Christa

Moore

Courses Taught

• SEM 1010: Freshman Success Seminar
• SOC 1100: Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 1500: Marriage and Family
• SOC 3050: Socialization
• SOC 3150: Communities and Social Change
• SOC 3250: Popular Culture
• SOC 3300: Sociology of Gender
• SOC 3350: Social Stratification
• SOC 3400: Complex Organizations
• SOC 3850: Human Services
• SOC 3950: Special Topics: Superstition, Folklore, and Myth
• SOC 3951: Special Topics: Clinical Sociology and Trauma
• SOC 4940: Internship in Sociology
• SOC 4970: Independent Study in Sociology
• SOC 4980: Field Work in Clinical Sociology
• SOC 4990: The Project of Sociology Senior Capstone

Research Interests

• Organizational responses to child welfare
• Interagency collaboration across child welfare systems
• Community engagement and bridging campus-to-community relationships
• Model pedagogies and communities of practice

Professional Experience

• 2021 & 2022 (summers): Distance Therapist/Policy Consultant: Help, Incorporated Center Against Violence, Family Support Services Division, Reidsville, NC [virtual]
• 2014-2017: Doctoral Intern/Researcher and In-Home Crisis Intervention Specialist: Uspiritus, Family Preservation and Reunification Program, Bowling Green, KY
• 2008-2014: Project Analyst/Technical Assistant: University of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work and Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department of Community Based Services, Division of Protection and Permanency, Prevention Branch, Frankfort, KY
• 2000-2008: Director and In-Home Crisis Intervention Specialist: Community Action of Southern Kentucky, Inc., Family Preservation and Reunification Program, Bowling Green, KY

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2021: Rising Star Award
• 2020: Advisor of the Year Award
• 2019: Advisor of the Year Award

Selected Recent Presentations

Cohoon, W. (Demonstrator), Moore, C. J., Weber, L., Reichard, J. Using clinical sociology to build relationships and clarify meaning. Demonstration Presider and Clinical Certification Committee Lead Reviewer, The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY. October 8, 2022.

Lehnerer, M., Weber, L., & Moore, C. J. Clinical sociological certification: In and out of the academy. Panel presented to The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY. October 8, 2022.

Moore, C. J. & Douin, T. Gendered care work: Punitive bureaucracy versus collaborative engagement. Presentation, The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY. October 7, 2022.

Shell, M. D. & Moore, C. J. Community building in online synchronous freshman seminar. Talk submitted to 2022 Chancellor’s Conference on Academic Technology. Bryan, TX. [Virtual], June 28, 2022.

Evans, H., Moore, C.J., Cashio, A., Carter, K., & Mays, B. Community building through experiential learning: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Panel presentation give at Gulf South Summit [Virtual], March 25, 2022.

Moore, C. J. &. Douin, T. Conveying Gendered Power through Organizational Media: A Symbolic Analysis of Child Welfare Culture. Presentation given at The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting, [Virtual], October 18, 2021.

Douin, T & Moore, C. J. Conveying Gendered Power through Bureaucratic Websites: A Content Analysis of Child Welfare Systems. Presentation given at The Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, [Virtual], August 7, 2021.

Moore, C. J., Shell, M., Feeser, K., Reynolds, A., & Evans, H. Social science in a complex world: People needing people. Panel presentation at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Research Day [Virtual], Wise, Virginia, April 2, 2021.

Evans, H. K. & Moore, C. J. Launching an initiative on service learning during Covid-19. Poster talk presented at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Research Day [Virtual], Wise, Virginia, April 2, 2021.

Evans, H. K. & Moore, C. J. Launching an initiative on service learning during Covid-19. Poster talk presented at the 2021 Gulf South Summit [Virtual], March 15 and 18, 2021.

Moore, C. J. Gagné, P., & Steinmetz, N. Statewide comparisons of child maltreatment rates relative to bureaucratic online system entry points: A qualitative content analysis. Presented at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Conference [Virtual], October 8, 2020.

Foor, S. & Moore, C. J. "Discretionary Collaboration as an Expression of Power in Human Services.” Presented at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 18, 2019.

Foor, S. & Moore, C. J. "Interagency Collaboration and Burnout in Human Services.” Poster talk presented at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 17, 2019.

Moore, C.J. (Moderator & Co-Presenter), Dotson, E., & Foor, S. “Witchification in the Modern Era.” Panel discussion presented at the Third Annual Kentucky Gender & Women’s Studies Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, September 28, 2019.

Foor, S. & Moore, C. J. "Interagency Collaboration and Burnout in Human Services.” Poster talk presented at the Third Annual Kentucky Gender & Women’s Studies Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, September 28, 2019.

Moore, C. J. & Gagné, P (University of Louisville). “Ethics of Care and Justice: A Feminist Critique of Human Service Organizations.” Presentation given at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 19, 2019.

Moore, C. J. “’Because I Said So’: Negotiating Power within a Diverse Child Welfare Community.” Poster talk presented at the Annual Meeting of Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky, Campbellsville, Kentucky, April 6, 2019.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming

Moore, C. J. & Gagné, P. Gendered power in human services organizations: Interagency collaboration, child welfare services, and the ethics of care. Lexington Books, An Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.

Moore, C. J. (2022). Motivations, strengths, and gaps in interagency collaboration among human service organizations. Contemporary Journal of Anthropology and Sociology.

Moore, C. J. & Gagné, P. (2021). Exploring policy implications of ethics of care and justice in care work and human services organizations. Journal of Applied Social Science, 16(1), 176-193. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F19367244211027484.

Högnäs, R. S., Roelfs, D. J., Shor, E., Moore, C., & Reece, T. (2017). "J-Curve? A meta-analysis and meta-regression of parity and parental mortality." Population Research and Policy Review 36, no. 2: 273-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-016-9421-1.

Multimedia Contributions

Moore, C. J. (2022, June 17). Rethinking child welfare. With Good Reason [radio show]. https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/in-the-system/?t=0&autoplay=1#s0.

Moore, C.J. & Shell, M. J. (2022, ). “Zooming through freshman seminar: Community building in online courses.” The Southern Sociologist (TSS) Teaching Corner. https://www.southernsociologicalsociety.org/tss/.

Moore, C. J. (2021, May 25). “Predicting the future of the job market.” Zippia.com. https://www.zippia.com/ future-job-market/?featured=276510630142.

Moore, C. J. (2021, January 10). “Experts weigh in on current job market trends.” Zippia.com. https://www. zippia.com/human-resources-generalist-jobs/trends/.

Evans, H. & Moore, C. J. (2020, October 21)."Launching an Initiative on Service Learning During COVID-19." UVA Wise News. https://www.uvawise.edu/news/2020/10/launching-initiative-service-learning-during-covid-19.