•Pachucki, Mark C. 2011. "Social Dimensions of Childhood Obesity.” (Op-ed commentary, under review).

•The Eating and Exercise Network Study (preTEENs)  

Recent projects:

•Pachucki, Mark C. 2012. “Classifying quality: Cognition, interaction, and status appraisal of art museums.” Poetics. Vol. 40. Forthcoming.

•Pachucki, Mark A., Paul F. Jacques, Nicholas A. Christakis.  2011. “Social network concordance in food choice among spouses, friends, and siblings.” American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 101(11):2170-2177.

•Pachucki, Mark A. 2011. “Food pattern analysis over time: Unhealthful eating trajectories predict obesity.” International Journal of Obesity. Advance online publication 26 July 2011; doi: 10.1038/ijo.2011.133.

•Pachucki, Mark A., Ronald L. Breiger. 2010. "Cultural holes: Beyond relationality in social networks and culture." Annual Review of Sociology, v.36: 205-224.

•Pachucki, Mark A., Jennifer C. Lena and Steven J. Tepper. 2010. "Creativity narratives among college students: Sociability and everyday creativity." The Sociological Quarterly 51:122–149.

•Pachucki, Mark A., Chris Bail, and Lauren Rivera. 2008. "Sociology at Harvard." Culture, Vol. 22(3).

•Pachucki, Mark A., Sabrina Pendergrass, and Michèle Lamont. 2007. "Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions." Poetics, Vol. 35., pp 331-351.

About:

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Mark’s research is broadly concerned with culture, social determinants of health, and social network dynamics. While it is commonly accepted that culture and social context is linked to health, social science has had difficulty considering how the structure and meanings of relationships between people are involved in the process. To address this issue, Mark’s research chiefly explores multiple pathways by which the social world influences our well-being.

Other of his published works explore how patterns of relationships and patterns of meaning are more generally associated with group-level social structure.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Columbia University, and recently received his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He is currently appointed as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and UC San Francisco Center for Health & Community.

Email: pachucki@berkeley.edu