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Faculty > Shannon M. Monnat
 Dr. Monnat’s research spans across several subfields within the disciplines of sociology and public health, including demography, racial and ethnic relations, health disparities, social stratification and mobility and public policy. Broadly speaking, she examines the ways in which residential context exacerbates or moderates the relationship between individual-level disadvantage and access to health, economic, and social resources. Her publications have considered the role of race/ethnicity on welfare outcomes, disparities in family income distributions and rural/urban differences in self-rated health and chronic disease prevalence. Her current research projects reflect the view that social structural inequality, disparities within the health care system and individuals’ access to health care have multiple implications for social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Her research has been published in The Sociological Quarterly, Gender & Society, Health & Place, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and more.
Recent Courses Taught
 Soc 404
– Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
Soc 441 –
Social Inequality
Soc 453 –
Gender and Society
Soc 704 –
Research Methods – Advanced Analytical Techniques
Soc 706 –
Seminar in Advanced Statistical Analysis for the Social Sciences
Soc 770 –
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Contact Dr. Monnat:
Office location: CBC-B 236
Email: shannon.monnat@unlv.edu
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Current
Research Projects
Individual
and Structural Determinants of Health
This research uses data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Area Resource File and US Census files to examine the roles of individual and contextual characteristics on health status, health care utilization, and chronic disease self-management in the US.
New Hispanic Destinations
The unprecedented spatial dispersion of Hispanics to small cities and rural communities in the Midwest and southeast suggests the need to study the ways in which these communities are compositionally and contextually different from established Hispanic destinations in the southwest and how these differences are associated with access to economic, social, and healthcare resources.
Gambling Treatment Evaluation
This research uses data collected from problem gamblers who completed problem gambling treatment in Nevada to examine whether there is a relationship between clients’ assessment of treatment quality and perceived improvements in social and daily functioning, well-being, abstinence from gambling, and minimization of problems associated with gambling.
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