Justin Berg
- Professor, Sociology
- Faculty Fellow, VP Research & Economic Dev
Contact Info
- Email: justin.allen.berg@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4987
Office Address
Gillette Hall Room 202
225 Centennial Drive Stop 7136
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7136
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Dr. Justin Allen Berg is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Dakota, where he usually teaches courses on aging, statistics, and research methods. After 13 years at UND, he has taught over 3,000 students and has recently finished a five-year tenure of serving as the faculty advisor for the UND chapter of sociology’s honor society, Alpha Kappa Delta, which gave him the opportunity to guide many undergraduate students in doing community service, applying for graduate school, and finding employment after graduation. He has also spent his career researching factors that lead to positive race relations, focusing particularly on understanding the predictors of public opinion toward immigrants and immigraiton policy. Currently he and a graduate student are being supported by the Joyce and Aqueil Ahmad Endowment Award through UND's College of Arts & Sciences to study the social conditions that influence new Americans and immigrants to consider their relationships with native-born individuals to be positive. With National Science Foundation support through the ADVANCE program, he is also leading a research team in examining the social processes that contribute to inequity experienced by foreign-born and female STEM faculty members at the University of North Dakota. The other half of his time is spent working in the Division of Research & Economic Development, helping faculty members apply for internal and external grants. Over the next five years, he hopes to do more public sociology and go to more UND volleyball games with his family.
Sociological Statistics, Research Methods, Aging, Sociological Theory, Introduction to Sociology
Immigration Attitudes, Race Relations, Social Networks, Aging
Berg, Justin Allen. 2022. “Does Occupational Stress Play a Role in Forming Restrictionist Immigration Opinions?” Sociological Focus 55: 353-371.
Berg, Justin Allen. 2020. "Assessing the Effects of Intergroup Contact on Immigration Attitudes." The Social Science Journal (forthcoming in print).
Berg, Justin Allen, and Amira Allen [Student]. 2019. “Multiracial Identities and Employee Absenteeism: Testing Contact and Depletion Hypotheses.” Sociological Inquiry 90:625-645.
Legerski, Elizabeth, and Justin Allen Berg. 2018. “Does Educational Attainment Influence the Relationship between Political Orientation and Opinions toward the Affordable Care Act?” Health Sociology Review 27:75-88.
Gleditsch, Rebecca [Student], and Justin Allen Berg. 2017. “White Faculty Members’ Racial Attitudes: Does Interracial Contact Matter?” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 39:104-116.
Legerski, Elizabeth Miklay and Justin Allen Berg. 2016. “Americans’ Approval of the 2010 Affordable Care Act: Self-Interest and Symbolic Politics.” Sociological Inquiry 86:285-300.
Berg, Justin Allen. 2015. “Explaining Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy: A Review of the Theoretical Literature.” Sociology Compass 9:23-34.
Berg, Justin Allen. 2014. “Whites’ Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Are Multiracial Individuals a Source of Group Threat or Intergroup Contact?” Sociological Focus 47:194-217.
PhD in Sociology from Washington State University, 2010
MA in Sociology from Washington State University, 2004
BA in Sociology from Whitman College, 1999