out the 2000 Census form. Another research project investigates the media representation of hate crimes. Furthermore, I examine premarital fertility and sexually transmitted infections in China and other Asian countries.

Education

Texas A&M University

Ph.D., Sociology, August, 2007                                                                                                                                         Dissertation:  Who Counts?:  How the State (Re)creates Households. Committee:  Dudley L. Poston, Jr. (chair), Sarah Gatson, Joseph Jewell, Rogelio Saenz, Jennifer Sandlin

M.S., Sociology, May, 2001                                                                                                     
Thesis: Unmarried Partners: A Comparison of Anglo, Black, Asian, and Hispanic Cohabitants From an Assimilation Perspective.                                                                                                                                                    

Indiana University

B.A., Sociology, May, 1996                                                                                                       

B.S., Biology, August, 1993

Certification

Texas A&M University

Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate, May 2001     

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Women’s Studies Graduate Student Research Award, Fall 1999, $500.
Women’s Spirit Month Student Award, Fall, 2001.
Neighbors in Need Grant, United Church of Christ. Helped produce the documentary, Where There Is A Will…There Will Be A Living Wage: The Story of Workers at Texas A&M University and the Struggle to Gain a Living Wage. Fall, 2004, $1,500.
Student representative to Texas A&M University China-U.S. Relations: Trade, Diplomacy, and Research Conference, Beijing, China, November, 2005.
Scholarship to attend Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Workshops. Quantitative Methods in Race and Ethnicity and Regression Analysis II. Texas A&M University Grant Writing Workshop.

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