Dr. Christina Steidl Associate Dean Associate Professor, Sociology Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 116FHuntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.2299christina.steidl@uah.edu Biography After earning a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Social Sciences/Human Development from the University of Chicago, Christina Steidl spent several years helping to develop the First Year Experience program at Kent State University in Ohio and then moved south to earn her Ph.D. in Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her areas of expertise include social inequality, sociology of education, and social theory. Her research focuses on the processes within organizations by which gender and racial inequalities are reproduced. Current and former research projects include: the effects of school segregation on racial achievement gaps and racial disparities in suspensions; gender inequalities in faculty career trajectories; educational and career outcomes for veterans of the U.S. military; and the construction and revision of commemorative spaces and narratives. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Sociology, Emory University, 2012 M.A., Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, 2001 B.A., Psychology, The University of Chicago, 2001 Honors & Awards National Science Foundation Grant (SES 2310557) "Collaborative Research: Trajectories and Transitions: Military Service as a Gendered Pathway into STEM?" PIs: Christina Steidl, UAH / Regina Werum, UNL / Simon Cheng, UConn $557,275 (September 2023-August 2025) National Science Foundation Grant (SES 1728044) "Collaborative Research: How Military Service Shapes STEM Trajectories" PIs: Christina Steidl, UAH & Regina Werum, UNL $228,600 (September 2017-August 2020) Outstanding Faculty Member Award, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2020 University Distinguished Teaching Award University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017 New Faculty Research Grant "Gender Performance and the Negotiation of Career: Women's Experiences in the U.S. Military." $9,532. University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2015 National Summer Data Policy Institute Fellowship AIR/NCES/NSF, 2011 Dean's Teaching Fellowship Emory University (accepted), 2010-11 Community Building and Social Change Fellowship, Office of University and Community Partnerships Emory University (declined), 2010-11 Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship Emory University (declined), 2010-11 Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Sociology Emory University, 2010 Affiliations American Sociological Association Sociologists for Women in Society Southern Sociological Society Expertise Social Inequality Sociology of Education Race/Class/Gender Gender and Work Sociological Theory Social Movements Collective Memory Recent Publications Harcey*, Sela R., Christina R. Steidl and Regina Werum. STEM Degree Earning and Military Service: An Intersectional Analysis. Armed Forces & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0095327X211022999 Werum, Regina, Christina R. Steidl, Sela Harcey* and Jacob Absalon*. Military Service and STEM Employment: Do Veterans have an Advantage? Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102478 Steidl, Christina R. and Aislinn Roxanne Brookshire*. Just One of the Guys until Shower Time: How Symbolic Embodiment Threatens Women’s Inclusion in the U.S. Military. Gender, Work and Organization 36:1271-88. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12320 Werum, Regina,Christina Steidl, Sela Harcey and Jacob Absalon. 2020. Military Service and STEM Employment: Do Veterans have an Advantage? Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102478 Steidl, Christina, Regina Werum, Sela Harcey, Jacob Absalon, and Alice MillerMacPhee. 2020. Soldiers to Scientists: Gender, Military Service, and STEM Degree Earning. Socius. Kendralin Freeman, Dennis Condron and Christina Steidl. 2020. Structures of Stratification: Advancing a Sociological Debate over Culture and Resources. Critical Sociology 46: 191-206. DOI: 10.1177/0896920518823888 Christina Steidl and Regina Werum. 2019. If All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail: Operationalization Matters. Sociology Compass 13(8). DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12727 Steidl, Christina R. and Aislinn Roxanne Brookshire. 2018. Just One of the Guys until Shower Time: How Symbolic Embodiment Threatens Women's Inclusion in the U.S. Military. Gender, Work and Organization 36:1271-88. DOI:10.1111/gwao.12320 Steidl, Christina R. and Claire E. Sterk. 2016. Interpreting Productivity: Symbolic Negotiation of Gendered Faculty Career Trajectories in the U.S. Symbolic Interaction, 39(4): 595-614. DOI:10.1002/symb.254 Freeman, Kendralin J. and Christina R. Steidl. 2016. Distribution, Composition and Exclusion: How School Segregation Impacts Racist Disciplinary Patterns. Race & Social Problems, 8: 171-85. DOI: 10.1007/s12552-016-9174-9
