Steven Martin joined the Department of Sociology as an assistant professor in Fall 2000 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.  His main area of research interest is social demography, and his teaching specialties are statistics, methods, and family demography.

Steven’s primary topic for research has been family dimensions of social inequality.  His published work includes analyses of race and/or educational differences in marriage and fertility timing, marital dissolution rates, and attitudes toward marital dissolution.  He is currently studying trends in childlessness with a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

In other research areas, Steven has studied issues of data quality and analysis in demographic research in general and the study of inequality in particular.  With Dr. John Robinson, he has written on the income digital divide; that is, the unequal diffusion of internet and computer use in the United States.  With Dr. Ching-Yi Shieh, a former graduate student at Maryland, he has written on voter turnout.  With Larry Wu and Daniel Long at the University of Wisconsin, he has studied the quality of birth reports, sexual intercourse histories, and contraceptive use histories.