Carolyn Liebler

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.
M.S
BA

Specialties

Race and Ethnicity
Social Demography
Sociology of the Family and Life Course
Social Stratification
Indigenous Peoples
Social Support

Publications

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Publications

"America’s Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census," with Sonya R. Porter, Leticia E. Fernandez, James M. Noon, and Sharon R. Ennis. 2017. Demography 54(1):259-284.
"Joining, Leaving, and Staying in the American Indian/Alaska Native Race Category Between 2000 and 2010," with Renuka Bhaskar, and Sonya R. Porter. 2016. Demography 53:507-540.
"More than One Million New American Indians in 2000: Who are They?," with Timothy Ortyl. 2014. Demography 51(3):1101-1130.
"History, Place, and Racial Self-representation in 21st Century America," with Meghan Zacher. 2016. Social Science Research 57:211-232.
"An Outside View: What Observers Say About Others’ Races and Hispanic Origins," with Sonya R. Porter and James M. Noon. 2015. American Behavioral Scientist 60:465-497.
"On the Boundaries of Race: Identification of Mixed-Heritage Children in the U.S., 1960 to 2010." 2016. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4):548-568.
"Occupational Dissimilarity between the American Indian/Alaska Native and the White Workforce in the Contemporary United States," with Jacob Wise and Richard M. Todd. 2018. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42(1):41-70.
"Counting America's First Peoples." 2018. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 677(1):180-190.
"Churning Races in Canada: Visible Minority Response Change between 2006 and 2011," with Feng Hou. 2019. Social Science Research 86. DOI10.1016/jssresearch.2019.102388

Activities

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Activities

Identities among Mixed-Race People

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Description

Investigating ways in which mixed-race reports and multiracial identities and the relationship between them are affected by local racial context and personal connections to race groups or homelands.

Description

Prof. Liebler is fascinated by the translation of individuals’ racial identities into their answers to standardized questions about race, as well as the ways in which these answers are grouped to form the statistics used by social scientists, a process complicated by dynamic identities, questionnaire wording, and place-specific social history. In collaborations with Census Bureau researchers and using linked census data, she has recently shown that substantially more Americans have fluid responses to questions about race than was previously thought. A deeper look at response fluidity among American Indians shows distinctions between those who fluctuate between a single-race and multiple-race American Indian response and those who add or drop American Indian responses entirely

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

Soc 1001 - Introduction to Sociology

Soc 3801 - Sociological Research Methods

Soc 8011 - Teaching Sociology

Soc 4821 - Measuring the Social World: Concepts and Analysis

Soc 4699W - Capstone Seminar

Soc 1905 - Whites, Whiteness, and Racism