Jeremy Porter
Professor
Sociology
Location: 3608 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6599
Fax: 718.951.4639
Email:
Jeremy Porter's Web site
Jeremy R. Porter is a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York with appointments in multiple departments throughout CUNY. He is currently the Director of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Deputy Executive Officer GC's Ph.D. programs in Sociology. Additionally, Porter is on the faculty of the Demography, Criminal Justice, and Data Analysis/Visualization faculty while also appointed as a Faculty Associate at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR). Recent research has appeared in Annual Review of Public Health, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, Social Science Quarterly, and other social science/methods outlets. His research is also regularly featured in press outlets, including recent mentions in The New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, CBS Money Watch, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Axios
Education:
Postdoctoral Training, Rice University - 2010 (Demography / Statistics)
Ph.D., Mississippi State University - 2008 (Sociology / Statistics / GIS)
M.A., University of Louisville - 2005 (Sociology / GIS Studies)
B.S., University of Louisville - 2004 (Sociology)
Areas of Expertise:
Spatial methods/quantitative analysis, economic sociology, social inequalities, demographic & economic impacts of climate change
Books and Publications
Aaron B Flores, Timothy W Collins, Sara E Grineski, Mike Amodeo, Jeremy R Porter, Christopher C Sampson, Oliver Wing. "Federally Overlooked Flood Risk Inequities in Houston, Texas: Novel Insights Based on Dasymetric Mapping and State-of-the-Art Flood Modeling". Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2022: 1-21. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Matthew Eby, Edward Kearns, Michael Amodeo, Jeremy Porter, Neil Freeman, Steven McAlpine. Systems and methods for forecasting and assessing hazard-resultant effects. United States Patent Number: 11,200,788 2021
"Evaluating the Cure Violence Approach in Reducing Community Gun Violence." Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Research and Evaluation Center: John Jay College. (Role: Methods/Background consultant). (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Ketchum, Eric and Jeremy R. Porter. "Linguistic Assimilation and Migration Patterns." Population Association of America. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Bradley Wilson, Jeremy R Porter, Edward J Kearns, Jeremy S Hoffman, Evelyn Shu, Kelvin Lai, Mark Bauer, Mariah Pope. "High-Resolution Estimation of Monthly Air Temperature from Joint Modeling of In Situ Measurements and Gridded Temperature Data". Climate. 10(3): 47. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Edward J Kearns, David Saah, Carrie R Levine, Chris Lautenberger, Owen M Doherty, Jeremy R Porter, Michael Amodeo, Carl Rudeen, Kyle D Woodward, Gary W Johnson, Kel Markert, Evelyn Shu, Neil Freeman, Mark Bauer, Kelvin Lai, Ho Hsieh, Bradley Wilson, Beth McClenny, Andrea McMahon, Farrukh Chishtie. "The Construction of Probabilistic Wildfire Risk Estimates for Individual Real Estate Parcels for the Contiguous United States". Fire. 5(4): 117. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Lai, K., JR Porter, M Amodeo, D Miller, M Marston, S Armal. "A Natural Language Processing Approach to Understanding Context in the Extraction and GeoCoding of Historical Floods, Storms, and Adaptation Measures". Information Processing and Management. 59(1), 102735. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Richard Powell and Jeremy R. Porter. Redlining, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Crime: The Effects of Discriminatory Government Policies on Urban Violent Crime. American Journal of Criminal Justice. (in press) (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Wing, O., William Lehman, Paul Bates, Chris Sampson, Niall Quinn, Andy Smith, Jeffrey Neal, Jeremy Porter, Carolyn Kousky. "Inequitable Patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene". Nature Climate Change. 12(2): 156-162. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Bates, Paul D, Niall Quinn, Chris Sampson, Andrew Smith, Oliver Wing, Jeison Sosa, James Savage, Gaia Olcese, Jeff Neal, Guy Schumann, Laura Giustarini, Gemma Coxon, Jeremy R Porter, Mike F Amodeo, Ziyan Chu, Sharai Lewis-Gruss, Neil B Freeman, Trevor Houser, Michael Delgado, Ali Hamidi, Ian Bolliger, Kelly McCusker, Kerry Emanuel, Celso M Ferreira, Arslaan Khalid, Ivan D Haigh, Anaïs Couasnon, Robert Kopp, Solomon Hsiang, Witold F Krajewski. "Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates". Water Resources Research. 57(2): 1-29 . (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Capellan, J, C Kim, J Porter, HE Sung. "Can information about "safe places" reduce female victimisation in Honduras? a quasi-experimental evaluation of the safeWalking app" International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 1-13 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Chintakrindi, S., Joel Capellan, Jeremy R Porter, M Blake Wilson, Suditi Gupta"Examining the effects of psychiatric symptoms, brain injury symptoms, and low self-control on the placement of inmates in administrative segregation and their risk for suicidal ideation". Criminology and Social Integration. 29(1): 3-23. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Porter, JR, E Shu, M Amodeo, H Hsieh, Z Chu, N Freeman. "Community Flood Impacts and Infrastructure: Examining National Flood Impacts Using a High Precision Assessment Tool in the United States" Water. 13 (21): 3125. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Wing,Oliver EJ, Andrew M Smith, Michael L Marston, Jeremy R Porter, Mike F Amodeo, Christopher C Sampson, Paul D Bates. "Simulating historical flood events at the continental scale: observational validation of a large-scale hydrodynamic model". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 21(2): 59-575 . (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Wobus, C., J Porter, M Lorie, J Martinich, R Bash. "Climate change, riverine flood risk and adaptation for the conterminous United States". Environmental Research Letters 16(9), 094034 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Armal, Saman.; Porter, Jeremy R..; Lingle, Brett.; Chu, Ziyan.; Marston, Michael L.; Wing, Oliver E.J. Assessing Property Level Economic Impacts of Climate in the US, New Insights and Evidence from a Comprehensive Flood Risk Assessment Tool. Climate. 8(10), 116 . (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Tedesco, Marco, McApline, Steven and Jeremy R. Porter. "Exposure of properties to the 2018 Hurricane Florence flooding: An expanding bull's-eye perspective". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 20(3):907-920 . (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Capellan, Joel, J. Johnson, Jeremy R. Porter and C. Martin. "Disaggregating Mass Public Shootings: A Comparative Analysis of Disgruntled Employee, School, Ideologically Motivated, and Rampage Shooters". Journal of Forensic Sciences. 64(3): 814-823 . (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Porter, Jeremy R., Emory Morrison, Sriram Chintakrindi and Derrick Shapley. "The Historically Enduring Gap in Death Penalty Support: Re-Examining the Role of Context in the Recent History of the Black-White Divide.
Criminology and Social Integration. 26(2):136-159. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Bartkowski, John, Lynn Hempel, Frank Howell and Jeremy R. Porter. "When Faith, Race, and Hate Collide: Religious Ecology, Local Hate Cultures, and Church Burnings". Review of Religious Research 60(2): 223-245. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
McAlpine, Steven and Jeremy R. Porter. Estimating Recent Local Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Current Real-Estate Losses: A Housing Market Case Study in Miami-Dade, Florida. Population Research and Policy Review 37(6): 871-895. . (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2018
Porter, Jeremy R. "Human Development and the Fertility Reversal: A Spatially-Centered Sub-national Examination in the US". Spatial Demography . 5(1): 43-72. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Porter, Jeremy R., Joel Capellan and Frank M. Howell. "Re-Operationalizing 'Open-Country': Introducing a Place-Level Geography for the Study of Rural Crime" International Journal of Applied Geo-Spatial Research . 8(2): 20-32. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Chintakrindi, Sriram. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Assisted Suicide and the Death Penalty: Examining Attitudes Towards State Sanctioned Death". Criminology and Social Integration . (2) 24, 1-23. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Cossman, Jeralynn S., Jeremy R. Porter and Nicole E. Rader. "Examining the Effects of Health in Explaining Fear of Crime: A Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Level Analysis". American Journal of Criminal Justice . 41(3): 565-582. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
French, Aaron M., Bob Otondo, J.P. Shim and Jeremy R. Porter. "Developing a Loyal Community: An Empirical Analysis Evaluating Antecedents in Loyalty in Social Networking". International Journal of Web Based Communities . 12(2): 114-130. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Maragh, Cynthia-Lee and Jeremy R. Porter. "An Examination of Inmate Physical Assaults on Jail Correctional Staff: Exploring Inmate-Level and Jail-Level Conditions in the United States" Deviant Behavior 37(11): 1239-1251. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Matta, Marissa S., Jeremy R. Porter and Sriram Chintakrindi. "Addictive Behaviors and Chronic Pain in a High Risk Population: The Simple and Confounding Effects of Multiple Addictive Diseases". Journal of Drug Issues 46(2): 135-147. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, Jeremy R. Porter and Bridget K. Gorman. "Gender and the Mental - Physical Health Connection Among U.S. Adults" Sociological Forum . 31(4): 1104-1125. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Butts, Jeffrey G., Caterina A. Roman, Lindsay Bostwick and Jeremy R. Porter. "Cure Violence: A Public Health Model to Reduce Gun Violence." Annual Review of Public Health. 36:39-53. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Chintakrindi, Sriram, Jeremy Porter, Chunrye Kim and Suditi Gupta. "An Examination of Employment and Earning Outcomes of Probationers with Criminal and Substance Use Histories" Sage OPEN (2015) pg 1-19 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Chintakrindi, Sriram, Jeremy R. Porter, Jeff Mellow and Hung-En Sung. "Empirical Test of Low Self-Control Theory Using Post-Treatment Substance Use and Recidivism Outcomes of Parolees Participating in an Experimental Intervention". Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society . 16(2):14-41. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Evans, Douglas and Jeremy R. Porter. "Criminal History and Landlord Rental Decisions: A New York Quasi Experimental Study." Journal of Experimental Criminology. 11:21-42. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter and Stephen A. Mathews. Recapturing Space: New Middle Range Theory in Spatial Demography. New York: Springer. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2015
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter and Stephen A. Matthews. "Concluding Remarks: Developing Spatial Demography". pp. 371-376 in Recapturing Space: New Middle Range Theory in Spatial Demography . F.M. Howell, J.R. Porter and S.A. Matthews (eds). New York: Springer. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter and Stephen A. Matthews. "Recapturing Spatial Approaches to Social Science Problems". pp. 1-10 in Recapturing Space: New Middle Range Theory in Spatial Demography . F.M. Howell, J.R. Porter and S.A. Matthews (eds). New York: Springer. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Jeremy R. Porter and Frank M. Howell. "A Spatial Decomposition of County Population Growth in the United States: Population Redistribution in the Rural-to-Urban Continuum, 1980-2010". pp. 175-198 in Recapturing Space: New Middle Range Theory in Spatial Demography . F.M. Howell, J.R. Porter and S.A. Matthews (eds). New York: Springer. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Porter, Jeremy R. and Jenifer Bratter. "Investigating Race, Class, and Context through Hitorical Evidence: Segregation and the Ecology of Aspirations of Black College Students in the 1960s South." Sociological Spectrum. 35(3):286-308. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Porter, Jeremy R., Joel Capellan and Sriram Chintakrindi. "Social Disorganization Theory" pp. 1179-1186 in Crime and Punishment . (eds) W.G. Jennings, G.E. Higgins, M.M. Maldonado-Molina and D.N. Khey. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Butts, Jeffery, Lindsay Bostwick and Jeremy R. Porter. "Denormalizing Violence: Evaluation Framework for a Public Health Model of Violence Intervention." Research and Evaluation Center Report. John Jay College. New York. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
Capellan, Joel A. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Spaces of Terror: Modeling Spatial Non-Stationary in State-Level Repression." Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 7.3: 245-58. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Evans, Douglas, Cynthia-Lee Maragh and Jeremy R. Porter. "What Do We know About NYC's Stop and Frisk Program? A Spatial and Statistical Analysis." Advances in Social Science Research 1.2: 130-44. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Hiropoulos, Alexandra and Jeremy R. Porter. "Visualizing Ecological Characteristics of Property Crime in Gauteng, South Africa: Applying Geographical Information Systems to Crime Pattern Theory." South African Crime Quarterly 47: 17-28. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Janetta, Jesse, Justing Breaux, Helen Ho and Jeremy R. Porter. "Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Probation Revocation: Summary Findings and Implications from Multisite Study." Urban Institute. Washington, D.C. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
Lindsay, D. Michael, Ariela Schachter, Jeremy R. Porter and David Sorge. "Diversity and Clashes in the Corner Office: Then Chemistry of Conflict." Social Science Research 47: 148-64. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Mason, Philip, Frank M. Howell and Jeremy R. Porter. "Examining Rural-Urban Obesity Trends among Youth in the US: Testing the Socioeconomic Gradient Hypothesis" International Journal for Social and Business Research 4.12: 27-42. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Porter, Jeremy R. and Joel A. Capellan. "The ties that bind: Linking religious organizational segregation to the individual level closure of close friendship networks." International Journal of Intercultural Relations 41: 32-44. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Porter, Jeremy R., Frank M. Howell and Lynn M. Hempel. "Old Times Are Not Forgotten: The Institutionalization of White-Flight Segregationist Academies in the American South." Social Problems 61.4: 576-601. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Brown, Susannah M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "The Sub-Cultural Effects of Religion on Remarriage among American Women: Evidence from The National Survey of Family Growth." Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 54.2: 142-62. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Chi, Guangqing, Jeremy R. Porter, Arthur Cosby and David Levinson. "A Time-Geography Approach to Understanding the Impact of Gasoline Price Changes on Traffic Safety." Journal of Transportation Geography 28.1: 1-11. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Cosby, Arthur, Kristen Aanstoos, Marrisa S. Matta, Jeremy R. Porter and Wesley L. James.
"Public Support for Deportation: The Effects of Ethnic Prejudice and Perceptions of Economic Competition in a Period of Economic Distress." Journal of Population Research 30.1: 87-96. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Howell, Frank M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Editorial Welcome: Why Spatial Demography?" Spatial Demography 1.1: 1-2. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter and Brooklynn J. Wynveen. "Unpacking the Domestic Ecological Footprint of the U.S." Sociological Spectrum 33: 197-218. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "Implementing Research in the Social Sciences with Spatial Data and 'Not-So-New' Issues to Watch Out For." Journal of Maps -- Social Sciences 9.1: 1-3. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "Spatial Data and the Social Sciences: Contributing Through Visualization and Analyses." Journal of Maps -- Social Sciences 9.2: 1-3. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
Porter, Jeremy R. and Michael Emerson. "Religiosity and Social Network Diversity: Decomposing the 'Divided by Faith' Theoretical Framework." Social Science Quarterly 94.3: 732-57. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Porter, Jeremy R., Philip B Mason and Frank M. Howell. "Metropolitan Influence and Land Use Conflict in Potential Biomass Crop Production: A Spatial Demographic Analysis." Population Research and Policy Review 32.2: 285-310. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"A Simplified Indicator of Social Well-Being in the United States: Examining the Ecological Impact of Family Formation Within a County-Level Framework." Social Indicators Research 108.3: 421-40. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Cultural vs. Economic: Re-Visiting the Determinants of Fertility and Spatial Variation at a Sub-National Level in the U.S., 1990 - 2000." International Journal of Business and Social Research 2.6: 91-108. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Religion AND Politics: Understanding the Effects of Conservative Origins on Contemporary Patterns of Sub-national Relative Human Development." Quality and Quantity 46.5: 1359-76. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Geographical Sociology: The Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Applications in the Sociology of Location. New York: Springer. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2012
James, Wesley L. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Spatial Context, Health Infrastructure and Inequality: A Structural Equations Approach to Understanding the Causal Determinants of Race-Specific Mortality Rates." Sociological Spectrum 32.4: 322-45. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Porter, Jeremy R. and Elaine H. Ecklund. "Missing Survey Data in Sociological Research:
Recent Trends, Controversial Questions, Active Nonrespondents and Targeted Samples." American Sociologist 43.4: 448-68. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "Mapping Innovations in Spatial Demography". Journal of Maps - Social Sciences 8.4: 1-3. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Porter, Jeremy R., Nicole Rader and Jeralynn Cossman. "Social Disorganization and Neighborhood Fear: Examining the Intersection of Individual, Community, and County Characteristics." American Journal of Criminal Justice 37: 229-45. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Rader, Nicole, Jeralynn Cossman and Jeremy R. Porter. "Fear of Crime and Vulnerability: Using a National Sample to Examine Two Competing Paradigms." Journal of Criminal Justice 40: 134-41. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Ragsdale, Kathleen, Jeremy R. Porter, Rahel Mathews, Allyn White, Cheryl Gore-Felton and Elizabeth McGarvey. "'Liquor Before Beer, You're in the Clear': Frequent Binging and Other Risk Behaviors Among Fraternity/Sorority Members and Their Non-Greek Peers." The Journal of Substance Use 17.4: 323-39. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Ragsdale, Kathleen, Jeremy R. Porter, Rebecca Read, Allyn White and Janet S. St. Lawrence. "High Risk Drinking and Other Risk Behaviors among U.S. College Women at Two Reporting Intervals: Comparing Spring Break to the 30 Days Prior." Sexuality Research and Social Policy 9.1: 31-40. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Context, Location and Space: The Continued Development of Our 'Geo-Sociological' Imaginations." The American Sociologist 42.4: 288-302. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"Identifying Spatio-temporal Patterns of Articulated Criminal Offending: An Application Using Phenomenologically Meaningful Police Jurisdiction Geographies." Systems Research and Behavioral Science 28.3: 197-211. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"Plantation Economics, Violence and Social Well-Being: The Lingering Effects of Racialized Group Oppression on Contemporary Human Development." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 12.3: 339-66. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Gorman, Bridget K and Jeremy R. Porter. "Social Networks, Gender, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension among Older Adults." Population Research and Policy Review 30.6: 885-911. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Wollschleger, Jason and Jeremy R. Porter. "A 'WalMartization' of Religion? The Ecological Impact of Megachurches on the Local and Extra-Local Religious Economy." Review of Religious Research 53.3: 279-99. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Tracking the Mobility of Crime: New Methodologies and Geographies in Modeling the Diffusion of Offending. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2010
Howell, Frank M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Surveys and Geographical Information Systems." Handbook of Survey Research 2nd ed. Eds. Peter V. Marsden and James D. Wright. United Kingdom: Emerald Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2010
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter, Phil B. Mason and Troy C. Blanchard. "Spatial Contours of Potential Biomass Crop Production: An Extension and Measures of Change." Journal of Rural Social Sciences 25.2: 1-32. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Porter, Jeremy R. "Diversity, Macrosociology and Religious Belonging: Using Mixed-level Models in Examining Spatial Variation and the Closed Community Thesis." Sociological Focus 43.2: 128-49. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Porter, Jeremy R. and Christopher W. Purser. "Social Disorganization, Marriage and Reported Crime: A Spatial Econometrics Examination of Family Formation and Criminal Offending." Journal of Criminal Justice 38.5: 942-50. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "On the 'Urbanness' of Metro Areas: Testing the Homogeneity Hypothesis, 1970-2000." Population Research and Policy Review 28.5: 589-613. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Porter, Jeremy R., Frank M. Howell, Philip B Mason and Troy C. Blanchard. "Existing Biomass Infrastructure and Potential Biomass Production in the U.S." Journal of Maps 2009: 206-18. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Porter, Jeremy R., Frank M. Howell, Philip B Mason and Troy C. Blanchard. "Spatial Clusters of Potential Biomass Production and Existing Bioplant Locations in the U.S." Journal of Maps (map supplement). www.journalofmaps.com. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Porter, Jeremy R., Ronald E. Cossman and Wesley L. James. "Research Note: Imputing Large Group Averages for Missing Data, Using Rural-Urban Continuum Codes for Density Driven Industry Sectors." Journal of Population Research 26.3: 273-78. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
"Mapping Human Development at the Sub-national Level: Spatial Contours of Development in the U.S." Journal of Maps 2008: 472-84. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
"Spatial Clusters and Contours of Human Development in the U.S." Journal of Maps (map supplement). www.journalofmaps.com. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
"The Dynamics of Hispanic Segregation in the Houston Area." Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life Newsletter 2.2: 6. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
"Using Structural Equation Modeling to Examine the Relationship Between Political Cynicism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism." Sociological Spectrum 28.1: 36-54. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Porter, Jeremy R. and Christopher W. Purser. "Measuring Relative Sub-National Human Development: An Application of the United Nations' Human Development Index in the U.S." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 33.4: 253-69. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Porter, Jeremy R. and Susannah M. Brown. "On the Diversity of Friendship and Network Ties: A Comparison of Religious Versus Nonreligious Group Membership in the Rural American South." Southern Rural Sociology 23.1: 271-91. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Creative Work
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
"Probation Revocation Disparities by Race and Ethnicity." Urban Institute. (Role: Statistical analysis consultant). (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Article of the Year Award, American Journal of Criminal Justice. (Awards and Honors) 2012
Delta Health Alliance, for "Addressing Healthcare Gaps in the Mississippi Delta." Arthur Cosby (principal investigator) with Jeremy R. Porter, Dasha Radin, David Bloom, Diana Bowser, Emily Broad and Heather Hanna. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, for "Pain Prevalence and Addictive Behaviors." Arthur Cosby, Marissa S. Matta and Jeremy R. Porter (co-principal investigators). (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Best Paper Award, American Statistical Association. (Awards and Honors) 2009
Invitation and scholarship to attend winter school at the New England Complex Systems Institute, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. $8,670. (Awards and Honors) 2009
American Truckers Association, for "Highway Watch Program." Arthur Cosby (principal investigator) with Tonya Thornton-Neaves, Ronald Cossman, Wesley James, Jeremy Porter, et al. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Rice University. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Research Fellowship, Geo-Systems Research Institute, Mississippi State University. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association. (Awards and Honors) 2008
United States Department of Energy in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, for, "Social Policy Implication of the Emerging Bio-Economy." Frank Howell and Jerry Emmison (principal investigators), with Jeremy R. Porter and Philip B. Mason. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Porter, Jeremy R. and Annette Jacoby. "Segregation Across the Age-Structure." Population Association of America. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Making Data Spatial." American Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Chi, Guangqing, Jeremy R. Porter, Arthur Cosby and David Levinson. "A Time-Geography Approach to Understanding the Impact of Gasoline Price Changes on Traffic Safety." Traffic Research Board. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Breaux, Justin, Helen Ho and Jeremy R. Porter. "Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Probation Revocation Process." American Society for Criminology. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Chi, Guangqing, Jeremy R. Porter, Arthur Cosby and David Levinson. "A Time Geography Approach to Understanding the Impact of Gasoline Price Changes on Traffic Safety." Traffic Research Board. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Hiropoulos, Alexandra and Jeremy R. Porter. "A Test of Ecological Theories of Criminal Offending in South Africa: Analyzing Spatial Variation of Property Crime." American Society for Criminology. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Hiropoulos, Alexandra and Jeremy R. Porter. "Exploring the Relationship between Land Use, Inequality and Crime Rates in a South African Urban Area." International Conference of Criminal Justice. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Ragsdale, Kathleen and Jeremy R. Porter. "Delta Teen eHealth Focus Group Project: Formative research to enhance teen pregnancy prevention in Mississippi among rural and African American youth through new media/internet technology." American Public Health Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Intersectionalities in Segregation Research: Evidence of Isolation in Our Most Vulnerable Populations." Eastern Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "A Spatial Decomposition of Population Redistribution in the United States: A Case Study of Deconcentration in the County Context." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Porter, Jeremy R. and Jason Wollschleger. "Evidence of Within-Denominational Organization Restructuring: Examining the Spatial Impacts of Megachurch Existence on Growth Rates of Evangelical Congregations." Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Purser, Christopher W., Timothy McClure and Jeremy R. Porter. "Racial Isolation, Racial Threat, and Incarceration Disparities." Southern Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Ragsdale, Kathleen, Jeremy R. Porter, Rahel Mathews, Allyn White, Cheryl Gore-Felton and Elizabeth McGarvey."'Liquor before beer, you're in the clear': Frequent Binging and Other Risk Behaviors among Fraternity/Sorority Members and Their non-Greek Peers." American Anthropological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Cosby, Arthur, Kristen Anastoos, Marissa M. Matta, Jeremy R. Porter and Wesley L. James. "Increased Support for Deportation and the Economic Recession." Social Science Research Compendium. Mississippi State University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Cosby, Arthur, Kristen Anastoos, Marissa M. Matta, Jeremy R. Porter and Wesley L. James. "The Deportation Dilemma: Understanding Public Opinion and Illegal Immigration." Society for Applied Anthropology. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Cosby, Arthur, Kristen Anastoos, Marissa M. Matta, Jeremy R. Porter and Wesley L. James. "The Social Climate for Hispanic Immigration in the United States." Technologico de Monterey. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
James, Wesley L. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Presenting an Ecological Model for Understanding Variations in Infant Mortality." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Porter, Jeremy R. and Jason Wollschleger. "Explaining Variations in the Unequal Effects of Megachurch Influences on Local Religious Affiliations." Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Using Multivariate Spatial Statistics in the Spatio-temporal Modeling of Rate-rased Diffusion Processes: A Replication and Extension of Cohen and Tita's Univariate Method." American Statistical Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Howell, Frank M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "A Spatial Decomposition of County Population Growth in the United States: Population Redistribution in the Rural-to-Urban Continuum." Population Association of America. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Howell, Frank M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Are Evangelical Christian Academies the Newest White-Flight Schools? A Spatial Demography of Religious Ecology and Education in the U.S." Southern Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
James, Wesley L. and Jeremy R. Porter. "A Path Analysis Approach to Understanding the Causal Determinants of Race-Specific Mortality." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
James, Wesley L. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Spatial Context, Health Infrastructure and Income Inequality: Revisited." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Morrison, Emory, Jeremy R. Porter and Derrick Shapley. "Context and the Enduring Racial Divide in Death Penalty Support: A Social-Ecological Analysis." American Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Porter, Jeremy R. and Jenifer L. Bratter. "This Is Where My Skin Is My Sin: Skin Color, Ecological Context, and Future Aspirations for Success." Southern Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Porter, Jeremy R., Jenifer L. Bratter and Bridget K. Gorman. "Residential Segregation, Inter-group Contact and Black-White Differences in Self-Rated Health." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Porter, Jeremy R., Rachel T. Kimbro and Bridget K. Gorman. "Residential Segregation and Black/White Disparities in the Pathways to Adult Overweight." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Allison, Marissa, Jeremy R. Porter, Lynn M. Hempel and Frank M. Howell. "Gay Bashing: An Ecological Examination of Hate Crimes in the U.S." Southern Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Bartkowski, John P., Jeremy R. Porter and Troy C. Blanchard. "Faith in the Lone Star State: The Contours of Texas Religion." Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Porter, Jeremy R. and Christopher Purser. "Human Development: An Application of the United Nations' Human Development Index at the Sub-National Level." American Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "Identifying Spatio-Temporal Patterns of the Diffusion of Place-Level Criminal Offending: An Application of Multivariate Spatial Clustering Techniques." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "Sub-County Crime: Introducing a Place-Level Approach to the Examination of Differences in Urban and Rural Offending." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Porter, Jeremy R. and Susannah M. Brown. "'Does Space Matter?': Testing the Protection Hypothesis on the Effect of Marriage on Community Level Social Well-Being Using a Spatial Regression Approach." American Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Purser, Christopher W., Timothy McClure and Jeremy R. Porter. "Accounting for Regional Variation in Incarceration Ratios by Race." Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Purser, Christopher W., Timothy McClure and Jeremy R. Porter. "Structural Determinants of Regional Variation in Incarceration Ratios by Race." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Shapley, Derrick, Emory Morrison and Jeremy Porter. "A Spatial Examination of Poverty in Alabama." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Shapley, Derrick, Emory P. Morrison and Jeremy R. Porter. "A Spatial Analysis of Racial Attitudes Within the U.S.: A Geographic Breakdown by Region and County." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Howell, Frank M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Population Redistribution in the Rural-Urban Continuum: A Spatial Decomposition of Growth in the United States." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter and Lynn M. Hempel. "Separate and Unequal: Public School Districts, White-Flight Academies, and the Disinvestment Hypothesis." Southern Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Howell, Frank M., Jeremy R. Porter, Phillip B. Mason and Troy B. Blanchard. "Spatial Contours of Potential Biomass Crop Production: An Extension and Measures of Change." Southern Rural Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Mason, Philip B., Frank M. Howell and Jeremy R. Porter. "Metropolitan Influence and Land Use Conflict in Potential Biomass Crop Production: A Spatial Demographic Analysis." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Porter, Jeremy R. and Christopher W. Purser. "Human Development at the Sub-National Level: An Application of the United Nations' Human Development Index Using Geographic Information Systems." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "On the Urbanicity of Metropolitan Areas: Population and Landuse Change, 1970-1990." Southern Rural Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "On the Urbanness of Metropolitan Areas: Testing the Homogeneity Assumption, 1970-2000." Southern Demographic Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Purser, Christopher W., Timothy McClure and Jeremy R. Porter. "Exploring Regional Variation in Sentencing Disparities: A Structural Explanation." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Howell, Frank M. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Spatial Theory & Methods in Rural Sociology." Rural Sociological Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
Porter, Jeremy R., Frank M. Howell and Lynn M. Hempel. "Old Times Are Not Forgotten: The Institutionalization of White-Flight Segregationist Academies in the American South." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Linking Survey Data to GIS." Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. "Identifying White-Flight Segregationist Academies: Experimental Results and Future Prospects." Mid-South Sociological Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
