Sundari Balan
Adjunct Lecturer in Data Analytics
Area of Expertise:
Critical Thinking, Management Science, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations
Research Interests:
Mental health and workplace adjustment among diverse populations, data analytics pedagogies and bias
Selected Publications:
- "Good Asian moms: Engendering the model minority myth among Indian immigrant working women", 104-122, with R. Mahalingam, 2015
- "Chastity Beliefs, Female Neglect, Academic Achievement, and Psychological Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Tamilnadu, India", Issue 3, 213-224, with R. Mahalingam, 2016
- "Are we losing the war on missing girls? Correspondence", The Lancet (Global Health), with R. Mahalingam, 2014
- "Motherhood, psychological risks and resources in relation to current alcohol use disorders: are there race specific patterns?", ISRN-Addiction, with G. Widner, H. Chen, D. Hudson, S. Gehlert, R. Price, 2014
- "The impact of changing medical marijuana policies on marijuana attitudes and use patterns in Colorado", Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 145-155, with J. Schuermeyer, S. Salomonsen-Sautel, R. Price, C. Thurstone, S. Min, J. Sakai, 2014
- "Drug use disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder over 25 adult years: Role of substance abuse and psychiatric problems in non-familial and familial networks", Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 228-234, with G. Widner, M. Shroff, C. Van den Berk, J. Scherrer, R. Price, 2013
- "Culture, son preference and beliefs about masculinity", Journal of Research on Adolescence, Issue 3, 541-554, with R. Mahalingam, 2008
Personal Interests:
Sundari lives with her spouse, Radha Gopalan and their two children in St. Louis, MO. In her spare time, Sundari enjoys container gardening, working with clay, and tennis.
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Sundari Balan is a research psychologist teaching Managerial Statistics at the Olin Business School. She is originally from India and moved to Ann Arbor, MI to pursue her doctoral degree in psychology. After completing a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) post-doctoral fellowship in substance use epidemiology and prevention research from the Washington University School of Medicine, she worked as Statistical Data Analyst and Research Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine and the St. Louis Family Court respectively. Using quantitative and qualitative methods her publications span cultural stereotypes (model minority, masculinity), mental health, substance use and workplace adjustment among immigrant women, US war veterans, at risk youth and minority populations. She has taught Cross Cultural Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Psychology of Women, Intergroup dialoguing, Introductory & Advanced Data & Information Management in the Health Sciences.
Email: sundari@wustl.edu
PhD 2009, University of Michigan
MS 2006, University of Michigan
MA 1998, Sophia College
BA 1996, Sophia College
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