Lisa Slattery Walker

(formerly Rashotte)
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Organizational Science
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Affiliated Faculty, Communication Studies Department
University of North Carolina – Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
lisa.walker@uncc.edu

EDUCATION

PhD 1998
Department of Sociology, University of Arizona

MA 1994
Department of Sociology, University of Arizona

BA 1992 Magna cum Laude with Departmental Honors

Department of Sociology & Department of Classics, Florida State University

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Walker, Lisa Slattery and Shahar Gur. Forthcoming. “Behavioral versus Questionnaire Measures
of Expectations.” Social Currents.
DOI: 10.1177/2329496516651636

Boyle, Kaitlin M. and Lisa Slattery Walker. Forthcoming. “The Neutralization and Denial of Sexual
Violence among College Partiers.” Deviant Behavior.
DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2016.1185862

Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha C. and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2016. “Revisiting the Beauty
is
Beastly Effect: New directions and tests of the effects of attractiveness, sex, and job
characteristics on selection decisions.” The International Journal of Human Resource
Management, 27: 1034-1058.
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2015.1053963

Hysom, Stuart J., Murray Webster, Jr., and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2015. “Expectations, Status
Value, and Group Structure.” Sociological Perspectives, 58: 554-569.
DOI: 10.1177/0731121415571134

Gur, Shahar, Chelsea Beveridge, and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2015. “The Moderating Effect
of Socio-emotional Factors in the Relationship between Status and Influence in Status
Characteristics Theory.” Current Research in Social Psychology, 23: 46-55.
http://www.uiowa.edu/crisp/files/crisp/files/crisp_23_6.pdf

Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha C., Lisa Slattery Walker, and David J. Woehr. 2014. “Gender and
Leadership Effectiveness: A Meta-analysis of Contextual Moderators.” Journal of Applied
Psychology, 99(6): 1129-1145.
DOI: 10.1037/a0036751
Walker, Lisa Slattery, Sharon C. Doerer, and Murray Webster, Jr. 2014. “Status, Participation,
and
Influence in Task Groups.” Sociological Perspectives, 57: 364-381.
DOI: 10.1177/0731121414524928

Wayland, Coral B. and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2014. “Knowledge of Medicinal Plants in the Urban
Amazon.” Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 10: 25.
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-25

Frevert, Tonya K. and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2014. “Physical Attractiveness and Social Status.”
Sociology Compass, 8: 313-323.
DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12132

Walker, Lisa Slattery, Murray Webster, Jr., and Alison J. Bianchi. 2011. “Testing the Spread of
Status Value Theory.” Social Science Research. 40: 1652–1663.

Webster, Murray, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Rashotte. 2010. “Behavior, Expectations, and Status.”
Social Forces. 88:1021-1050.

Webster, Murray, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Rashotte. 2009. “Fixed Roles and Situated Actions.” Sex
Roles. 61: 325-337.

Webster, Murray, Jr., Lisa Slattery Rashotte, and Joseph M. Whitmeyer. 2008. “Theoretical and
Intuitive Models.” Social Science Research. 37: 4-17.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery, Murray Webster, Jr. and Joseph Whitmeyer. 2005. “Pre-testing
Experimental Instructions.” Sociological Methodology. 35: 151-175.

Reprinted in Selecting Research Methods. 2008. W. Paul Vogt, editor. London: Sage.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery and Murray Webster, Jr. 2005. “Gender Status Beliefs.” Social Science
Research. 34: 618-633.

Whitmeyer, Joseph, Murray Webster, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Rashotte. 2005. “When Status Equals
Make Status Claims.” Social Psychology Quarterly. 68: 179-186.

Webster, Murray Jr., Joseph Whitmeyer and Lisa Slattery Rashotte. 2004. “Status Claims,
Performance Expectations and Inequality in Groups.” Social Science Research.
33: 724-745.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2003. “Written versus Visual Stimuli in the Study of Impression
Formation.” Social Science Research. 32: 278-293.

Rashotte, Lisa. 2002. “Incorporating Nonverbal Behaviors into Affect Control Theory.”
Electronic Journal of Sociology. 6, 3.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2002. “Service Learning in a Small Groups Course.” Sociological
Practice. 4: 79-87.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2002. “What Does that Smile Mean? The Meaning of Nonverbal
Behaviors in Interaction.” Social Psychology Quarterly. 65: 38-55.

Reprinted in: Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and
Human Well-Being (CD created by The Global Development and Environment Institute
at Tufts University).

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Okamoto, Dina, Lisa Slattery Rashotte and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2002. “Measuring Interruption:
Syntactic and Contextual Methods of Coding Conversation.” Social Psychology
Quarterly. 65: 92-102.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2001. “Some Effects of Demeanor on the Meaning of Behaviors in
Context." Current Research in Social Psychology. 6: 251- 276.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 1997. “Who Benefits from Being Bold? The
Interactive Effects of Task Cues and Status Characteristics on Influence in Mock Jury
Groups.” Advances in Group Processes. 14: 235-255.

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

Webster, Murray, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Walker. Forthcoming. “The Theories of Status
Characteristics and Expectation States,” in Handbook of Contemporary
Sociological
Theory, Seth Abrutyn, editor. New York: Springer.

Gur, Shahar, Anita L. Blanchard, and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2016. “Impacts on Society:
Informational and Socio-Emotional Support in Virtual Communities” in Analyzing Digital
Discourse and Human Behavior in Modern Virtual Environments, Bobbe Baggio, editor.
Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Walker, Lisa Slattery. 2014. “Developing Your Experiment.” In Laboratory Experiments in the
Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Murray Webster, Jr. and Jane Sell, editors. New York:
Elsevier.

Webster, Murray, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Walker. 2014. “Expectation States Theory and Emotion,”
In Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, Jan Stets and Jonathan Turner, editors. New
York: Springer.

Walker, Lisa Slattery, Anita L. Blanchard, and Heather Burnett. 2012. “The Role of Experiments
in
the Study of Virtual Groups.” In Virtual Work and Human Interaction Research, Shawn
Long, editor. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Blanchard, Anita and Lisa Slattery Rashotte. 2010. “The Role of Technology in the
Development of Group Trust.” In Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern
Environment, Alexandra Gerbasi and Dominika Latusek, editors. Hershey, PA: IGI
Global.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2007. “Developing Your Experiment.” In Laboratory Experiments in the
Social Sciences, Murray Webster, Jr. and Jane Sell, editors. New York: Elsevier.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Walker, Lisa Slattery. 2017. “Social Influence.” In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology,
2nd edition. George Ritzer, editor. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

Walker, Lisa Slattery. 2013. Review of Research Methods for Studying Groups and Teams: A
Guide to Approaches, Tools, and Technologies, edited by Andrea B. Hollingshead and
Marshall Scott Poole. Small Group Research. 44: 89-90.

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Walker, Lisa Slattery. 2012. “Sociology.” (reviewed and revised) In Lincoln Library of
Essential Information, Pp. 1983-2002. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall, editors.
Cleveland: Lincoln Library Press.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2011. “Social Influence.” In The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology, p. 563. George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan, editors. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2009. “Gender and Behavior.” In Encyclopedia of Group Processes and
Intergroup Relations, Volume 1: 296-300. John M. Levine and Michael A. Hogg, editors.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2008. “Opinion Essay.” Sociology of Emotions Section Newsletter,
American Sociological Association.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2007. “Social Influence.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,
Volume IX: 4426-4429. George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan, editors. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2006. Review of Work, Status, and Self-Esteem: A Theory of Selective
Self Investment, by William A. Faunce. Contemporary Sociology. 35: 267-268.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 2003. “Teaching Column: Service Learning.” Social Psychology Section
Newsletter, American Sociological Association.

Rashotte, Lisa Slattery. 1994. "The Use of Videotape in Studying Emotions." Sociology of
Emotions Section Newsletter, American Sociological Association.

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2013-2016 National Science Foundation grant (with Murray Webster, Jr.), “Behavior Effects
and Status,” $218,735; REU supplement, $12,000

2013-2014 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant (with Coral B. Wayland), "Gender,
Race/Ethnicity, and Team-Based Learning,” $19,000

2011-2012 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Women’s Summit grant (with Katherine A. Frear and

Samantha C. Paustian-Underdahl), “Exploring Gender Segregation of Industries,
Wage Inequities, and Career Choice Motivations in Charlotte-Mecklenburg,”
$25,300

2011 Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences Grant-in-kind (with Samantha

Paustian-Underdahl) to collect data from a nationally representative sample on
“Gender and Physical Attractiveness as Status Beliefs” (Funding provided by the
National Science Foundation)

2011 Faculty Research Grant (with Anita Blanchard), UNC Charlotte, $10,500

2010 Bonnie Cone Fellowship, ADVANCE grant program, UNC Charlotte

2008 Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte, $5,425

2007-2010 National Science Foundation Grant (with Murray Webster, Jr. and Alison J.
Bianchi), “Collaborative Research On: Creating Status Characteristics and
Breaking Them Down,” $117,000 to UNC Charlotte and $75,000 to University of

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2005 Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences Grant-in-kind (with Murray

Webster, Jr.) to collect data from a nationally representative sample on “Status
Effects of Gender” (Funding provided by the National Science Foundation)

2004-2007 National Science Foundation Grant (with Murray Webster, Jr.), “Behavior
Patterns, Bystanders, and Performance Expectations,” $171,769

2003-2006 National Science Foundation Grant, “Controlling and Transferring Status Effects
of Gender,” $150,474

2001-2002 Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte, $5,842

2000-2003 National Science Foundation Grant (with Joseph Whitmeyer and Murray
Webster, Jr.), "Effects of Second-Order Expectations on Group
Structure and Behavior," $187,079

2000 Curriculum and Instruction Development Grant (with Coral B. Wayland),

UNC Charlotte, $7,875

1999 Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, UNC Charlotte

1997-1998 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $5,701

1996 Summer Grant Development Fellowship, Social and Behavioral Sciences

Research Institute, University of Arizona

1996 Summer Dissertation Grant, Graduate College, University of Arizona

1993-1996 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

1992-1993 Graduate Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Arizona

AWARDS & HONORS

2015-2016 Project Mosaic Mentoring Award (with John Szmer)

2015 Saroj Parasuraman Award for the Outstanding Publication on Gender and
Diversity from the Gender, Diversity and Organizations Division of Academy of
Management for “Gender and Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness: A Meta-
Analysis of Contextual Moderators”

2015 Senior Faculty Reassignment of Duties (Research Leave), College of Liberal Arts
& Sciences, UNC Charlotte (Spring)

2010-2011 Selected participant, Cultural Leadership Training program of the Arts & Science
Council, Charlotte

2010 Who's Who in America - 2011, 65th Edition

2008 Selected participant, Leadership Training Institute (sponsored by the National

Institutes of Health)

2008 Invited participant, ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline conference

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 on race experiments (co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation)

2007-2008 Selected participant, Leadership UNC Charlotte

2007 Senior Faculty Reassignment of Duties (Research Leave), College of Arts &
Sciences, UNC Charlotte (Spring)

1993 Honors Program Participant of the American Sociological Association

WORK EXPERIENCE

2010 – present Professor of Sociology, UNC Charlotte

2010 – present Professor of Organizational Science, UNC Charlotte

2008 – 2014 Chair, Department of Sociology, UNC Charlotte

2006 – 2010 Associate Professor of Organizational Science, UNC Charlotte

2004 – 2010 Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Charlotte

2004 – 2008 Graduate Director, Sociology, UNC Charlotte

1998 - 2004 Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC Charlotte

CONSULTING PROJECTS

2014, -15, -16 Program Evaluation, Levine Scholars Program, UNC Charlotte

2012 Strategic Plan, Countryside Montessori School, Charlotte NC

2010 Membership Survey, NC Division of AWWA-WEA

2008 Communications Analysis, Graduate School, UNC Charlotte (with Anita L.

Blanchard)

COURSES TAUGHT

Introductory Sociology
Art & Society: Film (Liberal Studies)
Global and Intercultural Connections (Liberal Studies)
World Population Problems
Sociology of Women’s Sports
Sociological Social Psychology
Group Processes/Sociology of Small Groups
Quantitative Analysis (graduate and undergraduate)
Research Methods (graduate and undergraduate)
Data Utilization (graduate)
Social Psychology (graduate)
Self & Society (graduate)
Professionalization Seminar (graduate)
Teaching Sociology (graduate)

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PAPERS/PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

“Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it within its nomological network,” (with
Anita L. Blanchard and Leann Caudill), R & R at Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

“Entitativity in Online Groups,” (with Anita L. Blanchard), proposal under review at the National
Science Foundation.

“New Theoretical Issues and Experimental Tests of Ideas Regarding Status Cues,” (with Murray
A. Webster), proposal under review at the National Science Foundation.

“Volunteerism as Affect Control,” (with Robert Freeland), under review at edited volume.

“Examining the Relationship between Gratitude and Generosity,” (with Scott T. Fitzgerald),
working proposal.

“Conflict Management in Healthcare Practice: Education is Associated with Hospital Staff

Behavior,” (with Christopher Blanchette, Shahar Gur, and Samantha Paustian-Underdahl),
working paper, in preparation for submission to a special issue of Group and Organization
Management.

“Theoretical Issues in Double Standards and Some New Data,” (with Murray A.
Webster, Jr. and Sharon C. Doerer), working paper.

“Status Construction and Stability: Diffusion through Two Tasks,” (with Alison J. Bianchi and
Murray A. Webster, Jr.), working paper.

“Obesity as a Status Characteristic,” (with Heather Gordon and Jessie Lynn Olien), working
paper.

“Telecommuting, Primary Caregiving, and Gender as Status,” (with Shahar Gur), working paper.

“Status Beliefs, Skin Color, and Facial Features,” (with Tonya K. Frevert), working paper.

“Gender Differences in Career Success: Moderated or Mediated Effects?” with Katherine Frear,
Samantha C. Paustian-Underdahl, and Eric D. Heggestad, working paper.

“Controlling the Status Effects of Gender,” working paper.

“Labeling versus Experience of Emotion,” (with Gretchen Peterson and Jordan Sannito), working
paper.

“Gender and Race in the Team-Based Learning Classroom,” (with Coral B. Wayland and Angela
M. Ferrara), working paper.

“A Comparison of Objective Test Answers in a Lecture Based vs. TBL Class,” (with Coral B.
Wayland and Angela M. Ferrara), working paper.

“Behavior and Status,” (with Murray Webster, Jr.), project in progress.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND POSTERS

2016 “Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it from antecedents and

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 Outcomes,” (with Leann Caudill and Anita L. Blanchard) at the Academy of
Management annual meeting, Anaheim

2016 “Gender and Status Interventions,” keynote address at the Iowa Sociological
Association conference, University of Iowa

2015 “Increasing Your Influence,” at the Gerald G. Fox MPA Alumni/Student

Conference, UNC Charlotte

2015 “Status Construction and Stability: Diffusion through Two Tasks,” (with Alison J.
Bianchi and Murray A. Webster, Jr.), at the annual Group Processes conference,
Chicago

2015 “Negative effects of the situation and neuroticism on the conscientiousness-

performance relationship,” (with Alex M. Dunn, Linda R. Shanock, and Eric D.
Heggestad), at the annual conference of the Academy of Management,
Vancouver, BC

2015 “Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it within its nomological

Network,” (with Anita L. Blanchard and Leann Caudill) at the INGRoup annual
meeting, Pittsburgh

2015 “Influence of Timing and Target of Performance Recognition on Task Productivity

and Entitativity,” (with Shahar Gur) at the INGRoup annual meeting, Pittsburgh

2015 “Gender and Leadership in Groups,” invited presentation at the Southern

Sociological Society annual meeting, New Orleans

2015 “Gender and Race in the Team-Based Learning Classroom,” (with Coral B.
Wayland and Angela M. Ferrara) at the Team-Based Learning conference, St.
Petersburg, FL

2015 “Behavior and Status,” (with Murray A. Webster, Jr.) at the Eastern Sociological
Society annual meeting, New York City

2014 “When dissimilarities matter: Examining the relationship between social

categorization, subgroup composition, and interpersonal helping in teams,” (with
Jessie L. Olien) at the Annual Conference of the Southern Management
Association, Savannah

2014 “GradNet: Connecting Online Groups to Organizational Attachment,” (poster)

(with Anita Lynn Blanchard and Shahar Gur) at the INGRoup annual meeting,
Raleigh

2014 “Validating Measures for Entitativity,” (poster) (with Anita Lynn

Blanchard, Leann Caudill, Felesia Stukes, and Oscar Stewart) at the
INGRoup annual meeting, Raleigh

2014 "Behavioral Versus Questionnaire Measures of Influence,"(with Shahar Gur) at

the International Sociological Association annual meeting, Yokohama

2014 "Obesity and Gender as Status Characteristics," (with Heather M. Gordon and
Jessie Olien) at the International Sociological Association annual meeting,
Yokohama

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2014 “Opening the Black Box: How Gender and Race Mediate Collaborative Learning
in the Classroom,” (with Coral B. Wayland and Angela M. Ferrara) at the
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Wilmington

2014 “Validating Measures for Entitativity,” (with Anita L. Blanchard, Leann Elizabeth
Caudill, Felesia Stukes, and Oscar Jerome Stewart) at the Southern Sociological
Society annual meeting, Charlotte

2014 “A Comparison of Objective Test Answers in a Lecture Based vs. TBL Class,”
(with Coral B. Wayland and Angela M. Ferrara) at the Team-Based Learning
conference, Fort Worth

2013 “Gendering the Team-Based Learning Classroom,” (with Coral B. Wayland), at

the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting, Cincinnati

2013 “Deflection and Denial of Sexual Assault in the College Campus Party
Subculture,” (with Kait M. Boyle), at the American Sociological Association
annual
meeting, New York.

2013 “Primary Care-giving and Telecommuting as Status,” (with Anne-Marie Winter

and Jessie L. Olien), at the Southern Sociological Society annual meeting,
Atlanta

2013 “Gender Differences in Career Success: Distinguishing Moderated versus

Mediated Effects,” (with Katherine Frear, Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, and
Eric
D. Heggestad) at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology annual
meeting, Houston

2013 “Comparing Models of Second-Order Expectations,” (with Will Kalkhoff and

Murray A. Webster, Jr.) at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting,
Boston

2012 “Entitativity in Online Groups,” (with Anita L. Blanchard) at the INGRoup annual
meeting, Chicago

2012 “Exploring Gender Segregation of Industries, Wage Inequities and Career Choice
Motivations,” (with Katherine Frear and Samantha Paustian-Underdahl) at the
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association annual meeting, Fairfax, VA

2012 “Participation and Influence in Task Groups,” (with Murray A. Webster, Jr. and
Sharon Doerer) at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, New York

2011 “What is Beautiful is Good…Unless you are a Woman Applying for a Male-typed
Job: Understanding how physical attractiveness can be detrimental to some
women’s career success,” (with Samantha Paustian-Underdahl) at the Southern
Management Association annual meeting, Savannah

2011 “Online Entitativity: A Theoretical Model” (with Anita L. Blanchard) at the

INGRoup annual meeting, Minneapolis

2011 “Entitativity and Trust in Electronically Mediated Groups” (with Anita L.

Blanchard) at the Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Jacksonville

2011 “Volunteers and Social Networks.” (with Tonya K. Frevert) at the Southern

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 Sociological Society annual meeting, Jacksonville

2011 “The Re-identification of Acquaintance Rape and Re-victimization” (with Kaitlin

M.
Boyle and Jen Hartman) at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association
annual meeting, Atlanta

2010 “Creating a Status Characteristic by the Spread of Status Value” (with Murray
Webster, Jr., and Alison J. Bianchi) at the 23rd Annual Group Processes
Conference, Atlanta

2010 “The Status Value of Race” (with Tonya K. Frevert) at the Southern Sociological
Society annual meeting, Atlanta

2009 “Labeling versus Experience of Emotion” (with Gretchen Peterson) at the

Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, Des Moines, IA.

2008 “Creating Status from a Existing Status Characteristic” (with Murray Webster,
Jr.) at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston.

2008 “Behavior and Performance Expectations” invited talk at the University of

Georgia, Department of Sociology

2007 “Controlling the Status Effects of Gender” invited talk at Clemson University,
Department of Sociology

2006 “The Disappearance of Medicinal Plants in the Amazon: An Urban Legend?”

(with Coral B. Wayland) at the American Anthropological Association annual
meeting, San Jose, CA

2006 “Controlling the Status Effects of Gender” at the International Society of Political
Psychology annual meeting, Barcelona

2006 “How Behavior Affects Performance Expectations” (with Murray Webster, Jr.) at
the International Society of Political Psychology annual meeting, Barcelona

2005 “A Program to Control Behavior for Status Experiments” (with Murray Webster,
Jr.) at the 18th Annual Group Processes Conference, Philadelphia

2005 “Gender Status Beliefs among Contemporary College Students,” invited talk at
University of South Carolina, Department of Sociology

2004 “A Baker’s Dozen Sociological Models of Status and Status Claims” (with Murray
Webster, Jr. and Joseph Whitmeyer) at the American Sociological Association
annual meeting, San Francisco

2004 “The Effects of Volunteer Activity on Situational Definitions” at the Southern

Sociological Society annual meeting, Atlanta

2003 “Gender Status Effects among Contemporary College Students” (with Murray
Webster, Jr.) at the American Sociological Association annual meeting,
Atlanta

2003 “Status Claims and Inequality in Groups” (with Murray Webster, Jr. and Joseph
Whitmeyer) at the American Sociological Association annual meeting,
Atlanta

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2002 “Written versus Visual Stimuli in the Study of Impression Formation” at the
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago

2002 “Pre-testing Status Experimental Instructions” (with Murray Webster, Jr. and
Joseph Whitmeyer) at the 15th Annual Group Processes Conference, Chicago

2002 “Incorporating Nonverbal Behaviors into Affect Control Theory” at the

Conference on Affect Control Theory: Findings and Research Directions,
Highland Beach, FL

2002 “Second Order Information and Performance Expectations: Preliminary Data”

(with Murray Webster, Jr. and Joseph Whitmeyer) at the Pacific Sociological
Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC

2000 “The Creation of Status Characteristics through Nonverbal Behavior” at the

American Sociological Association annual meeting, Washington D.C.

2000 “A Preview of Meaning Insight and Contrast Sensitivity Programs for Status
Experiments” at the 13th Annual Group Processes Conference, Washington D.C.

2000 “The Creation of a New Status Characteristic through Task Cues” at the
Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, New Orleans

1999 “What Does That Smile Mean? The Meaning of Nonverbal Behaviors in Social
Interaction” at the Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Nashville

1998 "Nonverbal Behaviors in Interactional Context" at the American Sociological

Association annual meeting, San Francisco

1998 "Issues of Measurement in Conversations" (with Dina Okamoto) at the Pacific

Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco

1997 "Nonverbal Behaviors and the Impressions They Create" at the American
Sociological Association annual meeting, Toronto, Ontario

1996 "Gazing and Influence in a Small Group Setting" at the Pacific Sociological
Association annual meeting, Seattle

1995 "Extensions to Affect Control Theory: The Sentence Framework" at the

American Sociological Association annual meeting, Washington D.C.

1995 "On the Universality of Emotions: A Warrant for Paralinguistic Research" at the
Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco

1995 "Centrality and Network Effects in a Laboratory Setting" at the Honors Program
Student Association Symposium, Iowa City

1994 "Rate of Speech and Influence: An Expectation States Approach" at the

American Sociological Association annual meeting, Los Angeles

1994 "Urban and Rural Polarization: The Lyrical Content of Rap and Country Songs"
at the Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting, San Diego

1993 "Rate of Speech and Influence: An Expectation States Approach" at the Honors
Program Student Association Symposium, Denton, TX

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1993 "Affective Communication Based on Paralinguistic Cues" at the Pacific
Sociological Association annual meeting, Portland

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Public Relations
2015 Interviewed for BBC article (Attractiveness)
2013 Interviewed for “America Now,” nationally syndicated television program (Babies
and facial expressions). Originally aired April 22.
2012 Interviewed (live) on WBT radio (Hair color effects). October 30.
2012 Interviewed for WCNC evening news (Hair color effects). October 29.
2011 Interviewed for WBTV evening news (Gender and aging). April 5.
2011 Interviewed for WBTV evening news (Boomerang babies). March 23.
2011 Interviewed for WBTV evening news (Women’s friendships). March 14.
2009 Quoted for article on social status, Charlotte Magazine. September.
2008 Quoted extensively in “From Kennedy to Clinton: Why Everyone is Thumbs Up,”
LiveScience.com. May 22. (Picked up by Aol.com news, msnbc.msn.com news,
Yahoo.com featured story.)
2007 Quoted in “Working Girl Revisited,” Today’s Charlotte Woman. March.
2001 Quoted in “Data gives clearer picture of families,” Charlotte Observer. July 18.
2000 Quoted in “Richard takes $1 million, but CBS may be winner,” Charlotte
Observer. August 24.
2000 Interviewed (live) on WBT radio (Survivor). August 24.
2000 Interviewed (live) on WBTV morning news (Survivor). August 24.
2000 Interviewed for WBTV evening news (Survivor). August 24.
2000 Quoted in “Family life yields more fulfillment,” Charlotte Observer. August 7.

Community Education & Service

2013 ASC Cultural Projects Grants panel
2013 Seminar Leader, Charlotte Teachers’ Institute
2008 Expert mentor for graduating senior, Cabarrus High School.
2006 Judge, Regional Science Fair (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools).

University, College, & Department Service (all at UNC Charlotte)

2017-2018 Faculty Past-President
Chair of Faculty Academic Planning and Budget Committee
Member of University Faculty Council
Member of Faculty Executive Committee
Member of Faculty Assembly delegation
2017 Faculty director, Spring Break study abroad program in Netherlands
2016-2017 Faculty President
Chair of University Faculty Council
Chair of Faculty Executive Committee
Member of Faculty Academic Planning and Budget Committee
Alternate Member of Faculty Assembly delegation
2016 Faculty director, Summer study abroad program in Manchester
2016 Levine Scholars selection committee (finalists)
2015-2017 Institutional Review Board (Vice Chair)
2015-2016 Search committee, Chair of Communication Studies
2015-2016 Admissions Committee, Organizational Science program
2015-2016 External Mentor for junior faculty member in College of Arts & Architecture
2015-2016 Faculty President-Elect
Chair of O. Max Gardner nomination committee
Member of University Faculty Council

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 Member of Faculty Executive Committee
Member of Faculty Assembly delegation
Member of Faculty Academic Planning and Budget Committee
2014-2015 Task force on General Education
2014 One semester replacement member, Institutional Review Board (Fall)
2014 Honors College scholarship committees (2)
2014 Levine Scholars selection committee (semi-finalists)
2013-2014 Task force on CLAS Honors Programs
2013-2014 Search committee, Director of WGST
2013 Levine Scholars selection committee (semi-finalists)
2013 Faculty director, Summer study abroad program in Manchester
2013 Honors College scholarship committees (3)
2012-2013 Admissions Committee, Organizational Science program
2012-2013 Search committee, Chair of Religious Studies
2012 Levine Scholars selection committee (semi-finalists)
2012 Comprehensive review of Chair Beth Bjerregaard (Criminal Justice &
Criminology)
2012 Search committee, Director of WGST
2011-2012 External Mentor for junior faculty member in Belk College of Business
2011 College Internal Review Committee, First Year Writing Program
2011 Levine Scholars selection committee (semi-finalists)
2011 Faculty director, Summer study abroad program in Manchester
2010-2014 Director, Organizational Science Summer Institute
2010-2014 Chair, University College Faculty Council
2010 Levine Scholars selection committee (semi-finalists)
2010 Organizational Science Summer Institute Faculty Mentor
2009-2016 “A-Team” (steering committee), ADVANCE grant project
2009-2014 Women’s and Gender Studies Speaker Series Planning Committee
2009-2011 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants Committee (formerly API/CID)
2009-2010 External Mentor for junior faculty member in College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
2009 Comprehensive review of Dean Nancy Gutierrez (College of Liberal Arts &
Sciences)
2009 Comprehensive review of Chair Bob Kravchuk (Political Science)
2009 Organizational Science Summer Institute Faculty Mentor
2008-2015 Communication across the Curriculum Task Force
2008-2009 Competitive Awards Program Committee, ADVANCE Grant
2008-2009 Best MA Thesis Review Committee, Graduate School
2008 College Internal Review Committee, Department of Geography and Earth
Sciences
2007-2009 College of Arts & Sciences Representative, Graduate Council (Planning Sub-
committee Chair 2008-09)
2007-2008 External Mentor for junior faculty member in College of Education
2007-2008 Admissions Committee, Organizational Science program
2007-2008 Sociology Representative, University Faculty Council
2007-2008 Sociology Representative, College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Council
2007 Graduate School Representative, Math PhD Committee
2006-2007 Steering Committee, Women’s Studies program
2006-2007 External Mentor for junior faculty member in College of Health and Human
Services
2006 Junior faculty recruitment committee (chair), Sociology program
2006 Ad hoc committee on “centers,” College of Arts & Sciences
2005-2014 Institutional Review Board (Vice Chair, 2007-2014)
2005-2006 External Mentor for junior faculty member in College of Arts & Sciences
2005-2006 Assessment Committee, Women’s Studies program
2005-2006 Ad hoc academic misconduct committee, Office of Research
2005-2006 Dean’s Advisory Committee, College of Arts & Sciences

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2005-2006 Alternate, College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Council
2005 Annual Review Committee (2004), Department of Sociology
2005 Student paper competition committee, Women’s Studies program
2004-2006 Faculty Research Grants Committee
2004-2005 Dean Search Committee, College of Arts & Sciences
2004 Institutional Review Board (six-month replacement position)
2004 Annual Review Committee (2003), Department of Sociology
2003-2004 Junior faculty recruitment committee, Department of Sociology
2002-2004 Alternate, College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Council
2002-2003 Junior faculty recruitment committee, Department of Sociology
2002 Annual Review Committee (2001), Department of Sociology
2001 Junior faculty recruitment committee, Department of Sociology
2001 Annual Review Committee (2000), Department of Sociology
2000-2004 Sociology representative, Community Development Academy
2000 Staff Search Committee (Instructional Technology), College of Arts and
Sciences
1999-2001 Technology Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social
Work

Professional Service
2016-2019 Editorial Board, Social Science Review
2016 Discussant, Group Processes mini-conference, joint meeting of the Midwest
Sociological Society and the North Central Sociological Association
2015-2016 Nominations Committee, Sociology of Emotions section, American Sociological
Association
2015 Organizer (with Murray Webster and Joseph Dippong), Group Processes
Conference, Chicago
2014- Section Co-Editor, Social Psychology and Family section, Sociology Compass
2014-2017 Executive Committee, Southern Sociological Society
2014-2016 Endowment Development Committee, Social Psychology Section, American
Sociological Association
2014 External program reviewer (Sociology), University of Texas - Dallas
2013-2015 Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
2013-2014 Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Southern Sociological Society
2013-2014 Chair, Outstanding Recent Contribution Award Committee, Sociology of
Emotions Section, American Sociological Association
2013 Discussant, Regular Session, Sociology of Emotions, American Sociological
Association annual meeting
2012-2014 Council, Sociology of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association
2012-2013 Cooley-Mead Award Committee, Social Psychology Section, American
Sociological Association
2012 Program Committee member, INGRoup
2012 Organizer and discussant, Group Processes Mini-Conference at the Southern
Sociological Society in New Orleans
2011 External program reviewer (Sociology & Anthropology), Eastern Tennessee
State
University
2011 Discussant, Group Processes Mini-Conference at the Eastern Sociological
Society annual meeting in Philadelphia
2010-2012 Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly
2009 Discussant, Sociology of Emotions Section paper session, American Sociological
Association annual meeting
2009 Organizer (with Gretchen Peterson and Robb Willer), Group Processes
Conference, San Francisco
2008-2009 ASA Emotions Section Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Member
2008-2009 ASA Theory Section Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Member

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2008 Discussant, Group Processes Mini-Conference at the Pacific Sociology
Association meetings in Portland
2007-2008 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference Co-Chair
2006-2007 ASA Emotions Section Outstanding Recent Contribution Award Committee Chair
2006 Organizer, Group Processes Mini-Conference at the Southern Sociological
Society in New Orleans
2005-2006 ASA Social Psychology Section Program Committee Member
2005 Discussant, Group Processes Mini-Conference at the North Central Sociology
Association meetings in Pittsburgh
2004-2008 ASA Social Psychology Section Membership Committee Chair
2004-2005 ASA Theory Section Graduate Student Prize Committee Member
2003-2006 SSS Nominations Committee Member
2003-2004 ASA Social Psychology Section Cooley-Mead Award Committee Member
2003 Nominee for ASA Social Psychology Section Council
2002 Nominee for ASA Mathematical Sociology Section Council
1999-2004 ASA Social Psychology Section Membership Committee Member
1998-2000 Southern Sociological Society Status of Students Committee Member
1997-1998 ASA Social Psychology Section Graduate Student Affairs Committee Member
1995-1998 Pacific Sociological Association Student Affairs Committee Member
1995-1996 ASA Emotions Section Program Committee Member

Additional Training/Coursework
2011 Women’s Leadership Program, Center for Creative Leadership
2010 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 5-day summer
course on Social Network Analysis
2008 Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research course, IRB 101

Reviewer
American Sociological Review Electronic Journal of Sociology
Human Communication Research Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Business and Society Journal of Social Issues
Public Opinion Quarterly Small Groups
Research Social Forces Social
Problems
Social Psychology Quarterly Social Science Computer Review
Social Science Quarterly Social Science Research
Sociological Compass Sociological Focus
Sociological Perspectives Sociological
Theory Symbolic Interactionism National
Science Foundation

NSF panel service, 8 panels – details not disclosed for reasons of confidentiality

Association Memberships
American Sociological Association (ASA)
(Sections on Social Psychology; Theory; Emotions; and Mathematical Sociology)
INGRoup (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research)
Southern Sociological Society (SSS)
Phi Beta Kappa

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees

Cortney Hedman
Daniel Burrill (Chair)
Leanne Barry

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Thesis/Pre-doc Committees Chaired (all in Department of Sociology, UNC Charlotte, unless
noted)
Robin Shirer Christopher Blanchette
Holly Stutts Suzanne Smith
Katherine Everhart Rob Freeland
Jesse Clark Narja Zarella
Karen Bean C.J. Murphy
Tonya Frevert Kaitlin Boyle
Frederick Caratao Jessie L. Olien (Organizational Science)
Shahar Gur (I/O Psychology) Kayla Pierce
Tremaine Winstead

Thesis/Pre-doc Committee Memberships (all in Department of Sociology, UNC Charlotte, unless

noted)
Alison Connelley Anthony Greene
Caroll Johnson Kerry Hudgins
Giselle Santiago Suzanne Sutphin
David Hoffman Tina Roggenkamp
John Barnshaw Summer Brenwald
Kelly Karres Sean Langley
Wally Lundy Ben Farnham
Heather Duxbury (Psychology) Sharon Doerer
Daniel Bonilla (Psychology) Kevin Carwile
Aaron Silverman Candace Miller
Jessica Dilday Alexandra Dunn (Psychology)
O. Jerome Stewart (Organizational Science) Coreen Layton (in progress)
Angela Ferrara (Anthropology) (in progress)
Nicole Thurmond (Psychology) (in progress)

Dissertation Committees Chaired

Samantha Paustian-Underdahl (Organizational Science)
Sharon Doerer (Organizational Science)
Shahar Gur (Organizational Science) (in progress)

Dissertation Committee Memberships

Heather Gordon (Organizational Science)
Chengxiu Sun (Public Policy)
Linman Sun (Mathematics and Statistics)
Marla Boughton (Organizational Science)
Erika Lopina (Organizational Science)
Tonya Frevert (Organizational Science)
Jane Shumski Thomas (Organizational Science)
Felesia Stukes (Human Computer Interaction)
Andrew Loignon (Organizational Science) (in progress)
Leann Caudill (Organizational Science) (in progress)

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