Mark Noble

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
31 Williams Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015
mdn215@lehigh.edu

 

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Interests: 
Environmental Sociology, Global Health, Political Sociology, Quantitative Research Methods

Recent Publications: 

Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Virginia Burndt. 2021. “Dying Climates and Disproportionate Disease: Droughts and Women’s Vulnerability to HIV.” Social Indicators Research 154:313-334.

Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Laura A. McKinney. 2020. “Climate Disasters Contaminate Women: Investigating Cross-National Linkages between Disasters, Hunger, and Women’s HIV in Less-Developed Nations.” Global Health Governance 10(1): 86-102.

Noble, Mark D. 2019. “Democracy and Infant Mortality in Less-Developed Nations: Dismantling Differences in Direct and Indirect Effects Modeling.” Sociological Perspectives 62(3):282-307.

Noble, Mark D. 2017. “Chocolate and the Consumption of Forests: A Cross-National Examination of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Cocoa Exports.” Journal of World-Systems Research 23(2):236-268.

Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Kellyn McCarthy. 2017. “Conditionality Contaminates Conservation: Structural Adjustment and Land Protection in Less-Developed Nations.” International Journal of Social Science Studies 5(5):46-58.

Noble, Mark D. and Kelly F. Austin. 2016. “Rural Disadvantage and Malaria Prevalence in Less-Developed Nations: A Cross-National Investigation of a Forgotten Disease.” Rural Sociology 81(1):99-134.

Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Maria Theresa Mejia. 2014. “Gendered Vulnerabilities to a Neglected Disease: A Comparative Investigation of Women's Legal Economic Rights and Social Status on Malaria Rates.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 55(3): 204-228.

Austin, Kelly and Mark D. Noble. 2014. “Measuring Gender Disparity in the HIV Pandemic: A Cross-National Investigation of Female Health Resources, Income Inequality, and Disease in Less-Developed Nations.” Sociological Inquiry 8(1): 102-130.

Noble, Mark D. and Kelly F. Austin. 2013. “Gendered Dimensions of the HIV Pandemic: A Cross-National Investigation of Women’s International Non-Governmental Organizations, Contraceptive Use, and HIV Prevalence in Less-Developed Nations.” Sociological Forum 29(1): 215-239.

Bollen, Kenneth A., Mark D. Noble, and Linda Adair. 2013. “Are Gestational Age, Birth Weight, and Birth Length Indicators of Favorable Fetal Growth Conditions? A Structural Equation Analysis of Filipino Infants.” Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 32, 17:2950-2961.

Bollen, Kenneth A. and Mark D. Noble. 2011. “Structural Equation Models and the Quantification of Behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, Supplement 3:15639-15646.