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Hello, I am Dr. Sheryl Skaggs from Dallas, Texas. My research falls within the area of workplace diversity addressing disparities in promotions and authority, earnings, and recruitment, as well as job and occupational level segregation across orginizations and industries.

Courses

Undergraduate
  • Class, Status and Power
  • Applied Data Analysis
  • Advanced Sociological Research
  • Work and Occupations
  • Gender and Work
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Social Problems
  • Classical Sociological Theory
Graduate
  • Social Stratification
  • Social-Economic Theories
  • Gender and Public Policy
  • Applications in Community Health

Select Publications and Media

“Managerial Racial Diversity: The Context of State Legal and Political Cultures. Sheryl Skaggs, Julie A. Kmec, and Kwang Bin Bae, Social Science Research, 87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102412

“Women in Power: Undoing or Redoing the Gendered Organization.” Kevin Stainback, Sibyl Kleiner and Sheryl Skaggs, Gender and Society, 30: 109-135 (2015).

“Shaking Things Up or Business as Usual?” The Influence of Female Corporate Executives and Board of Directors on Women’s Managerial Representation.” Sheryl Skaggs, Kevin Stainback and Phyllis Duncan, Social Science Research, 41(4):936-48 ( 2012).

“Flying the Not-So-Friendly Skies: Airline Passenger Misconduct, 1999-202. Sheryl Skaggs and Lynne M. Vieraitis, Deviant Behavior, 44:12 (2023).

“Why Passengers Have Been More Unruly Since the Pandemic” Sheryl Skaggs NPR 2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/29/1222252472/why-passengers-have-been-more-unruly-since-the-pandemic

“Why are Airplane Passengers the Worst?” Mornings with Simi. Sheryl Skaggs. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/mornings-with-simi/why-are-airplane-passengers-RTxq1-I8BNY/

Contact Me

slskaggs@utdallas.edu