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Allison Helmuth

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Sociology

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Current Scheduled Teaching

SOCI 3240.400Qualitative Research MethodsSpring 2025
SOCI 5350.001Seminar on UrbanizationSpring 2025
SOCI 6703.001URBANIZATIONSpring 2025
SOCI 1510.002Introduction to SociologyFall 2024 Syllabus
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Previous Scheduled Teaching

No previous courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Ken, I., Helmuth, A.S. (2023). "The Memphis School". Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities, edited by Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto. London, Routledge Publishers. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Intersectionalities/Nash-Pinto/p/book/9780367652654
  • Helmuth, A.S., Bailey, A.K. (2017). "Gender, Segregation, and Military Enlistment". Gender in the 21st Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality, edited by Shannon N. Davis, Sarah Winslow, and David J. Maume. Oakland, CA, University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-in-the-twenty-first-century/paper
  • Henrici, J.M., Helmuth, A.S., Carlberg, A. (2012). "Doubly Displaced: Women and Public Housing after Katrina". The Women of Katrina, edited by Elaine Enarson and Emmanuel David. Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press. https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826517999/the-women-of-katrina/

    • Data Tool

  • Bailey, A.K., Helmuth, A.S. (2023). "National ZIP Code Crosswalk (1990-2020)". Ann Arbor, MI, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/194404/version/V2/view

    • Journal Article

  • Helmuth, A.S. (2024). "Cracks within Capitalism: Alternative Rental Practices and a Politics of Care among Small-Building Owners in Chicago.". Journal of Urban Affairs. Early View (https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2334280) London, Taylor and Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2024.2334280
  • Ken, I., Helmuth, A.S. (2021). "Not Additive, Not Defined: Mutual Constitution in Feminist Intersectional Studies". Feminist Theory. 22 (4) Sage Journals. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1464700120987393
  • Scarborough, W.J., Helmuth, A.S. (2021). "How Cultural Environments Shape online Sentiment toward Social Movements: Place Character and Support for Feminism". Sociological Forum. 36 (2) 426-447. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/socf.12686
  • Helmuth, A.S. (2019). "'Chocolate City, Rest in Peace': White Space-Claiming Practices and the Exclusion of Black People in Washington, DC". City & Community. 18 (3) 724-769. Sage. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/cico.12428
  • Steele, S., Helmuth, A.S. (2018). "Predicting Ambivalence: When Same-Sex Sex is Only 'Sometimes Wrong'". Journal of Homosexuality. 66 (3) 421-442. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2017.1413276

    • Research Report

  • Reosti, A., Helmuth, A.S. (2021). "The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Rental Property Management: Insights from a Chicago Case Study". Chicago, IL, Urban Institute's Housing Crisis Research Collaborative & American Bar Foundation. https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/resources/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-small-rental-property-management-insights-from-a-chicago-case-study/

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Helmuth, A.S. (Principal), "PEO Scholar Award," sponsored by PEO International, International, $20000 Funded. ( - 2022).

    • Grant - Research

  • Reosti, A. (Principal), Helmuth, A.S. (Co-Principal), "Preserving Affordable Housing in the Wake of Covid," sponsored by Urban Institute, National, $25885 Funded. ( - 2021).
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Engagement Index		 Response Rate

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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