Undergraduate level - Sociology of the Family, Inequality in a Global Perspective, Sociology of Africa, Demography
Graduate level - Graduate Seminar in Social Stratification, Graduate Seminar in Family Demography, Inequality in a Global Perspective, Graduate Seminar in Internatinal/Comparative Sociology, Teaching Seminar 1

Dr. Bass focuses her research on children and stratification issues.  She has field research experience in West Africa, the U.S., and France.  Her current work focuses on three areas:  1) a manuscript examining African immigrant children and their mothers in France; 2) stratified health outcomes for women and children in the U.S.; and 3) fathers’ parenting of their children not residing with them.

Her book, Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa, (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004) offers a window on the lives of Africa's child workers drawing on research and demographic data from 43 countries.  She served as the guest editor for a special international volume of the monograph series, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (Elsevier, 2005).  Additionally, Dr. Bass has published her research on demographic, stratification, voting, and sterilization issues in Population Research and Policy Review, Political Behavior, the Anthropology of Work Review, the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, the Journal of Sociology and Social Work, the International Journal of Sexual Health, and Current Sociology.  She has also edited the ASA's Demography Teaching Resource Guide three times with graduate students in the Sociology Department.  In the state of Oklahoma, she has provided research findings and advice to the Cleveland County Health Department’s initiative to combat child obesity, and has provided a demographic and health assessment of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ population.

Dr. Bass’ research has been supported by grants from the Howard Foundation (Brown University), the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Census Bureau in cooperation with the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern/University of Chicago, the Rutgers' University Center for Children Fellows Program, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and internal grants at the University of Oklahoma.  Dr. Bass was awarded the Irene Rothbaum Outstanding Assistant Professor Award in 2004 among professors in the College of Arts and Sciences and the President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award among professors across the University in 2005.  She currently serves on the Council of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 53 on the Sociology of Childhood.