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Dan Hawkins' Information |
Assistant Professor of Sociology |
I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I received a BS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 and a PhD in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2006. I started my position at UNO in the fall of 2006.
My main research interests are in the area of family sociology, particularly fatherhood, parent-child relations, marital quality, and biosocial factors related to family relationships. My work appears in the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, and the Journal of Family Issues. My current research examines the relationship between father involvement and the quality of men’s lives. I find that father involvement tends to be positively related to men’s psychological well-being, especially for those dads who value participating in intensive parenthood because of religious or ideological reasons. As a side interest, I’m also currently involved in a project that examines the relationship between attitudes toward globalization and feelings about the sport of soccer.
I’ve taught a number of courses, including Introductory Sociology, Sociology of Families, Social Statistics, American Family Problems, and the graduate Research Methods and Statistics sequence. I hope to teach classes on fatherhood, family law, biosociology, and the sociology of sport in the near future. I’m also the chair of the Sociology Graduate Program and the faculty advisor for the Sociology Club.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and daughter, going to the movies and concerts, and playing and watching sports of all kinds.