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Sharron Xuanren Wang Goodman, Ph.D.

Xuanren Goodman Wang

Assistant Professor

Campus Address: Delaware Hall 249

Email: xsgoodman [at] desu.edu

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U-nPbW4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Education

Sociology and Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2013 (Undergraduate)

Ph.D., Sociology, Texas A&M University, 2018

Graduate Certificate, Data Analysis, Texas A&M University, 2016

Positions

Delaware State University
2025-present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

2022-2025 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
2019- 2022 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

University of Delaware
2020-present Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests

Educational and Health Disparities; Community Engaged Research; Program Evaluation

EXTRAMURAL GRANTS & CONTRACTS

Pending
2025-2029 Co-PI “Collaborative Research: FEC: Tri-State Collaborative for Defluorination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).” National Science Foundation

Active
2024-2026 PI. “Crime, Neighborhood Safety, and Health in Delaware’s Underserved Communities.” The IHER Center, DSU, $100,000

2023-2025 PI. Evaluation Project of the Healthy Housing Program. Catholic Charities USA. $300,000
Media Coverage:https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-state-university-researchers-housing-… homelessness-catholic-charities/, https://www.desu.edu/news/2023/06/university-receives-300k-grant-evaluat… initiative-2

2022-2027 Co-I. NIH-Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program (RCMI). NIH. $18,360,000 PIs: Melissa Harrington & Sangeeta Gupta.
Media Coverage: https://www.desu.edu/news/2022/11/university-celebrates-school-record-18… research-grant 

2020-2025 M-PI “Investigating Family Support Interventions for Freshmen.” NIH. $1,460,000 (Grant #: 1U01GM138430-01)
Media Coverage: https://www.wmdt.com/2020/09/dsu-receives-1-46-million-grant-for-parent university-program/ https://www.desu.edu/news/2020/09/nih-146m-grant-fund-del-state-parent-u…

Completed
2020-2021 PI “The Mental Health of College DREAMers.” CTR-ACCEL. $20,000

2020-2023 M-PI “Social and Behavioral Implications for COVID-19 Testing in Delaware’s Underrepresented Communities.” NIH. $1,129,224 (Grant #: 3 P20 GM103653-09S1)
Media Coverage: https://www.sussexcoalition.org/news/partnership-with-dsu/, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/10/05/dsu-awarded-1-5-m-g… study-covid-19-underserved-communities/3631400001/, https://www.delawarepublic.org/science-health-tech/2020-10-11/dsu-awarde… to-study-covid-19-factors-in-delawares-underserved-communities, https://www.desu.edu/news/2020/10/nih-funds-universitys-covid-19-researc… podcast-interview

Submitted and declined
NIH-Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE): 2022-2027. PI: Brian McNaughton. Role: Lead Project Investigator. Grant was submitted: 1/27/2022.

FY23-Congressional Directed Spending Request: 2023. “Ensuring Access to Quality Health Care for Haitian Community in Seaford, Delaware.” Role: Researcher

NIH- RADx-UP Community-Engaged Research on Rapid COVID Testing among Underserved and Vulnerable Populations: 10/2022 -10/2024. Role: M-PI. Grant was submitted: 5/1/2022.

Publications

* student mentee

  • Wang, S. X., Cheatham- Hemphill, L., and Harrington, M.A. (Forthcoming) Testing a Parent Support Intervention to Improve Success of First Year Students at a Historically-Black University (HBCU). Frontiers in Education.

  • Wang, S.X.; Bell Rogers, N.; Trask, K.*; Dillard, D.; Harrington, M.A. (2024). Preventive Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Delaware’s Underserved Communities: A Longitudinal Study (2021–2022). Behavioral Sciences. 14, 890. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14100890

  • Wang, S. X., Goodman, J., and Laurenceau, J.P. (2023). Was the 2020 Presidential Election Nerve Wracking? Changes in Mental Health among College Dreamers. Delaware Journal of Public Health, 9(14).

  • Dillard, D., Billie, M., Bell-Rogers, N., Wang, S. X., & Harrington, M. A. (2022). The Benefits of Community Engaged Research in Creating Place-Based Responses to COVID-19. Delaware Journal of Public Health, 8(3), 60.

  • Wang, S. X., Bell-Rogers, N., Harrington, M.A., & Dillard, D. (2022). COVID-19 Testing in Delaware’s Underserved Communities: Demographic and Social Determinants of Testing Inequality. Discover Social Science and Health 2(9). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44155-022-00013-1

  • Wang, S. X., and Goodman, J. (2022). Mental Health of HBCU College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of American College Health, 1-7. doi: /10.1080/07448481.2022.2072173

  • Wang, S.X., Bell-Rogers, N., Dillard, D., & Harrington, M.A. (2021) COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Delaware’s Underserved Communities. Delaware Journal of Public Health. 7(4), 168-175.

  • Wang, S. X. and Sakamoto, A. (2021) An Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Hispanic Americans. Frontiers in Sociology 6:657980. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.657980

  • Wang, S. X. and Sakamoto, A. (2021) Can Education Sometimes Ameliorate Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage? An Analysis of the Wages of College-Educated Hispanics and Whites. Sage Open,11(2). doi:10.1177/21582440211009197

  • Sakamoto, A., Amaral, E. F., Wang, S. X., & Nelson, C. (2021). The Socioeconomic Attainments of Second-Generation Nigerian and Other Black Americans: Evidence from the Current Population Survey, 2009 to 2019. Socius, 7, 23780231211001971.

  • Sakamoto, A. & Wang, S. X. (2020) Deconstructing Hyper-Selectivity: Are the Socioeconomic Attainments of Second-Generation Asian Americans Only Due to Their Class Background? Chinese Journal of Sociology.

  • Sakamoto, A., & Wang, S. X. (2020). A Critical Appraisal of Occupational Mobility Tables Versus Economic Models in the Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

  • Maia, A. G., Sakamoto, A., & Wang, S. X. (2019). How Employment Shapes Income Inequality: A Comparison Between Brazil and the US. Revista de Economia Contemporânea, 23(3). 

  • Amaral, E. F. L., Yen, S.-K., & Wang-Goodman, S. X. (2019). A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility. Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023119881282 

  • Wang, S. X., Takei, I., & Sakamoto, A. (2017). Do Asian Americans Face Labor Market Discrimination? Accounting for the Cost of Living among Native-born Men and Women. Socius, 3, 2378023117741724. 

  • Sakamoto, A., & Wang, S. X. (2017). Occupational and Organizational Effects on Wages among College-educated Workers in 2003 and 2010. Social Currents, 4(2), 175-195.

  • Wang, S., & Sakamoto, A. (2016). Did the Great Recession downsize immigrants and native born Americans differently? Unemployment differentials by nativity, race and gender from 2007 to 2013 in the US. Social Sciences, 5(3), 49. 

  • Sakamoto, A., Chiu, C. T., Li, J., & Wang, S. X. (2016). The Life Satisfaction of Asian Americans: Evidence from the US General Social Survey, 1972 to 2010. Sociology Mind, 6(02), 40.

  • Maia, A. G., Sakamoto, A., & Wang, S. X. (2015). Socioeconomic Attainments of Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Americans. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1(4), 547-563.

  • Sakamoto, A., Rarick, J., Woo, H., & Wang, S. X. (2014). What underlies the Great Gatsby Curve? Psychological micro-foundations of the “vicious circle” of poverty. Mind & Society, 13(2), 195-211.

Under review:

Perchiniak, E., Wang, S. X., and Lawal, H. An All-HBCU REU: Leveraging the strengths of a minority serving institution to build inclusive research excellence.

Guadarrama Ornelas R.A. Wang, S. X., Packard M.A; Goodman J. Self-Efficacy Predicts Hippocampal Spatial Working Memory Performance in a Virtual Radial Maze Task.

EVALUATION REPORTS

  1. Evaluation of the Healthy Housing Initiative: White Paper
  2. Evaluation of the Healthy Housing Initiative: The 2024 Report II
  3. Evaluation of the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at DSU: The 2024 Report
  4. Evaluation of the Healthy Housing Initiative: The 2024 Report I
  5. Evaluation of the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement Program: The 2023-2024 Report
  6. Evaluation of the Healthy Housing Initiative: The 2023 Report
  7. Evaluation of the Promoting Engagement and Access in Science Program: The 2022-2023 Report
  8. Evaluation of the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement Program: The 2022-2023 Report
  9. Evaluation of the Promoting Engagement and Access in Science Program: The 2021-2022 Report
  10. Evaluation of the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program: The 2021-2022 Report 1\
  11. Evaluation of the Promoting Engagement and Access in Science Program: The 2020-2021 Report 
  12. Evaluation of the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program: The 2020-2021 Report
  13. Evaluation of the Promoting Engagement and Access in Science Program: The 2019-2020 Report
  14. Evaluation of the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program: The 2019-2020 Report

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Delaware State University: 2018–Present
Cabrini University: 2018–2019
Texas A&M University: 2017
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Sociology
Contemporary Social Problems
Advanced Research Methods in Criminology (Master’s level)
Race, Class & Gender
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Urban Sociology
Social Stratification
University Seminars I & II
Population Analysis
Senior Seminar
Methods of Sociological Research
Independent Study (Undergraduate Level)
Special Topics in Sociology
Proseminar in Justice Studies 
Independent Study (Graduate Level)

TALKS (the most recent 5 years)

2024 Panel Speaker for “Unveiling the Intersections Among Homelessness, SUD and Health Equity” at the Summit for Advancing Health Equity in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery. Willington, DE

2024 “Using REDCap for your Projects” Faculty Research Day. Delaware State University. Dover, DE

2024 “Introduction to REDCap”. Center for Teaching and Learning Professional Development. Delaware State University. Dover, DE.

2023 “Introduction to REDCap”. Center for Teaching and Learning Professional Development. Delaware State University. Dover, DE.

2023 “The Importance of Scholarly Engagement and Research.” The professional development series. Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Delaware State University. Dover, DE.

2021 “Grant Writing to Fund your Research.” The proseminar course for MA in Justice. Delaware State University. Dover, DE

2021 “Mental Health of HBCU Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The ACCEL Innovative Discovery Series. Newark, DE 

2020 “Education, Wage, and Mental Health Outcomes of Post-1965 Immigrants and Their Children” Delaware State University. Dover, DE.

PRESENTATIONS (the most recent 5 years)

2025 Paper presented at The Paris Conference on Education Paris, France “Testing a Parent-Support Intervention to Improve Success of First-Year Students at an HBCU”

2025 Paper presented at the Assessment Summit at DSU Dover, DE “Enhancing Retention and Student Success: A Parent University Program”

2025 Paper presented at Understanding Interventions Conference Baltimore, MD “Testing a Parent-Support Intervention to Improve Success of First-Year Students at an HBCU”

2024 Project presented at Research Day Dover, DE “COVID-19 Prevention in Delaware’s Underserved Communities”

2023 Paper presented at the Northeast Regional IDeA Conference Wilmington, DE “Changes of COVID-19 preventative approaches in Delaware’s underserved communities: An examination of COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and related behaviors from Longitudinal Surveys 2021-2022” (Poster)

2023 Papers presented at the annual conference of the Eastern Sociological Association Baltimore, MD “COVID-19 Testing in Delaware’s Underserved Communities: Demographic and Social Determinants of Testing Inequality” “Was the 2020 Presidential Election Nerve-wracking? Changes in Mental Health among Dreamers Enrolled in College”

2022 Paper presented at the annual conference of the Population Association of America Atlanta, Georgia “COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine in Delaware’s Underserved Communities” (Poster)

2021 Project presented at the Diversity Program Consortium Annual Grantees Conference Virtual “Investigating Family Support Interventions for Freshmen.”

2021 Project presented at the DE-CTR ACCEL Program Virtual Community Research Exchange Newark, DE “The Mental Health of College DREAMers.” 

2020 Paper presented at the annual conference of the Eastern Sociological Society Philadelphia, PA “Does Ethnic Capital Matter? An Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Hispanic Americans

SERVICE AND OTHERS (the most recent 5 years)

Reviewer for American Sociological Review, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Journal of Latinos and Education, Sociology Mind, Population Review, Sociological Perspectives, Acta Sociologica

March 2025: Review panelist for NSF: DUE 2025 Panel

2024 – present: Voting Member of the Faculty Senate, DSU

2023 – present: Review editor on the Editorial Board of Sociology of Stratification (specialty section of Frontiers in Sociology). 2

023 – present: Research Method and REDCap Consultant, Interdisciplinary Health Equity Research Center (IHER), DSU

2023 – 2024: Chair of the Technology, Media, and Outreach Committee, Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, DSU

2023: Summer Poster Judge for the Summer Research Symposium at DSU

2022: Summer Poster Judge for the Summer Research Symposium at DSU

2021: Summer Poster Judge for the Summer Research Symposium at DSU

2021 – present: Chair of the Research Committee, Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, DSU

2020: Session organizer at the annual conference of the Eastern Sociological Society

2019 – 2024: Organizer for Colloquium Series “Sustaining Research Culture at DSU”, Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, DSU

019 – 2023: Member of the Technology, Media, and Outreach Committee, Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, DSU

2019 – 2020: Member of the Research Committee, Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice, DSU

MENTEES & PROJECTS

Undergraduate students:
2021
Marie Noel Che: Department of Biology, DSU The research project was presented at the Summer Research Symposium at DSU Project: Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Delaware’s Underserved Communities

2021-2022
Mariana Ramirez: Department of Social Work, DSU Role: Research Assistant (grant funded) Project: Testing and Vaccination of COVID-19 in Delaware’s Underserved Communities

2023
Genaveve Oliveri: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU The research project was presented at DSU Research Day Project: A Qualitative Study of Racism Faced by Sickle Cell Patients in Healthcare Settings
Nala L. Wyatt: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU The research project was presented at DSU Research Day Project: Demographic Differences among Students at an HBCU: Perspectives on Operating a Motor Vehicle while Intoxicated with Alcohol
Ricardo A Mediavilla-Chardon: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU The research project was presented at DSU Research Day Project: Perceived Social Isolation: Social and Biological Affliction
Kylie Trask: Department of Behavioral Science, Duke University The research project was presented at The Summer Research Symposium at DSU & The Northeast Regional IDeA Conference Project: Changes in COVID-19 Testing, Vaccination, and Preventative Behaviors among Delaware’s Underrepresented Population in 2021 and 2022
Carmella Broadway: Master’s Program in Social Work, DSU Role: Research Assistant (grant funded) Project: The Evaluation Project of the Healthy Housing Program

2023-2025
Mi’Cah Shelton: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU Role: Research Assistant (grant funded) Project: The Evaluation Project of the Healthy Housing Program \

2024
Laura Hernandez Garcia: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU The research project was presented at DSU Research Day. Project: Mental Health of Dreamers

2025
Grace Ezell: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU The research project was presented at DSU Research Day. Project: Media and Misinformation
Rachel Williams: Department of Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU The research project was presented at DSU Research Day. Project: How are minorities unjustly affected by the disparities of the school-to-prison pipeline?

2025-present
Joselyn Reyes-Alvarez: Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, DSU Role: Research Assistant (Parker Dewy Micro-Internship) The research project presented at DSU Research Day. Project: Neighborhood Safety and Health in Delaware’s Underserved Communities

Chair to MA Students:
2023-2024
Maceon Battle: An Evaluation of The IHER Center CDE Core Mini-Grant Program

2024-2025
Mardochee Saintfort: An Evaluation of The Pathway to Success Program