Personal Summary

Professor Kuipers retired from the Sociology Department at UM on May 1, 2021. She is a former Chair of the Sociology Department and she currently serves as the Interim Director of the  Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Montana. She continues to work with graduate students on research projects. Her research interests include status and identification, experimental research, and gender.  

She often works in collaboration with her graduate students and her publications include: “Challenges in Governance for the PSA as a Regional Sociological Association.” 2014. The American Sociologist. 45:203-218.  doi: 10.1007/s12108-014-9226-9 (with Laura Obernesser); "The Economic Status of Women in Montana: How Far Have We Come Since Montana Elected the First Congresswoman?" 2013. Montana Business Quarterly 51(4):2-7 (with Professor Celia Winkler); “Formal and Informal Network Coupling and its Relationship to Workplace Attachment.” 2009. Sociological Perspectives. 52, 4: 455-79.;  “A Structural Social Psychological View of Gender Differences in Cooperation.” 2009. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. 61:317-24 (with Professor Jane Sell).  

Conference presentations include:  "Strangulation and Control."  Paper presented at the Not in Our State Sexual Assault Summit 2015, University of Montana.  November 8-10, Missoula, MT (with Jennifer Hildreth);   “Race and the Weakening of Negative Status Beliefs.” Paper presented at the Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association.  San Diego, CA, March 22, 2012. (with Krista Caffrey, Sarah Gone, Michael King, and Emily Steinberg); “Harmful Shame and Beneficial Guilt in Solving Problems Related to Race.” Paper presented at the Meetings of the International Society for Research on Emotion. Kyoto, Japan, August 2011; and “Shame & the Rejection of Stereotypes.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association.  Seattle, WA, March 2011 (with Tara Top Sky).

Education

BA, Sociology, Western Michigan University

MA, Sociology, Washington State University

MA, Sociology, Stanford University

PhD, Sociology, Stanford University

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Kuipers, Kathy J. and Stuart Hysom. 2014. “Problems and Solutions in Experiments.”  Pp. 145-177 in Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences, edited by Murray Webster, Jr. and Jane Sell. Boston: Elsevier.

Kuipers, Kathy J. and Laura Obernesser. 2014. “Challenges in Governance for the PSA as a Regional Sociological Association.” The American Sociologist. 45:203-218.
doi: 10.1007/s12108-014-9226-9.

Winkler, Celia and Kathy Kuipers. 2013. "The Economic Status of Women in Montana:  How Far Have We Come Since Montana Elected the First Congresswoman?"
Montana Business Quarterly 51(4):2-7.

Kuipers, Kathy J. 2009. “Formal and Informal Network Coupling and its Relationship to Workplace Attachment.” Sociological Perspectives. 52, 4: 455-79.

Sell, Jane, and Kathy J. Kuipers. 2009. “A Structural Social Psychological View of Gender Differences in Cooperation.” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. 61:317-24.

Kuipers, Kathy J. 2009. “Reference Groups.” In Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, edited by John Levine and Michael Hogg. New York: Sage

Ridgeway, Cecilia L., Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Kathy J. Kuipers, and Dawn T. Robinson. 1998. “How Do Status Beliefs Develop?  The Role of Resources and Interaction.” American Sociological Review 63:331-50.

Publications

Affiliations

American Sociological Association, member (and member of the following sections: Social Psychology; Sociology of Sex and Gender)

Pacific Sociological Association, (Past Vice President)

International Society for Research on Emotion

Group Processes (affiliated with ASA)

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at University of Montana

Honors / Awards

William Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching Across the Curriculum. 2017. (This award was established in the College of Humanities and Sciences to recognize faculty members for their excellence in teaching at all levels of the curriculum.)