Introduction to the Director
Ross MacMillan, Director
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1998 University of Toronto
Room: 1133 Social Sciences
Office: 612-624-6509
E-mail: macmilla@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Toronto (1998)
Interest Areas
Life Course Studies; Law, Crime, and Deviance; Research Methodology and Social Statistics.
Current Research
"The Structuring of the Life Course in Modern Society." This research examines the structure of the life course through the use of a two-stage latent class approach. Specific projects include: a) social differentiation in the transition to adulthood; b) the impact of economic recessions on the transition to adulthood; c) the role of social psychological orientations in the life course; d) the variable effects of juvenile delinquency on the transition to adulthood; and e) work origins and pathways through the life course. Aspects of this research are funded through a grant from the Life Course Center and a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for the continuation of the Youth Development Survey (PI: Jeylan Mortimer).
Recent Publications
Constructing Adulthood: Agency and Subjectivity in the Life Course. Forthcoming. Advances in Life Course Research, Volume 10, T. Owens, ed. Greenwich, CT: Elsevier/JAI Press.
The Structure of the Life Course. Individualized? Standardized? Differentiated, Ross Macmillan ed. 2005. Greenwich, CT: Elsevier/JAI Press.
"Violence in the Transition to Adulthood: Adolescent Victimization, Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment in Later Life." With John Hagan. 2004. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 14: 127-158.
"'Linked Lives:' Stability and Change in Maternal Circumstances and Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior in Children." with Barbara McMorris and Candace Kruttschnitt. 2004. Child Development, 75: 205-220.
"Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach," with Scott Eliason. 2003. Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan Mortimer and Michael Shanahan. New Brunswick: Transaction Press.
"Violence and the Life Course: Assessing the Consequences of Violent Victimization for Personal and Social Development." 2001. Annual Review of Sociology, 27: 1-22.
"Adolescent Victimization and Income Deficits in Early Adulthood: Rethinking the Costs of Criminal Violence from a Life Course Perspective." 2000. Criminology, 31: 553-87.