Dr. Carrie Lee Smith

Education:

Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2004

M.A. Vanderbilt University, 1998

B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1996

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Community-Engaged Research; Sociology of Reproduction and Birth; Medical Sociology; Sex and Gender; Work and the Professions; Sociology of the Family; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Selected Publications:

Smith, Carrie Lee. 2025. "No Kidding: Childfree Women Confront the Pressures of Pronatalism." Pp. 495-509 in Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts: A Reader, edited by Caitlin Killian. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.

Powers, Beth, Barry P. Kornhauser, Alexander Bershstein, Carrie Lee Smith, and Lauren McNeely. 2023. "Ready to Rumble: Critical Friends Confronting Antisemitism on Campus Through Courageous Conversations." Pp. 465-478 in Confronting Antisemitism on Campus, edited by Virginia Stead. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing Company. 

Smith, Carrie Lee. 2023. "Community-Engaged Sociology Within a University-Based Research Center: Successes and Challenges in Doing the Work and Meeting Outcomes in an Institutional Context." Sociological Forum 38(S1):1043-1062.

Smith, Carrie Lee and Mary H. Glazier. 2022. “Serving as Ambassadors for Hope: A Case Study in Public Sociology as Community-Based Research and Engagement.” Pp. 144-153 in The Routledge International Handbook of Public Sociology, edited by Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, and Cassius Hossfeld. London and New York: Routledge.

Selected Reports and Program Evaluations:

Smith, Carrie Lee and Katie E. Shaffer. 2024. “A One-Day Needs Assessment of Those Being Held at Lancaster County Prison.” Prepared for and presented to Lancaster County Reentry Coalition.

Smith, Carrie Lee, Alicia A. Hill, Helen M. Schirf, and Amy L. Sheeley. 2023. “The Impact of On-Site Resident Services on Residents’ Quality of Life in Affordable Housing Developments.” Prepared for and presented to HDC MidAtlantic. 

Smith, Carrie L. and Alicia A. Hill. 2023. “Family Services Advocate (Lancaster) Program Evaluation, 2021-2022.” Prepared for and presented to Lancaster County Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and Compass Mark. 

Rohrback, Elizabeth*, Mary Brogna*, Destiny Lebron*, David Lenig*, Ana Carolina Munar^, Emma Wright*, and Carrie Lee Smith. 2021. “A Program Evaluation of Millersville University Police Academy: Improving Diversity in Policing.” Prepared for and presented to the Millersville University Police Department.

Granruth, Laura Brierton, Carrie L. Smith, and Mary H. Glazier. 2019. “An Analysis of Financial Exploitation of the Elderly in Lancaster County.” Prepared for and presented to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office.

Courses Taught at Millersville University

SOCY 210: Sociology of the Family

SOCY 302: Social Statistics

SOCY 305: Social Research Methods

SOCY 317: Medical Sociology

SOCY 329: Topics in Sociology of Mental Health