Background

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Florida State University
Areas of interest: Gender, Quantitative Methods, Social Stratification, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Organizations, Family

Anastasia Prokos joined the UNLV Sociology department in the Fall of 2002. She graduated with her Ph.D. from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL in 2001 and spent the following academic year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Berkeley Center for Working Families. She is currently working on papars concerning the pay gap between women and men in science and engineering fields, children's economic well-being, and women military veterans' earnings. In addition, she and Dr. Keene are doing research that explores factors that predict well-being in widowhood. Dr. Prokos teaches courses in Quantitative Research Methods, Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences, the Sociology of Gender and Work, and Introductory Sociology.

Dr. Prokos, together with Dr. Keene, founded the UNLV chapter of SWS (Sociologists for Women in Society). You can link to the webpage for our local chapter on your right. She also serves as the faculty advisor for UNLVs burgeoning Habitat for Humanity chapter, as well as on several graduate student thesis committees.