Christie D. Batson

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, The Ohio State University
M.A. Sociology, The Ohio State University
B.A. Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Social Demography, Immigration, Immigrant Assimilation, Race & Ethnicity, Marriage & Intermarriage

Christie D. Batson joins the faculty at UNLV after completing her Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University. She specializes in Mexican immigrant assimilation and patterns of intermarriage among contemporary immigrants in the United States. She is currently examining the fertility and marriage patterns of Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant women in the U.S. She has recently begun exploring the occupational assimilation of Mexican women who work in the service industry in Las Vegas. In addition to her work on immigrant assimilation, she is also completing a project that explores interracial family diversity and the prevalence of interracial cohabitation and interracial childbearing in a nonmarital context.

Dr. Batson is currently completing a collaborative project entitled "Crossing Boundaries: National Origin Differences in Mate Selection." Her most recent publication is entitled "Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection in America’s Diverse Black Population" published in the Journal of Marriage and Family (2006). She has also published research on welfare reform and marriage promotion by exploring the marital expectations of single mothers.

Dr. Batson currently teaches Quantitative Research Methods, Race & Ethnicity, World Population Problems, and Marriage & Family.