Trenton D. Mize
- Dean’s Professor of Sociology & Statistics
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Education
PhD - Indiana University - Sociology - 2017
PhD - Indiana University - Sociology - 2017
Research Interests
Methodology, Social Psychology, Health & Well-Being
Methodology, Social Psychology, Health & Well-Being
Teaching Interests
Applied statistics, experimental methodology, social psychology
Applied statistics, experimental methodology, social psychology
Selected Grants
2024–2027. National Institutes of Health NIDA R25 (MPI, with MPIs Kristine Marceau, James McCann, and Sharon Christ). “Interdisciplinary Summer Institute on the Analysis of Complex, Large-Scale Longitudinal Data”
2024–2027. National Institutes of Health NIDA R25 (MPI, with MPIs Kristine Marceau, James McCann, and Sharon Christ). “Interdisciplinary Summer Institute on the Analysis of Complex, Large-Scale Longitudinal Data”
2023–2025. Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant (PI, with co-PIs Richard J. Petts and Gayle Kaufman). “Attitudes About Parental Leave-Taking for Single and Same-Gender Parents.”
2023. Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (co-PI, with co-PIs Natasha Quadlin, Long Doan, and Bianca Manago). “Whose is the Conventional Thought?”
Selected Publications
Mize, Trenton D. and Reilly Kincaid. 2025. “Role-accumulation and mental health across the life course.” American Sociological Review. 90(2):226-256.
Petts, Richard J., Reilly Kincaid, Trenton D. Mize, and Gayle Kaufman. 2025. “Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave-taking and variations by gender and family structure.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 87(5):1865-1888.
Mize, Trenton D. and Bing Han. 2025. “Inequality and total effect summary measures for nominal and ordinal variables.” Sociological Science. 12:115–157.
Manago, Bianca and Trenton D. Mize. 2024. “What is the effect of an inferred mental illness label on stigma? Theoretical and empirical challenges.” 10:1–17.
Mize, Trenton D. and Long Doan. 2023. “The mental health consequences of sexual identity discrepancies.” Pp. 111-134 in Advancing Identity Theory, Measurement, and Research. Springer.
Petts, Richard J., Gayle Kaufman, and Trenton D. Mize. 2023. “Parental leave-taking and perceptions of workers as good parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 85:261–279.
Mize, Trenton D. and Bianca Manago. 2022. “The past, present, and future of experimental methods in the social sciences.” Social Science Research. 108(102799):1-24.
Manago, Bianca and Trenton D. Mize. 2022. “The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear.” Social Science Research. 105(102690):1-18.
Petts, Richard J., Trenton D. Mize, and Gayle Kaufman. 2022. “Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave.” Social Science Research. 103(102651):1-16.