Cassie McMillan
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
Cassie McMillan’s research applies a social networks perspective to disentangle how our connections both reproduce and challenge systems of social inequality. She is interested in developing statistical and computational methodologies that can better address these questions and applying these techniques to study adolescent delinquency, immigration, health, substance use, and bullying.
Her current research projects focus on modeling social processes as weighted networks where relational ties are assigned quantitative values to indicate their strength or intensity. By conceptualizing patterns of international migration and adolescents’ social connections as weighted networks, she’s uncovering new insights about these social phenomena.
- Outstanding Dissertation in Progress Award, American Sociology Association’s Mathematical Sociology Section, 2019.
- Outstanding Graduate Paper Award, Honorable Mention, American Sociology Association’s Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section, 2019.
- P.E.O. Scholar Award, 2019-2020.
- Alan Booth Graduate Student Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2018.
- Population Association of America Poster Award, 2017.
- McMillan, Cassie and Diane Felmlee. 2020. “Beyond Dyads and Triads: A Comparison of Tetrad Motifs in 20 Social Networks.” Social Psychology Quarterly 83(4):383-404.
- Faris, Robert, Diane Felmlee, and Cassie McMillan. 2020. “With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence.” American Journal of Sociology 126(3):673-713.
- Featured in “Bullies aren’t all sociopaths.” Salon.
- McMillan, Cassie, Diane Felmlee, and Dave Braines. 2020. “Dynamic Patterns of Terrorist Networks: Security versus Efficiency in the Evolution of Eleven Islamic Extremist Attack Networks.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 36:559-581.
- McMillan, Cassie. 2019. “Tied Together: Adolescent Friendship Networks, Immigrant Status, and Health Outcomes.” Demography 56(3):1075-1103.
- Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section, American Sociological Association, 2019
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Education
PhD, Sociology and Demography
Pennsylvania State University, 2020 -
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Spring 2022: Wednesdays 3:30-5:30pm
