Curriculum Vitae

Updated January 2022

G. Robin Gauthier

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Link to Curriculum Vitae

Department of Sociology

719 Oldfather Hall Email: ggauthier3@unl.edu

Lincoln, NE 68588-0324 www.grobingauthier.com

Education

2014 Ph.D. in Sociology, Duke University Dissertation, “Anatomies of Kinship: Change and Diversity in the Formal Structure of American Families.”

2010 M.A. in Sociology, Duke University (commenced 2008) Areas of specialization: Social Networks and Social Psychology

2008 B.A.in Sociology, McGill University

Employment

2017-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2014-2017 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Research, Evaluation & Analysis for Community Health, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Areas of Specialization

Drug Use (Polysubstance use, relational dynamics)

Social Networks (Community structure, adolescent networks)

Gender (Science gender gap, family violence, sexual double standard)

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey Smith, Sela Harcey, and Kelly Markowski. “Contingent Effects of Network Structure in Schools: When Does Social Isolation Matter for Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes?” (Accepted for publication at Connections)

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey Smith, Kelly Markowski, Sela Harcey and Bergen Johnston. 2022. “Co-Use among Confidants: An examination of Polysubstance Use and Personal Relationships in Southeastern Nebraska”. Addictive Behaviors 124, 107166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107116

Harcey, Sela, G. Robin Gauthier, Kelly L Markowski, and Jeffrey A. Smith. “Collecting Data from a Vulnerable Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In Press at Field Methods, 34(3).

Markowski, Kelly, G. Robin Gauthier, Jeffrey A. Smith and Sela Harcey. 2021. “Would I have your support? Family network features and past support exchanges associated with anticipated support for a substance use problem.” Online preprint at Journal of Substance Use. https://doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2021.2006340

Markowski, Kelly L., Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Sela Harcey. 2021. “Patterns of Missing Data with Ecological Momentary Assessment: Feasibility Report from a Pilot Study of People who Use Drugs.” JMIR Formative Research 5(9): e31421. doi: https://doi.org/10.2196/31421.

Markowski, Kelly L., Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Sela R Harcey. 2021. “Practical problems and positive experiences with ecological momentary assessment: reflections from people who use drugs.” The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 47:3, 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2021.1910700.

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey A. Smith, Catherine Garcia, Marc A Garcia, and Patricia A. Thomas. 2020. “Exacerbating Inequalities: Social Networks, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, gbaa117. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa117.

Smith, Jeffrey A., and G. Robin. Gauthier. 2020. “Estimating Contextual Effects from Ego Network Data.” Sociological Methodology, 50(1):215-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175020922879

Rosenblatt, Sam F. Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Laurent Hebert-Dufresne. 2020. “Immunization Strategies in Networks with Missing Data.” Plos Computational Biology, 16(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007897

Hsuan-Wei Lee; Miranda Melson; Jerreed Ivanich; Patrick Habecker; G. Robin Gauthier; Lisa Wexler; Bilal Khan and Kirk Dombrowski. 2018. “Mapping the Structure of Perceptions in Helping Networks of Alaska Natives”, PLOS ONE, 13(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204343

Gauthier, G. Robin, Sara Francisco, and Kirk Dombrowski. 2018. “Social integration and domestic violence support in an Indigenous community: Women’s recommendations of formal versus informal sources of support” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(7-9):3117-3141. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0886260518768567

Thrash, Courtney, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, G. Robin Gauthier, Bilal Khan, Roberto Abadie, Kirk Dombrowski, Sandra Miranda De Leon, and Yadira Rolon Colon. 2017. “Rural and Urban Injection Drug Use in Puerto Rico: Network Implications for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Infection.” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 17(2):199-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2017.1326864

Coronado-Garcia, Mayra, Courtney R Thrash, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, G. Robin Gauthier, Juan Carlos Reyes, Bilal Khan, and Kirk Dombrowski. 2017. “Using Network Sampling and Recruitment Data to Understand Social Structures Related to Community Health in a Population of People Who Inject Drugs in Rural Puerto Rico.” Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, 36(2):77-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2017.1326864

Moses, Joshua, Bilal Khan, G. Robin Gauthier, Vladimir Ponizovsky, Kirk Dombrowski. 2017. “Confounding Culture: Drinking, Country Food Sharing, and Traditional Knowledge Networks in a Labrador Inuit Community.” Human Organization, 76(2):171-183. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259.76.2.171

Wonch Hill, Patricia, Julia McQuillan, Eli Talbert, Amy Spiegel, G. Robin Gauthier, and Judy Diamond. 2017. “Science Possible Selves and the Desire to be a Scientist: Mindsets, Gender Bias, and Confidence during Early Adolescence.” Social Sciences, 6(2):55. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6020055

Gauthier, G. Robin, Patricia Wonch Hill, Julia McQuillan, Amy Spiegel and Judy Diamond. 2017. “The potential scientist’s dilemma: How the Masculinization of Science Shapes Friendships and Science Job Aspirations” Social Sciences, 6(1):1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6010014

Kreager, Derek A., Jeremy Staff, G. Robin Gauthier, Eva S. Lefkowitz, and Mark E. Feinberg. 2016. “The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Early Adolescent Peer Acceptance.” Sex Roles 75:377-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-016-0618-x

Dombrowski, Kirk, Patrick Habecker, G. Robin Gauthier, Bilal Khan, and Joshua Moses. 2016. “Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit Population Movements and Inequalities in the Land Claims Era.” Current Anthropology. 57(6):785-805.https://doi.org/10.1086/689210

Merli, M. Giovanna, James Moody, Joshua Mendelsohn and G. Robin Gauthier. 2015. “Sexual Mixing in Shanghai: Are heterosexual contact patterns in China compatible with an HIV/AIDS epidemic?” Demography. 52:919-942. 10.1007/s13524-015-0383-4

Clouston, Sean, Sara Amin., Ashton Verdery, and G. Robin Gauthier. 2009. “The Structure of Undergraduate Association Networks: A Quantitative Ethnography.” Connections 29, 2: 18-31.

Articles with Revise and Resubmit Status

Jeffrey Smith, Sela Harcey, G. Robin Gauthier and Kelly Markowski. “Network Inference from Sampled Ego Network Data: The Problem of Measurement Error” (R & R at Sociological Methods & Research)

Manuscripts Under Review

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey Smith, Kelly Markowski and Ryan Kaufman. “Family Conflict and Psychological Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nebraska” (Submitted January, 2022)

Manuscripts in Progress

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey Smith and Kelly Markowski. “Depression, Isolation and Regulation during the Covid-19 Pandemic”. Currently under review at Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey Smith, Kelly Markowski and Ryan Kaufman. “Better off alone? An Exploration of the Relationship between Dyadic Risk Behaviors and Polysubstance Use”.

Gauthier, G. Robin and Dwight Miller. “Thicker than water: Contemporary understandings of family in Nebraska.”

Smith, Jeffrey, G. Robin Gauthier, Sela Harcey, jimi adams, and Kelly Markowski. “Controlling Infectious Diseases in Dynamic Networks with Community Structure”

Gauthier, G. Robin, Jeffrey Smith, Sela Harcey, and Kelly Markowski “We’re all in this together: The Context of Conflict and Closeness in Family Networks”

Invited Book Chapters

Gauthier, G. Robin and Kelly Markowski. 2021. “Social networks, gender and resilience during the pandemic” in the Elgar Research Agendas series, the Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience. Edited by Emmanuel Lazega, Rafael Wittek and Tom Snijders.

Gauthier, G. Robin 2020. “Family, Kin and Social Support.” in the Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Edited by Ryan Light and James Moody

Gauthier, G. Robin & James Moody. 2013. “Anatomies of Kinship: Change and Diversity in the Formal Structure of American Families” in Families and Child Health edited by Nancy Landale, Susan McHale, and Alan Booth.

Other Publications

Gauthier, G. Robin, Marc Garcia, Catherine Garcia. 2020. “Diverse Sources of Social Support and Cognitive Functioning by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity.” Innovation in Aging. 4 (Suppl 1):292. 10.1093/geroni/igaa057.935

Media Coverage

2021 Media coverage for “Co-Use among Confidants: An examination of Polysubstance Use and Personal Relationships in Southeastern Nebraska.”

Gayman, Deann 2017. “Research Finds Use, Support Relationships often Overlap for Rural Drug Users.” Nebraska Today. Available online at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/research-finds-use-support-relationships-often-overlap-for-rural-drug-users/

2017 Media coverage for “The potential scientist’s dilemma: How the Masculinization of Science Shapes Friendships and Science Job Aspirations.”

Gayman, Deann 2017. “Study examines how, why adolescence halts girls’ interest in science.” Nebraska Today. Available online at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/study-examines-how-why-adolescence- halts-girls-interest-in-science/

Stormberg, Elsie. 2017. “UNL study looks at reasons behind gender gaps in science.” The Daily Nebraskan. Available online at: http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-study-looks-at-reasons-behind-gender-gaps-in- science/article_81002f40-19b7-11e7-8812-fb8b0d2e29d8.html

2015 Media coverage for “The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Early Adolescent Peer Acceptance.”

Adams, Rebecca. 2015. “The Sexual Double Standard Starts with Making Out, Study Suggests.” The Huffington Post. Available online at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-sexual-double-standard-starts-in-adolescence- study-suggests_us_55d39e72e4b0ab468d9ec739?kvcommref=mostpopular

Internal and External Funding

2021 College of Arts and Sciences Spark Grant

Amount awarded: $5000

2020 Rural Drug Addiction Center (Director: Rick Bevins)

National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Grant no. 1P20GM130461-01

Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (P20)

Role: Pilot Project Leader

Project Title: Interpersonal conflict and drug use in the Great Plains

Sub-award direct costs of project: $50,000

Pending Applications for Funding

2021 National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Role: Co-Primary Investigator (RO1)

Project Title: Developing and validating dynamic measures for personal networks to reduce the social transmission of substance use behaviors that predict overdose: opioid use, binge use and polysubstance use

Amount requested: $1,000,115

Conference Presentations

Kelly L. Markowski, Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Sela R. Harcey. 2022. “Feasibility Report from a Recent Pilot Study with People Who Use Drugs: Challenges, Successes, and Suggestions for Future Work” paper presented at the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center Symposium.”, online. (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Kelly L. Markowski presented)

Harcey, Sela R., G. Robin Gauthier, Kelly L. Markowski, and Jeffrey Smith. 2021. “Collecting Network Data from a Vulnerable Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reflections from Researchers and Participants” paper presented at the North American Social Network Meeting (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Sela Harcey presented).

Kelly L. Markowski, Jeffrey Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Sela R. Harcey. 2021. “Would I Have Your Support? Family Network Features and Past Support Exchanges Associated with Anticipated Support for a Substance Use Problem” paper presented at the North American Social Network Meeting (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Kelly L. Markowski presented).

Smith, Jeffrey, Sela R. Harcey, G. Robin Gauthier, Kelly Markowski. 2021. “Network Inference from Sampled Ego Network Data: The Problem of Measurement Error” paper presented at the North American Social Network Meeting (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Jeffrey Smith presented).

Gauthier, G. Robin, Kelly L. Markowski, Jeffrey Smith, and Sela R. Harcey. 2021. “Network characteristics and polysubstance use: An examination of multiplex relationships” paper presented at the North American Social Network Meeting (virtual conference due to COVID-19).

Gauthier, G. Robin, Kelly L. Markowski, Sela R. Harcey and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2020. “Polysubstance Use Among Rural Nebraskans: The Role of Confidant and Co-User Social Network Characteristics.” Presented at the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center Symposium.”, online. (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Kelly L. Markowski presented)

Gauthier, G. Robin, Marc Garcia and Catherine Garcia. 2020. “Diverse Sources of Social Support and Cognitive Functioning by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, online. (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Catherine Garcia presented)

Timbrook, Jerry and G. Robin Gauthier. 2020. “The Structure of Scientific Collaboration in the Pages of Public Opinion Quarterly.” Presented at the American Association for Public Research, (virtual conference due to COVID-19, Jerry Timbrook presented)

Gauthier, G. Robin and Jeffrey Smith. 2019. “For Better or Worse: Closeness, Conflict and Complexity in Family Networks” Presented at Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Montreal, QC.

Gauthier, G. Robin. 2018. “Whose turn is it? Patterns of co-operation, leisure, and family closeness.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Gauthier, G. Robin, Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan & Joshua Moses. 2016. “The structures of “New” and “Traditional” exchange networks in Nain, Labrador: A multi- relational block modelling approach.” Presented at Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, San Diego, CA.

Gauthier, G. Robin, Patricia Wonch Hill, Julia McQuillan, Amy Spiegel and Judy Diamond. 2016. “Blinding her to science: the social context of science in boys’ and girls’ same-gender friendships.” Presented at the Population Association of America

Kreager, Derek A., Jeremy Staff, G. Robin Gauthier, Eva S. Lefkowitz, and Mark E. Feinberg. 2015. “The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Early Adolescent Peer Acceptance.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Gauthier, G. Robin and Giovanna Merli. 2013. “One Family Two Systems? Household Employment Strategies in Reform-Era Urban China.” Presented at the Population Association of America 2013 Annual Meeting, April, 2013 in New Orleans, LA.

Gauthier, G. Robin. 2012. “Occupational Similarity in Marriage: A Comparison of 32 Nations.” Presented at the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado.

Gauthier, G. Robin. 2012 “Household Structure in the US: A Network Approach.”. Presented at the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, March 2012, San Diego, California.

Gauthier, G. Robin, Sean Clouston and Steven Rytina. 2011. “An Ego-Centered Model of Adolescent BMI” Presented at the American Sociological Association, Los Vegas, NV.

G. Robin Gauthier. 2010. “The Structure of Consensus: Cohesion and Hierarchy in Peer Networks.” Presented at the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, March 2012 at St Petersburg, Florida.

Gauthier, G. Robin. 2009. “Triad Trajectories and Mental Health Transitions in Adolescents.” Presented at the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, March 2009 at San Diego, California.

Clouston, Sean, Ashton Verdery, Sara Amin and G. Robin Gauthier. 2008. "The Structure of Undergraduate Association Networks: A Quantitative Ethnography." Presented at Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, January 25th 2008, St. Pete's, Florida.

Professional Memberships:

International Network for Social Network Analysis

Gerontological Society of America

Honors and Awards

2021 T.O. and Terri Haas Faculty Award for Research in Sociology

2020 Nebraska Association for Sociology Graduate Students Faculty Mentoring Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2012 Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, Duke University

2012 William and Myra Boone Fellowship, Duke University

2012 Summer Research Award, Department of Sociology, Duke University

2010 Summer Research Award, Department of Sociology, Duke University

2008 Conference Travel Award, Department of Sociology, Duke University

Service

Editorial Service

2020-2021 Guest Editor at Social Sciences Special Issue Social Ties and Health Outcomes

2008-2014 Graduate Associate Editor at the Journal on Social Structure

Peer Reviewer for:

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse (4), Trauma, Violence and Abuse (2), Demography (2), Education Sciences (2), Social Psychological Quarterly (1), Social Science and Medicine (3), Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (1), Sociology of Education (2), and American Sociological Review (1), Sociology of Education (2)

Presider/Discussant at Professional Meetings

2020 Presider, Regular Session in “Social Networks and Health” at the American Sociological Association, Online

2020 Presider, Roundtable in “Sociology of Education” at the American Sociological Association, Online

2020 Presider, “Social Networks and Inequality” Regular Session at the UNL Rural Drug Addiction Research Center Symposium.”, online.

2020 Presider, “Social Networks and Inequality” Coffee Connector at the UNL Rural Drug Addiction Research Center Symposium.”, online.

National Professional Service and Committee Membership

2020- 2021 Member of the ASA Mathematical Sociology Dissertation-in-Progress Award Committee

Consulting and Advisory Boards

Member of the advisory committee for “Worlds of Connections: Engaging Youth with Health Research through Network Science and Stories in Augmented Reality” Julia McQuillan (PI), Patricia Wonch Hill (Co-I), Christine Cutucache (Co-I), Kirk Dombrowski (Co-I), Bilal Khan (Co-I). SEPA NIGMS National Institutes of Health. NIH 1R25GM129836-01

College and University Service

2021-current Convocations Committee

Department Service

2017-2019 Undergraduate Committee

2018-2019 Executive Committee

2019-Current Resources and Planning

2021-Current Executive Committee

Community Outreach

2019 Presented STEM education research at a meeting for Lincoln high school teachers attending a “Worlds of Connections: Engaging Youth with Health Research through Network Science and Stories in Augmented Reality” workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Student Committees

Ph.D. Committee Chair

Chair: Grace Kelly, Sociology, current

Co-Chair: Eliza Thor, Sociology, current

Ph.D. Committee Member

Sela Harcy, Sociology, completed, 2021

Rachel Stenger, Sociology, current

Jessica Morrow, Sociology, current

Ravi Argwal, Marketing, current

Jerry Timbrook (Sociology, completed, 2020)

Jerreed Ivanich (Sociology, completed, 2018)

M.A. Committee Chair

Grace Kelly, Completed 2019

Eliza Thor, Sociology, completed 2020

M.A. Committee Member

Marissa Cardwell (Sociology, completed)

Nestor Hernandez (Sociology, current)

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair

Adrianna Miller, Completed 2019

Post-doctoral Supervising

Kelly Markowski, Completed 2021

Courses Taught (with semesters taught in parentheses)

Instructor, Soc. 355 “Sociological Theory and Intensive Writing”, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring 2018, Fall, 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021)

Instructor, Soc. 902 “Social Networks Research Methods Seminar”, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring 2018, Fall 2020)

Instructor, Soc. 855 “History of Sociological Theory”, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall 2019, Fall 2021)

Instructor, Soc. 474/874 “Deviance and Social Control”, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)

Instructor, Soc 150 “The Changing American Family” Department of Sociology, Duke University (Fall, 2011)