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Shannon Shen joined the Department of Sociology and Social Work in 2023. Prior to coming to Hope, Shannon taught sociology at Texas A&M University-San Antonio for five years. Shannon鈥檚 research focuses on two population groups: college students and older adults. Shannon is the lead investigator on a multi-institutional research project that examines how first-year students鈥� social, behavioral, cognitive, and biophysical factors interact to impact their academic success, with a focus on Mexican American students.

Shannon鈥檚 work on older adults primarily explores how sexuality is associated with health. In this area, Shannon has investigated the relationship between sexuality and cognitive impairment risk over time, identified connections between sexuality and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and examined gender differences in how marital quality is associated with a lower risk of diabetes. Shannon's current research focuses on how sexual activity and sexual quality are related to diabetes among older adults.

Shannon also teaches in the Global Health and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies programs.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine
• Aging and the Life Course
• Gender and Sexuality
• Marriage and Family
• Quantitative Methods

Education

• B.A., Sociology and Political Science, 麻豆传媒官网, 2011
• M.A., Sociology, Michigan State University, 2015
• Ph.D., Sociology, Michigan State University, 2018

Grants & Honors

• 鈥淪exuality as a Social Determinant of Health: Sexual Activity, Sexual Quality and Diabetes鈥� 麻豆传媒官网 Global Health Faculty-Student Summer Collaborative Research Project, $10,000, 2024
• 鈥淪tudent Health and Success Initiative (SHASI).鈥� Meadows Foundation. $77,000, 2021-2023
• National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) Fellow, National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, 2021-2023
• Quantitative Reasoning Faculty Research & Teaching Fellow, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, 2020-2022

Selected Publications

• 鈥溾�� Shen, Shannon, and Hui Liu, Journal of Sex Research 60(9):1345-1355, 2023 
• 鈥�,鈥� Shen, Shannon, and Hui Liu, The Gerontologist 63(2):297-307, 2023
• 鈥�,鈥� Liu, Hui, Shannon Shen, and Megan Penzkofer, Archives of Sexual Behavior 51:1591-1605, 2022 
• 鈥溾�� Shen, Shannon, and Hui Liu, Clinical Gerontologist. 44(3):259-272, 2021
• 鈥�,鈥� Shen, Shannon, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 45(8):706-720, 2019
• 鈥�,鈥� Liu, Hui, Shannon Shen, and Ning Hsieh, The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 74(2):298-308, 2019