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

Ph.D. Sociology, University of California – Irvine, (expected 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. “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.

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, (in press at Springer as of 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 as of July 2008)

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. Book review of “Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications” by Thomas A. Valente. Contemporary Sociology, (under review at Contemporary Sociology as of September, 2010).

Marcum, Christopher Steven. “A Note on the Concept of Fitting Age-Curves with Regression Models,” (under review at Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences as of June, 2010)

Marcum, Christopher Steven, Christine Bevc, and Carter T. Butts. “Mechanisms of Control in Emergent Interorganizational Networks,” (under review at Administrative Sciences Quarterly as of April, 2010)

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]

Marcum, Christopher Steven and Joy Pixley. “Trends in Euthanasia Attitudes: Cohort Succession or Cohort Change?”

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

• 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

“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

“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 and Carter Butts. Presented by Lorien Jasny, 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,” 2007 Social Science Research Council Fellows Workshop, Denver, April 2007

“Collective Memory and Memorial: The Case of the Resurrected Celebrity,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, October 2007

“Postmodernity or Institutional Change? Reconsidering Alternative Funerary Products,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, October 2007

“Postmodern Products in a Field of Modernity: Alternative Funerals, Memory, and Solidarity,” Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association, Oakland, November 2006

“P.O.E.T. Variables on Urban Funerary Trends,” Undergraduate Sociology and Social Sciences Research Conference, Tucson, Spring 2004

“Tucson Water Rights Trial as a Chronicle of Historical Journey,” 12^th Annual Conference on Literature and Literacy for Children and Adolescents, Tucson, Winter 2004

• 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

• 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

• “Social Relations and Aging.” Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2010
• “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
• 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