Department of Sociology
Directory
Sarah Mustillo
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office Phone: (765) 496-2226
Email: smustillo@purdue.edu
Specialization: Quantitative methodology, Children and youth, mental health, family.
Courses:
Taught (Last two years)
SOC 382 Sociological Statistical Methods
SOC 580 Introduction to Methods of Social Research
SOC 581 Social Statisics
SOC 681 Categorical data analysis
Categorical data analysis, Methods of Sociology Research and Biostatistics also taught at Duke
Dr. Mustillo joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2007 after 6 years at Duke. She has authored or coauthored over 20 scientific articles and chapters in journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, American Journal of Public Health, and Archives of General Psychiatry. She has served as investigator or consultant on several NIH grants and has presented papers at both national and international conferences. Her research focuses on the effects of parenting and family structure on the mental health of children and adolescents, as well as on the interplay of parent and child mental health. She is also working on several statistical projects involving model fit in multiple imputation and testing for group differences in rate of change over time in nonlinear models. She is currently in the early stages of a study funded by the department of defense to investigate the predictors of PTSD diagnosis and outcomes in Army Reservists returning from combat operations.
Positions at Purdue University
2007 - present Associate Professor