Bio

Eiko Strader is a second year graduate student in residence. Her research interests include, but are not limited to; quantitative research methods, social demography, gender, labor studies, and racial and ethnic relations. For her undergraduate senior thesis, she has done a comparative study of mono-racial and interracial interactions and intimacy levels portrayed in television commercials. Currently she is researching the relationship between single motherhood and poverty in Japan to understand the impact of wage structure and the state of current welfare programs.

Education

2008 B.S. Sociology Boise State University

Research

Research Assistant for Dr. Joya Misra on a cross-national comparison of poverty incidence and the differential effects of parenthood status and marital arrangements (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Summer 2010 to present).

Research Assistant for Dr. Michael Blain on domestic and global terrorism (Boise State University, Summer 2009).

Research Assistant for Dr. Michael Blain, "Sociology of Terrorism: Studies in Power, Subjection, and Victimage Ritual" (Boise State University, Summer 2008).

Teaching

• Sociology 105: Self, Society and Interpersonal Interaction (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2010)
  
• Sociology 105: Self, Society and Interpersonal Interaction (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2009)
  
• Sociology 310: Elementary Social Statistics (Boise State University, Fall 2008)
  
• Sociology 310: Elementary Social Statistics (Boise State University, Spring 2008)
  
• Sociology 310: Elementary Social Statistics (Boise State University, Fall 2007) Sociology 310: Elementary Social Statistics (Boise State University, Spring 2007)