/// Research ///

Select publications:

Smith, Shawna N., Stephen D. Fisher & Anthony F. Heath. Forthcoming 2011. “Opportunities and challenges in the expansion of cross-national survey research.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology. [PAPER | SUPPLEMENTAL TABLES]

Heiman, Julia, J. Scott Long, Shawna N. Smith, William Fischer, Ray C. Rosen & Michael S. Sand. 2011. “Sexual satisfaction and relationship happiness in midlife and older couples in five countries.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 40: 741-754. [PAPER]

Press Coverage: 

Slate [LINK]

ABC News/Huffington Post [LINK]

Time [LINK]

The Guardian [LINK]

TV news: July 6-7, 20111 more than 45 local television stations in the US ran news stories on the results from the Kinsey Institute International Survey of Relationships, focusing on result related to men and cuddling. Television news coverage continued for throughout the month of July with an additional 45 TV stations running similar reports.  

 

Bartley, Tim & Shawna N. Smith. 2010. “Transnational Standard-Setting Communities: The Evolution of Social and Environmental Certification Systems.” In Transnational Communities and the Regulation of Business, edited by Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack. Cambridge University Press. [PAPER]

 

Medina, Tait R., Shawna N. Smith & J. Scott Long. 2009. “Measurement models matter: Implicit assumptions and cross-national research.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 21: 333-361. [PAPER | SUPPLEMENTAL TABLES]

 

Heath, Anthony F., Sin Ye Cheung with Shawna N. Smith (Eds.). 2007. Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [LINK]

 

Heath, Anthony F., Stephen D. Fisher & Shawna N. Smith. 2005. “The Globalization of Public Opinion Research,” Annual Review of Political Science 8: 297-333. [PAPER]

 

Working papers:

Smith, Shawna N. “Contours of inequality: Cross-national minority penalties.” [PAPER]

Bartley, Tim and Shawna N. Smith. “Structuring Transnational Fields of Governance: Networks, Legitimation, and the Evolution of Ethical Sourcing.” [PAPER]

 

Select presentations:

“Contours of inequality: Cross-national minority penalties.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.

 

“Innovating or sufficing? Personnel professionals and fair employment in the US and Great Britain.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2011.

 

“A thin line between terror and hate: Legal distinctions and disparate outcomes” (with Nikole D. Hotchkiss). International Sociological Association Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010.

 

“Measurement models matter: Implicit assumptions & cross-national research” (with Tait R. Medina & J. Scott Long). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2009.

 

“Sexual Behavior and Satisfaction Predictors of Couples in Five Countries: Results from the Kinsey International Survey of Relationships” (with Julia Heiman & J. Scott Long). Congress of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, Florence, Italy, February 2009.

 

“Structuring Transnational Fields of Governance: Networks, Legitimation, and the Evolution of Ethical Sourcing” (with Tim Bartley). Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI) and Department of Sociology colloquium series, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2008.

 

“The evolution of transnational fields of governance: A network analytic approach” (with Tim Bartley). European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) annual colloquium, Vienna, Austria, July 2007.