Potochnick CV
(Sept. 2017)
Curriculum Vitae
STEPHANIE POTOCHNICK
University of Missouri
229 Middlebush Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 882-2951
Email:
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
2012- Assistant Professor, Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri
2012- Assistant Professor, Public Health Program, University of Missouri
2012- Faculty Fellow, Cambio Center, University of Missouri
2014- Executive Board Member, Cambio Center, University of Missouri
2016- Research Affiliate, Population, Education, & Health Center, University of Missouri
2017- Editorial Review Board, Social Science Research
EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D. Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Traditional Settlement Communities: The Role of Family, Schools, Neighborhoods, and State-Level Policies
2007 M.A., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2002 B.A., Political Science, Emory University, High Honors
2000 A.A., College of Eastern Utah, High Honors
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Social Demography, Immigrant Education and Health, Population Policy and Migration, Health and Education Policy, Stratification and Inequality
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (*Student co-author)
Note: Authorship ordering reflects contribution share unless noted otherwise.
Huang, Ying*, Stephanie Potochnick, and Colleen Heflin. 2017. “Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Health and Cognitive Development among Children of Immigrants.” Journal of Family Issues. (On-line)
Arteaga, Irma, Stephanie Potochnick, and Sarah Parsons.* 2017. “Decomposing the Household Food Insecurity Gap for Children of U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Hispanics: Evidence from 1998 to 2011.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. (On-line)
Potochnick, Stephanie, Jen-Hao Chen, and Krista Perreira. 2016. “Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Food Insecurity Risk among Hispanic Immigrant Families with Children: National-Level Evidence.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 19(5), 1042-1049.
Potochnick, Stephanie and Irma Arteaga. 2016. “A Decade of Analysis: Household Food Insecurity among Low-Income Immigrant Children.” Journal of Family Issues. (On-line)
Spees, Lisa,* Stephanie Potochnick, and Krista Perreira. 2016. “The Academic Achievement of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Youth in New and Established Immigrant States: Lessons from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).” Education Policy Analysis Archives 24(99).
Potochnick, Stephanie. 2016. “Reversing Welfare Reform? Immigrant Restoration Efforts and Food Stamp Receipt among Mexican Immigrant Families.” Social Science Research 60: 88-99.
Darolia, Rajeev, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2015. “"Educational ‘When’, ‘Where’ and ‘How’ Implications of In-State Resident Tuition Policies for Latino Undocumented Immigrants.” Review of Higher Education 38(4): 507-535.
Note: Shared authorship
Potochnick, Stephanie, and Margarita Mooney. 2015. “The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Immigrant Children‘s Educational Experiences 1990-2002.“ International Migration Review 49(4): 1001-1041.
Darolia, Rajeev, Stephanie Potochnick, and Charles E. Menifield. Forthcoming. 2014. “Assessing Admission Criteria for Early and Mid-Career Students: Evidence from a U.S. MPA Program.” Education Policy Analysis Archives 22: 101-121.
Note: Shared authorship
Potochnick, Stephanie. 2014. ”How States Can Reduce the Dropout Rate for Undocumented Immigrant Youth: The Effects of In-State Resident Tuition Policies.“ Social Science Research 45: 18-32.
Potochnick, Stephanie. 2014. “The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Established Settlement States: The Role of Family, Schools, and Neighborhoods.” Population Research and Policy Review 33(3): 335-364.
Moller, Stephanie, Elizabeth Stearns, Stephanie Southworth, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2013. “Changing course: the gender gap in college selectivity and opportunities to learn in the high school curriculum.” Gender and Education 25(7): 851-871.
Stearns, Elizabeth, Nandan Jha, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2013. “Race, Secondary School Course of Study, and College Type.” Social Science Research 42: 789-803.
Potochnick, Stephanie, Krista Perreira, and Andrew Fuligni. 2012. “Fitting in: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Daily Psychological Well-Being of Latino Youth.” Social Science Quarterly 93(1): 173-190.
Moller, Stephanie, Elizabeth Stearns, Stephanie Potochnick, and Stephanie Southworth. 2011. “Student Achievement and College Selectivity: How Changes in Achievement During High School Affect the Selectivity of College Attended.” Youth and Society 43(2): 639-663.
Potochnick, Stephanie and Krista Perreira. 2010. “Depression and Anxiety among First-Generation Immigrant Latino Youth: Key Correlates and Implications for Future Research.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198(7): 470-477.
Perriera, Krista, Andrew Fuligni, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2010. “Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Academic Motivations of Latino Youth in the U.S. Southeast.” Journal of Social Issues 66(1): 131-153.
Stearns, Elizabeth, Stephanie Potochnick, Stephanie Moller, and Stephanie Southworth. 2010. “High School Course-Taking and Post-Secondary Institutional Selectivity.” Research in Higher Education, 51(4): 366-395.
Stearns, Elizabeth, Stephanie Moller, Judith Blau, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2007. “Staying Back and Dropping Out: The Relationship between Grade Retention and School Dropout.” Sociology of Education 80(3): 210-40.
PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
Perreira, Krista, Lisa Kiang, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2013. “Ethnic Discrimination: Identifying and Intervening in its Effects on the Education of Immigrant Children.” Pp. 137-162 in Handbook of U.S. Immigration and Education. Elena Grigorenko, editor. Springer Publishing.
Potochnick, Stephanie and Sudhanshu Handa. 2012. “The Latino Paradox? School Segregation and Latino Student Achievement.” Pp. 15-30 in The Education of the Hispanic Population: Selected Essays. Billie Gastic and Richard Verdugo, editors. Information Age Publishing.
Moller, Stephanie and Stephanie Potochnick. 2007. “Standardized Tests.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. Macmillan Reference USA.
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW (*Student co-author)
Potochnick, Stephanie. “The Academic Adaptation of Immigrant Students with Interrupted Schooling.” (4th Revise & Resubmit, American Educational Research Journal).
Perreira, Krista, Priscilla Brietzke,* and Stephanie Potochnick. “In the Eye of the Beholder: Perspectives on Acculturation from White and Black Americans in Emerging Latino/Hispanic Communities and Schools.” (under review in Social Problems)
Potochnick, Stephanie, Sarah May,* and Lisa Flores. “In-State Resident Tuition Policies and the Self-Rated Health of High School and College Aged Undocumented Latina/o Immigrants, their Families, and the Latina/o Community.” (under review in Social Science & Medicine)
PAPERS IN PROGRESS
Potochnick, Stephanie and Matthew Hall. “Moving up or falling behind? Occupational mobility of children of immigrants based on their parents’ home country occupation.”
Stegmaier, Mary and Stephanie Potochnick. “Political Participation and Community Engagement across Hispanic Immigrant Generations and Citizenship Status.”
Potochnick, Stephanie and Krista Perreira. “Food Insecurity among Latino Youth: Who is at risk and what are the consequences?”
Jenkins, Jade and Stephanie Potochnick. “Local Immigration Enforcement Policies and Head Start Program Participation of Hispanic Families”
Kim, Mirae, Stephanie Potochnick, Nathan Kuhn*, Kate Olsen*. “The prevalence of ethnic, cultural, and folk nonprofit organizations in immigrant and ethnic minority communities: a case of demand heterogeneity and government failure theory.”
POLICY BRIEFS AND BOOK REVIEWS (*student co-author)
Ferguson, Jill, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2017. “Reversing Welfare Reform? Examining the effects of policy on Mexican immigrant families” Policy brief prepared for the Institute of Public Policy at the Truman School of Public Affairs, May 2017.
Ferguson, Jill, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2016. “Local-Level Immigration Enforcement Policies Increase Childhood Hunger in Mexican Immigrant Households” Abastos Magazine.
Olson, Kate*, and Stephanie Potochnick. 2014. In-state resident tuition policies for undocumented immigrants. Policy brief prepared for the Institute of Public Policy at the Truman School of Public Affairs, December 2014.
Perreira, Krista, Mimi Chapman, Stephanie Potochnick, Tasia Smith, and Linda Ko. 2008. Migration and Mental Health: Latino Youth and Parents Adapting to Life in the American South. Policy brief prepared for the Latino Adolescent, Migration, Health, and Adaptation Project, May 2008.
Potochnick, Stephanie and Krista Perreira 2007. Being Well and Doing Well: The Health and Academic Experiences of Latino High School Students in North Carolina. Policy brief prepared for the Southern Immigrant Academic Adaptation Project, November 2007.
Mickelson, Roslyn and Stephanie Potochnick. 2006. “Review of Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican American Underachievement.” Contemporary Sociology Journal 35: 636-637.
FUNDED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2017 Co-Principal Investigator. Local Immigration Enforcement Policies and Early Education Participation of Hispanic Families. C-DASA Small Research Grants, UC Irvine ($5,000). Jade Jenkins Co-principal investigator.
2015 Principal Investigator, “The Effect of Local Anti-Immigrant Policies on Immigrant Families’ Well-being.” The Population, Education and Health Center at the University of Missouri small grants program ($12,653). Jen-Hao Chen contractor.
2014-2015 Principal Investigator, “Safety Net Programs and Immigrant Food Security.” Research Board, University of Missouri. ($32,000). Irma Arteaga co-PI.
2011-2012 Jesse Ball DuPont Dissertation Fellowship, Royster Society of Fellows, UNC Chapel Hill ($27,000)
2011-2012 Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Traineeship, UNC Chapel Hill ($9,150)
2008-2011 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Carolina Population Research Center, UNC Chapel Hill ($61,147)
2010 Graduate School Travel Grant, UNC Chapel Hill ($400)
2007-2008 Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Traineeship, UNC Chapel Hill ($9,150)
2007-2008 University Merit Assistantship, UNC Chapel Hill Graduate School ($21,000)
UNFUNDED GRANTS
2015 Principal Investigator, “Immigrant Newcomer Youth and the Academic Consequences of Interrupted Schooling.” AERA Research Grants program. ($19,984).
2015 Senior Associate. Strategies to Facilitate Integration among Immigrant Newcomers that Foster Wealth Creation in Rural Midwestern Communities ($500,000), USDA, Rural Communities and Regional Development. Flores, Lisa (PD); Dorner, Lisa; Jeanetta, Stephen; Valdivia, Corinne; Potochnick, Stephanie; Crawford, Emily.
2015 Senior Associate. Impact and Policy Dimensions of Immigrant Livelihoods, Networks and Context on Economic Integration and Wealth Creation in the Rural Midwest ($500,000), USDA, Rural Communities and Regional Development. Valdivia, Corinne (PD); Flores, Lisa; Jeanetta, Stephen; Martinez, Domingo; Potochnick, Stephanie.
2013 Principal Investigator, “How State-Level Food, Cash, and Medical Safety Net Programs Affect Food Insecurity among Immigrant Families with Children.” UKCPR Research Program on Childhood Hunger: Small Grants Program ($57,423). Irma Arteaga and Colleen Heflin consultants.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter), Matthew Hall. “Moving up or falling behind? Occupational mobility of children of immigrants based on their parents’ home country occupation.”
· Paper presented at the Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2017.
· Poster presented at Population Association of America Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2017.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter), Sarah May, and Lisa Flores. “In-State Resident Tuition Policies and the Psychological Well-being of High School and College Aged Undocumented Latina/o Immigrants, their Families, and the Latina/o Community.”
· Paper presented at the Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Washington, DC, Nov. 2016.
· Paper presented at the Cambio de Colores Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2017.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter), Jen-Hao Chen, and Krista Perreira. “Keeping immigrants out or hindering immigrant integration? The Impact of the 287(g) program on immigrant family food insecurity.”
· Paper presented at the Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Miami, FL, Nov. 2015.
· Paper presented at the Cambio de Colores Conference, Columbia, MO, June 2016.
· Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of Transatlantic Stuides, Warrensburg, MO, Oct. 2016.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter). “The Academic Adaptation of Immigrant Newcomers with Interrupted Schooling.”
· Poster presented at the Population Association of America Conference, Washington, DC, May 2016.
· Paper presented at the Cambio de Colores Conference, Kansas City, MO, June 2015.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter). “The Academic Adaptation of Under-schooled Immigrant Newcomers: The Effects of Grade-Level Placement.” Paper presented at the Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2014.
Darolia, Raj, and Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter). “Educational ‘How’ and ‘When’ Implications of In-State Resident Tuition Policies for Latino Undocumented Immigrants.”
· Poster presented at the Population Association of America Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2015.
· Paper presented at the Cambio de Colores Conference, Columbia, MO, June 2014.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter), and Margarita Mooney. “The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Immigrant Children‘s Educational Experiences 1990-2002.“ Paper presentated at the Population Association of America, Boston, May 2014.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter), Irma Arteaga, and Colleen Heflin. “An Examination of Household Food Insecurity among Low-Income Immigrant Children.” Paper presented at the Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Washington DC, Nov. 2013.
Potochnick, Stephanie. “The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Traditional Settlement Communities: The Role of Family, Schools, and Neighborhoods.”
· Plenary presentation at the Cambio de Colores Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2013.
· Poster presented at the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, April 2013.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter) and Sudhanshu Handa. “The Latino Paradox? School Segregation and Latino Student Achievement.” Presented at:
· Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Washington DC, Nov. 2011
· Population Association of America, San Francisco, May 2012
Potochnick, Stephanie. ”How States Can Reduce the Dropout Rate for Undocumented Immigrant Youth: The Effects of In-State Resident Tuition Policies.“ Presented at:
· Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 2010
· American Sociological Society, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter) and Krista Perreira. “Depression and Anxiety among First-Generation Immigrant Latino Youth: Key Correlates and Implications for Future Research.” Presented at the Population Association of America, Dallas, TX, April 2010.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter), Krista Perreira, and Andrew Fuligni. “Fitting in: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Health of Latino Youth in the U.S. Southeast.”
Presented at:
· Population Association of America, Detroit, MI, May 2009.
· Association of Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 2008 (an earlier version of the paper).
Perreira, Krista, Mimi Chapman, Stephanie Potochnick (Presenter) , Linda Ko and Tasia Smith. “Migration and Mental Health: Latino Youth and Parents Adapting to Life in the American South.” Presented at the Southern Demographic Association, Greenville, SC, October 2008.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter) and Krista Perriera. “Migration, Academic, and Mental Health Experiences of Latino Youth in North Carolina.” Panel discussant at the Latino Youth Issues Forum, Asheboro North Carolina, September 2008.
Potochnick, Stephanie (Presenter) and Krista Perreira. “Being Well and Doing Well: The Health and Academic Experiences of Latino High School Students in North Carolina.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, Virginia, April 2008.
Potochnick, Stephanie. “Generational Effects of Neighborhoods and Schools on Mexican American Student Achievement.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Association of Public Policy and Management, Washington DC, November 2007.
Potochnick, Stephanie. “Generational Effects: An Assessment of Mexican American Student Achievement.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, Washington, April 2007.