Orestes "Pat" Hastings is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. Pat's research lies broadly at the intersection of inequality, economic sociology, and family demography. Most of his current work focuses on using quantitative and computational methods to understand the socioeconomic correlates of parenting and their implications for children’s lives. But he has trouble sticking to one topic, and so he has published articles on income inequality, happiness, religion, the spiritual but not religious, gender, social capital, social psychology, survey methodology, and even physics (long ago...). These publications include work in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Social Forces. Pat teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on research design and quantitative methods. More details about his work can be found on his website. Pat also finds it odd to write about himself in 3rd person.