Dr. Shannon M. Monnat
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Assistant Professor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dr. Shannon M. Monnat is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University at Albany in 2008. While a graduate student at SUNY Albany, Dr. Monnat received several awards, including: the 2005 Paul Meadows Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2007 Paul Meadows Award for Excellence in Research, the 2007 New York State Sociological Association Best Graduate Student Paper Award, and the 2008 University at Albany Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. She was also inducted as a Graduate Fellow into the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences in 2008.

Dr. Monnat specializes in race/ethnicity, social demography, health disparities, and welfare reform.  Her current research examines the roles of race and spatial context on welfare outcomes and various health outcomes in the United States.  She is currently exploring the differential effects of race on health status, non-infectious disease, and addictions across rural vs. urban contexts.  She also has an interest in the role of welfare reform on economic and social outcomes for women of color. 

Dr. Monnat has presented her research at several academic conferences, including the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the Rural Sociological Society, and the US Department of Health and Human Services Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference.

Recent publications include:

Loscocco, Karyn A., Shannon M. Monnat, Gwen Moore, and Kirsten B. Lauber. 2009. “Enterprising Women: a Comparison of Women’s and Men’s Small Business Networks. Gender & Society 23:388-411.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2008. “Toward a Critical Understanding of Gendered ‘Colorblind’ Racism within the U.S. Welfare Institution.” The Journal of Black Studies. OnlineFirst.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Laura A. Bunyan. 2008. “Race, Capitalism and Welfare Reform: Who Really Benefits from Welfare-to-Work Policies?” Race, Gender and Class 15:115-133.

You can reach Dr. Monnat at [email protected]