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Ken Hudson, Mentor
Sociology

Sarah Johnston, McNair Scholar

Ken Hudson is a native of Alabama who was a social worker in Kentucky before earning his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. In that same year, he joined the faculty at the University of Oregon as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. His field of study is work and labor markets. In particular, he has conducted research on contingent and nonstandard work in the United States and developed a new method for measuring dualism in the American labor market. Recently, he has used hierarchical models to assess the impact of the race and sex composition of occupations on the earnings and labor market status of workers. Recent publications include “The Disposable Worker,” Monthly Review (2001) and “Bad Jobs in America: Standard and Nonstandard Employment Relations and Job Quality in the United States of America” (with Arne Kalleberg and Barbara Reskin), American Sociological Review (2000).