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Kelley Strawn

Associate Provost of Institutional Research

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Contact Information

Salem Campus

Address
University Center 309
900 State Street
Salem  Oregon  97301
U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6196
503-370-6512 (Fax)

Biography

Kelley D. Strawn (he/him/his) is the Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Professor of Sociology. Before moving to the Office of the Provost, he served as the Faculty Associate Dean for Curriculum in the College of Arts & Sciences, multiple terms as Chair of the Department of Sociology, and several years as Co-Director of the Quantitative Understanding Analysis, and Design Center (QUAD).

Dr. Strawn received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston University, and a B.A. in International Studies from Whitworth College. His areas of expertise within sociology include political sociology and social movements, quantitative research methods, and economic sociology; he is also interested in the Sociology of Sport and the Sociology of Religion. He has taught a wide range of courses, including Navigating Social Worlds, Social Statistics, Quantitative Methods in Social Research, Social Movements, Power in Society, and Sociology of Sport. He has developed two different College Colloquium courses - Juggernauts of Popular Culture and Public Opinion Polling in An Election Year.

Dr. Strawn has conducted research in multiple sociological spaces. For several years, his research focused on development of the Mexican Protest Event Database (MPED), a database of nationwide protest events in Mexico constructed from media records. The goal of the project was to build a database that (a) allowed for examination of Mexico protest trends over time at the national level, and (b) could be used to analyze and better understand media coverage- and selection-biases in the Mexican news media. This research produced articles on the validity of media data; the relationship between social movements, protest, and societal change in Mexico; and trends in social movement scholarship in the United States and Mexico. This work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals, Mobilization. An International Quarterly and Social Movements Studies, as well as the online journal, Sociology Compass, among other places. In more recent work, Dr. Strawn has completed analyses of predictors of religious non-affiliation in the United States since 1970, which has been published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, as well as carried out curricular innovation and assessment research, which has been published in the journal, Numeracy. In his role as Associate Provost, he continues to design and carry out assessment and evaluation research on a range of curricular programs and projects.

Willamette University

Institutional Research

Address
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6196 voice