Carolyn Liebler
Affiliations
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Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2001.
- M.S: Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1996 .
- BA: Sociology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1993.
Specialties
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social Demography
- Indigenous Peoples
- Social Stratification
- Sociology of the Family and Life Course
- Social Support
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Courses Taught
- Soc 4699W - Capstone Seminar
- Soc 8011 - Teaching Sociology
- Soc 3801 - Sociological Research Methods
- Soc 1905 - Whites, Whiteness, and Racism
- Soc 4821 - Measuring the Social World: Concepts and Analysis
- Soc 1001 - Introduction to Sociology
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- Identities among Mixed-Race People: 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.
Research
- 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
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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.
- "Dynamics of Race: 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(2):507-540.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "More than One Million New American Indians in 2000: Who are They?," with Timothy Ortyl. 2014. Demography 51(3):1101-1130.