Kim M. Lloyd
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Albany, 2000
Areas of Research Interest:
Race and Ethnicity, Family, Education, Demography.
Current Research Interests:
My core research interests lie in the areas of race/ethnicity and social inequality, particularly with respect to family formation and educational attainment in the United States. I am currently engaged in three principal lines of research.
The first examines the role of U.S. marriage markets in producing divergent family outcomes among Latinos and African Americans in relation to non-Hispanic whites. Recent work in this area includes a methodological piece identifying the ethno-racial boundaries that delineate the Latino marriage market; an examination of intergenerational differences in Latinas' transition to marriage; and theoretical models to explain generational and ethno-racial differences in marriage timing. (Interested readers should see: Lloyd, Kim M. 2006. "Latinas' Transition to First Marriage: An Examination of Four Theoretical Perspectives." Journal of Marriage and Family 68:993-1013. Lloyd, Kim M. 2008. "Generational Differences in Latinas' Transition to First Marriage." Section on Sociology of the Family, Family Patterns: Class and Race-Ethnic Variation. Presented at the 113th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1-4.)
My second line of research explores ethno-racial inequality arising from differential access to the American educational system. I am studying the elimination of race sensitive college-admissions criteria (i.e., Affirmative Action) in the state of Texas and its subsequent replacement with the Top 10% Plan through grants from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Ford Foundation. The goal of this research is to assess minority student outcomes under alternative admissions regimes. Recent work examines the impact of the Top 10% policy on minority high school students' educational aspirations, expectations, and college applications; changes in the admissions and enrollments of minority students in selective public universities before and after affirmative action; and minority representation and success in selective public and private universities under alternative (i.e., race-sensitive vs. race-neutral) admissions regimes. (See for example, Lloyd, Kim M., Kevin T. Leicht, and Teresa A. Sullivan. 2008. "Minority Educational Aspirations, Expectations, and Application Under the Texas Top Ten Percent Law." Social Forces 86:1-32.).
Finally, I have also recently begun a new research project that examines cemetery tombstone inscriptions over time to investigate how dominant structural ideologies of gender, family, and work impact women's and men's identification in death. The examination of historical changes in personal epitaphs provides several important contributions. First, epitaphs are one way that individuals' document the deceased's life's legacy in death. As such, tombstone inscriptions are important in their own right. Second, the project examines inscriptions over more than 360 years of American history. Most previous empirical studies of these issues are based on a narrow time period or rely on only a handful of personal diaries, newspaper accounts, magazine articles, or religious literature. Others have relied on census data. However, census data fail to capture any indication of the relevance of roles to the individual. In contrast, tombstone inscriptions afford a unique glimpse into what women and men, or those who are responsible for burying them, see as important aspects of the deceased's life. In this way, a tombstone inscription may reference a person's accomplishments or provide clues into the hegemonic structural legacy of femininity and masculinity that systematically appear on tombstones throughout history. Understanding if and when people internalize the norms that society defines as appropriate is one of the goals of this research. (For more information see, Lloyd, Kim M., and Lindsey Trimble. 2008. "American's Grave Legacy of Changing Work and Familial Identification: Evidence from Tombstone Inscriptions 1646-2000." Section on Sex and Gender. Presented at the 113th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1-4.).
Selected Publications:
Lloyd, Kim M., Kevin T. Leicht, and Teresa A. Sullivan. 2008. "Minority Educational Aspirations, Expectations, and Application Under the Texas Top Ten Percent Law." Social Forces 86:1-32.
Lloyd, Kim M. 2006. "Latinas' Transition to First Marriage: An Examination of Four Theoretical Perspectives". Journal of Marriage and Family 68:993-1013.
Lloyd, Kim M. 2009. "Marriage Markets". In Harry Reis and Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. (forthcoming)
Lloyd, Kim M., and Rosemary Yeilding. 2008. "Marriage". In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, William A. Darity (Ed.), Vol. 4, pp. 612-616, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
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