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Dr. Parsons serves the Sociology and Criminology programs at Eastern. His specialization areas include drugs and drug policy, survey research methodology, and sociology of sport. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University.
Parsons, Nicholas L. 2014. Meth Mania: A History of Methamphetamine. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Parsons, Nicholas L. and Matthew J. Manierre. 2014. “Investigating the Relationship among Prepaid Token Incentives, Response Rates, and Nonresponse Bias in a Web Survey.” Field Methods 26:191-204.
Parsons, Nicholas L. and Michael J. Stern. 2012. “There’s No Dying in Baseball: Cultural Valorization, Collective Memory, and Induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.” Sociology of Sport Journal 29:62-88.
Christian, Leah M., Nicholas L. Parsons, and Don A. Dillman. 2009. “Designing Scalar Questions for Web Surveys.” Sociological Methods & Research 37:393-425.
Allen, Michael P. and Nicholas L. Parsons. 2006. “The Institutionalization of Fame: Achievement, Recognition, and Cultural Consecration in Baseball.” American Sociological Review 71:808-26.