Nicolo P. Pinchak

Centre for Social Investigation
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
nicolo.pinchak@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Credit: Tom Weller Photography

About

Research

Journal Articles

Pinchak, Nicolo P. 2024. “A Paradox of School Social Organization: Positive School Climate, Friendship Network Density, and Adolescent Violence.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Browning, Christopher R., Nicolo P. Pinchak, Catherine A. Calder, and Bethany Boettner. 2024. “Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life.” Annual Review of Sociology.

Browning, Christopher R., Nicolo P. Pinchak, Catherine A. Calder, and Bethany Boettner. 2024. “Racial Differences in Activity Space Exposures and Everyday Perceptions of Safety Among Urban Youth.” Journal of Adolescent Health.

Brandon Carter, Christopher R. Browning, Bethany Boettner, Nicolo P. Pinchak, and Catherine A. Calder. 2024. "Land-use Filtering For Nonstationary Spatial Prediction Of Collective Efficacy In An Urban Environment." Annals of Applied Statistics 18(1):794–818.

Witherspoon, Dawn P., Rebecca M. B. White, Mayra Y. Bámaca, Christopher R. Browning, Tamara G. J. Leech, Tama Leventhal, Nicolo P. Pinchak, Amanda L. Roy, Naomi Sugie, and Erin N. Winkler. 2023. “Place Based Developmental Research: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Studying Youth Development in Context.” Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 88:7–130.

Pinchak, Nicolo P., Christopher R. Browning, Bethany Boettner, Catherine A. Calder, and Jake Tarrence. 2023. “Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime.” Social Forces 101(4):1888–1917.

Winner of the American Society of Criminology Division of Communities and Place Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award.
Winner of the American Sociological Association Animals and Society Section Jane Goodall Graduate Student Article Award.
Selected coverage: USA Today, MSN, Yahoo News, The Hill, New York Post, Deseret News, Psychology Today, Upworthy, Dogster Magazine, Fox News, Toronto Sun, The Independent, Daily Mail, La Repubblica, The Korea Herald, Helsingin Sanomat, CTV News, 1010 WINS Radio NYC, Stirling Faux 980 CKNW Vancouver, 630 CHED Edmonton, 770 CHQR Calgary, 680 CJOB Winnipeg, Fox 5 News in NYC, FOX 26 Houston Morning Show, Samuel Lucas' Sociological Perspectives podcast, Samuel Cohn's sociology blog.

Browning, Christopher R., Jake Tarrence, Catherine A. Calder, Nicolo P. Pinchak, and Bethany Boettner. 2022. “Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition Among Urban Youth.” American Journal of Sociology 128:914–61.

Pinchak, Nicolo P., Christopher R. Browning, Bethany Boettner, and Catherine A. Calder. 2022. “Racial Inequalities in Exposure to Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation, Collective Efficacy, and Violence.” Demography 59(5): 1763–1789.

Kerber, Gigi and Nicolo P. Pinchak. 2022. “Consistency of Health Insurance Coverage and Women’s Reproductive Healthcare Access During Early Adulthood.” Population Research and Policy Review 41:825–42.

Pinchak, Nicolo P. and Raymond R. Swisher. 2022. “Neighborhoods, Schools, and Adolescent Violence: Ecological Relative Deprivation, Disadvantage Saturation, or Cumulative Disadvantage?” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 51(2):261–277.

Pinchak, Nicolo P., Christopher R. Browning, Catherine A. Calder, and Bethany Boettner. 2021. “Activity Locations, Residential Segregation, and the Significance of Residents’ Neighbourhood Boundary Perceptions.” Urban Studies 58:2758–81.

Colen, Cynthia G., Nicolo P. Pinchak, and Kierra Barnett. 2021. “Racial Disparities in Health among College Educated African Americans: Can HBCU Attendance Reduce the Risk of Subsequent Morbidity over the Lifecourse?” American Journal of Epidemiology 190:553-61.

Selected coverage: The New York Times, The Washington Informer, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education

Browning, Christopher R., Nicolo P. Pinchak, and Catherine A. Calder. 2021. “Human Mobility and Crime: Theoretical Approaches and Novel Data Collection Strategies.” Annual Review of Criminology 4:99-123.

Pinchak, Nicolo P. 2018. “The Relationship Between Teacher Regard and College Attendance Expectations: Socioeconomic and Racial–Ethnic Disparities.” Social Psychology of Education 21:209-221.