Jennifer Hickes Lundquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Hickes Lundquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Hickes |
| FAMILY NAME | Lundquist |
| SIGNATURE | LUNDQUIST J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5515-386X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Partnering in turbulent times: Hooking up, dating, and romantic relationship formation in college, 2019–2024
BACKGROUNDThe COVID-19 pandemic and related mitigation policies potentially were related to romantic and sexual partnering among straight and queer college students in 2020-2024. OBJECTIVEWe examine percentages of those hooking up, dating, and forming long-term romantic relationships in college during 2019-2024; the number of intimate events and relationships; partner meeting contexts; and how patterns varied by gender and sexual orientation. MET…
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies
While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changi…
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
The data behind a distinct form of racism in online datingThe Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at ";digital-sexual racism,"; a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds a…
Warriors Wanted: The Performance of Immigrants in the US Army
The US Army offers English-language instruction and socio-cultural training to foreign-born personnel, and current US law allows some immigrants to apply for expedited citizenship through military service. The US Army, thus, offers a compelling context in which to explore how such institutional factors might facilitate immigrant incorporation, yet we know little about the experience of foreign-born soldiers because most surveys exclude active-dut…
Tipping the Multiracial Color-Line: Racialized Preferences of Multiracial Online Daters
Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers
This paper is one of the first systematic assessments of ex-felons’ workplace performance. Using FOIA-requested data from the Department of Defense, we follow 1.3 million ex-offender and non-offender enlistees in the US military from 2002 to 2009. Those with a felony background show no difference in attrition rates due to poor performance compared to those without criminal records. Moreover, ex-felons are promoted more quickly and to higher ranks…
Residential segregation: The mitigating effects of past military experience
Tout sujet, se constitue une vie intrapsychique intime, a partir d'un contexte familial prive, lui-meme soumis a un espace public. Ces modalites de subjectivations intime, privee, publique, se presentent comme les instances d'un processus, sans idee de hierarchie, en interdependance, que nous appelons la dialectique IPP. Nous sommes amenes, en tant que therapeute familial, a recevoir des familles ou les liens tisses mettent a mal la vie intime de…
Is Love (Color) Blind? The Economy of Race among Gay and Straight Daters
A drawback to research on interracial couplings is that it almost exclusively studies heterosexual relationships. However, compelling new evidence from analyses using the Census shows that interracial relationships are significantly more common among the gay population. It is unclear how much of this reflects weaker racial preference or more limited dating markets. This paper examines the interactions of white gay and straight online daters who h…
Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace: Treatment of Multiracial Daters in an Online Dating Website
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent,…
Do Black–White Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding Persist in the Military Community
Demography: The Study of Human Population, Fourth Edition
Reinstitutionalizing Families: Life Course Policy and Marriage in the Military
The transition to adulthood has become an increasingly telescoped process for Americans, with marital formation occurring increasingly later in the life course. It is therefore striking to find a context like the U.S. military, in which marriage rates bear an anachronistic resemblance to those of the 1950s era. Using narrative data from life history interviews with military affiliates, the authors show that the military has reinstitutionalized mi…
The Dynamic Lives and Static Institutions of the 'Two Armies: Data from the Survey of Active Duty Personnel
The U.S. Army consists of two distinct functional components: soldiers serving in combat roles, on the one hand, and those who serve in support positions, on the other. Do these two functionally distinct segments differ culturally as well? Empirical researchers utilizing qualitative methods have supported a 'Two Armies' concept. This article examines the phenomenon quantitatively by using a nationally representative sample of the active duty popu…
Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education
In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does …
Boys Just Want to Have Fun? Masculinity, Sexual Behaviors, and Romantic Intentions of Gay and Straight Males in College
Scholars studying college student sexual culture in the United States largely frame men as being detached from emotions, unconcerned with relationships, and in pursuit of sexual conquests. By expanding the examination of college sexual culture, an environment often associated with meaningless sexual encounters, this article tests those stereotypes in gay and straight men. We evaluate sexual behaviors, social opportunity structures, and romantic a…
Gender, Work Time, and Care Responsibilities Among Faculty 1
This study explores how faculty at one research‐intensive university spend their time on research, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as housework, childcare, care for elders, and other long‐term care. Drawing on surveys and focus group interviews with faculty, the article examines how gender is related to time spent on the different components of faculty work, as well as on housework and care. Findings show that many faculty report workin…
Race and Childlessness in America, 1988-2002
This paper bridges the literature on childlessness, which often focuses on married White couples, to the literature on race and fertility, which often focuses on why total fertility rates and nonmarital births are higher for Blacks than Whites. Despite similarity in levels of childlessness among Black women and White women, Black trends have been largely ignored. Recent research has not adequately explored the extent to which factors driving chil…
Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction in the Military: The Effect of a Meritocratic Institution
This article reevaluates traditional racial and gender disparities in the work satisfaction literature by examining the U.S. military: an institution that has ameliorated many racial inequalities while exacerbating gender conflict. The military departs from civilian society in some analytically useful ways, making it a unique, though underutilized, setting for examining inequality. Using data from the Pentagon's 1999 Survey of Active Duty Personn…
The Black-White Gap in Marital Dissolution among Young Adults: What Can a Counterfactual Scenario Tell Us
One of the most heavily studied subfields of family sociology is that of racial disparities in family formation trends. While divergent black—white patterns in divorce are well documented, their underlying causal factors are not well understood. Debates on whether such differences are due to socioeconomic compositional differences, cultural differences, or some degree of each continue to surface in the literature. In this article, I use the U.S. …
Family formation among women in the U.S. military: Evidence from the nLSY
Although female employment is associated with lower levels of completed fertility in the civilian world, we find family formation rates among U.S. military women to be comparatively high. We compare enlisted women with civilian women using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ( N = 3,547), the only data set to measure simultaneously the nuptiality and fertility of both populations. Using propensity score matching, we show that the fertility …
Politics or Economics? International Migration during the Nicaraguan Contra War
The issue of whether Central Americans in the United States are 'political' or 'economic' migrants has been widely debated, yet little empirical research has informed the controversy. Earlier studies have relied primarily on cross-sectional aggregate data. In order to overcome these limitations we draw on recent surveys conducted in five Nicaraguan communities by the Latin American Migration Project. Using retrospective data, we reconstruct a his…
When Race Makes No Difference: Marriage and the Military
While â retreat from marriageâ rates have been on the rise for all Americans, there has been an increasing divergence in family patterns between blacks and whites, with the former experiencing markedly higher divorce, nonmarital childbearing and never-marrying rates. Explanations generally focus on theories ranging from economic class stratification to normative differences. I examine racial marriage trends when removed from society and placed in…
Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education
In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does …
Gender, Work Time, and Care Responsibilities Among Faculty 1
This study explores how faculty at one research‐intensive university spend their time on research, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as housework, childcare, care for elders, and other long‐term care. Drawing on surveys and focus group interviews with faculty, the article examines how gender is related to time spent on the different components of faculty work, as well as on housework and care. Findings show that many faculty report workin…
Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace: Treatment of Multiracial Daters in an Online Dating Website
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent,…
Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction in the Military: The Effect of a Meritocratic Institution
This article reevaluates traditional racial and gender disparities in the work satisfaction literature by examining the U.S. military: an institution that has ameliorated many racial inequalities while exacerbating gender conflict. The military departs from civilian society in some analytically useful ways, making it a unique, though underutilized, setting for examining inequality. Using data from the Pentagon's 1999 Survey of Active Duty Personn…
When Race Makes No Difference: Marriage and the Military
While â retreat from marriageâ rates have been on the rise for all Americans, there has been an increasing divergence in family patterns between blacks and whites, with the former experiencing markedly higher divorce, nonmarital childbearing and never-marrying rates. Explanations generally focus on theories ranging from economic class stratification to normative differences. I examine racial marriage trends when removed from society and placed in…
Politics or Economics? International Migration during the Nicaraguan Contra War
The issue of whether Central Americans in the United States are 'political' or 'economic' migrants has been widely debated, yet little empirical research has informed the controversy. Earlier studies have relied primarily on cross-sectional aggregate data. In order to overcome these limitations we draw on recent surveys conducted in five Nicaraguan communities by the Latin American Migration Project. Using retrospective data, we reconstruct a his…
The Black-White Gap in Marital Dissolution among Young Adults: What Can a Counterfactual Scenario Tell Us
One of the most heavily studied subfields of family sociology is that of racial disparities in family formation trends. While divergent black—white patterns in divorce are well documented, their underlying causal factors are not well understood. Debates on whether such differences are due to socioeconomic compositional differences, cultural differences, or some degree of each continue to surface in the literature. In this article, I use the U.S. …
Race and Childlessness in America, 1988-2002
This paper bridges the literature on childlessness, which often focuses on married White couples, to the literature on race and fertility, which often focuses on why total fertility rates and nonmarital births are higher for Blacks than Whites. Despite similarity in levels of childlessness among Black women and White women, Black trends have been largely ignored. Recent research has not adequately explored the extent to which factors driving chil…
Family formation among women in the U.S. military: Evidence from the nLSY
Although female employment is associated with lower levels of completed fertility in the civilian world, we find family formation rates among U.S. military women to be comparatively high. We compare enlisted women with civilian women using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ( N = 3,547), the only data set to measure simultaneously the nuptiality and fertility of both populations. Using propensity score matching, we show that the fertility …
Boys Just Want to Have Fun? Masculinity, Sexual Behaviors, and Romantic Intentions of Gay and Straight Males in College
Scholars studying college student sexual culture in the United States largely frame men as being detached from emotions, unconcerned with relationships, and in pursuit of sexual conquests. By expanding the examination of college sexual culture, an environment often associated with meaningless sexual encounters, this article tests those stereotypes in gay and straight men. We evaluate sexual behaviors, social opportunity structures, and romantic a…
Reinstitutionalizing Families: Life Course Policy and Marriage in the Military
The transition to adulthood has become an increasingly telescoped process for Americans, with marital formation occurring increasingly later in the life course. It is therefore striking to find a context like the U.S. military, in which marriage rates bear an anachronistic resemblance to those of the 1950s era. Using narrative data from life history interviews with military affiliates, the authors show that the military has reinstitutionalized mi…
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies
While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changi…
Tipping the Multiracial Color-Line: Racialized Preferences of Multiracial Online Daters
The Dynamic Lives and Static Institutions of the 'Two Armies: Data from the Survey of Active Duty Personnel
The U.S. Army consists of two distinct functional components: soldiers serving in combat roles, on the one hand, and those who serve in support positions, on the other. Do these two functionally distinct segments differ culturally as well? Empirical researchers utilizing qualitative methods have supported a 'Two Armies' concept. This article examines the phenomenon quantitatively by using a nationally representative sample of the active duty popu…
Warriors Wanted: The Performance of Immigrants in the US Army
The US Army offers English-language instruction and socio-cultural training to foreign-born personnel, and current US law allows some immigrants to apply for expedited citizenship through military service. The US Army, thus, offers a compelling context in which to explore how such institutional factors might facilitate immigrant incorporation, yet we know little about the experience of foreign-born soldiers because most surveys exclude active-dut…
Residential segregation: The mitigating effects of past military experience
Tout sujet, se constitue une vie intrapsychique intime, a partir d'un contexte familial prive, lui-meme soumis a un espace public. Ces modalites de subjectivations intime, privee, publique, se presentent comme les instances d'un processus, sans idee de hierarchie, en interdependance, que nous appelons la dialectique IPP. Nous sommes amenes, en tant que therapeute familial, a recevoir des familles ou les liens tisses mettent a mal la vie intime de…
When Race Makes No Difference: Marriage and the Military
While â retreat from marriageâ rates have been on the rise for all Americans, there has been an increasing divergence in family patterns between blacks and whites, with the former experiencing markedly higher divorce, nonmarital childbearing and never-marrying rates. Explanations generally focus on theories ranging from economic class stratification to normative differences. I examine racial marriage trends when removed from society and placed in…
Family formation among women in the U.S. military: Evidence from the nLSY
Although female employment is associated with lower levels of completed fertility in the civilian world, we find family formation rates among U.S. military women to be comparatively high. We compare enlisted women with civilian women using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ( N = 3,547), the only data set to measure simultaneously the nuptiality and fertility of both populations. Using propensity score matching, we show that the fertility …
Politics or Economics? International Migration during the Nicaraguan Contra War
The issue of whether Central Americans in the United States are 'political' or 'economic' migrants has been widely debated, yet little empirical research has informed the controversy. Earlier studies have relied primarily on cross-sectional aggregate data. In order to overcome these limitations we draw on recent surveys conducted in five Nicaraguan communities by the Latin American Migration Project. Using retrospective data, we reconstruct a his…
The Black-White Gap in Marital Dissolution among Young Adults: What Can a Counterfactual Scenario Tell Us
One of the most heavily studied subfields of family sociology is that of racial disparities in family formation trends. While divergent black—white patterns in divorce are well documented, their underlying causal factors are not well understood. Debates on whether such differences are due to socioeconomic compositional differences, cultural differences, or some degree of each continue to surface in the literature. In this article, I use the U.S. …
Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction in the Military: The Effect of a Meritocratic Institution
This article reevaluates traditional racial and gender disparities in the work satisfaction literature by examining the U.S. military: an institution that has ameliorated many racial inequalities while exacerbating gender conflict. The military departs from civilian society in some analytically useful ways, making it a unique, though underutilized, setting for examining inequality. Using data from the Pentagon's 1999 Survey of Active Duty Personn…
Race and Childlessness in America, 1988-2002
This paper bridges the literature on childlessness, which often focuses on married White couples, to the literature on race and fertility, which often focuses on why total fertility rates and nonmarital births are higher for Blacks than Whites. Despite similarity in levels of childlessness among Black women and White women, Black trends have been largely ignored. Recent research has not adequately explored the extent to which factors driving chil…
Boys Just Want to Have Fun? Masculinity, Sexual Behaviors, and Romantic Intentions of Gay and Straight Males in College
Scholars studying college student sexual culture in the United States largely frame men as being detached from emotions, unconcerned with relationships, and in pursuit of sexual conquests. By expanding the examination of college sexual culture, an environment often associated with meaningless sexual encounters, this article tests those stereotypes in gay and straight men. We evaluate sexual behaviors, social opportunity structures, and romantic a…
Gender, Work Time, and Care Responsibilities Among Faculty 1
This study explores how faculty at one research‐intensive university spend their time on research, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as housework, childcare, care for elders, and other long‐term care. Drawing on surveys and focus group interviews with faculty, the article examines how gender is related to time spent on the different components of faculty work, as well as on housework and care. Findings show that many faculty report workin…
The Dynamic Lives and Static Institutions of the 'Two Armies: Data from the Survey of Active Duty Personnel
The U.S. Army consists of two distinct functional components: soldiers serving in combat roles, on the one hand, and those who serve in support positions, on the other. Do these two functionally distinct segments differ culturally as well? Empirical researchers utilizing qualitative methods have supported a 'Two Armies' concept. This article examines the phenomenon quantitatively by using a nationally representative sample of the active duty popu…
Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education
In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does …
Do Black–White Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding Persist in the Military Community
Demography: The Study of Human Population, Fourth Edition
Reinstitutionalizing Families: Life Course Policy and Marriage in the Military
The transition to adulthood has become an increasingly telescoped process for Americans, with marital formation occurring increasingly later in the life course. It is therefore striking to find a context like the U.S. military, in which marriage rates bear an anachronistic resemblance to those of the 1950s era. Using narrative data from life history interviews with military affiliates, the authors show that the military has reinstitutionalized mi…
Is Love (Color) Blind? The Economy of Race among Gay and Straight Daters
A drawback to research on interracial couplings is that it almost exclusively studies heterosexual relationships. However, compelling new evidence from analyses using the Census shows that interracial relationships are significantly more common among the gay population. It is unclear how much of this reflects weaker racial preference or more limited dating markets. This paper examines the interactions of white gay and straight online daters who h…
Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace: Treatment of Multiracial Daters in an Online Dating Website
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent,…
Residential segregation: The mitigating effects of past military experience
Tout sujet, se constitue une vie intrapsychique intime, a partir d'un contexte familial prive, lui-meme soumis a un espace public. Ces modalites de subjectivations intime, privee, publique, se presentent comme les instances d'un processus, sans idee de hierarchie, en interdependance, que nous appelons la dialectique IPP. Nous sommes amenes, en tant que therapeute familial, a recevoir des familles ou les liens tisses mettent a mal la vie intime de…
Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers
This paper is one of the first systematic assessments of ex-felons’ workplace performance. Using FOIA-requested data from the Department of Defense, we follow 1.3 million ex-offender and non-offender enlistees in the US military from 2002 to 2009. Those with a felony background show no difference in attrition rates due to poor performance compared to those without criminal records. Moreover, ex-felons are promoted more quickly and to higher ranks…
Tipping the Multiracial Color-Line: Racialized Preferences of Multiracial Online Daters
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
The data behind a distinct form of racism in online datingThe Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at ";digital-sexual racism,"; a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds a…
Warriors Wanted: The Performance of Immigrants in the US Army
The US Army offers English-language instruction and socio-cultural training to foreign-born personnel, and current US law allows some immigrants to apply for expedited citizenship through military service. The US Army, thus, offers a compelling context in which to explore how such institutional factors might facilitate immigrant incorporation, yet we know little about the experience of foreign-born soldiers because most surveys exclude active-dut…
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies
While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changi…
Partnering in turbulent times: Hooking up, dating, and romantic relationship formation in college, 2019–2024
BACKGROUNDThe COVID-19 pandemic and related mitigation policies potentially were related to romantic and sexual partnering among straight and queer college students in 2020-2024. OBJECTIVEWe examine percentages of those hooking up, dating, and forming long-term romantic relationships in college during 2019-2024; the number of intimate events and relationships; partner meeting contexts; and how patterns varied by gender and sexual orientation. MET…
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