scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu
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College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: Sociology

Education: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research interests:Social demography of the family, child and adolescent development, education, gender, and the transition to adulthood.

Recent Publications:Cavanagh, Shannon and Aletha Huston. 2006. Family Instability and Children's Early Problem Behavior. Social Forces 85: 575-605. 


Cavanagh, Shannon, Kathryn Schiller, and Catherine Riegle-Crumb. 2006. Marital Transitions, Parenting, and Schooling: Exploring the Linkage between Family Structure History and Adolescents' Academic Status. Sociology of Education. 79:329-354. 
 Cavanagh, Shannon E. 2004. The Sexual Debut of Girls in Early Adolescence: The Intersection of Race, Pubertal Timing, and Friendship Group Dynamics. Journal of Research on Adolescence 14:285-312.