Curriculum Vitae
October 2020
Scott Duxbury
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Department of Sociology
Email: duxbury@email.unc.edu
163 Pauli Murray Hall
Website: Google Sites
Chapel Hill, NC
GitHub: github.com/sduxbury
Positions
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2020 - present
Education
The Ohio State University
Ph.D., Department of Sociology, 2020.
M.A., Department of Sociology, 2017.
Western Michigan University
B.A., Sociology, Anthropology (double major), 2015.
summa cum laude
Research
interests
Crime, law, and deviance
Sociology of punishment
Race and ethnicity
Public opinion
Computational social science
Social networks
Methodology
Media and technology
Peer-reviewed Publications
Forth.
Duxbury, Scott W. Forthcoming. Fear or Loathing in the US? Public Opinion
and the Rise of Racial Disparity in Mass Incarceration, 1978 - 2015. Social
Forces.
Duxbury, Scott W. Forthcoming. The Problem of Scaling in Exponential
Random Graph Models. Sociological Methods & Research. [R package]
Duxbury, Scott W. 2021. Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and
the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 - 2012. American Sociological
Review 86(1).
2020
Duxbury, Scott W. 2020. Social Network Analysis: People and Places. Oxford
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, ed. Henry Pontell.
Duxbury, Scott W, and Dana L. Haynie. 2020. The Responsiveness of Criminal Networks to Intentional Attacks: Disrupting Darknet Drug Trafficking.
PLOS One 15(9): e0238019.
Duxbury, Scott W. 2020. Identifying Key Players in Bipartite Networks. Network Science 8 (1): 42 - 61. [R function]
Duxbury, Scott W., and Dana L. Haynie. 2020. School suspension and social
selection: Labeling, network change, and adolescent academic achievement.
Social Science Research 85: 102365.
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2019
Duxbury, Scott W., and Dana L. Haynie. 2019. Criminal Network Security:
An Agent-Based Approach to Evaluating Network Resilience. Criminology
59(2): 314 - 342.
Schoon, Eric and Scott W. Duxbury. 2019. Robust Discourse and the Politics
of Legitimacy: Framing International Intervention in the Syrian Civil War,
2011 - 2016. Sociological Science 6:635 - 660.
2018
Duxbury, Scott W. 2018. Diagnosing Multicollinearity in Exponential Random
Graph Models. Sociological Methods & Research. [R function].[Accepted July 5th, 2018]
ASA section on Methodology Clifford C. Clogg Graduate Student Paper Award
ASA section on Mathematical Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
Duxbury, Scott W., and Dana L. Haynie. 2018. The Network Structure of
Opioid Distribution on a Darknet Cryptomarket. Journal of Quantitative
Criminology 34(4): 921 - 941.
Duxbury, Scott W., and Dana L. Haynie. 2018. Building them up, breaking
them down: Topology, vendor selection, and a digital drug market’s robustness
to disruption. Social Networks 52(1): 238 - 250.
Duxbury, Scott W., Laura Frizzell, and Sade L. Lindsay. 2018. Mental Illness,
the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence: The Role of Race in Mass
Shootings Coverage. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 55(6):
766 - 797.
ASA section on Media Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
Midwest Sociological Society Graduate Student Paper Award (second place)
Clyde Franklin Award for outstanding graduate student research.
Duxbury, Scott W. 2018. Information Creation on Online Drug Forums: How
drug use becomes moral on the margins of science. Current Sociology 66(3):
431 – 448. [Accepted June 18, 2015]
Under Review
Duxbury, Scott W, and Dana L. Haynie. Shining a Light on the Shadows:
Endogenous Trade Structure and the Growth of Online Illegal Markets. Revise
& resubmit, American Journal of Sociology.
Duxbury, Scott W. and Dana L. Haynie. Overembeddedness in Illegal Online
Markets: Endogenous Sources of Pricing and Profit in Anonymous Criminal
Drug Trade. Revise & resubmit, Socio-Economic Review.
Duxbury, Scott W. Random Effects Within Estimators for Panel Analysis
with Application to the Politics of Mass Incarceration. Revise & resubmit,
Sociological Methodology. [R package]
Demarco, Laura, and Scott W Duxbury (equally co-authored). Denial of
Shelter and the Shifting Dimensions of Social Control. Under review.
Duxbury, Scott W. Whose Vote Counts for Crime Policy? Group Opinion and
Public Representation in Mass Incarceration, 1970 - 2015. Under review.
Duxbury, Scott W. Left Truncation in Relational Event Models: Consequences
and Corrections for Network Parameter Inference. Under review.
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Duxbury, Scott W. Longitudinal Network Models. Book prospectus for SAGE:
Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences.
In progress
Savelsberg, Joachim J., Scott W. Duxbury, and Hollie Nyseth-Brehm. Who informs about genocide–and how? World actors, Darfur and mediation through
news reporting.”
Duxbury, Scott W. Early 20th Century Prejudice and The Growth of Racial
Disparity in U.S. Prisons: A Computational Model of Mass Incarceration.
Steidley, Trent, and Scott W Duxbury. Racial Threat and Preparedness for
Extra-legal Social Control: A Test of the Minority Threat Thesis.
Duxbury, Scott W. Average Structural Effects: A Postestimation Method for
Interpreting the Effect of Endogenous Graphic Statistics in Statistical Network
Models.
Awards
Funding
Co-PI (with Dana Haynie and Srinivasan Parthasarathy). The Construction
and Evaluation of Trust in Online Cryptomarkets. National Science Foundation, 2020 - 2023. ✩453,535 (✩62,909 to UNC). Proposal ID: 1949037.
Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2020. ✩32,100.
Project Manager. Online Criminal Drug Networks. National Science Foundation, 2017 - 2020. ✩310,975. Proposal ID: 1729067. PI: Dana Haynie.
Designed
data
collection,
storage,
and
coding
protocol,
recruited/trained/oversaw undergraduate and graduate research assistants,
determined analytic strategies and research questions, drafted grant proposal,
cleaned data, conducted all analyses, drafted manuscripts.
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi International Scientific Research Honor
Society, 2017. ✩1,000.
Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship, Inter-University Consortium for Political and
Social Research, 2017. ✩2,500 for tuition coverage (Declined).
Social and Behavioral Sciences ICPSR Summer Scholarship, The Ohio State
University College of Arts and Sciences, 2017. ✩2,500 for tuition coverage.
Summer Methods Workshop Award, The Ohio State University Sociology Department, 2017. ✩1,500.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017 (Honorable
Mention).
University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2015. ✩24,000.
Undergraduate Research Award, Western Michigan University College of Arts
and Sciences, 2014. ✩500.
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Honors
Clifford C. Clogg Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA section on Methodology, 2018.
Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA section on Mathematical Sociology,
2018.
Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA section on Communication, Information
Technologies, and Media Sociology, 2018.
Outstanding Masters Student Award, Department of Sociology, The Ohio
State University, 2018.
Clyde Franklin Award for outstanding graduate student research, The Ohio
State University, 2017.
Graduate Student Paper Award (second place), Midwest Sociological Society,
2017.
Presidential Scholar Award: Anthropology, Western Michigan University,
2015.
Sociology Scholar Award, Western Michigan University, 2015.
American Sociological Association Honors Program, 2015.
Erica Loeffler Academic Achievement Award, Western Michigan University,
2015.
Phi Beta Kappa, 2015.
Dean’s List, Western Michigan University, 2012 - 2015.
Other
awards
Sociology Open Access Recognition Award, SocArxiv, 2018. ✩250
Criminal Justice Research Center Travel Award, Criminal Justice Research
Center, The Ohio State University, 2016 - 2018. Three awards totaling ✩1,500
Honors Program Travel Award, American Sociological Association, 2015. ✩250
Undergraduate Travel Grant Award, Western Michigan University Sociology
Department, 2015. Two awards totaling ✩1,000
Maher Conference Travel Award, Western Michigan University, 2015. ✩500
Lee Honors College Student Travel Award, Western Michigan University, 2015.
✩250
Software
Author
ergMargins: R package for calculating marginal effects and assessing mediation
and moderation in exponential random graph models. [CRAN] [GitHub]
rewie: R package to fit random effects within-idiosyncratic estimators for panel
data. [CRAN] [GitHub]
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vif.ergm & vif.saom: R functions to assess collinearity in exponential random
graph models ([GitHub]) and stochastic actor-oriented models ([GitHub]).
keyplayers.bipartite: R functions to identify key players in bipartite networks.
[GitHub]
Contributor
xergm: Extensions to ergm R package. [CRAN] [GitHub]
btergm: R package for fitting temporal exponential random graph models.
[CRAN] [GitHub]
Presentations
Invited
The Responsiveness of Criminal Networks to Intentional Attacks. University
of Maryland, iSchool College of Information Sciences/Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. December 2nd, 2019.
Fear or Loathing in the US? Public Opinion and the Rise of Racial Disparity
in Mass Incarceration, 1978 - 2015. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Department of Sociology. November 18th, 2019.
Fear or Loathing in the US? Public Opinion and the Rise of Racial Disparity
in Mass Incarceration, 1978 - 2015. University of Maryland, Department of
Criminology and Criminal Justice. November 4th, 2019.
2018
Attack Tolerance of Dynamic Networks. Workshop on Modeling and Analysis
of Dynamic Networks, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State
University, Columbus OH. November 7th, 2018.
Darknet Drug Markets. Presentation to the Ohio State Department of Sociology Alumni Board, Columbus OH. October 5th, 2018.
Online Criminal Drug Networks. Coalition for National Science Funding Annual Meeting on Capitol Hill 24th Exhibition and Reception, Washington D.C.
May 9th, 2018. Featured exhibition, co-presenter with Dana Haynie.
Conferences
Duxbury, Scott W. Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Policy,
1975 - 2012. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Washington
D.C. November 2020. Accepted, but conference was cancelled due to
COVID-19 outbreak.
Duxbury, Scott W. Dealing with Unobserved Heterogeneity in Exponential
Random Graph Models. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
San Francisco CA. August 2020. Accepted, but conference was cancelled
due to COVID-19 outbreak.
Duxbury, Scott W and Dana L. Haynie. Shining a Light on the Shadows:
Social Networks and the Growth of Criminal Markets. American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA. August 2020. Accepted,
but conference was cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak.
2019
Duxbury, Scott W. The Growth and Proliferation of Illegal Drug Markets: A
Relational Event Model. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting,
San Francisco CA. November 13th, 2019.
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Ramey, David M., Trent Steidley, and Scott W. Duxbury A Comprehensive
Assessment of Economic and Political Minority Threat Responses. American
Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA. November 13th,
2019.
Duxbury, Scott W. Fear or Loathing in the US? Public Opinion and the Rise
of Racial Disparity in Mass Incarceration, 1978 - 2015. American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, NYC NY. August 12th, 2019.
Demarco, Laura C., and Scott W Duxbury. Denial of Shelter and the Shifting
Dimensions of Social Control: The Case of Court-ordered Eviction. American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, NYC NY. August 10th, 2019.
Duxbury, Scott W, and Dana L. Haynie. The responsiveness of criminal networks to intentional attacks. International Network for Social Network Analysis Annual Meeting, Montreal CA. June 19th, 2019.
2018
Duxbury, Scott W. Fear or Loathing in the US? Fear of crime, racial animus,
and discriminatory punishment, 1978 - 2015. American Society of Criminology, Atlanta GA. November 16th 2018.
Duxbury, Scott W. Fear of Crime and Racial Disparity in US Incarceration,
1985 – 2011. American Sociological Association, Philadelphia PA. August
2018.
Duxbury, Scott W. Diagnosing Multicollinearity in Stochastic Actor-Oriented
Models. American Sociological Association, Philadelphia PA. August 2018.
Duxbury, Scott W, and Dana L. Haynie. Building them up, breaking them
down: Topology, vendor selection, and a digital drug market’s robustness to
disruption. American Sociological Association, Philadelphia PA. August 2018.
Schoon, Eric, and Scott W. Duxbury. Robust Discourse and the Politics of
Legitimacy: Framing International Intervention in the Syrian Civil War. International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco CA. April
5th, 2018.
2017
Duxbury, Scott W. and Dana L. Haynie. Comparing Approaches to Network
Disruption. Criminal Networks Workshop/Policing Network Flows Joint Conference, Adelaide SA (South Australia). December 12th, 2017.
Duxbury, Scott W. Police Killings and Perceived Threat: What ideological
mechanisms connect population change to internal state violence? American
Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia PA. November 17th,
2017.
Duxbury, Scott W. Diagnosing Multicollinearity in Exponential Random
Graph Models. American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Montreal QC. August 15th, 2017.
Duxbury, Scott W., Laura Frizzell, and Sade Lindsay. Mass shootings,
medicine, and the media: The role of whiteness in violent crime coverage.
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Montreal QC. August
13th, 2017.
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Duxbury, Scott W., and Dana L. Haynie. From the Back-alley to the Darknet: New Technological Capacities for the Efficient Organization of Crime.
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Montreal QC. August
12th, 2017.
Duxbury, Scott W., Laura Frizzell, and Sade L. Lindsay. Good Guys and
Gangsters: The impact of race on perspectives of mass shooters.” Midwest
Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee WI. April 1st, 2017.
2016
Duxbury, Scott W. Using Drugs to Contest Medicalization?: Making Medical
Knowledge on the Internet. American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, New Orleans LA. November 17th, 2016.
Schoon, Eric and Scott W. Duxbury. Illegitimacy in International Conflict:
Collective Reactions and the Failure of International Coordination. Central
Eastern European International Studies Association/International Studies Association Joint Conference, Ljubljana Slovenia. June 24th, 2016.
2015
Duxbury, Scott W. Information Creation on Online Drug Forums: How drug
use becomes moral on the margins of science. American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Chicago IL. August 22nd, 2015.
Duxbury, Scott W. Information Creation on Online Drug Forums: How drug
use becomes moral on the margins of science. National Conference of Undergraduate Research, Spokane WA. April 16th, 2015.
Service
Disciplinary
Societies
Chair, Student Paper Award committee, ASA section on Mathematical Sociology 2020 - 2021
Member, committee on nominations, ASA section on Mathematical Sociology,
2020 - 2021
Faculty mentor, ASA section on Law and Society, 2020.
Graduate student representative, ASA section on Mathematical Sociology,
2019 - 2020.
Committee member, ASA section on Media Sociology Outstanding Graduate
student paper award, 2019.
Represented ASA at the Coalition for National Science Funding Annual Meeting on Capitol Hill, May 9th 2018.
Editorial board
Social Forces (2020 - present).
Social Science Research (2020 - 2023).
Reviewer
American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Criminology,
Social Forces, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Methodology,
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Sociological
Perspectives, PLOS One, Applied Sciences, Socius, Development and Psychopathology, International Journal of Drug Policy, Contemporary Drug Problems, Global Crime, Harm Reduction
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Departmental
UNC
Social committee (2020 - 2021).
OSU
Co-organizer for the Criminology Working Group (2016 – 2020)
Teaching
Courses taught
Undergraduate
Advising
Advisor
Crime and Delinquency
Supervised Undergraduate Research (OSU)
Will Holtkamp (co-advisor with Andy Andrews)
Experience
Consulting
Drug Enforcement Agency Special Division on Pharmaceutical, Chemical, and
Internet Investigations Section. Expert on darknet drug market dynamics.
October 2018 - present (ongoing, unpaid).
Honda OnRamp Initiative Project on Sustainable Micro-Communities. Expert
on trust and network dynamics, November 2018 (paid).
External
methods
training
Bayesian Analysis (ICPSR four-week course, 2017).
Programming
and software
R, Python, Git
Stata, HLM, BUGS, LATEX
RA
to Dana L. Haynie (2016 - 2019), The Ohio State University.
Diffusion Processes in Social Networks (INSNA workshop, 2017).
Memberships
American Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology
International Network for Social Network Analysis
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Phi Beta Kappa
Alpha Kappa Delta
Media
TV/video
Sociological Insights
Radio/podcast
8 O’Clock Buzz, All Sides with Ann Fisher
Print/digital
Salon, The Mic, The Conversation, Pacific Standard, Motherboard: VICE,
Science Newsline, Inverse, Digital Trends, Global News, Trends, The Worldwide Times, Wired (Germany), Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald,
The Age, Western Australia Today, Canberra Times, World News.
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Other experience
Archaeology Research Assistant at Western Michigan University, 2013-2014
Yielded a successful application to register field site in the National Register of
Historic Places.
Fitness Director, Compel Fitness, 2011-2012
Personal Trainer, Compel Fitness, 2011-2012
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