Position Title
PhD Candidate
Designated Emphases
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. My mixed methods dissertation is focused on how the current external political threats to academic freedom have differential effects for early career sociologists based on their research and teaching agenda, and I hypothesize that the outcomes will be both gendered and racialized.
Publications
Hendley, Hayden, Donna A. Alvarez, Jennifer M. Krebsbach, and Victoria L. Cross. [Book Chapter R&R Under Review]. "From Bleeding Edge to Leading Edge: Pedagogical Evolution in the AI Era." AI as a Pedagogical Partner: Tools and Techniques for the Teaching of Psychology, edited by J. Miranda, C. Costa, and L. Rosen.
Krebsbach, Jennifer M., and Victoria L. Cross. (R&R Under Review). "Navigating the Moral Panic: Encouraging Appropriate Use of GenAI in the Classroom Rather Than Condemning Innovation as Disruption." Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.
Krebsbach, Jennifer M., Jane E. Lee, Steven Zeck, Arti Thakur, and Martin Hilbert. (R&R under review). "Does ChatGPT Reinforce Gender Stereotypes? An Algorithmic Audit of Gender Bias in LLM-Generated Job Descriptions." Gender, Work & Organizations [Special Issue: "AI: Feminist perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace"]
Krebsbach, Jennifer M. 2024. "Increasing Online Attendance Using Insignificantly Impactful Extra Credit as Positive Reinforcement." Journal of Educators Online 24(4). https://doi.org/10.9743/JEO.2024.21.4.14
Hobbs, Sue D., Krebsbach, Jennifer M., Rakel P. Larsen, Christine R. Wells, and Karen J. Saywitz. 2024. Voices of foster youth: Experts on their own lives. New York, NY: Routledge.
Krebsbach, Jennifer M. 2024, February 17. "Some Glass in Need of a Good Smashing" [Blog]. https://www.rightsofequality.com/some-glass-in-need-of-a-good-smashing/
Krebsbach, Jennifer 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, Jennifer 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, Jennifer M. 2021. "Participation by Women in Behavior Analytic Journals" (Publication No. 28492734) [Master’s thesis, California State University, Sacramento]. ProQuest ETD.
- 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
- ASA Student Forum Paper Award, May 2026
- Graduate Mentorship Research Fellowship 2026-2027
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (Nomination), Winter 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026
- Jane Permaul Scholarship, University Credit Union, March 2026
- Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, California Sociological Association, November 2025
- Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, Pacific Sociological Association, March 2025
- Best AI Research Award, CSS Escape 2025: Engineering Our Experimental Futures, February 2025
- Best Poster Award, APA Division 37, August 2024
- 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
- First Place Winner, Student Research and Creative Activities Spring Symposium, CSU Sacramento, April 2021
- Provost’s Award for Research Excellence Recipient, CSU Sacramento, March 2021
- SOC 056- Introduction to Social Statistics (Fall 2025; Spring 2026)
- SOC 126- Social Interaction (Winter 2026)
- SOC 132- Sociology of Gender- Reader (Summer 2025)
- CMN 150V- Computational Social Sciences (Winter 2025)
- SOC 124- Education & Inequality in the U.S. (Fall 2024)
- PSC 12Y- Data Visualization (Fall 2023; Winter 2024; Spring 2024; Spring 2025)
- SOC 003- Social Problems (Spring 2023)
- SOC 003- Social Problems- Reader (Winter 2023)
- SOC 002- Self and Society (Fall 2022)
- Gender equity
- Occupations, organizations, and work
- Sex and Gender
- Intersectionality
- Tenure trifecta
- Inequity in academic publications
- 2022-present: Graduate Students of Sociology Association (GSSA) UCD- Colloquium Committee (2025-present); R&D Mini Conference (2024-present); Awards, Nominations, and Promotions Committee (2023-present); Chair (2023-2024); Administrative Chair (2022-2023)
- 2026-present: Committee on Freedom in Research and Teaching, Pacific Sociological Association- Committee Member
- 2025-present: Teaching and Learning in Sociology Section, American Sociological Association- Student Representative
- 2025-present: Computational Social Sciences Designated Emphasis, UCD- Student Representative
- 2023-present: Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education- Peer Reviewer
- 2021-present: American Association of University Women (AAUW) Sacramento Scholarship Committee- Chair
- 2023-2025: Child and Family Care Administrative Advisory Committee, UCD- Graduate and Professional Student Parent Working Group Subcommittee Member
- 2021-2024: AAUW California- Branch Activity of the Year Award Committee Chair