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Madison Avila

Madison
Department of Sociology
UC Santa Barbara
Broom Center Affiliation(s)

Graduate Student Fellow

 

Madison is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara. Her broad research areas include gender, work and organizations, and social psychology. She received her MA in Demographic and Social Analysis at UC Irvine in 2021, with a thesis that investigates work hour-reductions by occupation during COVID-19.

Currently, she is exploring how early career aspirations and education choices may influence career outcomes for individuals in ways that contribute to broad, and pervasive patterns of occupational segregation by race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States.

Additionally, Madison is working on other projects that examine the contents of gender stereotypes in the United States, education aspirations for immigrants in the U.S. and U.K., and using content analysis to examine how individuals create gender identities within organizations and on social media.essions.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, UCSB Department of Sociology

2023 Louis H. Towbes Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara  

mavila@ucsb.edu
Sex and Gender

Publications

Thébaud, Sarah, Madison Avila, and Tristan Bridges. Forthcoming. 
"The Social Psychology of Gender: Theoretical Approaches and Contemporary Developments."
In Handbook of Social Psychology Micro, Meso, and Macro Perspectives. Vol. 2: Meso and Macro Perspectives, edited by J. E. Stets, K. A. Hegtvedt, and L. Doan.
Research Themes:
Sex and Gender
Van Den Abbeele S*, Grafton D, Avila M, Casimiro Vieyra E, Chan B, Husted G, Kaloper S, Moscona B, and Cassels S. In Press. 
"Teaching and Learning about Geo-Social Determinants of Health. In Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health. "
Eds: Marynia Kolak and Imelda Moise.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment