Jarron Bowman

Dr. Jarron Bowman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Valparaiso University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University, a BA in Political Science and Middle Eastern/North African Studies, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on inequality, economic precarity, political influence, and intergenerational wealth transfers across class, gender, and race dimensions. He previously taught at Kalamazoo College and Ithaca College. Courses taught at Valpo include Introduction to Sociology, Inequality in America, Development of Sociological Theory, and Drugs and Society.

His recent scholarship examines unemployment's psychological impacts on married couples (2023), political influence disparities between affluent and average Americans (2020), and how economic insecurity intersects with political inequality affecting family well-being (2020). Research emphasizes structural inequities and their sociopolitical consequences.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed. Teaching and advising form a core part of his role, though specific grants or student advisement details are not provided in the text.