Cassie McMillan

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Roger V. Gould Prize, American Journal of Sociology, 2022.
- Award for Best Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Advanced Science, Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences (DAIS), 2021
- 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.
McMillan, Cassie. 2022. “Worth the Weight: Conceptualizing and Measuring Strong versus Weak Tie Homophily.” Social Networks 68:139-147. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873321000496
McMillan, Cassie, Diane Felmlee, and James R. Ashford. 2022. “Reciprocity, Transitivity, and Skew: Comparing Local Structure in 40 Positive and Negative Social Networks.” PLOS ONE 17(5):e0267886. Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267886
McMillan, Cassie and David R. Schaefer. 2021. “Comparing Targeting Strategies for Network-Based Adolescent Drinking Interventions: A Simulation Approach.” Social Science & Medicine 282:114-136. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621004688
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. Link: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/712972
McMillan, Cassie. 2019. “Tied Together: Adolescent Friendship Networks, Immigrant Status, and Health Outcomes.” Demography 56(3):1075-1103. Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-019-00770-w
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Education
PhD, Sociology
Pennsylvania State University, 2020 -
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