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Holly Foster
ADDRESS
Department of Sociology
Texas A&M University
Mailstop 4351, Academic Building #304B
College Station, Texas 77843-4351
Phone: 979-458-2268
Fax: 979-862-4057
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Sociology. 2001. The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M.A. Sociology. 1994. The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
B.A. Sociology. 1992. The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Crime and Deviance, Life Course, Social Inequality, Children and Youth, Families
Employment History
2017-present. Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
2017-present. Affiliate Faculty Member, Women’s and Gender Studies, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas
2009-2017. Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
2015 Visiting Scholar- 21st Century America Scholar, Department of Sociology, UC-Irvine
2016 Visiting Scholar- American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
2003-2009. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
2003-present. Research Affiliate, National Center for Children and Families, Teachers
College, Columbia University, New York City, New York.
2002-2003. Research Scientist/ Post-doc, National Center for Children and Families
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, New York.
2000-2002 . Postdoctoral Fellow. National Consortium on Violence Research, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS
2015-2018. National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program. “Adolescent and
Adult Lives of Children of Parents Returning From Prison.” John Hagan (Principal Investigator)
and Holly Foster (Co-Principal Investigator). SES-1535563.
2013. National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program. "Parental Incarceration in
the United States: Bringing Together Research and Policy to Reduce Collateral Costs for
Children." John Hagan (Principal Investigator) and Holly Foster (Co-Principal Investigator).
SES-1343925.
2012-2015. National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program and Sociology
Program. “Punishment Regimes and the Multi-Level Effects of Parental Imprisonment:
Inter-institutional, Inter-generational and Inter-sectional Models of Inequality and Exclusion.”
John Hagan (Principal Investigator) and Holly Foster (Co-Principal Investigator). SES-1228345.
2006-2010. National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program. “Parental
Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion: ‘The Long Arm of the
Law.’” John Hagan (Principal Investigator) and Holly Foster (Co-Principal Investigator).
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program. #SES 0617275.
2005-2009. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, “Children’s Exposure to
Violence over Space and Time.” Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Principal Investigator), Chris Browning (Co-Investigator), Holly Foster (Co-Investigator), and John Hagan (Co-Investigator).
# R01 HD049796-01.
2000-2005. National Science Foundation, “Delinquency and Depression in the Transition to
Adulthood: Toward a Theory of Deviant Adolescent Role Exits to Adult Disadvantage.”
John Hagan (Principal Investigator), and Holly Foster (Co-Principal Investigator). #SES-0001753.
EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS
21st Century America Scholar at UC Irvine 2015, School of Social Sciences, Department of
Sociology
HONORS AND AWARDS
Foster, Holly. 2016. Commissioned White Paper on “The Conditions of Confinement in Restricted
Housing.” Appears as Chapter 3 of Restrictive Housing in the U.S.: Issues, Challenges, and
Future Directions, pp.85-116. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice,
Washington, DC. #NCJ 250315. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/250315.pdf (Volume
received Award of Excellence from The National Association of Government
Communicators 2017).
2005. Award for Best Publication in Sociology of Mental Health section of the American
Sociological Association for co-authored paper (Hagan and Foster) in Social Forces (2003) “S/He’s a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood.”
REFEREED PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Foster, Holly. 2017. “Family Complexity and the Stress Process in Prison: How Sibling Living
Arrangements of Minor Children Influence Maternal Role Strains.” Social Sciences 6(3), 81-94.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2017. “Maternal Imprisonment, Economic Marginality, and Unmet
Health Needs in Early Adulthood.” Preventive Medicine 99: 43-48.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2016. “Maternal and Paternal Imprisonment and Children’s Social
Exclusion in Adulthood.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 105: 101-143.
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2015. “Children’s Exposure to Community and War
Violence and Mental Health in Four African Countries.” Social Science & Medicine 146: 292-
299.
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2015. “Intimate Partner Violence, Relationship Patterns and
Gender in the Transition to Adulthood.” Forthcoming, Journal of Family Issues.
doi:10.1177/0192513X15617796
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2015. “Punishment Regimes and the Multi-Level Effects of Parental
Imprisonment: Inter-generational, Intersectional, and Inter-Institutional Models of Social
Inequality and Systemic Exclusion.” Annual Review of Sociology 41: 135-158.
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2015. “Mass Incarceration, Parental Imprisonment, and the Great
Recession: Intergenerational Sources of Severe Deprivation in America.” Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 1: 80–107.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2014. “The Costs of Incarcerating Mothers and Non-
Mothers: The Gendered Distribution of Family Care and Human Rights.” Journal of Gender,
Race and Justice 17: 257-278.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2013. “Maternal and Paternal Imprisonment in the Stress Process.”
Social Science Research 42: 650-669.
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2013. “Neighborhood, Family and Individual Influences
on School Physical Victimization.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 42: 1596-1610.
Craig, Jessica and Holly Foster. 2013. “Desistance in the Transition to Adulthood: The Roles of
Marriage, Military, and Gender.” Deviant Behavior 34: 208-223.
Foster, Holly. 2012. “The Strains of Maternal Imprisonment: Importation and Deprivation
Stressors for Women and Children.” Journal of Criminal Justice 40: 221-229.
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2012. “Intergenerational School Effects of Mass Imprisonment in
America.” Sociology of Education 85: 259-286.
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2012. “Children of the American Prison Generation: The
Paradoxical “Spillover” School Effects of Incarcerating Mothers.” Law & Society Review 46:
37-69.
Foster, Holly. 2011. “Incarcerated Parents and Health: Investigating Role Inoccupancy Strains by
Gender.” Women & Criminal Justice 21: 225-249.
Foster, Holly. 2011. “The Influence of Incarceration on Children at the Intersection of Parental
Gender and Race/Ethnicity: A Focus on Child Living Arrangements.” Journal of Ethnicity in
Criminal Justice 9: 1-21.
Derose, Laura M., Shiyko, Mariya P., Foster, Holly, & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2011. “Associations
Between Menarcheal Timing and Behavioral Developmental Trajectories for Girls from Age 6 to
Age 15.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 40: 1329-1342.
Foster, Holly, Daniel Nagin, John Hagan, E. Jane Costello, and Adrian Angold. 2010. “Specifying
Criminogenic Strains: Stress Dynamics and Conduct Disorder Trajectories.” Deviant Behavior 31: 440-475.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2009. “The Mass Incarceration of Parents in America: Issues of
Collateral Damage to Children and Prisoner Re-entry.” Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Sciences 623: 179-194.
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2009. “Toward a Stress Process Model of Children's
Exposure to Physical Family and Community Violence.” Clinical Child and Family Psychology
Review 12: 71-94.
Foster, Holly, John Hagan, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2008. “Growing Up Fast: Stress Exposure
and Subjective ‘Weathering’ In Emerging Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior,
49: 162-177.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2007. “Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion.”
Social Problems 54: 399-433.
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2006. “Profiles of Punishment and Privilege: Secret and
Disputed Deviance During the Racialized Transition to American Adulthood.” Crime, Law, and
Social Change 46: 65-85.
Foster, Holly, John Hagan, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2004. “Puberty, Age, and Intimate Partner
Violence Exposure in Adolescence.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1036: 151-
166.
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2003. “S/He’s a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of
Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood.” Social Forces
82: 53-86.
Hagan, John, Bill McCarthy, and Holly Foster. 2002. “Toward a Gendered Theory of
Delinquency and Despair in the Life Course.” Acta Sociologica 45: 37-46.
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2001. “Youth Violence and the End of Adolescence.” American
Sociological Review 66:874-899.
*Underlined names are student co-authors.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. (In Press). Updated version of chapter “Poverty/ Socio-
economic Status and Exposure to Violence in the Lives of Children and Adolescents” submitted
to the updated version of The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior, edited by D. Flannery
I. Waldman, and M. DeLisi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Foster, Holly and Jocelyn Lewis. 2015. “Race/Ethnicity and Living Arrangements of Children of
Incarcerated Mothers: Comparative Patterns and Maternal Experiences.” Pp. 92-106 in
Understanding Diversity: Celebrating Difference, Challenging Inequality, edited by Claire
M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen. New York: Pearson.
Foster, Holly. 2014. “Adolescent Crime and Victimization: Sex and Gender Differences,
Similarities and Emerging Intersections.” Pp. 319-342 in The Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex and Crime, edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2013. “Neighborhood Effects on Antisocial Behavior in
Childhood and Adolescence,” Handbook of Life Course Criminology: Emerging Trends and
Future Directions, edited by Chris Gibson and Marvin Krohn (pp. 69-90). New York: Springer.
Foster, Holly. 2010. “Living Arrangements of Children of Incarcerated Parents:
The Roles of Stability, Embeddedness, Gender and Race/Ethnicity.” In Children of
Incarcerated Parents: Theoretical, Developmental and Clinical Issues, edited by Yvette R.
Harris, James A. Graham, and Gloria Oliver Carpenter (pp.127-157). New York: Springer.
Foster, Holly, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Anne Martin. 2007. “Poverty/ Socio-economic
Status and Exposure to Violence in the Lives of Children and Adolescents.” Pp. 664-687 in The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior, edited by D. Flannery and I. Waldman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2003. “Patterns and Explanations of Direct Physical and Indirect
Non-Physical Aggression in Childhood.” Pp. 543-565 in The International Handbook on
Violence Research, edited by W. Heitmeyer and J. Hagan. Boston, MA: Kluwer/
Academic Press.
[Also printed in German as “Muster und Erklarungen der direkten physischen und indirekten nicht-physischen Aggression im Kindesalter.” 2002. Pp. 676-706 in Internationales Handbuch der Gewaltforschung, W. Heitmeyer and J. Hagan (Hrsg.) Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag.]
NON-REFEREED PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2000. “Making Criminal and Corporate America Less Violent:
Public Norms and Structural Reforms.” Contemporary Sociology 29:44-53.
ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2015. Mass Imprisonment and Its Consequences. In: James D.
Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral
Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 14. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 696–701.
Foster, Holly and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2011. Effects of Physical Family and Community Violence
on Child Development. Tremblay RE, topic ed. In: Tremblay RE, Boivin M, Peters RDeV, eds.
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development [online]. Montreal, Quebec: Centre of
Excellence for Early Childhood Development; 2011:1-7. Available at: http://www.child- encyclopedia.com/documents/Foster-Brooks-GunnANGxp1.pdf.
OTHER PUBLISHED WORK
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2014. “Prison as Prologue: Reframing Mass Incarceration in terms
of Parental Incarceration and Children’s Rights.” The Criminologist, 39, 2, March/April.
BOOK REVIEWS
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2015. “Review of Children of the Prison Boom: Mass
Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality, by Sara Wakefield and Christopher
Wildeman. New York. Oxford University Press.” American Journal of Sociology 120: 1557-
1559.
Foster, Holly. 2008. “Review of David P. Farrington’s (2005) Integrated Developmental & Life-
Course Theories of Offending, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction” in Theoretical Criminology,
12: 227-229.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Hagan, John and Holly Foster. 2016. “Criminal Justice Involvement and Its Impacts on the
Individual, the Family, and the Community.” Presentation at the National Academy of Sciences
Workshop on “Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in
Population Health Data Programs.” Washington, D.C. March 29.
Foster, Holly. 2013. “Maternal and Paternal Imprisonment and Children’s Social Exclusion in
Adulthood.” White House Conference on “Parental Incarceration in the United States: Bringing
Together Research and Policy to Reduce Collateral Costs for Children.” August 20.
Foster, Holly. 2013. “A Mixed Methods Study of Incarcerated Women and their Social Ties.”
The Criminology Seminar Series, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. July 15, 2013.
Foster, Holly. 2012. “Measuring Parental Incarceration in Add Health” at the Measuring
Incarceration in Household Surveys Invitational Forum, National Center on Family and Marriage
Research at the National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C. January 26.
Foster, Holly. 2011. Discussion of Add Health Data. Racial Democracy Crime and Justice
Network (RDCJN) Workshop at Ohio State University. July 28-29.
Foster, Holly. 2011. Discussion of Project of Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods data
in the Context of Teen Dating Violence Research. Conference on Teen Dating Violence
Longitudinal Data Sources, National Institute of Justice, Washington,D.C., June 6-7.
Foster, Holly. 2009. “The Impact of Incarceration on Children by Parental Gender and
Race/Ethnicity: A Focus on Child Living Arrangements.” Paper presented at the 2009 National
Conference, Meeting Justice and Policy Challenges through Research and Statistics, Justice
Research and Statistics Association and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. St. Louis, Missouri, October 23.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2008. “The Intersectionality of Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Parental
Incarceration.” Presentation at the “Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice-Network
(RDCJN) Workshop,” Columbus, Ohio, July 24-25.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2006. “Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion.”
Paper presented in Section on Children and Youth Invited Session. “Divided Lives:
Stratification and Life Chances” (Co-sponsored with the Section on Aging and the Life Course)
at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec. August 13.
Quebec.
Foster, Holly and John Hagan. 2006. “Intergenerational Impacts of Paternal Incarceration.” Paper
presented at the Postdoctoral Mental Health Seminar Series at the Institute for Health, Health
Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University, New Jersey. April 4.
Foster, Holly, Margo Gardner, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Chris Browning. 2006. “Children’s
Exposure to Violence Over Space and Time.” Invited Presentation at the National Institute of
Health, Research on Children Exposed to Violence Grantee Meeting, March 9.
Foster, Holly. 2004. “A Life Course Dynamics Perspective on Family Structure and Poverty Stress
Histories and Child Conduct Disorder.” University of South Alabama, Department of Sociology/