Jennifer Lundquist

Jennifer Lundquist

Senior Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development
Professor of Sociology

Inequality; Race & Ethnicity; Gender; Family; Health Disparities; Military; Assortative Mating

Location

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Draper Hall
40 Campus Center Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9244
United States

225 Draper Hall

Professor Lundquist examines the pathways through which racial, ethnic and gender inequalities are perpetuated and sometimes undone in various institutional settings, such as the workplace, the dating/marriage market and in families. Her major areas of scholarship include analyzing online dating behaviors to better understand how interracial interaction contributes to continued racial hierarchies; taking advantage of unique social continuities in the U.S. military that provide insight into what drives racial disparities in health, family formation behaviors and other outcomes in larger society; and tracing the development and impact on the American welfare system of the U.S. prison and military system “submerged states.” By exploring alternative institutional contexts, she casts a number of important social problems in a new light. Her data collection and methods span from analysis of “big data” scraped from the web, administrative records and surveys to qualitative interview approaches.  Professor Lundquist and Professor Celeste Curington, in partnership with Paula England, Arielle Kuperberg, and Lisa Wade, are currently fielding wave 2 of an expanded and updated Online College Social Life Survey (OCSLS2.0). Data collection is ongoing and expected to be completed by 2025.

Recent work includes the 2021 book (with Celeste Curington '17 and Ken-Hou Lin '13) The  Dating Divide: Race and Intimacy in the Era of Online Romance. She has published her research in a variety of journals, including Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review and is the coauthor of a well known demography textbook. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Mellon and Humboldt and covered by outlets including Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times and National Public Radio. She is the Senior Associate Dean of Research in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. 

Selected Publications

(For full list of publications go here)

Books

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Essays & Book Chapters

  • Celeste Curington* and Jennifer Hickes Lundquist. Forthcoming 2021. “Romantic Apartheid: Digital Sexual Racism in Online Dating” in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays. Edited by Nancy L. Fischer and Laurel Westbrook.
  • Jennifer Lundquist, Celeste Curington and Ken-Hou Lin. 2021. How (Skin) Deep is Your Love? Council on Contemporary Families blog [link]
  • Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington and Jennifer Lundquist. 2021. Dating While Black but Invisible. UCPress Blog. [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2017. How to Make the Most of Your Sabbatical. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2017. Balancing Leadership and Life. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2017. Mid-Career Moves. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2017. How to Slam Dunk a Revision. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2016. Mind the Gap: How are Pauses in Research Productivity Treated in Academia? Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2016. Making a Difference through Public Engagement. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2016. Establishing Rapport in the Classroom. Inside Higher Ed. [link]Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2016. Finding Pleasure In Academe. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2016. Writing Tenure Letters. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2016. The Art of the Autoreply. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2016. Summertime Blues. Inside Higher Ed [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2016. Making Meetings Less Miserable. Inside Higher Ed [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2016. The Treadmill of Email Production. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2016. The Sandwiched Midcareer Mentor. Inside Higher Ed [link]
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2016. Making Time for Research. Inside Higher Ed [link]
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2015. “Breaking it to Your Family.” Inside Higher Ed.
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2015. “Of Marriage and Short Term Flings: The University and its Faculty.” Inside Higher Ed.
  • Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. 2015. “The Clogged Pipeline.” Inside Higher Ed.
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2015. “Diversity and the Ivory Ceiling.” Inside Higher Ed.
  • Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. 2015. “Midcareer Melancholy.” Inside Higher Ed.
  • Anna Curtis*, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, Abby Templer (graduate student), and Joya Misra. 2013. “Eaten by Email.” Academe: October issue.
  • Burland, Daniel* and Jennifer Lundquist.  2012.  "The Best Years of Our Lives”: Military Service,Family Relationships, and the Life Course." In Life Course Perspectives on Military Service, J. Wilmoth and A. London eds, Routledge Press.  [download]
  • Joya Misra, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, Elissa Holmes* and Stephanie Agiomavriti*. 2011. “The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work.” Academe: 97(1): 22–6. (Featured in Inside Higher Ed and in Tomorrow’s Professor Newsletter)
  • Joya Misra, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, and Zane Farr*. “Unforeseen Contingencies: Tenure Stream and Contingent Faculty in Today’s University.”

Education

  • Joint Ph.D., Sociology & Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 2004