Sociology

Faculty & Staff

Mark Edwards, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3703
Phone: 541-737-5379
Fax: 541-737-5372
E-mail: medwards@oregonstate.edu

Areas of Interest:

• Social Inequality
• Public Policy
• Research Methods and Statistics
• Sociology of Food Insecurity and Housing

Current Projects:

• "Understanding Food Insecurity and Hunger in Oregon - 2009"
• "State Agency and NonProfit Collaboration Against Food Insecurity"
• "Measuring Housing Adequacy"

Brief Vita

Education:

• Ph.D. - Sociology, University of Washington 1997
• M.A. - Sociology, University of Washington 1992
• B.A. - Food Biochemistry, University of California at Davis 1984

Selected Publications:

• Edwards, Mark Evan and Lorelle Jabs.  2009.  "When Safety Culture Backfires:  Unintended Consequences of Half-Shared Governance in a High Tech Workplace."  The Social Science Journal 46:707-723.
• Edwards, Mark Evan, Melissa Torgerson, and Jennifer Sattem.  2009.  "Paradoxes of Providing Rural Social Services:  The Case of Homeless Youth."  Rural Sociology 74(3):330-355.
  
• Edwards, Mark Evan, Bruce Weber, and Stephanie Bernell. 2007. "Identifying Factors that Influence State-Specific Hunger Rates in the U.S.: A Simple Analytic Method for Understanding a Persistent Problem." Social Indicators Research 81(3):579-595.
• Bernell, Stephanie, Bruce Weber, and Mark Edwards. 2006. "Restricted Opportunities, Personal Choices, Ineffective Policies? What Explains Food Insecurity in Oregon." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 31(2):193-211.
• Edwards, Mark Evan. 2005. "Occupational Structure and the Employment of American Mothers of Young Children." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 26(1):31-53.
• Weber, Bruce, Mark Edwards, and Greg Duncan. 2004. "Single Mother Work and Poverty Under Welfare Reform: Are Policy Impacts Different in Rural Areas?" Eastern Economic Journal 30(1):31-51.
• Edwards, Mark and Bruce Weber. 2003. "Food Insecurity and Hunger in Oregon: A New Look." Working Paper 03-104. Rural Studies Program/Agricultural and Resource Economics Department. Oregon State University.
• Edwards, Mark Evan. 2002. "Education and Occupations: Re-examining the Conventional Wisdom about Later First Births Among American Mothers." Sociological Forum 17(3):423-443.
• Edwards, Mark Evan, Robert Plotnick, and Marieka Klawitter. 2001. "Do Attitudes and Personality Characteristics Affect Socioeconomic Outcomes?: The Case of Welfare Use by Young Women." Social Science Quarterly 82(4)829-845.
• Edwards, Mark Evan. 2001. "Home Ownership, Affordability, and Mothers' Changing Work and Family Roles." Social Science Quarterly 82(2)370-384.
• Edwards, Mark Evan. 2001. "Uncertainty and the Rise of the Work-Family Dilemma." Journal of Marriage and Family 63(1):183-196.
• Edwards, Mark Evan. 1996. "Pregnancy Discrimination Litigation: Legal Erosion of Capitalist Ideology under Equal Employment Opportunity Law." Social Forces 75(1):247-268.

Honors & Awards:

• 2004 College of Liberal Arts' Researcher of the Year Award
• 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Emerging Scholar Award
• 2003 Library Research Travel Grant (to Madrid, Spain)
• 2000 College of Liberal Arts' ECLAT Faculty Development Award