Position Title
Graduate Student
Education
- MA in Sociology- UC Davis, March 2024
- MA with Distinction in Education, Behavioral Sciences, Gender Equity Studies- CSU Sacramento, May 2021
- MS in Applied Behavior Analysis, emphasis in Autism Studies- The Sage Colleges, August 2013
- BS in Psychology- CSU Sacramento, August 2010
About
I am dedicated to evaluating the impact of race and gender categories in the tenure and review process through detailed quantitative analysis. I am also interested in dissecting how we create and define those categories, define roles associated with those categories, assign power (knowingly or not) to said categories, and how all of that fits into organizations and institutions, specifically working in academia. Lastly, I am currently studying how large language models (LLMs) can generate gendered and inequitable outputs depending on the type of user inputs made as prompts. My team and I are comparing within LLMs by iteration over time and across various popular LLMs and lesser known ones, to see how they handle different inputs--and which generate more or less equitable outputs. In addition we are working to find better ways to write prompts to avoid inequitable outputs in the first place.
Research Focus
Gender equity; Tenure trifecta; Inequity in academic publications
Publications
Krebsbach, J. M. (Forthcoming September 2025). Increasing online attendance using insignificantly impactful extra credit as positive reinforcement. Journal of Educators Online. (Preprint doi:10.31235/osf.io/rw978)
Krebsbach, J. M. (In review). Examining the role of employed identity markers in the forms of capital. Frontiers in Sociology. (Preprint doi:10.31235/osf.io/fuycw)
Hobbs, S. D., Krebsbach, J. M., Larsen, R. P., Wells, C. R., & Saywitz, K. J. (2024). Voices of foster youth: Experts on their own lives. Routledge.
Krebsbach, J. M. (2024, February 17). Some glass in need of a good smashing. New Sociological Perspectives [Blog]. https://www.rightsofequality.com/some-glass-in-need-of-a-good-smashing/
Krebsbach, J. M. (2022). Women in academia: Representation, tenure, and publication patterns in the STEM and social sciences fields. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 24(5). http://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yjbxw.
Krebsbach, J. M. (2022). The impact of academic publication: Publication patterns of women in behavior analytic journals. Frontiers in Sociology, 7:782914. http://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.782914
Krebsbach, J. M. (2021). Participation by women in behavior analytic journals (Publication No. 28492734) [Master’s thesis, California State University Sacramento]. ProQuest ETD.
Teaching
PSC 12Y- Data Visualization- Teaching Assistant (Fall 2023; Winter 2024; Spring 2024)
Soc 003- Social Problems- Teaching Assistant, Sections A05 and A06 (Spring 2023)
Soc 003- Social Problems- Reader (Winter 2023)
Soc 195- Criminalizing Asian and Latinx Communities (Winter 2023)
Soc 002- Self and Society- Teaching Assistant, Sections A01 and A02 (Fall 2022)
(see course descriptions here)
Awards
Best Poster Award, APA Division 37, August 2024
Scholarship Recipient, Folds of Honor, August 2024
Travel Grant Recipient, Sociology Department, UC Davis, June 2024
Scholarship Recipient, Folds of Honor, December 2023
Scholarship Recipient, Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, May 2023
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (Nomination), Winter 2023
Scholarship Recipient, Folds of Honor, August 2022
Scholarship Recipient, Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, May 2022
Semi-Finalist, Inaugural Statewide CSU Grad Slam Competition, May 2021
First Place Winner, 35th Annual Statewide CSU Student Research Competition, April 2021
First Place Winner, Inaugural Grad Slam, CSU Sacramento, April 2021
Student Research and Creative Activities Grant Recipient, CSU Sacramento, April 2021
First Place Winner, Student Research and Creative Activities Spring Symposium, CSU Sacramento, April 2021
Special Recognition, California Association for Behavior Analysis, March 2021
Provost’s Award for Research Excellence Recipient, CSU Sacramento, March 2021
Outstanding Graduate Student (Nomination), CSU Sacramento, March 2021
Graduate Equity Fellowship Recipient, CSU Sacramento, March 2021
Faculty Senate Endowment for Student Scholarships Award (Nomination), CSU Sacramento, Fall 2020