Claude Rubinson
Department of Social Sciences
University of Houston—Downtown
1 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002

http://www.grundrisse.org
http://gator.uhd.edu/~rubinsonc/
rubinsonc@uhd.edu(713)222-5392

Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Houston—Downtown

2016–Present

Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Houston—Downtown

2010–2016

Education
Ph.D.

2010

School of Sociology, University of Arizona
Dissertation: The Production of Style: Aesthetic and
Ideological Diversity in the Arts and Crafts Movement,
1875–1914. Committee: Charles C. Ragin (chair), Albert
Bergesen, and Keiron Bailey (Geography)

M.A.

2002

Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
Thesis: Wealth Inequality and Class Location

B.A.

1996

Department of Sociology, Emory University

Research Interests
Methodology
Art, Media, and Culture
Globalization and Comparative Political-Economy
Healthcare Delivery

Publications
Holtrop, Jodi Summers, Dennis Gurfinkel, Andrea Nederveld, Julia Reedy,
Claude Rubinson, Bethany M. Kwan. Forthcoming. “What Works in
Implementing Shared Medical Appointments for Patients with
Diabetes in Primary Care: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis fromthe Invested in Diabetes Study.” Implementation Science
Communications.

Updated: June 24, 2024

[Publications]Kaplan, Heather C., Stuart L. Goldstein, Claude Rubinson, Nancy Daraiseh,
Fang Ahang, Isabelle M. Rodgers, Devesh S. Dahale, David J.
Askenazi, Micahel J. G. Somers, Joshua J. Zaritsky, Jason Misurac,
Vimal Chadha, Karyn E. Yonekawa, Scott M. Sutherland, Patricia L.
Weng, Kathleen E. Walsh. 2024. “Prospective Study of the Multisite
Spread of a Medication Safety Intervention: Factors Common to
Hospitals With Improved Outcomes.” American Journal of Medical
Quality 39(1):21–32.
Chen, Melinda, Claude Rubinson, Eloise M. O’Donnell, Jing Li, Thomas
Bodenheimer, and Lawrence P. Casalino. 2023. “High-Performing
Teamlets in Primary Care: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” The
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Rubinson, Claude and Roel Rutten. 2023. “Concepts before Numbers:
Teaching Effective Calibration Practices for Qualitative Comparative
Analysis.” Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research
Methods, edited by Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich and H. Russell
Bernard. London: Routledge.
Holtrop, Jodi Summers Holtrop, Lauri Connelly, Rebekah Gomes, Laurie
Fitzpatrick, Claude Rubinson, Rowena J. Dolor, R. Mark Gritz, Zhehui
Luo, Bonnie Jortberg, and Andrea Nederveld. 2023. “Models for
Delivering Weight Management in Primary Care: Qualitative Resultsfrom the MOST Obesity Study.” The Journal of the American Boardof Family Medicine 36(4):603–15.
Rutten, Roel and Claude Rubinson. 2022. “A Vocabulary for QCA.”COMPASSS Research Network.
Holtrop, Jodi Summers, Dennis Gurfinkel, Andrea Nederveld, Phoutdavone
Phimphasone-Brady, Patrick Hosokawa, Claude Rubinson, Jeanette A.
Waxmonsky and Bethany M. Kwan. 2022. “Methods for Capturing
and Analyzing Adaptations: Implications for Implementation
Research.” Implementation Science 17.
Bender, Miriam, Marjory Williams, Maricela F. Cruz, Claude Rubinson andZahra Sharifiheris. 2022. “Developing innovative methodologies
with a participatory approach to examine how the complex
relationality between healthcare interventions, their contexts, andimplementation strategies produce positive outcomes.”
Implementation Science 17(Suppl 1):S77.
Rubinson, Claude, Migara Jayawardena, Ryan Watkins, Joy Butscher, andNoureddine Berrah. 2022. Qualitative Comparative Analysis:
Exploring Causal Links for Scaling Up Investments in Renewable
Energy. IEG Methods and Evaluation Capacity Development Working
Paper Series. Independent Evaluation Group. Washington, DC:
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World Bank.
Bender, Miriam, Marjory Williams, Maricela F. Cruz, and Claude Rubinson.
2021. “A study protocol to evaluate the implementation andeffectiveness of the Clinical Nurse Leader Care Model in improving
quality and safety outcomes.” Nursing Open 8(6): 3688–3696.
DOI: 10.1002/nop2.910
Rubinson, Claude. 2019. “Presenting Qualitative Comparative Analysis:
Notation, Tabular Layout, and Visualization.” MethodologicalInnovations. DOI: 10.1177/2059799119862110
Rubinson, Claude, Lasse Gerrits, Roel Rutten, and Thomas Greckhamer.
2019. “Avoiding Common Errors in QCA: A Short Guide for New
Practitioners.” COMPASSS Research Network.
Holtrop, Jodi Summers, Tristen Hall, Claude Rubinson, L. Miriam
Dickinson, and Russell Glasgow. 2017. “What Makes for
Successful Registry Implementation: A Qualitative Comparative
Analysis.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 30(5):657–665.
Rubinson, Claude and John Mueller. 2016. “Whatever Happened to
Drama? A Configurational-Comparative Analysis of Genre Trajectoryin American Cinema, 1946–2013.” The Sociological Quarterly
57(4):597–627.
Rubinson, Claude. 2014. “Ontological Considerations when Modeling
Missing Data with Relational Databases.” Social Science Computer
Review 32(6):769–780.
Rubinson, Claude. 2013. “Contradictions in fsQCA.” Quality &Quantity 47(5):2847–2867.
Ragin, Charles C. and Claude Rubinson. 2011. “Comparative Methods.”
International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by Bertrand
Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino. London: Sage.
Svevo-Cianci, Kimberly A., Stuart Hart, and Claude Rubinson. 2010.
“Protecting Children from Violence and Maltreatment: A Qualitative
Comparative Analysis of 42 Countries to Assess the Efficacy of U.N.
CRC Article 19.” Child Abuse & Neglect: The International
Journal 34(1):45–56.
Franzosi, Roberto and Claude Rubinson. 2009. “Question andAnswer (How do you go from QNA to QCA?)” Pp. 137–140 in
Quantitative Narrative Analysis by Roberto Franzosi. London: Sage.
Ragin, Charles C. and Claude Rubinson. 2009. “The Distinctiveness ofComparative Research.” The SAGE Handbook of Comparative
Politics, edited by Todd Landman and Neil Robinson. London: Sage.
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Rubinson, Claude. 2007. “Nulls, Three-Valued Logic, and Ambiguity in
SQL: Critiquing Date's Critique.” SIGMOD Record 36(4): 13–17.
Rubinson, Claude and Charles C. Ragin. 2007. “New Methods for
Comparative Research?” Capitalisms Compared (Comparative Social
Research, volume 24), edited by Lars Mjøset and Tommy H. Clausen.
Oxford: Elsevier.

Current Funded Research
2020–24 Spread of Safety Interventions: Planning for Context
PI: Kathleen Walsh, Boston Children’s Hospital
Funding agency: AHRQ HSQR (R18 HS027401-01A1)$1,599,414 (Total direct costs: $1,105,280)
Role: Methodologist

Previously Funded Research
2020–23 Organizing Nursing to Improve Care Quality and Safety: A
Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study
PI: Miriam Bender, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing,
University of California, Irvine.
Funding agency: AHRQ HSQR (R01 HS027181-01A1)$1,174,291 (Total direct costs: $744,738)
Role: Methodologist
2018–21 Primary Care Physician-Staff Dyads (“Teamlets”): A Simple,
Efficient Means to Improve Healthcare Quality and Decrease
Cost?
P.I.: Lawrence P. Casalino, Weill Medical College, Cornell
University.
Funding agency: AHRQ HEOR (R01 HS025716-01)$1,142,559 (Total direct costs: $674,076)
Role: Methodologist
2015–17 Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication-Associated Acute Kidney
Injury in Children
P.I.: Stuart L. Goldstein, Cincinnati Children’s Medical Hospital
Funding agency: AHRQ (HSQR) (R18 HS023763-01)$1,497,181 (Total direct costs: $880,135)
Role: Methodologist

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SoftwareRubinson, Claude and Christopher Reichert. libfsqca, acq, and Kirq. Crossplatform software for conducting crisp- and fuzzy-set QCA.
Implements routines from Ragin's The Comparative Method (1987)
and Redesigning Social Inquiry (2008). Available at
http://grundrisse.org/qca/.
Rubinson, Claude. galois. Galois lattice construction, using
Graphviz DOT language. Available at
http://grundrisse.org/qca/download/.

Workshops and Short Courses
Rubinson, Claude. April 22, 2022. “Introduction to Qualitative
Comparative Analysis.” 101st Meeting of the Southwestern Social
Science Association. San Antonio, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. December 7, 2021. Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A
Cross-Disciplinary Methodology for Analyzing System Complexity.
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Faculty of Engineering. Surakarta,
Central Java, Indonesia.
Dul, Jan and Claude Rubinson. January 26, 2021. NCA and QCA
Specialized Webinar. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus
University Rotterdam: Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Rubinson, Claude. May 22, 2019. “Visualization Options for QCA.” QCA
Doctoral Courses, 2nd International QCA Summer Workshops.
Antwerp Management School: Antwerp, Belgium.
Rubinson, Claude. April 25, 2018. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis in
Practice: Why, When, and How?” University of Colorado School of
Medicine, Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Researchand Delivery Science. Aurora, CO.
Rubinson, Claude. April 25, 2018. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis for
Medical and Health Services Research: An Introduction.” Universityof Colorado School of Medicine, Adult and Child Consortium for
Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science. Aurora, CO.
Rubinson, Claude. January 4–6, 2018. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis.”
Arizona Methods Workshops. School of Sociology, University of
Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. April 14, 2017. “Methodology Workshop on Qualitative
Comparative Analysis.” 96th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern
Social Science Association. Austin, TX.
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Rubinson, Claude. January 7-9, 2016. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis.”
Arizona Methods Workshops. School of Sociology, University of
Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. September 9, 2015. “Qualitative Comparative
Analysis.” Social Problems Student Advisory Board Professional
Development Webinar Series. University of Houston: Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. April 10, 2015. “Methodology Workshop: Qualitative
Comparative Analysis.” 95th Annual Meeting of theSouthwestern Social Science Association. Denver, CO.
Rubinson, Claude. January 8–10, 2015. “Qualitative Comparative
Analysis.” Arizona Methods Workshops. School of Sociology,
University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. January 9–11, 2014. “Qualitative Comparative
Analysis.” Arizona Methods Workshops. School of Sociology,
University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. April 25, 2013. “Methodology Workshop on Qualitative
Comparative Analysis.” 76th Annual Meeting of the Southern
Sociological Society. Atlanta, GA.
Rubinson, Claude. April 12, 2013. “Methodology Workshop on Qualitative
Comparative Analysis.” 55th Annual Conference of the Western
Social Science Association. Denver, CO.
Rubinson, Claude. February 2, 2012. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis
for Medical Research.” The University of Texas Health Sciences
Center at Houston: Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. September 28, 2011. “Introduction to Relational
Databases, Part 2: How?” Houston Linux Users Group: Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. September 21, 2011. “Introduction to Relational
Databases, Part 1: Why?” Houston Linux Users Group: Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. May 17–18, 2011. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis.”
Emory University: Atlanta, GA.
Rubinson, Claude. October 19, 2009. “Using Relational Databases and
SQL for Social Scientific Research: Theory and Practice.” Universityof Arizona: Tucson, AZ.

Presentations
Rubinson, Claude. April 26, 2023. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A
Cross-Disciplinary Methodology for Studying Similarities andDifferences.” Guest Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of
Houston, Houston, TX.
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Rubinson, Claude and Roel Rutten. December 14, 2022. “Calibration:
Explaining QCA’s Cornerstone.” 10th International QCA Expert
Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. October 4, 2022. “NCA-guided QCA.” Rotterdam
School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
Rubinson, Claude and Elizabeth Lewis. April 22, 2022. “Commensurationof Visual Art: The Case of the Prairie Home.” 101st Meeting of theSouthwestern Social Science Association. San Antonio, TX.
Rubinson, Claude and Jan Dul. December 16, 2021. “NCA-guided QCA:
Strengthening QCA with NCA.” 9th International QCA Expert
Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude and Roel Rutten. December 16, 2021. “Concepts before
Numbers: Teaching Effective Calibration Practices for QCA.” 5thInternational QCA Paper Development Workshop. ETH Zürich,
Zürich, Switzerland.
Bender, Miriam, Marjory Williams, Maricela F. Cruz, Claude Rubinson, andZahra Sharifiheris. December 12, 2021. “Developing innovative
methodologies with a participatory approach to examine how thecomplex relationality between healthcare interventions, theircontexts, and implementation strategies produce positive outcomes.”
14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and
Implementation. National Institutes of Health and AcademyHealth.
Rubinson, Claude. February 26, 2021. “Introduction to Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: A Methodology for Studying Similarities andDifferences.” Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta.
Rutten, Roel and Claude Rubinson. November 23, 2020. “Ontology andEpistemology of Calibration and Measurement: What the @!?&# do
0.0, 0.5, and 1.0 Actually Mean?” 8th International QCA Expert
Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. November 7, 2019. “Rediscovering Ousterhout’s
Dichotomy in the 21st Century while Developing and Deploying
Software for Set-Theoretic Empirical Analysis: From R to Python/Qt
to OCaml and Tcl/Tk.” 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference. Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. October 29, 2019. “Introduction to the UNIX
Environment: Computing as Praxis.” ACM-UHD. University of
Houston—Downtown, Houston, TX.

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Rubinson, Claude. October 3, 2019. “Introduction to Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: A Methodology for Studying Similarities andDifferences.” Social Sciences Lecture Series. Department of Social
Sciences, University of Houston—Downtown, Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. November 28, 2018. “Contextual Factors Affecting the
Success of a Medication Safety Intervention to Decrease Acute
Kidney Injury.” 6th International QCA Expert Workshop. ETH
Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. November 27, 2018. “Overview of QCA Software &Recent Developments with Kirq.” 2nd International QCA Paper
Development Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. November, 14, 2018 . “Symbolic Boolean Computationand Set-Theoretic Empirical Research in OCaml.” Houston
Functional Programmers, Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. May 29, 2018. “Introduction to Kirq.” International
QCA Summer Workshop 2018. University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal,
Germany.
Rubinson, Claude. December 12, 2017. “Approaching QCA: Software as
Wayfinding.” 1st International QCA Young Researchers Workshop.
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. May 17, 2017. “From R to Python to OCaml: SetTheoretic Analysis for the (Social) Sciences.” Houston Functional
Programmers. Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. April 13, 2017. “Diversification and Concentration of
U.S. Film Genre Configurations, 1946–2013.” 96th Annual Meetingof the Southwestern Social Science Association. Austin, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. December 7, 2016. “Visualizing QCA.” 4thInternational QCA Experts Workshop. University of Zürich, Zürich,
Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. October 13, 2015. “Saving Mothers, Giving Life.”
SMGL QCA Workshop. Washington, D.C.
Rubinson, Claude. April 9, 2015. “The Development of New Artistic
Paradigms: The Case of Cubism.” 95th Annual Meeting of theSouthwestern Social Science Association. Denver, CO.
Rubinson, Claude. November 24, 2014. “The Development of New Artistic
Paradigms: The Case of Cubism.” CHSS Junior Faculty Symposium.
University of Houston—Downtown: Houston, TX.

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Rubinson, Claude. November 6, 2014. Discussant. “QCA and ProcessTracing.” 2nd International QCA Expert Workshop. ETH Zürich,
Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. November 5, 2014. “The Effects of Sampling andSample Sizes on Counterfactual Analysis in QCA.” 2nd International
QCA Expert Workshop. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rubinson, Claude. October 5, 2014. “Conducting and Visualizing SetTheoretical Social Research with Python.” PyTexas. Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. August 28, 2014. Discussant. “MethodologicalInnovations in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).”
110th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Washington, DC.
Rubinson, Claude. March 18, 2014. “Developing and Distributing CrossPlatform Software with PyInstaller.” Invited presentation deliveredat PyHou—Houston Python Enthusiasts. Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. April 27, 2013. “‘...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as
Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television
Programming.” 76th Annual Meeting of the Southern SociologicalSociety. Atlanta, GA.
Rubinson, Claude. April 11, 2013. “On the Emergence and Diffusion ofCultural Innovations: The Cubist Aesthetic in Twenty-first Century
Television Programming.” 55th Annual Conference of the Western
Social Science Association. Denver, CO.
Rubinson, Claude. March 19, 2013. “Constructing Kirq, software for
conducting set-theoretic social research using Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: A software development travelogue.” Invited
presentation delivered at PyHou—Houston Python Enthusiasts.
Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. September 8, 2012. “‘...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer
as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television
Programming.” 7th Conference of the European Research Network
Sociology of the Arts. Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Rubinson, Claude. August 19, 2012. “From Splendour to Simplicity:
Explaining the Aesthetic and Ideological Diversity of the Arts andCrafts Movement.” 107th Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association. Denver, CO.

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Rubinson, Claude. April 12, 2012. “‘...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as
Picasso’: The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television
Programming.” 54th Annual Conference of the Western Social
Science Association. Houston, TX.
Rubinson, Claude. August 8, 2009. “The Rise of Geometric Style: The
Case of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1875–1914.” 104th Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
Rubinson, Claude. January 21, 2009. “Political-Economic versus Cultural
Accounts of Changing Artistic Style: The Case of the Arts and Crafts
Movement.” Social Inequality Workshop. Department of Sociology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. November 5, 2008. “Explaining the Rise of Geometric
Style: A World-Systems Analysis of Aesthetic Transformation within
the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1875–1914.” Arts, Culture, and the
Public Sphere: Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic andSociological Perspectives (5th Conference of the European Research
Network Sociology of the Arts). Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice,
Italy.
Rubinson, Claude. April 11, 2008. “Toward a Globological Theory of Style:
A Framework for Studying the Relationship between World-Systemic
Transformation and Aesthetic Variation.” New Directions in Critical
Theory. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. February 27, 2006. “Transnational Corporate
Penetration and Income Inequality, 1980–2000: Does PEN Still
Matter?” Social Inequality Workshop. Department of Sociology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Rubinson, Claude. October 4, 2003. “AAR 2002—2003 Survey of Graduate
Programs in Religion and Theology.” Forum on AAR 2002–2003
Surveys of Religion and Theology Programs. American Academy ofReligion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Grants and Awards
2023“Participation at the 3rd Annual QCA Conference of the Americas(AQCA2024).” Faculty Development Award. University of
Houston—Downtown.

2023“Improving the Practice of QCA Research: User-Friendly Softwareand Accompanying Monograph for Conducting Qualitative
Comparative Analysis.” Faculty Funded Leave Award. Universityof Houston—Downtown.
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2019“Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Analyze Experimental
Data: Understanding the Conditions that Shape the Decision of
Structurally Disadvantaged Individuals to Remain in or Leave
their Social Networks.” $8,295. Organized Research andCreative Activities Award. University of Houston—Downtown.

2018“Modeling Missing Data in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and
Set-Theoretic Research.” $4,064. Organized Research andCreative Activities Award. University of Houston—Downtown.

2017“Web Application for Visualizing Qualitative Comparative Analysis
and Set-Theoretic Research.” $4,064. Organized Research andCreative Activities Award. University of Houston—Downtown.

2017

Award to attend the 5th International QCA Expert Workshop at
ETH Zürich. ETH Zürich, under a grant from the Swiss National
Science Foundation.

2015“UHD Social Sciences Lecture Series.” $4,902.50. Faculty
Development Grant. University of Houston—Downtown.

2014

Award to attend the 2nd International QCA Expert Workshop at
the University of Zürich. 2,040 CHF to cover travel,
accommodations, and meals. University of Zürich, under a grantfrom the Swiss National Science Foundation.

2014“Explaining the Emergence and Diffusion of Cubist Television
Aesthetics, 1996-2014.” $7,550. Organized Research andCreative Activities Award. University of Houston—Downtown.

2014“Adding Graphing Capability to the PSPP Statistical Software
Program.” $2,100. Faculty Development Program Award.
University of Houston—Downtown.

2013“Kirq: Software for Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” $1,400.
Professional Development Grant. University of Houston—Downtown.

2012“Explaining the Emergence and Diffusion of Cubist Television
Aesthetics, 1996–2007.” $4,000. Organized Research andCreative Activities Award. University of Houston—Downtown.

2012“Kirq: Software for Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” $3,700.
Professional Development Grant. University of Houston—Downtown.
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2011“Kirq: Software for Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” $3,167.
Professional Development Grant. University of Houston—Downtown.

Professional Activities and Service
Service to the Discipline
2023

Program Committee Member, OCaml Users andDevelopers Workshop, ICFP 2023

2022

Site coordinator, 1st Annual QCA Conference of theAmericas2021–Present

Co-founder and co-organizer, Annual QCA Conference of
the Americas

2016–Present

System Administrator and Webmaster, COMPASSS
Website2016–Present

Co-director, COMPASSS Research Network

2014–2021

Managing Editor, COMPASSS Working Papers Series

2018

Ph.D. Examiner, Harvard University, School of Public
Health2018

Dissertation Proposal Examiner, University of Toronto,
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

2015

Ph.D. Examiner, University of Tasmania, School of Health
Sciences

2012–13

Member, COMPASSS Advisory Board.

2012–13

Member, COMPASSS Working Papers Series Editorial
Committee.

Service to the University of Houston—Downtown
2023—present Sociology Program Coordinator, Department of Social
Sciences
2022

Chair, SOS Chair Search Committee

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[Professional Activities and Service]2022

Member, Department Annual Evaluation Review
Committee

2021–2023

Assistant Chair, Department of Social Sciences

2021

Member, Critical Thinking Working Group, General
Education Committee

2021

Member, Department Annual Evaluation Committee

2020–21

Member, University Grievance Committee•

Grievance Hearing Chair (2021)

2020

Member, Department Funded Faculty Leave Award
Committee

2020

Member, Department Organized Research and Creative
Activities Award Committee

2020

Member, Department Annual Evaluation Review
Committee

2019

Member, Department Annual Evaluation Committee

2018-20

College representative, Web Oversight Committee

2017-19

Department representative, Library Committee

2017-18

Member, Department Faculty Leave Review Committee

2017

External member, Urban Education Search Committee

2016

Chair, Sociology Search Committee

2016

Member, Faculty Senate Online Integrity Task Force2016

External member, Urban Education Search Committee

2015–16

At-large representative, Faculty Senate Executive
Committee.

2015

Sociology representative, CHSS Restructuring Committee.

2014–16

University Senator and Department of Social Sciences
Representative, Faculty Senate.
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2012–16

Organizer, Department of Social Sciences Lecture Series.

2015

Faculty Senate Representative, SACS Reaccreditation
Committee.

2014–15

At-large representative, Faculty Senate Executive
Committee.

2013–14

Member, Faculty Senate Policy Alignment Task Force.

2012–14

University Senator and Department of Social Sciences
Representative, Faculty Senate.

Reviewer for American Journal of Managed Care, American Political
Science Review, American Sociological Review, Cambridge Review ofInternational Affairs, Clinical Trials, COMPASSS Working Papers,
Development Policy Review, Field Methods, Georgetown University Press,
Global Health: Science and Practice, Historical Methods, Humanities andSocial Science Communications, Information Sciences, Information
Systems Journal, International Journal of Comparative Sociology,
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, International
Journal of Qualitative Methods, Journal of Mixed Methods Research,
Journal of Operations Management,
Journal of Thoracic andCardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Management
International Review, Poetics, Policy and Society, Psychotherapy andPsychometrics, Qualitative Sociology, Routledge Press, Sage Publications,Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Sociological
Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Spectrum.

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