Brian Aronson Department of Sociology Duke University Durham, NC (631)

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1 Brian Aronson Department of Sociology Duke University Durham, NC (631) Education Duke University, PhD Candidate, Sociology Expected 2019 Concentrations: Social Network Analysis, Inequality, Organizations Dissertation: The Structure of Organizational Ecosystems Committee: Lisa A. Keister, James Moody, Martin Ruef, Christopher A. Bail Duke University, M.A. in Sociology 2016 Stony Brook University, B.A. in Sociology with Honors 2012 Articles (Peer Reviewed) Keister, Lisa A., and Brian Aronson. "Immigrants in the One Percent: 2017 The National Origin of Top Wealth Owners." PLOS One 12.2 (2017) Keister, Lisa A., Jody Agius Vallejo, and Brian Aronson. "Chinese 2016 Immigrant Wealth: Heterogeneity in Adaptation." PLOS One (2016) Aronson, Brian. "Peer Influence as a Potential Magnifier of ADHD 2016 Diagnosis." Social Science & Medicine 168 (2016): Manuscripts in Preparation Aronson, Brian. Organizational Ecology at the Meso-Level: Niche Dynamics among Local Competitors. Aronson, Brian, and Lisa A. Keister. The Role of Household Specialization in Wealth Accumulation. Aronson, Brian. Organizations and Ecological Stability: The Portfolio Effect Aronson, Brian. easypsid: An R Package for Cleaning and Preparing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for Analysis.

2 2 Boen, Courtney E., Lisa A. Keister, and Brian Aronson. Beyond Net Worth: Racial Differences in Wealth Portfolios and Black-White Health Inequality across the Life Course Mulawa, Marta, and Brian Aronson. Peer Selection and Influence Effects on Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Yamanis, Thespina, and Brian Aronson. Assessing Normative Effects in the Diffusion of HIV Testing. Presentations Wealth, Ownership and Declining Health in the U.S. Network on Life 2018 Course Health Dynamics and Disparities Annual meeting, Boulder, CO Niche Dynamics among Local Competitors: Organizational Ecology 2018 at the Meso-Level. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. The Structure of Organizational Ecosystems: A Holistic Approach to Niche Space and Market Dynamics Sunbelt Conference. Beijing, China 2017 Regression with Networks EGO Networks and Randomization DNAC 2017 Social Networks and Health workshop. Durham, NC. Spanning Social Solidarity. Southern Sociological Society Annual 2015 Meeting. New Orleans, LA. Spanning Social Solidarity. Duke Sociology Jensen Series. Durham, 2015 NC. With Nick Bloom. Violence in Rap Music: How Violent is Rap Music, 2014 Really, and Has it Become More Violent Over Time? Duke Sociology Jensen Series. Durham, NC. Professional Service Associate Editor - Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World Reviewer - American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review PLOS One, Social Science and Medicine, Psychiatry Research Student Representative of Sociology Technology Department Sociology Representative of Graduate & Professional Student Council 2013 Student Representative of Traffic Appeals Committee: 2013

3 3 Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant for Sociological Inquiry 2017 Developer for Causal Inference Course on DataCamp 2017 Teaching Assistant for Getting Rich Teaching Assistant for Entrepreneurship 2016 Other Research Experience Graduate Research Assistant for Lisa Keister, Durham, NC 2015 Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Stony Brook, NY 2012 Internship at South Shore Neurology, Patchogue, NY 2011 Fellowships Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences Fellowship 2018 (PARISS) Duke Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship Computer Skills R, Python, SAS, STATA, Visual Basic for Applications with Microsoft Excel, DataCamp, UCINET, Gephi Employment History Associate Auditor - WKFC Underwriting Managers, Melville, NY 2013 Inventory Analyst - AccuVal, Coram, NY 2012 Intern - KOW Building Consultants, Smithtown, NY 2010 Graduate Classes Taken Individual Research in Sociology: Markets and Networks 2016 Taught by Martin Ruef Comparative/Historical Sociology: Globalization 2015 Taught by Gary Gereffi

4 Computational Sociology 2015 Taught by Christopher Bail Data Visualization 2015 Taught by Kieran Healy Individual Research in Sociology: Wealth and Immigration 2015 Taught by Lisa Keister Introduction to Social Networks 2015 Taught by James Moody Economic Sociology: Organizational Change 2014 Taught by Kenneth Spenner Relational Sociology 2014 Taught by Lynn Smith-Lovin Social Statistics Taught by Stephen Vaisey Designing Social Research Taught by Mark Chaves Sociological Theory Taught by Kieran Healy 4

5 Papers Published: R&R: Under Review: Presented: In Progress: Keister, Lisa A., and Brian Aronson. "Immigrants in the one percent: The national origin of top wealth owners." PLoS One 12.2 (2017): e Keister, Lisa A., Jody Agius Vallejo, and Brian Aronson. "Chinese Immigrant Wealth: Heterogeneity in Adaptation." PLoS One (2016): e Aronson, Brian. "Peer influence as a potential magnifier of ADHD diagnosis." Social Science & Medicine 168 (2016): Wealth, Ownership and Declining Health in the U.S. The Structure of Organizational Ecosystems: A Holistic Approach to Niche Space Spanning Social Solidarity Violence in Rap Music: How Violent is Rap Music, Really, and Has it Become More Violent Over Time? Aronson, Brian. Organizational Ecology at the Meso-Level: Niche Dynamics among Local Competitors. Aronson, Brian, and Lisa Keister. The Role of Household Specialization in Wealth Accumulation. Aronson, Brian. Organizations and Ecological Stability: The Portfolio Effect Aronson, Brian. easypsid: An R Package for Cleaning and Preparing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for Analysis. Boen, Courtney E., Lisa A. Keister, and Brian Aronson. Beyond Net Worth: Racial Differences in Wealth Portfolios and Black-White Health Inequality across the Life Course Mulawa, Marta, and Brian Aronson. Peer Selection and Influence Effects on Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Yamanis, Thespina, and Brian Aronson. Assessing Normative Effects in the Diffusion of HIV Testing.

6 Grants and Fellowships Received: Applied for: Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) (2018) Summer Research Fellowship ( ; 2018) Organizations and Their Effectiveness Summer Institute fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science (CASBS) Phillip Jackson Baugh Fellowship for Ph.D. Students in Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, and Sociology National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)

7 Goals for Next Year 1. Finish prepping job market materials and apply for postdocs fellowships and professorships (this month) 2. Finish and submit first chapter of dissertation by end of summer. 3. Finish and submit household specialization paper by end of summer. 4. Finish stats for all chapters of dissertation by end of summer 5. Make sure I have funding for upcoming conferences 6. Get a job lined up for next year 7. Get easypsid hosted on CRAN 8. Finish and publish easypsid paper 9. Publish one health/wealth paper 10. Publish diffusion of HIV testing paper 11. Finish stats for IPV peer influence paper 12. Get all chapters of DataCamp course listed online 13. Finish dissertation 14. Graduate

8 Goals Begin and Finish NSH grant for health/wealth paper Not Accomplished 2. Apply for INFORMS dissertation competition Not Accomplished 3. Finish and publish easypsid paper Not Accomplished 4. Finish and publish household specialization paper Not Accomplished 5. Finish writing first chapter of dissertation; send for publication Not Accomplished 6. Apply for NSF dissertation grant Not Accomplished 7. Finish stats for all chapters of dissertation Not Accomplished 8. Finish stats for first health/wealth paper Not Accomplished 9. Finish draft of second ADHD paper Not Accomplished 10. Get good leads for postdoc Not Accomplished Commentary: The above doesn t look or feel great to review, but I am pretty close to finishing two of the above goals from last year: A manuscript for Chapter 1 and a manuscript for the Specialization paper. I also started a few collaborations this year that are pretty well-along.