Mackenzie A Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 261685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mackenzie A Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mackenzie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9124-9888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Screens to Schooling: Associations Between Adolescent Technology Use and Gendered College Enrollment
Young women now surpass young men in college enrollment. While research suggests that this gender gap emerges during adolescence, less is known about the role of adolescent technology use in shaping which youth go on to pursue higher education. This study draws on two youth-focused supplements to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to follow a cohort of adolescents into young adulthood, examining whether patterns of technology use in 2007 predict …
The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood: How Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Parent in the Shadow of the Criminal Legal System
The expansion of the U.S. carceral system profoundly shapes motherhood for marginalized women, yet little is known about how mothers navigate a child's incarceration. We use in-depth interviews with mothers of incarcerated men ( n = 69), most of whom identify as Latina, to understand how jail incarceration shapes women's motherwork practices throughout the duration of their sons' incarceration. Building on theories of decarceral motherwork, we fi…
Stress Proliferation or Stress Relief? Understanding Mothers' Health during Son's Incarceration
Social stressors proliferate to impair the health of those connected to the person enduring the stressor, but they can simultaneously offer relief from other stressors. Using in-depth interviews with 69 mothers of incarcerated men, we investigate mothers' descriptions of how the stressor of their adult son's incarceration impairs their health. First, mothers overwhelmingly describe how the increased instrumental, emotional, and financial responsi…
Digital boundary work and work-to-family spillover in Europe: Examining the Role of Digital Skills
Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships
Jail incarceration substantially transforms romantic relationships, and incarceration may alter the commitment between partners, thereby undermining or strengthening relationships. In this article, we use in‐depth interviews with 85 women connected to incarcerated men (as current or former romantic partners) to explore how women articulate relationship changes that stem from their partner's jail incarceration, a common but understudied form of co…
Tracing the Gender Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Technological Ability
Tindersluts' and 'Tinderellas: Examining the Digital Affordances Shaping the (Hetero)Sexual Scripts of Young Womxn on Tinder
This study examines how the digital affordances of Tinder shape the (hetero)sexual scripts of young womxn. Findings indicate that while Tinder alleviates the boundaries of an on-campus hookup culture, the app has yet to completely rewrite the sexual and romantic scripts of young adults. Instead, participants describe the development of a hybrid hookup script. This multilevel script reintegrates traditional dating scripts, which are absent in an o…
Gender inequality, reproductive justice, and decoupling economic growth and emissions: A panel analysis of the moderating association of gender equality on the relationship between economic growth and…
Understanding how carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) can be decoupled from economic growth is an important part of planning for climate change mitigation. A variety of critical environmental theories contend that the oppression of marginalized groups is interconnected with the mistreatment and destruction of nature. As a result, social equity, or the removal of barriers of structural inequality, often coincide with environmental quality and reduced e…
Reproducing spatial inequality? The sustainability fix and barriers to urban mobility in Portland, Oregon
We explore how the language of “just sustainability” may become subsumed into a sustainability fix strategy, depoliticizing the utility of concepts such as justice and/or equity. Building from critical GIS insights, we combine digitized spatial data from participatory mapping exercises and community-organization-based focus group in Portland, Oregon, regarding a proposed six-mile biking and walking path around downtown. We find that 80 percent of…
Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men's Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage
Using unique, nationally representative data that asks individuals about their surname choice in marriage, we explore heterosexual men's nontraditional surname choice. We focus on how education-both absolute and relative to wives'-correlates with nontraditional surname choice. Following class-based masculinities theory, we find that men with more education are less likely to choose a nontraditional surname. Despite being more egalitarian in attit…
Reproducing spatial inequality? The sustainability fix and barriers to urban mobility in Portland, Oregon
We explore how the language of “just sustainability” may become subsumed into a sustainability fix strategy, depoliticizing the utility of concepts such as justice and/or equity. Building from critical GIS insights, we combine digitized spatial data from participatory mapping exercises and community-organization-based focus group in Portland, Oregon, regarding a proposed six-mile biking and walking path around downtown. We find that 80 percent of…
Gender inequality, reproductive justice, and decoupling economic growth and emissions: A panel analysis of the moderating association of gender equality on the relationship between economic growth and…
Understanding how carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) can be decoupled from economic growth is an important part of planning for climate change mitigation. A variety of critical environmental theories contend that the oppression of marginalized groups is interconnected with the mistreatment and destruction of nature. As a result, social equity, or the removal of barriers of structural inequality, often coincide with environmental quality and reduced e…
Tindersluts' and 'Tinderellas: Examining the Digital Affordances Shaping the (Hetero)Sexual Scripts of Young Womxn on Tinder
This study examines how the digital affordances of Tinder shape the (hetero)sexual scripts of young womxn. Findings indicate that while Tinder alleviates the boundaries of an on-campus hookup culture, the app has yet to completely rewrite the sexual and romantic scripts of young adults. Instead, participants describe the development of a hybrid hookup script. This multilevel script reintegrates traditional dating scripts, which are absent in an o…
Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships
Jail incarceration substantially transforms romantic relationships, and incarceration may alter the commitment between partners, thereby undermining or strengthening relationships. In this article, we use in‐depth interviews with 85 women connected to incarcerated men (as current or former romantic partners) to explore how women articulate relationship changes that stem from their partner's jail incarceration, a common but understudied form of co…
Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men's Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage
Using unique, nationally representative data that asks individuals about their surname choice in marriage, we explore heterosexual men's nontraditional surname choice. We focus on how education-both absolute and relative to wives'-correlates with nontraditional surname choice. Following class-based masculinities theory, we find that men with more education are less likely to choose a nontraditional surname. Despite being more egalitarian in attit…
The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood: How Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Parent in the Shadow of the Criminal Legal System
The expansion of the U.S. carceral system profoundly shapes motherhood for marginalized women, yet little is known about how mothers navigate a child's incarceration. We use in-depth interviews with mothers of incarcerated men ( n = 69), most of whom identify as Latina, to understand how jail incarceration shapes women's motherwork practices throughout the duration of their sons' incarceration. Building on theories of decarceral motherwork, we fi…
Tracing the Gender Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Technological Ability
Digital boundary work and work-to-family spillover in Europe: Examining the Role of Digital Skills
Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men's Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage
Using unique, nationally representative data that asks individuals about their surname choice in marriage, we explore heterosexual men's nontraditional surname choice. We focus on how education-both absolute and relative to wives'-correlates with nontraditional surname choice. Following class-based masculinities theory, we find that men with more education are less likely to choose a nontraditional surname. Despite being more egalitarian in attit…
Reproducing spatial inequality? The sustainability fix and barriers to urban mobility in Portland, Oregon
We explore how the language of “just sustainability” may become subsumed into a sustainability fix strategy, depoliticizing the utility of concepts such as justice and/or equity. Building from critical GIS insights, we combine digitized spatial data from participatory mapping exercises and community-organization-based focus group in Portland, Oregon, regarding a proposed six-mile biking and walking path around downtown. We find that 80 percent of…
Gender inequality, reproductive justice, and decoupling economic growth and emissions: A panel analysis of the moderating association of gender equality on the relationship between economic growth and…
Understanding how carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) can be decoupled from economic growth is an important part of planning for climate change mitigation. A variety of critical environmental theories contend that the oppression of marginalized groups is interconnected with the mistreatment and destruction of nature. As a result, social equity, or the removal of barriers of structural inequality, often coincide with environmental quality and reduced e…
Tindersluts' and 'Tinderellas: Examining the Digital Affordances Shaping the (Hetero)Sexual Scripts of Young Womxn on Tinder
This study examines how the digital affordances of Tinder shape the (hetero)sexual scripts of young womxn. Findings indicate that while Tinder alleviates the boundaries of an on-campus hookup culture, the app has yet to completely rewrite the sexual and romantic scripts of young adults. Instead, participants describe the development of a hybrid hookup script. This multilevel script reintegrates traditional dating scripts, which are absent in an o…
Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships
Jail incarceration substantially transforms romantic relationships, and incarceration may alter the commitment between partners, thereby undermining or strengthening relationships. In this article, we use in‐depth interviews with 85 women connected to incarcerated men (as current or former romantic partners) to explore how women articulate relationship changes that stem from their partner's jail incarceration, a common but understudied form of co…
Tracing the Gender Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Technological Ability
Digital boundary work and work-to-family spillover in Europe: Examining the Role of Digital Skills
From Screens to Schooling: Associations Between Adolescent Technology Use and Gendered College Enrollment
Young women now surpass young men in college enrollment. While research suggests that this gender gap emerges during adolescence, less is known about the role of adolescent technology use in shaping which youth go on to pursue higher education. This study draws on two youth-focused supplements to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to follow a cohort of adolescents into young adulthood, examining whether patterns of technology use in 2007 predict …
The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood: How Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Parent in the Shadow of the Criminal Legal System
The expansion of the U.S. carceral system profoundly shapes motherhood for marginalized women, yet little is known about how mothers navigate a child's incarceration. We use in-depth interviews with mothers of incarcerated men ( n = 69), most of whom identify as Latina, to understand how jail incarceration shapes women's motherwork practices throughout the duration of their sons' incarceration. Building on theories of decarceral motherwork, we fi…
Stress Proliferation or Stress Relief? Understanding Mothers' Health during Son's Incarceration
Social stressors proliferate to impair the health of those connected to the person enduring the stressor, but they can simultaneously offer relief from other stressors. Using in-depth interviews with 69 mothers of incarcerated men, we investigate mothers' descriptions of how the stressor of their adult son's incarceration impairs their health. First, mothers overwhelmingly describe how the increased instrumental, emotional, and financial responsi…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)