Dr. Christopher Browning, Professor, Sociology
Rank at time of award: Professor
Abstract
Christopher Browning is the director of The Ohio Study, also known as The Adolescent Health and Development in Context (AHDC) project, which focuses on the impact of multiple social contexts – neighborhood, home, school, and peers – on risky behavior (including substance use and delinquency), and mental/physical health outcomes. Collecting data on a large sample of adolescents, ages 11-17 years, in Franklin County, this innovative project combines in-home surveys with a week of smartphone-collected GPS and real-time mini-survey data. For a subsample of participants, saliva and hair are also collected to analyze biological measures of stress. This research will develop our understanding of how the actual places youth go and the people with whom they interact on a daily basis influence their health and behavior. Several other IPR associates contribute to the project, including Catherine Calder, Elizabeth Cooksey, Jodi Ford, Kammi Schmeer, Dana Haynie, and research associate Beth Boettner.
More info on the AHDC website.
Publications resulting from this seed grant
Chapters in Edited Volumes
2016. Browning, Christopher R., Kathleen A. Cagney, and Bethany Boettner. “Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Life Course.” in Handbook of the Life Course, vol. II, edited by Michael J. Shanahan, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, pages 597-620. Springer.
Editor-Reviewed Articles
2018. Catherine A. Calder and Candace Berret. Invited comment on Article by Bradley, Holan, and Wikle. [Invited discussion of Bradley, Jonathan R.; Holan, Scott H.; Wikle, Christopher K. Computationally Efficient Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Models for High-Dimensional Count-Valued Data (with Discussion).] Bayesian Analysis 13 (2018), no. 1, 292-297. PMCID: PMC6726429
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2022. Gurukar, Saket, Bethany Boettner, Christopher Browning, Catherine Calder, and Srinivasan Parthasarathy. “Leveraging Network Representation Learning and Community Detection for Analyzing the Activity Profiles of Adolescents.” Applied Network Science 7(1):27. doi: 10.1007/s41109-022-00461-3. PMC9762861
2022. Kertes, Darlene A., John Leri, Ke Duan, Jake Tarrence, Christopher Browning, Rita Pickler, and Jodi Ford. “Demographic and Health Predictors of Telomere Length during Adolescence.” Developmental Psychobiology 64(7):e22311. doi: 10.1002/dev.22311.
2022. Pinchak, Nicolo P., Christopher R. Browning, Bethany Boettner, Catherine A. Calder, and Jake Tarrence. “Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime.” Social Forces soac059. doi: 10.1093/sf/soac059.
2022. Pinchak, Nicolo P., Christopher R. Browning, Catherine A. Calder, and Bethany L. Boettner. “Racial Inequalities in Adolescents’ Exposure to Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation, Collective Efficacy, and Violence.” 2022. Demography 59(5):1763-1789. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10210688
2021. Browning, Christopher R., Jake Tarrence, Eric LaPlant, Bethany Boettner, Kammi Schmeer, Catherine A. Calder, Baldwin M. Way, and Jodi L. Ford. “Exposure to police-related deaths and physiological stress among urban black youth.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 125:104884. PMCID: PMC7904570
2021. Browning, Christopher R., Nicolo P. Pinchak, and Catherine A. Calder. “Human Mobility and Crime: Theoretical Approaches and Novel Data Collection Strategies.” Annual Review of Criminology 4:1.
2021. Browning, Christopher R., Catherine Calder, Bethany Boettner, , Jake Tarrence, Kori Khan, Brian Soller, and Jodi Ford. “Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures.” Forthcoming in American Sociological Review. PMCID: PMC8725782
2021. Ford, Jodi L., Christopher R. Browning, Samantha J. Boch, Darlene A. Kertes, Jake Tarrence, Baldwin M. Way, and Kammi K. Schmeer. "Racial and Economic Adversity Differences in Stress Markers and Immune Function Among Urban Adolescents." Nursing Research 70, no. 5S (2021): S31-S42. PMCID: PMC8515952 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8515952/
2021. Pinchak NP, Browning CR, Calder CA, Boettner B. "Activity Locations, Residential Segregation, and the Significance of Residential Neighborhood Boundary Perceptions." Urban Stud. 2021 Oct 1;58(13):2758-2781. PMCID: PMC8612455. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8612455/
2021. Pinchak, Nicolo, Browning, Christopher R., Catherine A. Calder, and Bethany Boettner. “The Social Construction of Neighborhood Space: Models of Neighborhood Boundary Perceptions in a Diverse Urban Area.” Urban Studies 58:13 2758-2781. PMCID: PMC8612455
2020. Khan, Kori, and Catherine A. Calder. “Restricted Spatial Regression Methods: Implications for Inference.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, July 9, 2020, 1–13. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9540349/ PMCID: PMC9540349
2020. Xi, Wenna, Catherine A. Calder, and Christopher R. Browning. “Beyond Activity Space: Detecting Communities in Ecological Networks.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110:6 1787-1806. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1715779
2019. Smith, Anna L., Dena M. Asta, and Catherine A. Calder. 2019. “The Geometry of Continuous Latent Space Models for Network Data.” Statistical Science 34:3, 428-453. PMCID: PMC7682928
2019. Ford, Jodi L, Samantha J. Boch, and Christopher R. Browning. “Hair Cortisol and Depressive Symptoms in Youth: An Investigation of Curvilinear Relationships.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 109 (November 1, 2019): 104376. PMCID: PMC6986562
2019. Boettner, Bethany, Christopher R. Browning, and Catherine A. Calder. “Feasibility and Validity of Geographically Explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment with Recall-Aided Space-Time Budgets.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 29:627–45. PMCID: PMC6774631
2019. Schmeer, Kammi K., Jacob Tarrence, Christopher R. Browning, Catherine A. Calder, Jodi L. Ford, and Bethany Boettner. “Family Contexts and Sleep during Adolescence.” SSM - Population Health. PMCID: PMC6293031
2019. Schmeer, Kammi K., Jodi L. Ford, and Christopher R. Browning. “Early Childhood Family Instability and Immune System Dysregulation in Adolescence.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 102:189–95. PMCID: PMC6689237
2019. Boch, Samantha J., Barbara J. Warren, and Jodi L. Ford. “Attention, Externalizing, and Internalizing Problems of Youth Exposed to Parental Incarceration.” Issues in Mental Health Nursing 40:466–75. PMCID: PMC6557679
2017. Browning, Christopher R., Catherine A. Calder, Brian Soller, Aubrey L. Jackson, and Jonathan Dirlam. “Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization.” Forthcoming at the American Journal of Sociology. PMCID: PMC5786432
2016. Browning, Christopher R., Catherine A. Calder, Jodi L. Ford, Bethany Boettner, Anna L. Smith, and Dana Haynie. “Understanding Racial Differences in Exposure to Violent Locations: Integrating Survey, Smartphone, and Administrative Data Resources.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 669: 41-62. PMCID:PMC5567748
2017. Browning, Christopher R., Catherine A. Calder, Lauren J. Krivo, Anna Mohr, and Bethany Boettner. “Socioeconomic Segregation of Activity Spaces in Urban Neighborhoods: Does Shared Residence Mean Shared Routines?” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, RSF. 2017 Feb; 3(2): 210–231. PMCID: PMC5640327
2016. Browning, Christopher R., Jonathan Dirlam, and Bethany Boettner. “From Heterogeneity to Concentration: Latino Immigrant Neighborhoods and Collective Efficacy Perceptions in Los Angeles and Chicago". Social Forces 95:779-807. PMCID:PMC5805395.
2016. Smith, Anna, Catherine A. Calder, and Christopher R. Browning. “Empirical Reference Distributions for Networks of Different Size.” Social Networks 47:24–37. PMCID: PMC5052017
2016. Jackson, Aubrey L., Christopher R. Browning, Lauren J. Krivo, Mei-Po Kwan, and Heather M. Washington. “The Role of Immigrant Concentration within and beyond Residential Neighborhoods in Adolescent Alcohol Use.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45: 17-34. PMCID: PMC5476366
2015. Browning, Christopher R., Brian Soller, and Aubrey L. Jackson. “Neighborhoods and Adolescent Health-Risk Behavior: An Ecological Network Approach.” Social Science & Medicine 125:163–72. PMCID: PMC4272333
2014. Browning, Christopher R. and Brian Soller. “Moving Beyond Neighborhood: Activity Spaces and Ecological Networks as Contexts for Youth Development.” Cityscape 16:1 165-196. PMCID: PMC4121985
2014. Kwan, Mei-Po, Ningchuan Xiao, and Guoxiang Ding. “Assessing Activity Pattern Similarity with Multidimensional Sequence Alignment Based on a Multiobjective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithm.” Geographical Analysis 46:297–320. PMCID: PMC4501399
2013. Calder, Catherine A. Spatial Exposure Modeling: Reconsidering the Data Generating Mechanism (Invited Discussion). Environmetrics, 24:8, 525-526.
2013. Kwan, Mei-Po. “Beyond space (as we knew it): Toward temporally integrated geographies of segregation, health, and accessibility.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(5).
Grants resulting from this seed grant
WT Grant Foundation. Activity Space, Social Network, and Community Influences on Adolescent Risk, PI: Browning, 1/1/2012-12/31/2014
National Institutes of Health R01. Adolescent Health and Development in Context, PI: Browning. 9/15/2011-7/31/2017
National Institutes of Health, R01 subaward. Activity Space, Social Interaction and Health Trajectories in Later Life, Co-I: Browning-(PI OSU subcontract) (PI: Cagney) 7/1/2015-6/30/2020
National Institutes of Health, R01. Effects of Violence Exposure on Neural Development, Risk Behavior, and Health, PI: Way, Co-I: Browning, 4/1/2017-3/31/2022
National Science Foundation. Bayesian Methods for Socio-Spatial Point Patterns and Networks, PI: Calder, Co-I: Browning, 7 /15/2012-8/31/2016
National Institutes of Health, K01. Family Contexts and Physiological Stress in Children, PI: Schmeer, K. Mentor: Browning, 7/01/13-6/30/18,
National Institutes of Health, R01. Adolescent Health in an Urban Environment, PI: Calder, Co-I: Browning, 4/14/2017-1/31/2022,
National Institutes of Health, R03, Documenting and Archiving the Adolescent Health and Development in Context Study, PI: Boettner, Co-I: Browning, 07/01/18 –06/30/20,