Sarah Mustillo

I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean, Professor of Sociology

Research Interests

Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Statistics, Developmental Science, Social Epidemiology, Social Psychology

Subfields

Gender and Family, Quantitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity

Profile

Sarah Mustillo is currently serving as the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. Her research examines the effects of adverse childhood experiences on trajectories of mental health, with a particular emphasis on the timing and duration of such experiences as well as gender differences. Other work focuses on advancing statistical methods for social science research. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Marriage and Family, the American Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and she has won national awards from the Gerontological Society of America and the American Sociological Association (ASA). Additionally, she is co-authoring a book on statistical methods for dealing with missing data and working on an NIH-funded project on parent, sibling, and peer influences on initiation of substance use in adolescence. She is past secretary/treasurer for the Methods Section of the ASA, regularly taught a workshop for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, and recently ended a term as co-editor of the American Sociological Review.