Christa

Moore

Courses Taught

• SOC 1100 Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 2500 Marriage and Family
• SOC 3050 Socialization
• SOC 3130 Child Welfare and Maltreatment
• SOC 3300 Sociology of Gender
• SOC 3850 Human Services
• SOC 4400 Trauma and Resilience
• SOC 4980 Fieldwork in Clinical Sociology

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

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2024: Nominee, SCHEV 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award
• 2023: Outstanding Research and Publication Award
• 2022: Outstanding Service Award
• 2021: Rising Star Award
• 2020: Advisor of the Year Award
• 2019: Advisor of the Year Award

Selected Recent Presentations

Moore, C. J., Warfel, E., Cassity-Caywood, W., Corley, C., Asabere, G. Cultures of child protection: Exploring state specific and nationwide child welfare systems. Presented at the Virginia Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Virginia State University, Richmond, VA, April 12, 2025.

Moore, C. J. [Moderator and Discussant]. Panel III-1: Education—Fostering student belongingness, satisfaction, and success. Presented at the Virginia Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Virginia State University, Richmond, VA, April 12, 2025.

Moore, C. J. AACS certification. Presented at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Conference [Virtual], November 2, 2024.

Moore, C. J. Child welfare cultures: Identifying gendered barriers to state-specific and nationwide child protective services. Presented at the Mid-South Sociological Association’s Annual Conference [Virtual], Nashville, TN, October 19, 2024.

Meade, L. & Moore, C. J. The resilience path to career success: Women in Appalachia who survived child sexual abuse. Presentation given at the Virginia Social Science Association’s Annual Conference [Virtual], April 20, 2024.

Selected Publications

Shell, M., & Moore, C. (2025). Flipping the first year: A case study in co-teaching first-year seminar as a community of inquiry. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 25(1).

Douin, T. & Moore, C.J. (2024). Conveying gendered power through bureaucratic websites: A symbolic analysis of mediated child welfare culture. Children and Youth Services Review.

Moore, C. J. & Gagné, P. (2023). Gendered power in child welfare: What’s care got to do with it? Lexington Books, An Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN: 978-1-7936-3066-7.

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.

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.

Multimedia Contributions

Moore, C. J. (2025, March 4). Gendered power in child welfare: What’s care got to do with it? SHECP Faculty Voices [live podcast].

Woodward, A.  (2025). Gendered power in child welfare: What’s care got to do with it? Contemporary Sociology [book review], 54(1), 66-68.

Moore, C. J. (2022, June 17). Rethinking child welfare. With Good Reason [radio show].

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

Moore, C. J. (2021, May 25). “Predicting the future of the job market.” Zippia.com.

Moore, C. J. (2021, January 10). “Experts weigh in on current job market trends.” Zippia.com. 

Evans, H. & Moore, C. J. (2020, October 21)."Launching an Initiative on Service Learning During COVID-19." UVA Wise News.

Professional Experience

• 2023-present: Telehealth Outpatient Therapist (part-time/summers): Center for Emotional Health, Charlotte, NC [virtual]
• 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