/// About shawna ///

Shawna N. Smith is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Indiana University. Prior to IU, she received a BA from the University of Kansas and an MPhil from Oxford University, under the auspices of a US-UK Fulbright Exchange Scholarship. Her research centers on cross-national & transnational understandings of policy & law, from development to implementation to regulation. Her dissertation examines the divergent trajectories of equal employment policy targeting racial & ethnic minorities in the US, Great Britain & Canada. As a corollary, Shawna is also engaged in work exploring the methodological complexities of cross-national research, including examining the implicit assumptions of measurement modeling in cross-national work (with Tait R. Medina & J. Scott Long); understanding cross-national variation in measures of gender ideology (with Tait R. Medina); & the opportunities and consequences of the globalization of survey research (with Anthony Heath & Stephen D. Fisher). Shawna also has an interest in models for categorical data and for the past three years has served as a Teaching Assistant for the Categorical Data Analysis course at the University of Michigan’s ICPSR Summer Program. Additionally, Shawna served as a consult on categorical data analysis for the Kinsey Institute’s International Survey of Relationships.

In her spare time, Shawna enjoys good fiction, long walks with her dog, and lots of Jayhawk basketball.