CURRICULUM VITAE. Eileen E.S. Bjornstrom

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1 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 1 Updated May 5, 2014 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS CURRICULUM VITAE Eileen E.S. Bjornstrom Department of Sociology University of Missouri 331 Middlebush Hall Columbia, MO Office: bjornstrome@missouri.edu 2009-present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri 2013-present Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Master of Public Health Program, University of Missouri EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D. Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Dissertation: Local Inequality and Health: The Neighborhood Context of Economic and Health Disparities Committee: Christopher R. Browning (Chair), Lauren Krivo and Reanne Frank Comprehensive Exams: Health Disparities, Urban Sociology 2005 M.A. Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2002 B.A. Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1997 B.S. Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT RESEARCH INTERESTS Health disparities; Health and place; Social demography; Urban sociology; Criminology; Quantitative methods (*Indicates graduate student in the following sections.) PUBLICATIONS Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S and Margaret L. Ralston.* (forthcoming). Neighborhood Built Environment, Perceived Danger, and Perceived Social Cohesion. Environment and Behavior. Online ahead of print. DOI: /

2 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 2 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S Why and How Neighborhoods Improve Health Pp in Epidemiological Criminology: Theory to Practice, edited by E. Waltermaurer and T.A. Akers. New York: Routledge. Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S, Margaret L. Ralston* and Danielle C. Kuhl Social Cohesion and Self-Rated Health: The Moderating Effect of Neighborhood Physical Disorder. American Journal of Community Psychology 52(3-4): Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 2011a. An Examination of the Relationship between Neighborhood Income Inequality, Social Resources and Obesity in Los Angeles County. American Journal of Health Promotion 26(2): Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 2011b. To Live and Die in L.A. County: Neighborhood Economic and Social Context and Premature Age-Specific Mortality Rates among Latinos Health and Place 17(1): Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 2011c. Relative Position, Perceived Trust, and Self-Rated Health within Neighborhood Context Social Science & Medicine 73(1):42-9. Browning, Christopher, Eileen E.S. Bjornstrom and Kathleen A. Cagney Health and Mortality Consequences of the Physical Environment Pp in International Handbook of Adult Mortality, Volume 2, International Handbooks of Population, edited by R. Rogers and E. Crimmins. New York: Springer. Frank, Reanne and Eileen E.S. Bjornstrom A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Context and Risky Behavior among Adolescents in Los Angeles and Chicago. Health and Place 17(1): Bjornstrom, Eileen E. S., Robert Kaufman, Ruth Peterson and Michael Slater Race and Ethnic Representations of Lawbreakers and Victims in Crime News: A National Study of Television Coverage Social Problems 57(2): PAPERS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PROGRESS Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Another Latino Paradox? Race-Ethnicity, Nativity, Neighborhood Context and Reports of Unfair Treatment by Police Under review Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. and Danielle C. Kuhl. "A Closer Look at the Epidemiological Paradox: Self-Rated Health, Perceived Social Cohesion and Neighborhood Immigrant Context" Under review Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S., Braden Leap* and Katelynn Towne.* A Comparison of Explanations of Public Expenditures on Corrections and Education in U.S. States In progress

3 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 3 TECHNICAL REPORTS Rikoon, Sandy, Joan Hermsen, Eileen Bjornstrom, Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Braden Leap,* Jill Lucht and Ray Bacon Your Ideas Count!: Report Of Results of the 2013 Conservation Opinion Survey for the Missouri Department Of Conservation Volumes 1 (739 pages) and 2 (719 pages). (Research Report to the Missouri Department of Conservation) TECHNICAL REPORTS IN PROGRESS Leap, Braden,* Eileen Bjornstrom, Joan Hermsen, Jill Lucht, Sandy Rikoon and Sonja Wilhelm Stanis. Missourians Perceptions of the Missouri Department of Conservation: 1990, 2003, & 2013 (Research Report to the Missouri Department of Conservation) Leap, Braden,* Eileen Bjornstrom, Joan Hermsen, Jill Lucht, Sandy Rikoon and Sonja Wilhelm Stanis. Missourians Perceptions of Conservation Practices: 1990, 2003, & 2013 (Research Report to the Missouri Department of Conservation) Leap, Braden,* Eileen Bjornstrom, Joan Hermsen, Jill Lucht, Sandy Rikoon and Sonja Wilhelm Stanis. Missourians Participation and Obstacles to Participation in Outdoor Activities: 1990, 2003, & 2013 (Research Report to the Missouri Department of Conservation) PRESENTATIONS 2014 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. and Danielle C. Kuhl. A Closer Look at the Epidemiological Paradox: Self-Rated Health, Perceived Social Resources, and Neighborhood Immigrant Context" Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Boston, MA Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. and Danielle C. Kuhl. "A Closer Look at the Epidemiological Paradox: Self-Rated Health, Perceived Social Resources, and Neighborhood Immigrant Context" University of Missouri Population, Education and Health Seminar Series. Columbia, MO (invited presentation) Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Race-Ethnicity, Social Class and Unfair Treatment by Police. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Chicago, IL Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. and Margaret L. Ralston.* Neighborhood Commercial Activity, Social Resources and Health: The Moderating Effect of Physical Disorder. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver, CO Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. and Braden Leap*. A Comparison of Explanations of Public Expenditures on Corrections and Education in U.S. States. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Washington, DC.

4 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Relative Position, Perceived Trust, and Self-Rated Health within Neighborhood Context. MU Life Sciences & Society Program Science Studies Colloquium. Columbia, MO (invited presentation) Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Relative Position, Perceived Trust, and Self-Rated Health within Neighborhood Context. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Exploring the Explanations of Individual Sense of Control in Low and High Income Individuals. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Neighborhood Income Inequality and Obesity: Evidence of Effects across Race-Ethnicity. Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association. Galveston, TX Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. Local Residential Economic Context and Health: Evidence of Effects on Racial Disparities in Premature Mortality. Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association. Greenville, SC Bjornstrom, Eileen E. S., Robert Kaufman, Ruth Peterson and Michael Slater. Race and Ethnic Representations of Lawbreakers and Victims in Crime News: A National Study of Television Coverage. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York, NY. GRANT ACTIVITY Rikoon, James S., (PI), Joan Hermsen (Co-PI), Sonja A. Wilhelm Stanis (Co-PI) and Eileen E.S. Bjornstorm (Co-PI). The 2013 Missouri Conservation Opinion Survey. Missouri Department of Conservation Award: $468, Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. (PI). Neighborhood Built, Social and Structural Environments and Resident Well-Being: Complexities and Interactions. A&S Alumni Organization Faculty Incentive Grant. Award: $ Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. (PI). Neighborhood Built Environment and Individual Sense of Control: A Fundamental Cause Approach to Improving Population Health. American Sociological Association, NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. Award: $5, Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. (PI). Multilevel Analysis of the Association between Characteristics of Residential Built Environments and Individual Sense of Control. University of Missouri Research Council, Summer Research Fellowship. Award: $7,000.

5 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 5 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2012 University of Missouri Faculty Grant Writing Institute. Selected participant Campus Writing Program s 51 st Faculty Workshop, University of Missouri. TEACHING Courses Sociology 8140, Seminar in Population Health (Graduate) Sociology 8130, Advanced Social Statistics (Graduate) Sociology 7120, Social Statistics (Graduate) Sociology 4970, Senior Seminar Sociology 4940, Internship in Sociology Sociology 3600, Criminology Sociology 3440, Sociology of Health Honors and Awards 2013 Provost s Junior Faculty Teaching Award, nominee Gold Chalk Award, nominee Advising MA Committees Advisor: Teah Hairston, Department of Sociology, MA expected May 2015 Advisor: Rebecca Rodriguez Carey, Department of Sociology, May 2014 Advisor: Robert Schmidt, Department of Sociology, May 2014 Advisor: Katelynn Towne, Department of Sociology, May 2014 Advisor: Jenna Wheat, Department of Sociology, May 2011 Committee member: Braden Leap, Department of Sociology, May 2012 Committee member: Ashley Vancil, Department of Sociology, May 2012 Committee member: Allen Edwards, Department of Sociology, May 2011 Outside committee member: Laura Thal, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, May 2014 Outside committee member: Gary Glass, Department of Rural Sociology, December 2012 Doctoral Committees Advisor: Rebecca Rodriguez Carey, Department of Sociology, Ph.D. expected May 2017 Advisor: Katelynn Towne, Department of Sociology, Ph.D. expected May 2017 Outside Committee member: Anne Cafer, Department of Rural Sociology, Ph.D. expected May Committee member: Margaret Ralston, Department of Sociology, May Outside Committee member: Erin Shaw, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, May Outside Committee member: Adem Bayer, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, May Committee member: Bettie Ware, Department of Sociology, December 2009.

6 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 6 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Service to the Department 2014 Second Year Paper Committee Alumni Relations Committee Chair Selection Committee Graduate Admissions Committee Website Committee Qualifying Committee 2009 Panel participant. Special Session: Job Market Mechanics. Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Missouri. Service to the University and the System 2013-present Affiliate. Population, Education and Health Working Group. Truman School of Public Affairs present Grant review: University of Missouri Research Board 2012 Organizer. With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Two-Tiered U.S. Justice System. Panel presentation. University of Missouri School of Law. MU Extension-Related Service 2013-present Co-Investigator. Access to Healthy Foods: Telling the Story of Columbia s Farmers Market Service to the Access to Healthy Foods (AHF) program at the Columbia Farmers Market. MU Master of Public Health Program and School of Health Professions. Service to the Discipline 2012 Session Organizer and Presider. Regular Session on Health Care and Care Delivery. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Presider. Section on Work and Occupations. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Presider. Roundtable on Current Issues in Criminal Justice Spending. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Manuscript Review American Journal of Community Psychology; American Journal of Public Health; Children and Youth Services Review; Demography; Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology; Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency; Justice Quarterly; Public Administration Review; Sage Open; Social Problems; Social Science & Medicine; Social Science Research

7 Bjornstrom, Eileen E.S. 7 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Sociological Association American Society of Criminology Population Association of America REFERENCES Christopher R. Browning Department of Sociology The Ohio State University 214 Townshend Hall 1885 Neil Avenue Mall Columbus, OH browning.90@osu.edu Joan Hermsen Department of Sociology and Women s and Gender Studies University of Missouri 325 Arvarh E. Strickland Hall Columbia, Missouri hermsenj@missouri.edu Lauren J. Krivo Department of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 119 Davison Hall 26 Nichol Avenue New Brunswick, New Jersey lkrivo@sociology.rutgers.edu J. Sanford Rikoon Department of Rural Sociology University of Missouri 200A Gentry Hall Columbia, Missouri rikoonj@missouri.edu