Regina Werum
Biographic Data
| ID | 171666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Regina Werum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Regina |
| FAMILY NAME | Werum |
| SIGNATURE | WERUM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1051-2416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Climate Extremes and Protests in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, 1995–2013
Scientists have shown a relationship between climate conditions and social unrest, specifically related to temperature and precipitation trends. Though deviations from historically normative patterns are becoming more pronounced, it remains unclear how or to what extent they might be linked to protests. Similarly, we know little about the extent to which the relationships between local climate anomalies and protests are contemporaneous versus lag…
Deduplication of the media-based event databases
STEM Degrees and Military Service: An Intersectional Analysis
Given that the U.S. military uses science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) exposure as a key recruitment tool, one should expect that military service is associated with STEM outcomes. While research demonstrates this pattern for women veterans, we know little about racialized and intersectional patterns. This article uses the American Community Survey data (2014–2018) to examine the association between military service, race/ethnicity, …
The Rise of Homeschooling Regulation in the Era of School Choice: Legislative and Judicial Trends, 1972–2009
Over the past four decades, states have increasingly regulated the practice of homeschooling. It is unclear, however, what initial conditions prompt states to regulate and whether states use the legislative or judicial system to do so. Using event history analyses, we identify how state‐level political dynamics, social movement mobilization, and educational policies have shaped the timing of pertinent regulatory efforts by courts and state legisl…
State‐Level Determinants of Hate Crime Reporting: Examining the Impact of Structural and Social Movement Influences
In this article, we investigate factors affecting hate crime policies by examining anti‐LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) hate crime reports as a type of policy implementation. Analyzing state‐level data drawn primarily from the US Census between 1995 and 2008, we examine how structural and social movement mobilization factors explain hate crime reporting. We find that anti‐LGBT hate crimes are more likely to be reported in more urbanize…
Soldiers to Scientists: Military Service, Gender, and STEM Degree Earning
The authors use 2014-2018 data from the American Community Survey to answer two questions: To what extent is military service associated with higher rates of earning a bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field (vs. a non-STEM field)? To what extent is this relationship gendered? The findings suggest that military service is associated with higher odds of completing a STEM degree and that this associatio…
Military service and STEM employment: Do veterans have an advantage
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail: Operationalization matters
Operationalization has been the focus of less research than many other methodological topics. In this article, we argue that considering operational decisions is particularly critical for those who study stratification, because measures of inequality often involve multiple layers of operationalization: researchers first decide how to assign individuals to social groups (e.g., race), which are then themselves used to construct measures of group‐le…
Getting on the Radar Screen: Homeschooling Litigation as Agenda Setting, 1972–2007
Since the legalization of homeschooling in 1972, litigation by homeschooling adversaries has shaped the legal frameworks regulating its practice. Adjudicating between complementary theoretical claims, we examine whether homeschooling litigation trends—specifically the ability of either side to set the agenda by getting on court dockets—reflect concerns over contentious educational practices and policies or broader cultural and political dynamics.…
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
How institutional context alters social reproduction dynamics: Ethnic track placement patterns in the U.S. and Germany
Making Her Own Way: The Individualization of First-Wave Feminism, 1910-1930
Scholars of the women's movement often postulate that it dissipated after winning suffrage in 1920, but empirical studies about the movement's post-victory transformation remain scarce. We use the first wave of the women's movement to explore the conditions under which movement frames change during periods of decline. Drawing on political opportunity theory, we hypothesize that waning political and cultural opportunities for collective action sho…
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
The dictum that “context matters” notwithstanding, few researchers have focused on how social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) data, analyses highlight the group‐specific effects of parental social capital on track placement among 11–16‐year‐old German and non‐German students. For both groups, parents’ family ties fail to affect track placement. Parents’ …
Democracy’s effect on economic growth: A pooled time-series analysis, 1951–1980
Matching Youth and Jobs? Gender Dynamics in New Deal Job Training Programs
State theorists have examined the gender implications of various New Deal social policies, but few researchers have analyzed federal job training programs, which formed a key component of New Deal policies. Drawing on different theories of the state I analyze whether federal policy goals matched local policy outcomes (n =337 counties) in three southern states. Federal vocational policy expanded educational opportunities during the New Deal, but i…
Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration: Recent Advances and Challenges
Until recently, social scientists were headed to consensus over the impact of the structural parameters of the sibling group, especially size and birth order, on educational and other status outcomes. New developments challenge this conventional wisdom, thus offering an opening for dialogue on this topic. We identify the utility and implications of studying the consequences of sibling configuration within sociology, across disciplines, and for pu…
Warehousing the Unemployed? Federal Job Training Programs in the Depression-Era South
Depression-era vocational programs had a double purpose: to train local workers and "warehouse" the unemployed. Drawing on theories of the state, I analyze the mechanisms affecting the match between federal policy goals and local policy outcomes. Vocational enrollments in three southern states (1937; N = 279 counties) reveal race-specific patterns. Black enrollments responded to funding differences, making state-regulated supply the driving force…
Who's 'In' and Who's 'Out: State Fragmentation and the Struggle over Gay Rights, 1974-1999
Journal Article Who's "In" and Who's "Out": State Fragmentation and the Struggle over Gay Rights, 1974-1999 Get access Regina Werum, Regina Werum Emory University Direct correspondence to: Regina Werum, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Bill Winders Bill Winders Emory University Search for other works by this autho…
Elite Control in State and Nation: Racial Inequalities in Vocational Funding in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, 1918-1936
Federal vocational laws were designed by southern legislators who employed states' rights arguments to serve the economic and political interests of southern elites. But federal-level policy formation and state-level policy implementation are shaped by different factors. This article examines whether state-specific political conditions influenced the race-specific manner in which federal vocational funding was allocated in Mississippi, Georgia, a…
Tug-of-War: Political Mobilization and Access to Schooling in the Southern Racial State
Drawing on the resource mobilization framework and James's concept of the southern racial state, this article examines the mechanisms that influenced access to federal vocational programs in the predesegregation South. It explores how local political conditions in 311 counties in three southern states affected training opportunities in federal vocational programs by race, independently of economic factors. It shows that access to these programs w…
Sectionalism and Racial Politics: Federal Vocational Policies and Programs in the Predesegregation South
The 'Girl Question' in Education: Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era.Jane Bernard Powers
Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration: Recent Advances and Challenges
Until recently, social scientists were headed to consensus over the impact of the structural parameters of the sibling group, especially size and birth order, on educational and other status outcomes. New developments challenge this conventional wisdom, thus offering an opening for dialogue on this topic. We identify the utility and implications of studying the consequences of sibling configuration within sociology, across disciplines, and for pu…
Who's 'In' and Who's 'Out: State Fragmentation and the Struggle over Gay Rights, 1974-1999
Journal Article Who's "In" and Who's "Out": State Fragmentation and the Struggle over Gay Rights, 1974-1999 Get access Regina Werum, Regina Werum Emory University Direct correspondence to: Regina Werum, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Bill Winders Bill Winders Emory University Search for other works by this autho…
Democracy’s effect on economic growth: A pooled time-series analysis, 1951–1980
Tug-of-War: Political Mobilization and Access to Schooling in the Southern Racial State
Drawing on the resource mobilization framework and James's concept of the southern racial state, this article examines the mechanisms that influenced access to federal vocational programs in the predesegregation South. It explores how local political conditions in 311 counties in three southern states affected training opportunities in federal vocational programs by race, independently of economic factors. It shows that access to these programs w…
State‐Level Determinants of Hate Crime Reporting: Examining the Impact of Structural and Social Movement Influences
In this article, we investigate factors affecting hate crime policies by examining anti‐LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) hate crime reports as a type of policy implementation. Analyzing state‐level data drawn primarily from the US Census between 1995 and 2008, we examine how structural and social movement mobilization factors explain hate crime reporting. We find that anti‐LGBT hate crimes are more likely to be reported in more urbanize…
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
The dictum that “context matters” notwithstanding, few researchers have focused on how social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) data, analyses highlight the group‐specific effects of parental social capital on track placement among 11–16‐year‐old German and non‐German students. For both groups, parents’ family ties fail to affect track placement. Parents’ …
Military service and STEM employment: Do veterans have an advantage
Making Her Own Way: The Individualization of First-Wave Feminism, 1910-1930
Scholars of the women's movement often postulate that it dissipated after winning suffrage in 1920, but empirical studies about the movement's post-victory transformation remain scarce. We use the first wave of the women's movement to explore the conditions under which movement frames change during periods of decline. Drawing on political opportunity theory, we hypothesize that waning political and cultural opportunities for collective action sho…
Soldiers to Scientists: Military Service, Gender, and STEM Degree Earning
The authors use 2014-2018 data from the American Community Survey to answer two questions: To what extent is military service associated with higher rates of earning a bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field (vs. a non-STEM field)? To what extent is this relationship gendered? The findings suggest that military service is associated with higher odds of completing a STEM degree and that this associatio…
Getting on the Radar Screen: Homeschooling Litigation as Agenda Setting, 1972–2007
Since the legalization of homeschooling in 1972, litigation by homeschooling adversaries has shaped the legal frameworks regulating its practice. Adjudicating between complementary theoretical claims, we examine whether homeschooling litigation trends—specifically the ability of either side to set the agenda by getting on court dockets—reflect concerns over contentious educational practices and policies or broader cultural and political dynamics.…
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
How institutional context alters social reproduction dynamics: Ethnic track placement patterns in the U.S. and Germany
Matching Youth and Jobs? Gender Dynamics in New Deal Job Training Programs
State theorists have examined the gender implications of various New Deal social policies, but few researchers have analyzed federal job training programs, which formed a key component of New Deal policies. Drawing on different theories of the state I analyze whether federal policy goals matched local policy outcomes (n =337 counties) in three southern states. Federal vocational policy expanded educational opportunities during the New Deal, but i…
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail: Operationalization matters
Operationalization has been the focus of less research than many other methodological topics. In this article, we argue that considering operational decisions is particularly critical for those who study stratification, because measures of inequality often involve multiple layers of operationalization: researchers first decide how to assign individuals to social groups (e.g., race), which are then themselves used to construct measures of group‐le…
Warehousing the Unemployed? Federal Job Training Programs in the Depression-Era South
Depression-era vocational programs had a double purpose: to train local workers and "warehouse" the unemployed. Drawing on theories of the state, I analyze the mechanisms affecting the match between federal policy goals and local policy outcomes. Vocational enrollments in three southern states (1937; N = 279 counties) reveal race-specific patterns. Black enrollments responded to funding differences, making state-regulated supply the driving force…
Elite Control in State and Nation: Racial Inequalities in Vocational Funding in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, 1918-1936
Federal vocational laws were designed by southern legislators who employed states' rights arguments to serve the economic and political interests of southern elites. But federal-level policy formation and state-level policy implementation are shaped by different factors. This article examines whether state-specific political conditions influenced the race-specific manner in which federal vocational funding was allocated in Mississippi, Georgia, a…
Sectionalism and Racial Politics: Federal Vocational Policies and Programs in the Predesegregation South
The 'Girl Question' in Education: Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era.Jane Bernard Powers
Sectionalism and Racial Politics: Federal Vocational Policies and Programs in the Predesegregation South
Elite Control in State and Nation: Racial Inequalities in Vocational Funding in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, 1918-1936
Federal vocational laws were designed by southern legislators who employed states' rights arguments to serve the economic and political interests of southern elites. But federal-level policy formation and state-level policy implementation are shaped by different factors. This article examines whether state-specific political conditions influenced the race-specific manner in which federal vocational funding was allocated in Mississippi, Georgia, a…
Tug-of-War: Political Mobilization and Access to Schooling in the Southern Racial State
Drawing on the resource mobilization framework and James's concept of the southern racial state, this article examines the mechanisms that influenced access to federal vocational programs in the predesegregation South. It explores how local political conditions in 311 counties in three southern states affected training opportunities in federal vocational programs by race, independently of economic factors. It shows that access to these programs w…
Warehousing the Unemployed? Federal Job Training Programs in the Depression-Era South
Depression-era vocational programs had a double purpose: to train local workers and "warehouse" the unemployed. Drawing on theories of the state, I analyze the mechanisms affecting the match between federal policy goals and local policy outcomes. Vocational enrollments in three southern states (1937; N = 279 counties) reveal race-specific patterns. Black enrollments responded to funding differences, making state-regulated supply the driving force…
Who's 'In' and Who's 'Out: State Fragmentation and the Struggle over Gay Rights, 1974-1999
Journal Article Who's "In" and Who's "Out": State Fragmentation and the Struggle over Gay Rights, 1974-1999 Get access Regina Werum, Regina Werum Emory University Direct correspondence to: Regina Werum, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Bill Winders Bill Winders Emory University Search for other works by this autho…
Democracy’s effect on economic growth: A pooled time-series analysis, 1951–1980
Matching Youth and Jobs? Gender Dynamics in New Deal Job Training Programs
State theorists have examined the gender implications of various New Deal social policies, but few researchers have analyzed federal job training programs, which formed a key component of New Deal policies. Drawing on different theories of the state I analyze whether federal policy goals matched local policy outcomes (n =337 counties) in three southern states. Federal vocational policy expanded educational opportunities during the New Deal, but i…
Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration: Recent Advances and Challenges
Until recently, social scientists were headed to consensus over the impact of the structural parameters of the sibling group, especially size and birth order, on educational and other status outcomes. New developments challenge this conventional wisdom, thus offering an opening for dialogue on this topic. We identify the utility and implications of studying the consequences of sibling configuration within sociology, across disciplines, and for pu…
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
The dictum that “context matters” notwithstanding, few researchers have focused on how social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) data, analyses highlight the group‐specific effects of parental social capital on track placement among 11–16‐year‐old German and non‐German students. For both groups, parents’ family ties fail to affect track placement. Parents’ …
How institutional context alters social reproduction dynamics: Ethnic track placement patterns in the U.S. and Germany
Making Her Own Way: The Individualization of First-Wave Feminism, 1910-1930
Scholars of the women's movement often postulate that it dissipated after winning suffrage in 1920, but empirical studies about the movement's post-victory transformation remain scarce. We use the first wave of the women's movement to explore the conditions under which movement frames change during periods of decline. Drawing on political opportunity theory, we hypothesize that waning political and cultural opportunities for collective action sho…
Getting on the Radar Screen: Homeschooling Litigation as Agenda Setting, 1972–2007
Since the legalization of homeschooling in 1972, litigation by homeschooling adversaries has shaped the legal frameworks regulating its practice. Adjudicating between complementary theoretical claims, we examine whether homeschooling litigation trends—specifically the ability of either side to set the agenda by getting on court dockets—reflect concerns over contentious educational practices and policies or broader cultural and political dynamics.…
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail: Operationalization matters
Operationalization has been the focus of less research than many other methodological topics. In this article, we argue that considering operational decisions is particularly critical for those who study stratification, because measures of inequality often involve multiple layers of operationalization: researchers first decide how to assign individuals to social groups (e.g., race), which are then themselves used to construct measures of group‐le…
The Rise of Homeschooling Regulation in the Era of School Choice: Legislative and Judicial Trends, 1972–2009
Over the past four decades, states have increasingly regulated the practice of homeschooling. It is unclear, however, what initial conditions prompt states to regulate and whether states use the legislative or judicial system to do so. Using event history analyses, we identify how state‐level political dynamics, social movement mobilization, and educational policies have shaped the timing of pertinent regulatory efforts by courts and state legisl…
State‐Level Determinants of Hate Crime Reporting: Examining the Impact of Structural and Social Movement Influences
In this article, we investigate factors affecting hate crime policies by examining anti‐LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) hate crime reports as a type of policy implementation. Analyzing state‐level data drawn primarily from the US Census between 1995 and 2008, we examine how structural and social movement mobilization factors explain hate crime reporting. We find that anti‐LGBT hate crimes are more likely to be reported in more urbanize…
Soldiers to Scientists: Military Service, Gender, and STEM Degree Earning
The authors use 2014-2018 data from the American Community Survey to answer two questions: To what extent is military service associated with higher rates of earning a bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field (vs. a non-STEM field)? To what extent is this relationship gendered? The findings suggest that military service is associated with higher odds of completing a STEM degree and that this associatio…
Military service and STEM employment: Do veterans have an advantage
STEM Degrees and Military Service: An Intersectional Analysis
Given that the U.S. military uses science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) exposure as a key recruitment tool, one should expect that military service is associated with STEM outcomes. While research demonstrates this pattern for women veterans, we know little about racialized and intersectional patterns. This article uses the American Community Survey data (2014–2018) to examine the association between military service, race/ethnicity, …
Climate Extremes and Protests in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, 1995–2013
Scientists have shown a relationship between climate conditions and social unrest, specifically related to temperature and precipitation trends. Though deviations from historically normative patterns are becoming more pronounced, it remains unclear how or to what extent they might be linked to protests. Similarly, we know little about the extent to which the relationships between local climate anomalies and protests are contemporaneous versus lag…
Deduplication of the media-based event databases
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