She is also interested in how social organizations (like schools and hospitals) shape social relationships and social interactions in ways that have implications for the production of inequality and the health and wellbeing of individual members. In addition to her current project on youth suicide, Mueller has a second strand of research that examines the production of gender inequality in medicine during residency training, with a focus on emergency medicine
Mueller draws on diverse literatures to motivate her research, including social psychology, cultural sociology, organizational sociology, sociology of emotions, and social network theories. Her conceptual interests are matched by her methodological interests in social network analysis, causal inference, multi-level modeling, and ethnography. She is also committed to public sociology and translating the insights of her research into policies and interventions
Research Interests:
- Suicide; Children/Youth, Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Social Psychology; Culture
Broadly speaking, Anna's research examines how social relationships shape adolescent health and wellbeing over the transition to adulthood, with a focus on suicidality and weight-control behaviors. Her research emphasizes why and how behaviors and values spread between individuals generally using insights from social psychology, social network theories, and sociology of emotions.
Skills and Expertise:
- Quantitative Analysis
- Academic Writing
- Data Analysis
- Interviewing
- Qualitative Analysis
- Research Methodology
- Data Collection
- Sociology
- Methodology
- Research Analysis
The primary strand of Mueller’s research agenda examines how social relationships and social contexts shape adolescent health and wellbeing over the transition to adulthood, with a focus on adolescent suicide and suicide clusters. Her current project investigates (1) how suicidal behaviors and emotional distress spread between youth, (2) what factors facilitate the formation of suicide clusters in schools and communities, and (3) how social environments in communities, schools, families, and among peers, contribute to youth’s vulnerability to suicide and emotional distress. She is also interested in how social organizations (like schools and hospitals) shape social relationships and social interactions in ways that have implications for the production of inequality and the health and wellbeing of individual organization members. In addition to her current project on youth suicide, Mueller has a second strand of research that examines the production of gender inequality in medicine during residency training, with a focus on emergency medicine.
