Fall 2024 Office Hours:
M: 11:00 - 12:30 pm
W: 11:00 - 12:30 pm
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Freda B. Lynn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. She conducts research on status and cumulative advantage using a variety of methodological approaches, including survey analysis, simulations, network analysis, and experiments. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and appears in a variety of journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, and Social Psychology Quarterly. 

Professor Lynn teaches courses on quantitative methods, stratification, and networks. She was awarded the Collegiate Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2018 and the Hubbard-Walder Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Iowa in 2022.

Recent publications on status, hierarchies, and the social construction of value include:

• Lynn, Shi, and Kiley. 2024. “Intersectional Group Agreement on the Occupational Order.” Social Psychology Quarterly.
• Espy and Lynn. 2023. “Classed Beginnings: Status Socialization in Two Preschool Classrooms.” Socius.
• Accominotti, Lynn, and Sauder. 2022. “The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 
• Lynn and Espy. 2021. “Cumulative Advantage.” In Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, edited by Gianluca Manzo.
• Lynn and Ellerbach. 2017. “A Position with a View: Educational Status and the Construction of the Occupational Hierarchy.” American Sociological Review.

Freda Lynn CV