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Research: My research areas include the sociology of education, aging and the life course, and social psychology. My research examines the psychological resources and social arrangements that shape the schooling and work trajectories of young adults. The unifying theme of this work is the premise that the payoffs to effort and the ability to achieve one's goals are moderated by both psychological makeup and social structural constraints. More recently my interests have shifted toward school policies and practices as more specific institutional constraints on teeneagers' and young adults' ambitions and attainments. Teaching: Graduate: Sociology of Education Social Structure and Personality Quantitative Analytic Techniques (Limited Dependent Variables) Undergraduate: Social Inequality Social Problems Social Statistics Education and Recent Professional Experience: Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1997 At Florida State University since 1997: Assistant Professor to Professor Current director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy