Hannah Brückner

Hannah Brückner

Hannah Brückner (born in 1958) is a sociologist known for her contributions to several interdisciplinary fields, including life course studies, adolescent health, inequality, health, gender, and sexuality. She is an emeritus professor of Social Research and Public Policy at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Prior to her tenure at NYU Abu Dhabi, Brückner was a professor of sociology at Yale University.

Career

Hannah Brückner received her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Brückner recently received "NSF funding, a two-year grant for USD 70,000 to investigate indications of systematic gender bias in both contributors and content in the reference tool Wikipedia. The project, 'Collaborative Research: Wikipedia and the Democratization of Academic Knowledge,' will study mechanisms that potentially influence gender bias in the contributor-based resource, and the prevalence of gender bias across different academic disciplines. The project will use both quantitative and qualitative methods to identify gender-specific patterns on the representation of scholars and scholarship, ultimately revealing important insights about where gender disparities arise in the process of democratized knowledge."

Current research projects focus on the representation of academics and academic knowledge on Wikipedia (specifically gender discrimination) for which she has received National Science Foundation funding to investigate systematic gender bias in both contributors and content in the reference tool of Wikipedia. Brückner also studies the impact of labor migration on gender inequality in Kerala (India).

Publications

Books & Chapters in Edited Volumes

Brückner, Hannah. Gender Inequality in the Life Course. Social Change and Stability in West Germany, 1975-1995. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004.

Brückner, Hannah: Surveys. Chapter for the Handbook of Analytical Sociology, edited by Peter Hedstrom and Peter Bearman. Oxford University Press. Published online: June 2017.

Brückner, Hannah and Peter Bearman: Dating Behavior and Sexual Activity Among Young Adolescents, pp. 31–56 in 14 and Younger: The Sexual Behavior of Young Adolescents. Edited by Bill Albert, Sarah Brown, and Christine M. Flanigan. Washington, DC: Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Natalie Nitsche and Hannah Brückner: Late, but not too late? Postponement of First Birth among Highly Educated Women in the US, Birth Cohorts 1920-1985. European Journal of Population 37 (2021): 371–403.

Ann Morning, Hannah Brückner, and Alondra Nelson: Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race. DuBois Review, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X19000195

Julia Adams, Hannah Brückner, and Cambria Naslund: Who Counts as a Notable Sociologist on Wikipedia? Gender, Race and the ‘Professor Test’[1]. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2378023118823946

Sharon H. Green, Charlotte Wang, Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Hannah Brückner, Peter Bearman: Patterned Remittances Enhance Women's Health-Related Autonomy. SSM – Population Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100370

Luo, Wei, Julia Adams, and Hannah Brückner. The Ladies Vanish? American Sociology and the Genealogy of its Missing Women on Wikipedia. Comparative Sociology, 17 (2018): 519–556. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341471

Julia Adams and Hannah Brückner: Wikipedia, Sociology, and the Promise and Pitfalls of Big Data. Big

Data & Society 2, no. 2 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715614332

Anette Fasang, William Mangino, and Hannah Brückner: Social Closure and Educational Attainment. Sociological Forum 29, no 1 (2014):137-164.

Silke Aisenbrey and Hannah Brückner: Gender Inequality by Choice? The Effects of Aspirations on Gender Inequality in Wages. Page 456–76 in Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment, edited by Ingrid Schoon and Jacquelynn Eccles. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Himmelstein, Kathryn, and Hannah Brückner: Criminal Justice and School Sanctions against Non-heterosexual Adolescents: A National Longitudinal Study. Pediatrics. Published online December 6, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2009-2306

Aisenbrey, Silke, and Hannah Brückner: Occupational Aspirations, Gender Segregation, and the Gender Gap in Wages. European Sociological Review 24, no.5 (2008): 633–649.

Brückner, Hannah, and Karl Ulrich Mayer: The De-Standardization of the Life Course: What It Might Mean and If it Means Anything Whether It Actually Took Place. Advances in Life Course Research Vol.9 (2005): 27–54.

Brückner, Hannah, and Peter S. Bearman: After the Promise: The STD Consequences of Adolescent Virginity Pledges. Journal of Adolescent Health 36 (2005): 271–278.

Brückner, Hannah, Anne Martin, and Peter Bearman: Ambivalence and Pregnancy: Adolescent Attitudes, Contraception, and Pregnancy. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 36, no.6 (2004): 248–257.

Bearman,Peter, and Hannah Brückner: Opposite-Sex Twins and Adolescent Same-Sex Attraction. American Journal of Sociology 107 (2002): 1179–1205.

Bearman, Peter, and Hannah Brückner: Promising the Future: Abstinence Pledges and the Transition to First Intercourse. American Journal of Sociology 106 (2001): 859–912.

Bearman, Peter, and Hannah Brückner. Power in Numbers: Peer Effects on Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Debut and Pregnancy. Washington, DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (1999).