Curriculum Vitae

Levi Sands¶

Department of Sociology and Criminology

University of Iowa

W24 Seashore Hall

Iowa City, Iowa 52242

levi-sands@uiowa.edu

Personal Website

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Updated March 2020

Education¶

Ph.D., University of Iowa¶

• Sociology, Expected 2022
• Comprehensive Exams: Political Sociology Expected 2019, Medical Sociology Expected 2020

M.A., University of Iowa¶

• Sociology, 2019
• Thesis: “Childhood Toxic Stress and Allostatic Load”
• Committee: Mark Berg (Chair), Ion Vasi, and Yongren Shi

B.A., Utah State University¶

• Sociology, 2015

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS¶

Medical Sociology, Social Movements, Social Networks, Social Psychology, Computational and Quantitative Methods

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT¶

Graduate Teaching Assistant¶

Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Iowa, 2016-Present

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS¶

Manuscripts in Progress¶

Sands, Levi, Mark Berg. “Childhood Toxic Stress and Allostatic Load.”

Sands, Levi. “Expanding the Scope of Gaslighting In Sociology.”

Sands, Levi. “The Social Construction of Disease and Illness.”

Sands, Levi. “Internet Health Communities and Contested Illnesses.”

Research Acknowledgments¶

Siddharthan, Venkatraman, Hong Wang, Christopher J. Davies, Jeffery O. Hall, and John D. Morrey. 2014. “Inhibition of West Nile Virus by Calbindin-D28k.” PLOS ONE 9(9):e106535.

TEACHING, ADVISING & MENTORING¶

Graduate Teaching Assistant¶

Drugs and Society: Teaching Assistant; Spring 2019, 2020

White Collar Crime: Teaching Assistant; Fall 2018

Research Methods: Teaching Assistant; Spring 2018

The Sociology of Networks: Teaching Assistant; Spring 2017

Introduction to Sociology: Discussion Section Leader; Fall 2016, 2017, 2019

Guest Lectures¶

Drugs and Society: The Social Contexts that Created the Opioid Crisis; Spring 2019, 2020

Introduction to Sociology: The Social Determinants of Health; Fall 2017

Skills¶

Software Proficiencies¶

Python, R, Stata, LaTeX, C#, Powershell, Bash/zsh, Windows, Linux, Markdown, Pandoc, Git/Github, Mplus, Qualtrics, Microsoft Office

Languages¶

• English (Native)
• Spanish (Limited working proficiency)

PROFESSIONALS MEMBERSHIP & SERVICE¶

Professional Memberships¶

American Sociological Association¶

• Sections:
  • Medical Sociology
  • Social Movements
  • Sociology of Religion

Mormon Social Science Association¶

Departmental Service¶

Graduate Student Committee Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee (2017-2018)

Graduate Student Committee Member, Communications Committee (2016-2017)

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