Publications

  1. Main, J.B., Pantoja, C., Lord, S., Mobley, C. & C. Brawner. (2025). Transitioning into engineering education: Diverse pathways of military veterans. Journal of Engineering Education. doi/10.1002/jee.20628
  2. McGee, E., Cox, M., Main, J.B., Hailu, M., & Miles, M. (2024). Wage disparities in academia for engineering women of color and the limitations of advocacy and agency. Research in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-023-09766-3
  3. Brawner, C., Lord, S.M., Mobley, C. & Main, J.B. (2024). Fit, faith, and family: Counterspaces for Black Male Veterans in Engineering Education. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 30(4): 55-83. 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2022040286
  4. McGee, E.O., White, D.; Main, J.B., Cox, M.F. & Parker, L. (2023). How women of colour engineering faculty respond to wage disparities. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(6): 1101-1108. 10.1080/01419870.2022.2159474
  5. Main, J.B. (2023). Family Formation and the Career Trajectories of Engineering Doctorates. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 14(1): 26-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-05-2020-0026
  6. Yoon, S. Y., Aldridge, J., Cox., M., Main, J.B., McGee, E., & Hailu, M. (2023). Validation of the workplace climate scale for STEM Faculty framed in intersectionality of gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic background. Research in Higher Education, 64: 933-958. 10.1007/s11162-022-09724-5
  7. Mobley, C., Lord, S.M., Main, J.B., Brawner, C.E., & Murphy, J. (2022). “Stepping out” for military service: Challenges experienced by students serving in the Reserves or National Guard. Journal of Veterans Studies, (8)3:222-238. https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v8i3.346
  8. Main, J.B., McGee, E., Cox, M.F., Tan, Li & Berdanier, C. (2022). Trends in the underrepresentation of women of Color faculty in engineering (2005-2018). Journal of Diversity in Higher education. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000426
  9. Katz, A.  & Main, J. (2022). Applying concepts from political science and economics to advance the study of engineering education. Studies in Engineering Education, 3(1): 28-52. https://seejournal.org/articles/10.21061/see.75
  10. Main, J. B., Griffith, A., Xu, X. & Dukes, A. M. (2022). Choosing an engineering discipline: A conceptual model of student pathways into engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 111(1)-40-64. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20429
  11. Main, J.B., Wang, Y. , & Tan, L. (2021). Preparing industry leaders: The role of doctoral education and early career management training in the leadership trajectories of female STEM PhDs. Research in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11162-021-09655
  12. Griffith, A.L. & Main, J.B. (2021). The role of the teaching assistant: Female role models in the classroom. Economics of Education Review, 85. doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102179
  13. Main, J.B., Wang, Y. & Tan, L. (2021). The career outlook of engineering PhDs: Influence of postdoctoral research positions on the attainment of tenure track faculty positions and academic salaries. Journal of Engineering Education, https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20416
  14. Wang, Y.  & Main, J.B. (2021). The influence of postdoctoral training on the attainment of faculty careers and academic salaries in the social sciences versus STEM fields. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, DOI: 10.1108/SGPE-04-2020-0025
  15. Mondisa, J. & Main, J.B. (2021). Mentors’ Perceptions of their African-American Undergraduate Protégés’ Needs and Challenges. Journal of Negro Education, 90(2): 195-210. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7709/jnegroeducation.90.2.0195
  16. Tan, L., Main, J.B., & Darolia, R. (2021). Using random forest analysis to identify student demographic and high school-level factors that predict college engineering major choice. Journal of Engineering Education, 110(3): 572-593. 10.1002/jee.20393
  17. Main, J.B., Johnson, B., & Wang, Y. (2021). Gatekeepers of engineering workforce diversity: The academic and employment returns to student participation in voluntary cooperative education programs. Research in Higher Education, 62: 448-477. 10.1007/s11162-020-09596-7
  18. Camacho, M.M., Lord, S.M., Mobley, C., Main, J.B. & Brawner, C.E. (2021). Transitions of student military veterans into engineering education. Social Sciences, 10(6):228. 10.3390/socsci10060228
  19. McGee, E., Main, J.B., Cox, M.F., Miles, M.L. (2021). An intersectional approach to investigating persistence among women of color tenure-track engineering faculty. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 27(1): 57-84. 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2020035632
  20. Main, J.B., Tan, L., Cox, M.F. & McGee, E. (2020). The correlation between undergraduate student diversity and the representation of women of color faculty in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 109(4): 843-864. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20361
  21. Main, J.B. & Wang, Y. (2020). Intercultural competency among engineering graduate students. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 11(2): 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-06-2019-0058
  22. Darolia, R., Koedel, C., Main, J.B., Ndashimye, J.F. & Yan, J. (2020). High school course access and postsecondary STEM enrollment and attainment. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 42(1): 22-45. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373719876923
  23. Main, J.B., Johnson, B., Ramirez, N., Ebrahiminejad, H., Ohland, M.W. & Groll, E. (2020). A Case for Disaggregating Engineering Disciplines in Engineering Education Research: The Relationship between Co-Op Participation and Student Academic Outcomes. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(1A): 170-185. https://opp.purdue.edu/about/publication-pdf/disaggregating-engineering-majors-in-engineering-education-research
  24. Main, J.B. & Griffith, A. (2019). From SIGNALS to success: The effects of an online advising system on course grades. Education Economics, 27(6):608-623. 10.1080/09645292.2019.1674248
  25. Mobley, C., Brawner, C., Lord, S., Main, J.B. & Camacho, M. (2019). Digging deep: Qualitative research methods for eliciting narratives and counter-narratives from student veterans. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(10): 1210-1228. 10.1080/09518398.2019.1659440
  26. Main, J.B., Prenovitz, S., and Ehrenberg, R. (2019). In pursuit of a tenure-track faculty position: Career progression and satisfaction of humanities and social sciences doctorates. The Review of Higher Education, 42(4): 1309-1336. 10.1353/rhe.2019.0067
  27. Griffith, A. & Main, J.B. (2019). First impressions in the classroom: How do class characteristics affect student grades and majors? Economics of Education Review, 69: 125-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.02.001
  28. Main, J.B., Camacho, M., Mobley, C., Brawner, C., Lord, S. & Kesim, H. (2019). Technically and tactically proficient: How military leadership training and experiences are enacted in engineering education. International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(2): 446-457. https://ijee.ie/1atestissues/Vol35-2/03_ijee3719.pdf
  29. Mobley, C., Main, J.B., Brawner, C., Camacho, M. & Lord, S. (2019). Pride and Promise: Identity Salience and Enactment of First-Generation Student Veterans in Engineering. International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(1A): 35-49. https://ijee.ie/1atestissues/Vol35-1A/05_ijee3697.pdf
  30. Main, J.B. (2018). Kanter’s Theory of Proportions: Organizational demography and PhD completion in science and engineering departments. Research in Higher Education, 59(8): 1059-1073. DOI: 10.1007/s11162-018-9499-x
  31. Main, J.B. & Schimpf, C. (2017). The underrepresentation of women in computing fields: A synthesis of literature using a life course perspective. IEEE Transactions on Education, 60(4): 296-304. 10.1109/TE.2017.2704060
  32. Ramirez, N., Smith, S., Smith, C., Berg, T., Strubel B., Ohland, M. & Main, J.B. (2016). From interest to decision: A comparative exploration of student attitudes and pathways to co-op programs in the United States and the United Kingdom. International Journal of Engineering Education: 32(5A): 1867-1878. https://opp.purdue.edu/about/publication-pdf/comparative-exploration-of-student-attitudes
  33. Main, J.B., Mumford, K. & Ohland, M.W. (2015). Examining the influence of engineering students’ course grades on major choice and major switching behavior. International Journal of Engineering Education 31(6A): 1468-1475. https://business.purdue.edu/faculty/kjmumfor/papers/engineering-grades-and-major-switching-2015.pdf
  34. Main, J.B. (2014). Gender homophily, Ph.D. completion, and time to degree in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The Review of Higher Education 37(3): 349-375. 10.1353/rhe.2014.0019
  35. Main, J.B. & Ost, B. (2014). The impact of grades on student effort, course selection, and major choice: A regression-discontinuity analysis. Journal of Economic Education 45(1): 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2014.859953
  36. Ehrenberg, R.G., Jakubson G.H., Martin, M.L., Main, J.B. & Eisenberg, T. (2012). Diversifying the faculty across gender lines: Do trustees and administrators matter? Economics of Education Review 31(1): 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.10.003
  37. McGowan, C.P., Duarte, H.A., Main, J.B., and A.A. Biewener. (2006). Effects of load carrying on metabolic cost and hindlimb dynamics in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris). Journal of Applied Physiology 101:1060-1069. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.01538.2005