Evan T. Baughman

Education

• M.A., Sociology, UC Davis, 2021
• B.A., Religion and Sociology, Bowdoin College, 2017

About

Evan studies medicalization, disability, institutional work, social movements, and education. His Qualifying Paper research investigated the consequences of medicalization within the Paralympic movement. This paper was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Disability in Society and the Leon Mayhew Prize for Best Qualifying Paper from UC Davis Sociology. Evan's dissertation research examines mechanisms of demedicalization, disability-based inequalities in educational attainment, and the college experiences of competitive intercollegiate wheelchair basketball student-athletes.

Research Focus

Medical Sociology, Disability, Institutional Work, Social Movements, Education, Theory, Qualitative Methods

Publications

• "Competing Models of Disability: Medicalization’s Ambivalent Effects on the Paralympic Movement” forthcoming in Socius

Current Projects

• "Championing Demedicalization: How Paralympic Disability Sport Transcended Medical Origins"
• "Education Experiences of Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Student-Athletes"
• “Bachelor’s Degree Attainment by Disability Type”
• "Transitions to Adulthood Among Disabled Native and Foreign-Born Adults"
• "ADHD as Contested Illness: Media Critiques of Medicalization and Pharmaceuticalization"

Teaching

Associate Instructor:

• SOC 146: Sociology of Religion

Teaching Assistant:

• SOC 001: Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 100: Origins of Modern Sociological Theory
• SOC 122: Sociology of Adolescence
• SOC 124: Education and Inequality
• SOC 162: Culture, Society, and Health
• SOC 164: Health Policy
• SOC 185: Social Policy

Awards

• 2025 - Dean’s Summer Graduate Support Award – UC Davis College of Letters and Science
• 2024 - Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award – American Sociological Association Section on Disability in Society
• 2024 - Dissertation Year Fellowship - UC Davis Graduate Studies
• 2024 - Emerging Scholar Award - Sport & Society Research Network
• 2024 - Leon Mayhew Prize for Best Qualifying Paper - UC Davis Sociology
• 2024 - Travel Grant - UC Davis Sociology
• 2024 - Small Research Grant - UC Davis Sociology
• 2022 - Graduate Student Association Travel Award - UC Davis Graduate Studies
• 2019 - Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship - UC Davis
• 2017 - Lydia Bell Award for Initiative in Public Service - Bowdoin College
• 2016 - Grua/O’Connell Research Award - Bowdoin College