Kevin A. Estep, PhD
Associate Professor
Kevin Estep is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Studies, with primary responsibilities in the Health Administration and Policy (HAP) undergraduate program. He also holds a secondary appointment in Medical Humanities for the School of Medicine. He teaches undergraduate classes on public health, health policy, and healthcare administration.
Kevin joined the Creighton faculty in 2017 after completing his Ph.D in sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that, he worked in Student Affairs for six years at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, where he developed a passion for mentoring and teaching undergraduate students.
His primary research interest is vaccine hesitancy. His recent projects tackle questions such as: Why do vaccine hesitant parents tend to be concentrated in particular communities? And, have positions on childhood vaccine policy become connected to political party? If so, when and how did this shift occur?
His articles have been published in
American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Vaccine, American Journal of Public Health, and Sociological Perspectives. He is also co-author (with Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame) of the book, "
The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment."
Curriculum VitaeResearch Focus
Vaccination policy, vaccine hesitancy; Political polarization; Consequences of residential sorting Department
Cultural and Social Studies
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- McVeigh Rory, ECONOMICS AND WHITE NATIONALISM [Book Chapter] 2019
Publications
- American journal of public health (1971)
Estep Kevin, Partisan Polarization of Childhood Vaccination Policies, 1995-2020
112:10, p. 1471 - 1479 2022 - American Sociological Review
Estep Kevin, Opting Out
85:6, p. 957 - 991 2020 - McVeigh Rory, The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment 2019
- Vaccine
Estep Kevin A., Neighborhood political composition and personal belief exemptions from immunization requirements in California Kindergartens, 20002015
36:29, p. 4298 - 4303 2018 - Sociological Perspectives
Estep Kevin, Constructing a Language Problem: Status-based Power Devaluation and the Threat of Immigrant Inclusion
60:3, p. 437 - 458 2017 - Estep Kevin, To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement 2017
- American Journal of Sociology
McVeigh Rory, Plausibility Structures, Status Threats, and the Establishment of Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers
122:5, p. 1533 - 1571 2017 - Sociological focus (Kent, Ohio)
Myers Daniel J., North Central Sociological Association 2012 Ruth and John Useem Plenary Address. Political Renewal: Occupations, Springs, and Tea Parties
45:4, p. 274 - 284 2012
Other
The Politics of Vaccines, 1995-2020
The Politics of Vaccines, 1995-2020