Stacey LaMar Houston, II, M.A.
Department of SociologyVanderbilt University 321-A Garland Hall Nashville, TN 37235-1811
(434) 851-7288
Stacey.houston@vanderbilt.edu EDUCATION
2018 (expected) Ph.D. (Candidate), Sociology, Vanderbilt University 2015 M.A., Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Thesis: “Drinking Mothers, Schooling Kids: The Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption on Later
Educational Attainment”
Committee: Dr. Richard Pitt (chair), Dr. Andre Christie-Mizell
2013 B.A., Honors in Sociology, Davidson College
Thesis: “A Cycle of Socialization: Children Making Meaning of Ability Grouping”
Committee: Dr. Hilton Kelly (chair), Dr. Gayle Kaufman, Dr. Jessica Taft
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Quantitative methods, Sociology, education, digital learning, public sociology, social stratification, race, computer-programming, statistics, and code writing. ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
McGee, Ebony O., Robinson, William H., Bentley, Lydia C., & Houston, Stacey L. 2015. “Diversity Stalled: Explorations into the Stagnant Numbers of African-American Engineering Faculty.” Published paper in the American
Society for Engineering Education for the Annual Conference and Exposition proceedings, Seattle, WA.
Houston, Stacey L. 2015. “Publishing Community Based Research.” Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.
Houston, Stacey L. 2015. “Drinking Mothers, Schooling Kids: The Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption on Later Educational Attainment.”
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.
McGee, Ebony O., Robinson, William H., Bentley, Lydia C., & Houston, Stacey L. 2015. “Diversity Stalled: Explorations into the Stagnant Numbers of African-American Engineering Faculty.” Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Houston, Stacey L. 2014. “Drinking and Learning While Black: The Effect of a Family History of Alcoholism on Educational Attainment.” Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
Houston, Stacey L. 2014. “A Cycle of Socialization: Children Making Meaning of Ability Grouping.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Atlanta, GA. (under review)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS
Houston, Stacey L. 2015. “A Cycle of Socialization: Children making meaning of ability grouping where ability grouping does not exist.” Sociology of
Education. (under review)
Houston, Stacey L. (in progress). “Capitalist Contradictions of NASCAR: Examining the Mystification of Capitalism and Hyper-consumerism in U.S. Sport.”
McGee, E.O., Robinson, W., Houston, S., Bentley, L., & Botchway, P. K. (in progress). It’s not just in your head: Imposter Syndrome impacting the Career Aspirations Black Doctoral Engineering Students. McGee, E.O. Robinson, W., Bentley, L., Houston, S., & Botchway, P. K. (in
progress). Thinking Twice About being a Black Engineering Professor: Race, gender, and the cooling effect.
Robinson, W. H. McGee, E. O., Houston, S., Bentley, L., & Botchway, P. K. (in progress). Where are the Black Engineering Professors in the U.S.?: An
institutional and geographical analysis.
Robinson, W. H. McGee, E. O., Houston, S., Bentley, L., & Botchway, P. K. (in progress). 2014-2105 Job announcements for engineering faculty positions: The Presence and Absence of Inclusion.
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
Mellon Institute for Digital and Public Humanities, Vanderbilt University $500 stipend, 2015
Provost Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University $10,000 top off, 2013-2018
NSF IGERT in Genetic Pest Management-IGERT Fellowship (declined), North Carolina State University $30,000 annual stipend plus tuition, 2013-2017
Emerging Issues Academy Grant (research on access to higher education), 2013
Charles F. Hamrick Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Davidson College, 2009-2013
Ned and Adelaide Davis Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Davidson College, 2009-2013
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, JBS International Inc. Charlottesville, VA, 2013
Responsible for ensuring research integrity and credibility for rigorous evaluation plans for nationally funded social innovation projects. Read and provide feedback based on validity, fidelity, rigor, research design, and achieved level of evidence. Read and summarize program’s
evaluation reports to provide a synopsis to managers in order to help determine program progress.
Data Analyst, Tennessee Department of Education, Nashville, TN, 2013 Statistically analyzed quantitative and qualitative data to ensure daily and weekly continuous improvement of statewide training. Utilized
advanced modeling techniques to determine the most important variables leading to successful training in order to maximize state spending on
future trainings. Developed presentations to disseminate findings to state leadership and other team members.
Emerging Issues Academy Inaugural Participant, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 2013
Met with other faculty and student scholars to discuss the issues of access to higher education, specifically community and institutional alignment of access to higher education and presented findings and white paper at community based learning forum.
Brand and Consumer Marketing Research Intern, NASCAR, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 2012
Responsible for a project with a $15,000 budget aimed at increasing company effectiveness at capturing underrepresented viewership by understanding branding data.
Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute Participant, VCU, Richmond, VA, 2010-2011
Researched and developed incorporation of an accelerometer into a
device to more accurately measure arterial pulse resulting in patenting of new product used at the Medical College of Virginia.
Engineering Intern, Diamond Power International: Applied Synergistic, Lynchburg, VA, 2008
Statistically analyzed data and produced visual representations of data for the company’s use in creating and designing software for user interface of soot blowing equipment.
INVITED TALKS
Houston, Stacey, L. “They Chose Me Because I’m Black: Experiences
Increasing African-American, Hispanic, and Youth Viewership.” Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Race, Gender, and Sport Guest Lecturer, November 2014.
Houston, Stacey, L. “The Rise and Fall of NASCAR Nation: Examining the Racial Implications of Race in Brand and Consumer Marketing.” Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Race, Gender, and Sport Guest Lecturer, April 2014.
TEACHING/TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, 2013-present Research Assistant – (Professor Evelyn Patterson)
Sociology 234-Prison Life (Professor Roosevelt Noble) Undergraduate Statistics (Professor Mariano Sana)
Population and Society (Interdisciplinary) (Professor Mariano Sana) Sociology Tutor, The Stratton Foster Academic Center, Vanderbilt University, 2013-2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association
Sociology of Education Section Southern Sociological Society
Association of Black Sociologists Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Graduate Student Recruitment Coordinator, Sociology Graduate Student Organization, Vanderbilt University, 2014-2015
