Patricia A. Gwartney

Professor, Sociology and Founding Director, Oregon Survey Research Laboratory

If you purchased The Telephone Interviewer's Handbook: How to Conduct Standardized Conversations (ISBN 978-0-7879-8638-4, paperback, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787986380.html ) in spring 2007, please download the errata sheet posted here. The book contains over 80 errors which appeared after I approved the page proofs. The publisher, Jossey-Bass/John H. Wiley & Sons, is in the process of recalling and reprinting it. They say that the second printing will be completed by mid-July. People who purchased the flawed copy should be able to get free new ones, but the procedure is not yet established. If you find any additional errors, please let me know.

From 1992  to 2003, I founded UO's Oregon Survey Research Laboratory, managing 280+ projects, bringing in about $8 million in small grants and contracts, developing and documenting protocols, gathering data on basic methodological questions, and hiring and training staff, a staff of about 30, of whom about 15 were in fully benefited positions (including one postdoc, three Faculty Fellows, four Graduate Research Assistants, plus  about six more graduate students who completed their PhDs while in OSRL). I returned to basic research, writing, and teaching with huge relief. Two years later, the two guys who replaced me proved they were not up to the task, and UO closed OSRL. For a history of OSRL, see: http://survey.rgs.uky.edu/nnsp/newsletters/nnsp42.pdf . Most of OSRL's data and reports are archived with the University Library's Scholar's Bank ( https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/ ).

Courses Taught

Selected Articles:

2002 "Measuring the Long-term Impact of a Community Consensus-Building Process, Using Content Analysis of Public Documents." P. A. Gwartney, L. Fessenden, G. Landt. Negotiation Journal. 18(1): 25-38.

1994 "Gender and Workplace Dispute Resolution: A Conceptual and Theoretical Model." P. A. Gwartney and D. H. Lach, Law & Society Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 265-296.

1991 "Workplace Dispute Resolution and Gender Inequality," P. A. Gwartney and D. H. Lach. Negotiation Journal 7(2):187-200.

1991 "Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Nuclear War." P. A. Gwartney and D. H. Lach. Journal of Peace Research 28(2):161-174.

1989 "Relative Cohort Size and Political Alienation: Three Methodological Issues and a Replication Supporting the Easterlin Hypothesis." R. M. O'Brien and P. A. Gwartney. American Sociological Review 54(3):476-480.

1988 "Sex Segregation in the Paid Workforce: The New Zealand Case." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 24(2):264-278.

1986 "The Institutionalization of Premarital Cohabitation: Estimates from Marriage License Applications, 1970 and 1980." Journal of Marriage and the Family 48(2):423-434.

Education

Ph.D. -- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor