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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Brian Powell is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States, specializing in the social sciences with a strong focus on sociology and political science. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including reproductive medicine, social psychology, demography, and developmental and educational psychology.

Much of their research addresses core topics such as:

  • Reproductive health and technologies
  • Family dynamics and relationships
  • LGBTQ health, identity, and policy
  • Intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving
  • Children's physical and motor development
  • Inclusion and disability in education and sport
  • Obesity, physical activity, and diet

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • "Untangling perceptions of atypical parents," 2022, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • "One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes: Public attitudes toward single and same-sex parents," 2022, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • "Cultural Capitals: Modeling Minor European Literature," 2021, Journal of Cultural Analytics
  • "State of a State: Results From the Wyoming Physical Education and Physical Activity Policy Survey," 2021, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education
  • "Data assimilation sensitivity experiments in the East Auckland Current system using 4D-Var," 2023, Geoscientific Model Development

Brian Powell's frequent coauthors include:

  • Natasha Quadlin
  • Kristin Kelley
  • Nanum Jeon
  • Long Doan
  • Simon Cheng

Their publications appear recurrently in several scholarly venues such as:

  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies
  • Journal of Teaching in Physical Education
  • Journal of Cultural Analytics
  • Geoscientific Model Development

In addition to journal articles, Brian Powell has authored books published by the Russell Sage Foundation, including Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public in 2022.

Recognition for their academic contributions includes the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association awarded in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Reconsidering the effects of sibling configuration: Recent advances and challenges

    Lala Carr Steelman;Brian Powell;Regina Werum;Scott Carter

  • Gender, race, and DSM-III: a study of the objectivity of psychiatric diagnostic behavior

    Marti Loring;Brian Powell

  • The effect of school on overweight in childhood: gain in body mass index during the school year and during summer vacation.

    Paul T. von Hippel;Brian Powell;Douglas B. Downey;Nicholas J. Rowland

  • Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family

    Brian Powell;Catherine Blozendahl;Claudia Geist;Lala Carr Steelman

  • Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education

    Lala Carr Steelman;Brian Powell

  • The effects of obesity on the clinical judgments of mental health professionals

    Laura M. Young;Brian Powell

  • Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment

    Laura Hamilton;Simon Cheng;Brian Powell

  • Beyond Sibship Size: Sibling Density, Sex Composition, and Educational Outcomes

    Brian Powell;Lala Carr Steelman

  • Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor: Black-White Differences in Beliefs about the Causes and Appropriate Treatment of Mental Illness

    Jason Schnittker;Jeremy Freese;Brian Powell

  • The Educational Benefits of Being Spaced Out: Sibship Density and Educational Progress.

    Brian Powell;Lala Carr Steelman

  • Acquiring Capital for College: The Constraints of Family Configuration

    Lala Carr Steelman;Brian Powell

  • Do Children in Single-Parent Households Fare Better Living with Same-Sex Parents?.

    Douglas B. Downey;Brian Powell

  • Sociobiology, status, and parental investment in sons and daughters : Testing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis

    Jeremy Freese;Brian Powell

  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS: VARIATIONS IN INCOME EXPECTATIONS AMONG COLLEGE SENIORS

    Herbert L. Smith;Brian Powell

  • Rebel without a cause or effect : Birth order and social attitudes

    Jeremy Freese;Brian Powell;Lala Carr Steelman

  • The Liability of Having Brothers: Paying for College and the Sex Composition of the Family.

    Brian Powell;Lala Carr Steelman

  • Who are feminists and what do they believe? The role of generations

    Jason Schnittker;Jeremy Freese;Brian Powell

  • Color-blind : The treatment of race and ethnicity in social psychology

    Matthew O. Hunt;Pamela Braboy Jackson;Brian Powell;Lala Carr Steelman

  • Social location, significant others and body image among adolescents

    Richard Levinson;Brian Powell;Lala Carr Steelman

  • Living in single-parent households : An investigation of the same-sex hypothesis

    Brian Powell;Douglas B. Downey

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