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Sociology and Anthropology

Lora Ebert Wallace, Professor of Sociology

Lora Ebert Wallace

Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2001

Dr. Ebert Wallace joined the Department in 2004.

Contact Info

Areas of Specialization

  • Medical sociology, family sociology, Sociology of women's health and reproductive health, and survey methods/quantitative methods

Courses

  • Soc 100 Introduction to Sociology
  • Soc 300 Minorities
  • Soc 360 Gender & Society
  • Soc 370 American Family
  • Sociology of Health courses:
    • Soc 424G Sociology of Mental Health
    • Soc/WS 430G Sociology of Women's Health
    • Soc 365 Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Social Methods courses:
    • Soc 323 Social Research Methods I
    • Soc 324 Social Research Methods II
    • Soc 531 Quantitative Methods

Selected Publications

  • Lora Ebert Wallace and Joy Ifeoma Ofuokwu. 2024. 鈥淩isk鈥� Language in Breastfeeding Promotional Materials: U.S. State, Territorial, and Local Health Departments.鈥� Health, Risk & Society, 26(3鈥�4): 101鈥�114. DOI:
  • Yetunde Salihu, Ejura and Lora Ebert Wallace. 2022. 鈥淯se and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among University Students: The Role of Gender and Race.鈥� Journal of American College Health: 1鈥�10. DOI:
  • Wallace, Lora Ebert and Erin N. Taylor. 2021. 鈥淩isk language and infant feeding behaviors: a longitudinal analysis.鈥� Women鈥檚 Reproductive Health, 8(4). DOI:
  • Taylor, Erin N. and Lora Ebert Wallace. 2017. "Risky Business: Breastfeeding Promotion Policy and the Problem of Risk Language." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, March: 1鈥�17.
  • Wallace, Lora Ebert and Erin N. Taylor. 2016. "Running a Risk: Expectant Mothers Respond to 'Risk' Language in Breastfeeding Promotion." Women's Reproductive Health, 3(1): 1鈥�14.
  • Taylor, Erin and Lora Ebert Wallace. 2012. 鈥淔or Shame: Feminism, Breastfeeding Advocacy, and Maternal Guilt.鈥� Hypatia, 27: 76鈥�98.
  • Wallace, Lora Ebert and Taylor, Erin. 2011. 鈥淧otential Risks of 'Risk' Language in Breastfeeding Advocacy.鈥� Women & Health, 51(4): 299鈥�320.
  • Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt and Lora Ebert Wallace. 2009. "The Sociological Imagination and Social Responsibility." Teaching Sociology, 37(1): 76鈥�88.
  • Conger, Rand D., Ebert Wallace, Lora, Sun, Yumei, Brody, G., McLoyd, V., Simons, R.L. and Laknath Peris. 2002. "Economic Pressure in African-American Families: A Replication and Extension of the Family Stress Model." Developmental Psychology, 38(2): 179鈥�193.
  • Wickrama, K.A.S., Lorenz, Frederick O., Ebert Wallace, Lora, Laknath Peris, and Glen H. Elder, Jr. 2001. "Family Influence on Change in Physical Health During the Middle Years: The Case of Onset of Hypertension." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63(2).
  • Rueter, Martha A., Scaramella, Laura, Ebert Wallace, Lora, and Rand D. Conger. 1999. "First Onset of Depressive or Anxiety Disorder Predicted by the Longitudinal Course of Internalizing Symptoms and Parent-Adolescent Conflict." Archives of General Psychiatry, 36(August): 726鈥�732.