Rob clark

  • Rob Clark
  • Ph.D. Indiana University, 2007.
  • Assistant Professor
  • E-mail: robclark@ou.edu
  • Office Phone: (405)325-2566
  • Office: Kaufman Hall 317
  • Curriculum Vitae:
  • Academic Interests and Research: International Development, Globalization, Stratification, Formal Organizations, Democracy and Human Rights, Quantitative Methods
  • Courses Taught: Stratification, Formal Organizations, Research Methods, Introduction to Sociology, and Global Inequality (graduate seminar)
  • My current research focuses on macro comparative issues at the nation-state level.  In general, I am interested in understanding cross-national variation in economic and social development, exploring a wide range of phenomena, including economic growth, educational expansion, physical welfare, democratization, and human rights.  Currently, I am examining state characteristics at the domestic and international level that help explain a nation's human rights performance, including a country's print media system, as well as its level of network integration in international telecommunications.  In another study, I consider the role of international organizations in explaining recent declines in child labor across the world.  In addition, I continue to develop projects based on my recent network analysis of trade and international organizations across 168 countries during the 1980-2000 period.  Finally, I am investigating world health trends during the post-WWII era, tracking convergence and divergence in cross-national welfare, and developing a narrative to help explain these patterns.