Professor Noble is a teaching professor of Political Science and maintains a research program centered on the complex intersections of environmental policy, political governance, and global health, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. His research explores global inequalities from a political-economic perspective and is concerned with internal and external threats to democracy in East Africa. Professor Noble uses diverse approaches, including quantitative analysis of epidemiological and environmental data as well as qualitative, case-study research conducted in Eastern Uganda. One of Professor Noble's current projects includes research underway with Lehigh undergraduate students investigating youth attitudes towards and challenges with HIV in rural Uganda and the impact of international aid on accessibility to HIV services. Noble's research has been published in a variety of outlets, including Social Indicators Research, Global Health Governance, and the Journal of World-Systems Research.
Mark Noble
Teaching Assistant Professor
Director, Graduate Programs
Director, Environmental Policy program
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
M.A. in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
M.A. in Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2007
B.A. in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2004
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Research Areas
Additional Interests
- Political Economy
- Environmental Studies
- East African Politics
- Global Development
Research Statement
Biography
Mark Noble is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University and serves as the graduate director for the M.A. in Politics and Policy, the M.P.P., and the M.A. in Environmental Policy. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also earned a M.A. in Latin American Studies at Tulane University and his B.A. in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lehigh prior to joining the Political Science Department.
Scholarship
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.
Teaching
POLS 090 - How is our consumption making everyone sick?
POLS 402 - Methods of Policy Analysis