aging and the life course — demography — family — social networks — time use

Ph.D. Sociology, University of California – Irvine, 2011

M.A. Demographic and Social Analysis, University of California – Irvine, 2007

B.A. Sociology, University of Arizona, 2004, Magna Cum Laude

Marcum, Christopher Steven, Christine Bevc, and Carter T. Butts. “Mechanisms of Control in Emergent Interorganizational Networks,” (forthcoming in Policy Studies Journal 2012).

Treas, Judith and Christopher Steven Marcum. “Diversity and Family Relations in an Aging Society.” in Richard A. Settersten, Jr. and Jacqueline L. Angel (eds.) Handbook of Sociology of Aging, (commemorating the 30^th Anniversary of the ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course), Chapter 6, 2011.

Marcum, Christopher Steven. Book review of “Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications” by Thomas A. Valente. Contemporary Sociology, 2011.

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “Individual Gains from Organizational Ties: Small Explains How Institutions Facilitate Social Contact.” Book review of “Unexpected Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life” by Mario Luis Small. Contemporary Sociology, 2010.

Marcum, Christopher Steven and Judith Treas. “The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-national Perspectives.” in Merril Silverstein and Roseann Giarrusso (eds.) From Generation to Generation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aging Families, Chapter 3, (in press at Oxford University Press)

Butts, Carter T., Ryan M. Acton, and Christopher Steven Marcum “Interorganizational Collaboration in the Hurricane Katrina Response,” (forthcoming in Journal of Social Structure)

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “informR: R Tools for Creating Sequence Statistics.” version 1.0. Available for download from CRAN at: http://www.cran.r-project.org/web/packages/informR/

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “gooJSON: Google JSON Data Interpreter for R.” version 1.0. Available for download from CRAN at: http://www.cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gooJSON/

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “Age Differences in Daily Social Activities,” (under review at Research on Aging as of December, 2011)

Butts, Carter T, David Mendonça, Gary Webb, Lorien Jasny, Christopher Steven Marcum, and Ali Avni Cirik. “Scripts and Riffs in Human Action: Conventional and Improvised Behavior in Disaster Response”

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “Toward a Life Course Theory of Social Network Change: Kin and Non-Kin Relationships”

Marcum, Christopher Steven and Susan K. Brown. “Period and Cohort Effects of Black-White Residential Segregation in US Cities, 1990-2000”

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “Depending on Dependents: Children in Households with their Grandparents in the United States,”

Noymer, Andrew and Christopher Steven Marcum. “Revisiting the Hispanic Health Paradox” [working title]

• Faculty Lecturer, Urban Demography and Change, 2009–2010

• Introduced keynote speaker Judith Treas, Matilda White Riley Distinguished Career lecture, ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course, Las Vegas 2011
• Modeling Networks in R with statnet, with Carter T. Butts, ARS-Naples, Italy 2011
• R+Tcl/Tk: Introducing the tcltk R Package, by UCI R Seminar Series, 2009
• Thank Goodness for Spreadsheet Software Training (Graduate Level) by Prof. Judith Treas, 2006–2008
• Invited Reviewer, Exploring Society through Photography by Prof. Frank Cancian, 2006–2008
• Commodification of the Body in Death by Instr. Carol Glasser, 2007

• Sociology, Sociology Majors Seminar for Asst. Prof. Katherine Faust, 2006
• Sociology, American Culture Writing Seminar for Instr. Ben Jester, 2006
• Anthropology, Music as Expressive Culture for Prof. Robert Garfias, 2006
• Reader/Grader, Social Psychology for Instr. Georgiana Bostean, 2006
• Sociology, Religious Traditions of Asian Americans for Instr. Shampa Mazumdar, 2005

“The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-national Perspectives” with Judith Treas (presenter). Annual Meeting of the The Gerontological Society of America, Boston, November 2011

“Revisiting the Intergenerational Social Contract in Cross-National Perspective” with Judith Treas (presenter). ECPR: Public Opinion and the Politics of Retrenchment, Iceland, August 2011

“Age Differences in Social Activity Time Budgets.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011

“Age and Life Course Effects on Time Spent with Others in Personal Networks.” The Population, Society, and Inequality Colloquium Series. University of Califoria, Irvine, April 2011 [by invitation]

“Mortality Co-Movement at the National Level: A Quasi-Social Network Analysis” with Andrew Noymer (presenter) and Tanya Jukkala. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington D.C., April 2011

“Spending Time in Personal Networks Across the Life Course.” Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, March 2011 [by invitation]

“Temporality Effects on Copresence in Egocentric Personal Networks.” Annual Meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, St. Pete’s Beach, February 2011

“Homophily and Propinquity in Social Ties, and the Consequences for Neighborhood Cohesion” with John R. Hipp (presenter), Carter T. Butts, Nicholas N. Nagle, Ryan M. Acton, and Adam Boessen. Annual Meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, St. Pete’s Beach, February 2011

“Clique analysis of mortality co-movements: A new life expectancy time series analysis” with Andrew Noymer (presenter) and Tanya Jukkala. iussp Seminar on “Lifespan Extension and the Biology of Changing Cause-of-Death Profiles”, Rauischholzhausen, Germany, January 2011 [by invitation]

“The Effect of Health and Social Structure on Age Differences in Personal Networks,” Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, November 2010

“Life Course Explanations of Social Time Age-Curves,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010

“Key Findings from the Improvisation in Emergency Response Project:
Linking Cognition, Behavior, and Social Interaction,” with Carter T. Butts, David Mendonça, Gary Webb, et al., Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Natural Hazards Center, Broomfield, July 2010 [by invitation]

“How is Social Time Distributed Over the Age Pyramid? Demographic Baseline Models of Daily Social Interaction in Personal Networks,” Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Dallas, April 2010

“Mechanisms of Control in Emergent Interorganizational Networks,” with Christine A. Bevc and Carter T. Butts, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009

“Ethnicity and Poverty in Household Structure Formation,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009

“Age and Period Effects in Black-White Residential Segregation in 122 US Cities,” with Susan K. Brown, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, April 2009

“Relating Events to Structure: Evidence from the World Trade Center Police Reports,” with Lorien Jasny (presenter) and Carter Butts. Annual Meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, San Diego, March 2009

“Trends in Euthanasia Attitudes, 1977-2006: Cohort Succession or Attitude Change?,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association, Boston, August 2008

“Organizational Kinship in the Interorganizational Response to Hurricane Katrina,” Sunbelt: International Social Network Association Conference, St. Pete’s Beach, FL, January 2008

“Trends in Euthanasia Attitudes and Research, 1977-2006,” Grantmakers in Aging Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2007

“The Rapid-Response Casualty Counting Instrument: A Socal Network Approach” RESCUE: All Hands Meeting, San Diego, October 2007

“Age and Period Effects on Black-White Residential Segregation in 10 U.S. SMSAs,” with Susan K. Brown, Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association, New York City, August 2007

“Trends in Euthanasia Attitudes: A Cohort Analysis,” Sociology Department of the University of California – Irvine, Irvine, May 2007

“Population and Organizational Response to Hurricane Katrina,” Social Science Research Council Fellows Workshop, Denver, April 2007

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars 9^th Cohort Finalist, 2010
• UCI Honorable Mention Public Impact Dissertation Fellowship, 2010
• UCI Order of Merit Award for Outstanding Service, 2010
• Grant Makers in Aging Fellowship, 2007
• Social Science Research Council Pre-dissertation Summer Fellowship, 2007

   

• University of Arizona SBS Outstanding Senior of the Year Runner-Up, 2004
• University of Arizona Department of Sociology Outstanding Senior of the Year, 2004
• Phi Beta Kappa, American Scholar Honorary, 2004
• Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honorary, 2003
• Roger Yoshino Undergraduate Sociology Award, 2002, 2003
• Golden Key International Honor Society, 2002
• University of Maine Scholar, 2000

• National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2013
• UCI Honorable Mention Public Impact Dissertation Fellowship, 2010
• UCI Sociology Department Summer Research Fellowship, 2009
• Social Science Research Council Pre-dissertation Summer Fellowship, 2007
• UC Regents Research Grant, 2005, 2009
• UCI Sociology Department Extracurricular Funding, 2005—2009

• Appointee, UC-Regents Committee on Graduate Student Health, 2010
• Chair, GSHIP Committee, 2008-Present
• Appointee, Chancellor’s Committee on Graduate Student Health, 2008-Present
• Graduate Representative, GSHIP Grievance Advisory Board, 2006-Present
• Graduate Representative, GSHIP Committee, 2006-2008

• Invited Participant, Networked Systems and Disaster Management (Professional Meeting) hosted by Wayne State University, 2007
• Representative, Sociology Graduate Student Association, Summer 2007
• Co-Chair, Sociology Graduate Student Association, Undergraduate Committee, 2006-2007

• Organizer, “Social Relations and Aging.” Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2010
• Organizer, “Networks and Social Relations.” Regular Session of the 2009 Annual Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, Spring 2009

• American Journal of Sociology
• British Journal of Sociology
• Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications
• Contemporary Sociology
• Research on Aging

• Volunteer, American Public Media Public Insight Network, 2009
• Board Member, Anthill Pub Advisory Board, Winter 2008

• American Sociological Association
• Gerontological Society of America
• International Network for Social Network Analysis
• Population Association of America

• Skilled Computer Knowledge — Linux/Unix, R, SaS, STATA, Perl, LATEX, html, pHp, bash, MySql, CSS, Tcl/Tk, subversion, Excel and OpenOffice
• Technical Knowledge — survey research methods, lifetable methods, methods of social network analysis, photography