Faculty > Christie D. Batson

Dr. Batson specializes in social demography, immigration & immigrant adaptation, race/ethnicity, intermarriage, and family. Her research examines the immigrant adaptation of adults and children in the United States. She is currently exploring the educational outcomes of children of new immigrants using the New Immigrant Survey. She is also conducting research on the contemporary adaptation patterns of Mexican women in the United States by examining their fertility, marital, and labor force characteristics.

Recent Courses Taught
 Soc 403 – Techniques of Social Research
Soc 427 – Comparative Racial and Ethnic Relations
Soc 471 – Racial and Ethnic Conflict in the United States
Soc 702 – Graduate Quantitative Research Methods


Contact Dr. Batson:
Office location: CBC-B 233
Email: christie.batson@unlv.edu

Current Research Projects

Educational Outcomes of Children of Immigrants
This research uses data from the New Immigrant Survey to examine the educational assessment scores of children of new immigrants.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Area Social Survey (LVMASS)
The primary purpose of this project is to identify the socio-spatial distribution of attitudes and attributes relevant to urban sustainability in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area. The project includes an initial wave of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area Social Survey (LVMASS) to assess how Las Vegas residents think about their urban sustainability across three dimensions: 1) community and quality of life; 2) the natural environment; 3) urban economic development.