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Orestes Hastings is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. His research focuses on social stratification, family demography, economic sociology, and computational methods. He holds a PhD and MA in Sociology from UC Berkeley, and a BS in Physics and BA in Mathematics from Rice University. His work examines the socioeconomic correlates of parenting, income inequality, and the interplay between religion and well-being.
Key research interests include parental financial investments, socioeconomic disparities in family dynamics, and the methodological applications of computational social science. His work has been published in top journals such as the American Sociological Review, Demography, and Social Forces. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on research design and quantitative methods.
Hastings’ recent research explores parental behavior during the pandemic, cultural logics of parenting, and seasonal disparities in parental investment. He has collaborated with scholars on topics ranging from housing consumption to social trust dynamics. His work consistently bridges quantitative analysis with sociological theory, emphasizing policy-relevant insights into inequality mechanisms.
He can be reached at pat.hastings@colostate.edu or via his website at https://ophastings.com. Despite holding a physics degree, he now focuses exclusively on sociological research, finding humor in third-person biographies.
