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Chair, Associate Professor, Sociology

Education

Ph.D. Sociology, Washington State University, 2012
M.A. Sociology, Washington State University, 2008
B.A. Sociology and Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2004

Biography

Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor is an Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Program at 91吃瓜网. Her areas of scholarly interest include gender, work, family, and social networks.

O鈥機onnor research examines the effects of current workplace structures and cultures that proliferate the "ideal worker" norm鈥攖he norm that says the best workers are available for work 24/7 and put in the most face time. She is particularly interested in identifying how the current rules of work disadvantage those who have caregiving responsibilities or need flexible work鈥攊n other words, people who do not fit the ideal worker model. Her work has appeared in Gender & Society, Work & Occupations, Sociological Perspectives, and Social Science Research.

O鈥機onnor joined 91吃瓜网 in 2013. Before joining CI, O鈥機onnor worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University in 2012.

Representative Courses Taught

• Soc 495/496 Capstone
• Soc 450 Seminar
• Soc 334 Gender & Sexuality
• Soc 321 Research Methods in Sociology
• Soc 202 Introduction to Social Research Methods
• SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology

Select Publications

• Munsch, Christin, Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor, and Susan R. Fisk. 2023. 鈥淕ender and the Disparate Payoff of Overwork.鈥� Social Psychology Quarterly. OnlineFirst.
• O鈥機onnor, Lindsey Trimble, and Julie A. Kmec. 2020. 鈥淚s it Discrimination, or Fair and Deserved? How Beliefs about Work, Family, and Gender Shape Recognition of Family Responsibilities Discrimination.鈥� Social Currents 7(3): 212-230
• Downey, Dennis, Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor, Leslie Abell, Daniel Armanino, Mark Jepson, Reha Kadakal, Sunghee Nam, Luis S谩nchez, Elizabeth Sowers. 2019. 鈥淣avigating the Process of Curriculum Redesign in Sociology: Lessons from One Program.鈥� Teaching Sociology 47(2).
• O鈥機onnor, Lindsey Trimble, and Erin A. Cech. 2018. 鈥淣ot Just a Mothers鈥� Problem: The Negative Consequences of Workplace Flexibility Bias for All Workers.鈥� Sociological Perspectives 61(5): 808-829.
• Erin A. Cech and Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor. 2017. 鈥淟ike Second-Hand Smoke鈥�: The Toxic Effect of Workplace Flexibility Bias for Workers鈥� Health.鈥� Community, Work, & Family 20(5): 543-572.
• Albiston, Catherine, and Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor. 2016. 鈥淛ust Leave.鈥� Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 39: 1-65.
• O鈥機onnor, Lindsey Trimble, Julie A. Kmec, and Elizabeth C. Harris. 2015. 鈥淕iving Care and Perceived Discrimination: The Social and Organizational Context of Family Responsibility Discrimination.鈥� Research in the Sociology of Work (Work and Family in the New Economy) 26: 249-276.
• Kmec, Julie A., Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor, and Scott Schieman. 2014. 鈥淣ot Ideal: The Association between Working Anything but Full Time and Perceived Unfair Treatment.鈥� Work & Occupations 41: 63-85
• Correll, Shelly, Erin Kelly, Lindsey Trimble O鈥機onnor, and Joan Williams. 2014. 鈥淩edesigning, Redefining Work.鈥� Work & Occupations 41: 3-17.
• O鈥機onnor, Lindsey Trimble. 2013. 鈥淎sk and You Shall Receive: Social Network Contacts鈥� Provision of Help during the Job Search.Social Networks 35: 593-603.
• Trimble, Lindsey B. and Julie A. Kmec. 2011. 鈥淭he Role of Social Networks in the Job Attainment Process.鈥� Sociology Compass; 5: 165-178.
• Kmec, Julie A., Steve McDonald, and Lindsey B. Trimble. 2010. 鈥淢aking Gender Fit and 鈥淐orrecting鈥� Gender Misfits: Sex Segregated Employment and the Non-Search Process.鈥� Gender & Society 24: 213-236.
• Kmec, Julie A. and Lindsey B. Trimble. 2009. 鈥淒oes it Pay to Have a Network Contact? Social Network Ties, Workplace Racial Context, and Pay Outcomes鈥� Social Science Research 38: 266-278.

VITA

Curriculum Vitae 

Keywords

Work and Labor Markets, Social Networks and Work, Gender, Occupational Race/Sex Segregation, Work Organizations, Work/Family Interface, Stratification, Poverty/Welfare