Assistant Professor of Sociology, WSU Vancouver

snowmanAlair MacLean is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington State University Vancouver.  Her research focuses broadly on social inequality. She is currently exploring the question of how wars affect people's lives. In this research, she examines the life course trajectories of veterans who served in the U.S. armed forces, focusing on the effects of military service and combat exposure on work and health. In collaboration with Ryan Edwards, she is also exploring the impact of military service on later-life mortality

 

Publications

Alair MacLean (Forthcoming). "The Cold War and Modern Memory: Veterans Reflect on Military Service." Journal of Political and Military Sociology.

Alair MacLean (Forthcoming). "The Privileges of Rank: The Peacetime Draft and Later Life Attainment." Forthcoming, Armed Forces & Society

Alair MacLean and Glen H. Elder, Jr. (2007). “Military Service in the Life Course.” Annual Review of Sociology, 33: 175-96.

Alair MacLean (2006). “Age Stratification at Work: Trends in Occupational Age Segregation in the United States, 1950-2000.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 299-310.

Alair MacLean (2005). “Lessons from the Cold War: Military Service and College Education.” Sociology of Education 78(3): 250-266.

 

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Course Materials

Spring 2007
Soc 101: Introduction to Sociology [Link to course lecture notes]

Spring 2007
Soc 321: Quantitative Techniques in Sociology I [Download syllabus]

Fall 2006
Soc 340: Social Inequality [Download syllabus]

 

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C.V.

Curriculum Vitae [PDF] Last Updated August 2007
ALAIR MacLEAN
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave
Vancouver, WA 98686-9600
(360) 546-9177
Email: maclean at vancouver dot wsu dot edu

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