Rate My Professor Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott

Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott is Associate Professor in Sociology and Head of the Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Otago. She earned her MSc from Purdue University and PhD from the University of Arizona. Prior to her current role, she held positions including at Purdue University Calumet and collaborated with researchers at Pennsylvania State University. At Otago, she progressed from lecturer to senior lecturer before her promotion to associate professor. Hohmann-Marriott serves as co-director of the Menstrual Health Research Network and leads interdisciplinary projects on menstrual cycle health information and digital health experiences.

Her research focuses on family demography, sociology of health, quantitative social research methods, critical digital health, population and childbearing dynamics, and critical menstrual-cycle studies. Specific interests include parenting, father involvement with children, fertility decisions, unplanned pregnancies, and user experiences with menstrual-cycle tracking apps. She has received the Reuben Hill Award in 2008 for the paper 'A Comparison of High- and Low-Distress Marriages that End in Divorce' co-authored with Paul R. Amato, and a $30,000 Health Research Council Health Delivery Research Activation Grant for work on menstrual apps. Key publications include 'Fertility and infertility uses of menstrual apps from the perspectives of healthcare providers and patients' (2024, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology), 'Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information' (2023, New Media & Society), '"Have more babies": Framing fertility and population dynamics in Aotearoa New Zealand' (2023, New Zealand Population Review), '"What if it\'s wrong?" Ovulation and fertility understanding of menstrual app users' (2022, SSM Qualitative Research in Health), 'Relationship Quality in Interethnic Marriages and Cohabitations' (2008, Social Forces), 'Coparenting and Father Involvement in Married and Unmarried Coresident Couples' (2011, Journal of Marriage and Family), and 'Shared Beliefs and the Union Stability of Married and Cohabiting Couples' (2006, Journal of Marriage and Family). Her contributions have advanced knowledge in family transitions, union stability, and reproductive health technologies through quantitative analyses and qualitative insights.