Amanda Baumle
Assistant Professor
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Phone: (713)743-3944
Email: akbaumle@uh.edu
Office: 466 Philip G. Hoffman Hall
Amanda K. Baumle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Houston. She received her B.A. in sociology from Southwestern University, her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching are focused in the areas of demography, social inequality, and the sociology of law. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in her research.
Dr. Baumle’s current research explores issues involving the demography of sexual orientation, voting rights and other issues related to immigration, and gender inequality in the legal practice. In these areas, she has authored and edited books, articles, and book chapters examining issues of inequality and discrimination, as well as the manner in which the law might be activated as a means to challenge existing inequalities.
She is the author of Sex Discrimination and Law Firm Culture on the Internet: Lawyers at the ‘Information Age Water Cooler’ (2009), which examines attorneys’ use of legal discourse in an Internet community as a vehicle for challenging gender discrimination. Dr. Baumle also recently coauthored a book, The Demography of Sexual Orientation, which draws on 2000 U.S. Census data to examine the manner in which sexual orientation affects a variety of demographic processes. She is also the editor of the book, Demography in Transition, which examines new trends in the field of population studies. Dr. Baumle is currently working on an edited International Handbook of the Demography of Sexuality, which will include more than 30 chapters examining sexual behavior, identity, desires, and the manner in which traditional demographic outcomes are affected by these factors (forthcoming 2011).
Education
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2005
- J.D., University of Texas, 2000
- B.A., Southwestern University, 1997
Honors
- Public Policy Fellowship, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, 2007.
- Young Alumna Achievement Award, Southwestern University, 2007.
- “Best Ph.D. Paper,” Southwestern Sociological Association, 2005.
- Law and Society Association Summer Institute, Oxford, England, 2005.
Selected Publications
- Baumle, Amanda K., Editor. International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Springer Press, forthcoming.
- Baumle, Amanda K., D’Lane Compton, and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. 2009. Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
- Baumle, Amanda K. 2009. Sex Discrimination and Law Firm Culture on the Internet: Lawyers at the ‘Information Age Water Cooler’. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Baumle, Amanda K. “Border Identities: Intersections of Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland.” Social Science Research, forthcoming.
- Baumle, Amanda K. 2009. “The Cost of Parenthood: Unraveling the Effects of Sexual Orientation and Gender on Income.” Social Science Quarterly 90: 983-1002.
- Baumle, Amanda K., Mark Fossett, and Warren Waren. 2008. “Strategic Annexation under the Voting Rights Act: Racial Dimensions of Annexation Practices.” Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 24: 81-115.
- Badgett, M.V. Lee, Amanda K. Baumle, Shawn Kravich, Adam P. Romero, and R. Bradley Sears. 2009. “The Impact on Maryland's Budget of Allowing Same-Sex Couples to Marry.” University of Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 7: 295-339.
- Baumle, Amanda K., Editor. 2006. Demography in Transition: Emerging Trends in Population Studies. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Baumle, Amanda K. 2007. “Lawyers Using Rights Discourse in an Internet Community: Challenging and Redefining Gender Discrimination in the Legal Practice.” Pp. 41-63 in The Intersection of Rights and Regulation, edited by Bronwen Morgan. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing.
- Poston, Jr., Dudley L., Michael Micklin, and Amanda K. Baumle. 2006. “Demography.” Pp. 508-517 in The Handbook of 21st Century Sociology, edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
- Baumle, Amanda K. and Mark Fossett. 2005. “Statistical Discrimination in Employment: Its Practice, Conceptualization, and Implications for Public Policy.” American Behavioral Scientist 48: 1250-1274.
- Poston, Jr., Dudley L., Amanda K. Baumle, and Michael Micklin. 2005. “Needed Research in Demography.” Pp. 853-881 in Handbook of Population, edited by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Michael Micklin. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
- Baumle, Amanda K. and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. 2004. “Apportioning the House of Representatives in 2000: The Effects of Alternative Policy Scenarios.” Social Science Quarterly 85: 578-603.
Research Interests
- Demography
- Sociology of Law
- Social Inequality
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Teaching
- Introduction to Sociology
- Gender and Society
- Introduction to Social Statistics
- Graduate Seminar in Sociology of Law
- Graduate Seminar in Sociology of Sexuality
- Graduate Seminar in Sociological Theory
- Graduate Seminar in Population Studies
Affiliations
- American Sociological Association
- Law and Society Association
- Southwestern Social Science Association
- State Bar of Texas
