Profile picture of MacKenzie Christensen

MacKenzie Christensen

Assistant Professor
Sociology
macc@uoregon.edu
Office: 721 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Sign-up for office hours here: https://calendly.com/macc-uoregon or by appointment
Research Interests: Gender, Digital technologies, Family and intimate relationships, Life course, Inequality and stratification, Quantitative and qualitative methods
Download CV

Biography

Christensen, MacKenzie A., Kristin Turney, and Suyeon Jang. “The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood.” Forthcoming at the American Sociological Review.

Christensen, MacKenzie A. 2023. “Tracing the Gendered Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Tech Ability.” Social Science Research 111:1-16.

Turney, Kristin, Katelyn Malae, MacKenzie A. Christensen, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin. 2023. “‘Even Though We’re Married, I’m Single’: The Meaning of Incarceration in Romantic Relationships.” Criminology 61(4):795-822

Christensen, MacKenzie A. 2021. “‘Tindersluts’ & ‘Tinderellas:’ Examining the Digital Affordances Shaping the (Hetero)Sexual Scripts of Young Womxn on Tinder.” Sociological Perspectives 64(3):432-449.