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Dana Garbarski, PhD

Associate Professor

Dana Garbarski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the University Core Curriculum at 黑料门University Chicago. As a sociologist, Dana’s research goals are to examine and inform the valid and reliable collection of survey data on health and well-being, with an intersectional focus on dimensions of race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and sexuality. Her methodological focus is on survey methodology, as surveys are a core methodology through which social, behavioral, and medical researchers learn about the health and well-being of populations. Her work has been published in several journals in the fields of sociology, public opinion, survey research, and health. Dana is co-PI of the , a collaborative effort that brings together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students to shed new light on the attitudes and behaviors of residents of Cook County.

Dr. Garbarski received her PhD in Sociology and her MS in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also completed a postdoctoral research position in the Health Disparities Research Scholars program in the Center for Women's Health and Health Disparities Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Education

PhD, Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2012

MS, Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2012

MS, Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007

BS, Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004

Professional/Community Affiliations

  • American Association for Public Opinion Research
  • American Sociological Association
  • Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research
  • Midwest Sociological Society

Publications/Research Listings

Garbarski, Dana, Jennifer Dykema, James A. Yonker, Rosie Eungyuhl Bae, Rachel A. Rosenfeld. 2025. “Improving the Measurement of Gender in Surveys: Effects of Categorical Versus Open-Ended Response Formats on Measurement and Data Quality Among College Students.” Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 13(1), 18-38.  

Doherty, David, Raluca Pavel, Maddie Jackson, and Dana M. Garbarski. 2024. “Who Is Interested in Participating in Participatory Budgeting?” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 24(2):121-144.

Garbarski, Dana, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron Jones, Tiffany Neman, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards. 2024. “Questioning identity: How a diverse set of respondents answer standard questions about ethnicity and race.” Field Methods, 36(2), 113-130. 

Vivas Bastidas, Juanita, Maria Akchurin, Dana Garbarski, and David Doherty. 2024 “How Local Perceptions Contribute to Urban Environmental Activism: Evidence from the Chicago Metropolitan Area.” The Sociological Quarterly, 65(1):38-60. 

Garbarski, Dana, Jennifer Dykema, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Cameron Jones, Tiffany Neman, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards. 2023 “Factors Associated with Interviewers’ Evaluations of Respondents’ Performance in Telephone Interviews: Behavior, Response Quality Indicators, and Characteristics of Respondents and Interviewers.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 87(S1):480-506.

Doherty, David, Dana Garbarski, and Pablo Guzman Rivera. 2023. “Null Effects of Framing Welcoming Ordinances.” Survey Practice 16 (1). .

Garbarski, Dana. 2023. “The Measurement of Gender Expression in Surveys.” Social Science Research 110, 102845.

Navarrete, Keyla, Skky Martin, Dana Garbarski, and David Doherty. 2022. “Cook County Community Survey: A Study on Policing and Neighborhood Perceptions.” Illinois Municipal Policy Journal 7(1).

Dykema, Jennifer, Cameron Jones, Dana Garbarski, Mia Farias, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards. 2022. “Exploring the Relationship between Medical Research Literacy and Respondents’ Expressed Likelihood to Participate in a Clinical Trial ” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(22):15168.

Garbarski, Dana, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Jennifer Dykema. 2022. “Examining Interviewers’ Ratings of Respondents’ Health: Does Placement in the Survey Matter?” Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 10(2):Pages 276-98.  

Dykema, Jennifer, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dana Garbarski, Nadia Assad, and Steven Blixt. 2022. “Towards a Reconsideration of the Use of Agree-Disagree Questions in Measuring Subjective Evaluations.” Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 18(2):2335–44.

Neman, Tiffany S., Jennifer Dykema, Dana Garbarski, Cameron Jones, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Dorothy Farrar-Edwards. "Survey Monetary Incentives: Digital Payments as an Alternative to Direct Mail." Survey Practice 15, no. 1 (2022): 30030.

Garbarski, Dana, Keyla Navarrete, and David Doherty. 2021. “Polling on police use of body cameras: The effect of response option order on distribution and concurrent validity.” Survey Practice 14 (1): 27194. 

Garbarski, Dana. 2021. “The Survey Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Configurations of Sexual Identity and Attraction and Associations with Mental Health.” LGBT Health, 8(4), 307-15.

Garbarski, Dana, and Dana LaVergne. 2020. “The Measurement of Gender Expression and Sexual Attraction: Cognitive Interviews with Queer Women.” Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications, edited by P. Brenner. Springer.

Dykema, Jennifer, Dana Garbarski, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Isabel Anadon, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards. 2020. “Correlates of Differences in Interactional Patterns among Black and White Respondents” Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications, edited by P. Brenner. Springer.  

Goyal, Reeti, Skky Martin, and Dana Garbarski. 2020. “Perceptions of Cultural Competency in Pre-Medical Undergraduate Students.” Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 7, 2382120520934823.

Garbarski, Dana, Jennifer Dykema, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards. 2020. “Response Times as an Indicator of Data Quality: Associations with Interviewer, Respondent, and Question Characteristics in a Health Survey of Diverse Respondents.” Interviewer Effects from a Total Survey Error Perspective, edited by K. Olson, J. Dykema, A. Holbrook, F. Kreuter, J. Smyth, and B. West.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Min, Bo Hee, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dana Garbarski, and Jennifer Dykema. 2020.  Journal of Official Statistics, 36(3), pp. 529-59.

Awards

  • Vincent J. Duminuco, S.J. Award for Assessment Leadership 2024
  • Sujack Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence 2020
  • Burns “Bud” Roper Fellow Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research 2017
  • Honored Instructor by students on the LUC Women’s Basketball Team 2014
  • Lumpkin Award for Best Dissertation in Wisconsin Sociology (co-winner) 2013
  • Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award 2013
  • Health Equity Leadership Institute Scholar 2013
  • Honored Instructor by students in University Housing 2013

News

  • Data from the  (co-PIs: David Doherty and Dana Garbarski) is available online
  • Dana Garbarski's co-authored Cook County Community Survey was highlighted in news stories about attitudes on recent migrant arrivals:
    • March 2024: 
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  • Dana Garbarski's co-authored Cook County Community Survey was highlighted in these two WBEZ Chicago news stories:
    • April 2021: 
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