Connor Sheehan

Connor Sheehan is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. He holds affiliations with the Institute for Social Science Research and the Global Sport Institute. His research focuses on social demography, epidemiology, and advanced quantitative methods to study health disparities and sleep patterns across lifespans. Dr. Sheehan earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California.

Education: Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Texas at Austin, 2017), M.A. and B.A. in Geography (University of Colorado at Boulder).

Research Interests: Social determinants of sleep, gerontology, medical sociology, and social inequality in health. His work has been published in journals like Sleep, Addiction, and Social Science & Medicine, and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine.

Teaching: Courses include Social Statistics, Multivariate Statistics for Social Sciences, and Epidemics and Society. He advises students and collaborates with non-profits on data analytics projects.

Grants and Funding: Received support from the Global Sport Institute, Southwestern Interdisciplinary Research Center, and the National Institute on Aging.