Pre-General:
Sofya Aptekar,
B.A. in Sociology, Yale. Sofya's main areas of interest include migration, stratification and inequality, and gender. She is currently researching trends in living arrangements of young adults in Europe and Japan. Before coming to Princeton, Sofya was a certified special education teacher in Austin, Texas.
B.A. in Sociology, Yale. Sofya's main areas of interest include migration, stratification and inequality, and gender. She is currently researching trends in living arrangements of young adults in Europe and Japan. Before coming to Princeton, Sofya was a certified special education teacher in Austin, Texas.
Michael O. Benediktsson,
B.A. Wesleyan. Michael's interests are in political sociology, urban sociology and globalization. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in American Studies, he worked in political journalism and international humanitarian aid and advocacy.
B.A. Wesleyan. Michael's interests are in political sociology, urban sociology and globalization. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in American Studies, he worked in political journalism and international humanitarian aid and advocacy.
Bart Bonikowski,B.A. Queen's University (Canada); M.A. Duke University. Bart's general interests include culture, sociological theory, racial inequality, and social networks. His past research has dealt with such diverse topics as surveillance and racial profiling after 9/11, conflicts surrounding Jewish and Polish collective memory, narratives of race and ethnicity in school curricula, and theories of social action. His master's thesis, entitled "Dancing to Darwin's Beat: A Dynamic Analysis of Cultural Niches in Blau Space,"pwd applied McPherson's ecological theory of voluntary associations to the dynamic study of musical genres. In his future work, Bart hopes to continue exploring network-based theories of culture and to eventually link them with his interest in racial inequality in the United States.
Sharon Bzostek,
B.A. Rice University (Sociology and Policy Studies). Before coming to Princeton, Sharon worked for several years in the Social Indicators content area at Child Trends in Washington, DC. Her research interests include demography, inequality, family, poverty, and health.
B.A. Rice University (Sociology and Policy Studies). Before coming to Princeton, Sharon worked for several years in the Social Indicators content area at Child Trends in Washington, DC. Her research interests include demography, inequality, family, poverty, and health.
Michelle Fowles,
B.A. Stanford University. Sociology of Culture, Ethnic Minorities, Race, and Minority Relations. M.A. Princeton University. Michelle has experience in survey research and qualitative studies. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, education and culture and inequality.
B.A. Stanford University. Sociology of Culture, Ethnic Minorities, Race, and Minority Relations. M.A. Princeton University. Michelle has experience in survey research and qualitative studies. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, education and culture and inequality.
James Gibbon,
BA Wheaton College. James' main interests include religion, migration and the Near East, with special emphasis on the role of Islam in modern Turkey and the experiences of Muslim immigrants in the U.S. Before attending Princeton, James spent three years in Istanbul, initially working as the finance manager for a disaster relief project and later teaching English as a foreign language.
BA Wheaton College. James' main interests include religion, migration and the Near East, with special emphasis on the role of Islam in modern Turkey and the experiences of Muslim immigrants in the U.S. Before attending Princeton, James spent three years in Istanbul, initially working as the finance manager for a disaster relief project and later teaching English as a foreign language.
Alice Goffman,
B.A. University of Pennsylvania. Alice's interests are in race, inequality, and the city. She is currently doing work on the informal economy and the criminal justice system.
B.A. University of Pennsylvania. Alice's interests are in race, inequality, and the city. She is currently doing work on the informal economy and the criminal justice system.
Erin Jacobs,
B.A. Sociology, Cornell University, 2003. Erin's research interests include education, inequality, residential segregation, criminology, and public policy. Before coming to Princeton, Erin worked as a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University.
B.A. Sociology, Cornell University, 2003. Erin's research interests include education, inequality, residential segregation, criminology, and public policy. Before coming to Princeton, Erin worked as a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University.
Kenneth Jamison,
B.A. English Literature (Washington University in St. Louis). Kenneth's research interests include sociology of culture, race, mass media and regional sociology, with a focus on the influence of U.S. popular culture in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Prior to attending Princeton, Kenneth spent two and a half years in Taipei, Taiwan, studying Chinese at Chung Hua University and Japanese at Eikan Language School. During that time, he also trained teachers and taught English as a foreign language.
B.A. English Literature (Washington University in St. Louis). Kenneth's research interests include sociology of culture, race, mass media and regional sociology, with a focus on the influence of U.S. popular culture in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Prior to attending Princeton, Kenneth spent two and a half years in Taipei, Taiwan, studying Chinese at Chung Hua University and Japanese at Eikan Language School. During that time, he also trained teachers and taught English as a foreign language.
Alicia Juskewycz,B.A. in Psychology, Pomona College. Alicia is interested in cognitive approaches to sociology, emphasizing interaction between cognitive factors in their located cultural contexts with broader social trends and institutions. She is especially interested in religion and other social systems of belief, with related interests in social movements, culture, political and economic sociology, and critical theory.
Pierre Antoine Kremp,BA, Economics, MA Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. Pierre graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 2004, after completing his master's thesis on the diffusion of stock ownership in France. His main research interests include economic sociology, inequality and sociology of culture.
Valerie Lewis,
B.A. Sociology, Rice University. Valerie's interests include race and ethnicity, urban sociology, inequality, and networks. Her work thus far has examined racial segregation in several spheres, including neighborhoods, social networks, schools, and higher education. Valerie is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient.
B.A. Sociology, Rice University. Valerie's interests include race and ethnicity, urban sociology, inequality, and networks. Her work thus far has examined racial segregation in several spheres, including neighborhoods, social networks, schools, and higher education. Valerie is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient.
Carol Ann MacGregor,
B.A.H. Political Studies/History (Queen's University), MA, Sociology (McGill University). Carol Ann's Masters work looked at contemporary Catholic women's social movements in Canada. Her current research interests are in cultural sociology and sociology of the family, with a particular focus on religion, gender, political behaviour, children and prayer. She can be reached via email at camacgre@princeton.edu
B.A.H. Political Studies/History (Queen's University), MA, Sociology (McGill University). Carol Ann's Masters work looked at contemporary Catholic women's social movements in Canada. Her current research interests are in cultural sociology and sociology of the family, with a particular focus on religion, gender, political behaviour, children and prayer. She can be reached via email at camacgre@princeton.edu
Emily Marshall,
B.A. in Russian Studies and Mathematics, Pomona College. Emily's interests in sociology include inequality, economic sociology and networks. Before coming to Princeton she worked for the International Research and Exchanges Board in Washington, D.C. and in Russia on programs for educational exchange and small business development.
B.A. in Russian Studies and Mathematics, Pomona College. Emily's interests in sociology include inequality, economic sociology and networks. Before coming to Princeton she worked for the International Research and Exchanges Board in Washington, D.C. and in Russia on programs for educational exchange and small business development.
Rebekah Peeples Massengill,B.A. Davidson College; M.Div. Union Theological Seminary & PSCE. Rebekah's areas of interest include religion, inequality, and organizations, with a particular focus on the religious beliefs and practices of low-income persons and the study of neighborhood institutions in poor communities. Before coming to Princeton she spent several years working at an urban congregation in Richmond, VA.
G. Cristina Mora-Torres - Cristina is originally from Los Angeles and received her B.A. in Sociology from UC Berkeley (2002). During the 2002 academic year Cristina was a visting scholar in the Sociology Department of La Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. Cristina is interested in the Latino media, Culture, Sociology of Religion, Economic Sociology, Sociology of the Professions, Classical Theory, Gender and the study of Social Inequality. In 2004 she received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Alexandra Murphy. B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University. Alexandra's interests include urban sociology, ethnography, race and ethnicity, inequality and culture. Before attending Princeton, Alexandra worked at the Center for Urban Research and Policy, Columbia University, conducting research on the indoor sex trade in New York City, the transformation of public housing in Chicago, and the informal economy. In 2005 she received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Petra Nahmias,
BSc Environmental Science, University of London. MA Demography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Petra's research interests lie in social demography, particularly fertility, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She is especially interested in the intersection of the effect of ethnicity, religion and race on fertility such as African-American fertility and fertility according to ethnicity in post-Soviet Central Asia and the sociology of reproductive health, for example a socio-demographic analysis of obstetric fistula and the effect of religion on the spread of HIV/AIDS. Prior to coming to Princeton she worked as head of the demography division in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. During her masters work, she interned in Ethiopia with the UN during and worked as a research and teaching assistant, focusing on Moslem fertility in Israel. Before that she taught Environmental Health at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, and traveled for an extended period in the region. Apart from her studies, her other other full-time occupation is being Mommy to one-year old Maya.
BSc Environmental Science, University of London. MA Demography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Petra's research interests lie in social demography, particularly fertility, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She is especially interested in the intersection of the effect of ethnicity, religion and race on fertility such as African-American fertility and fertility according to ethnicity in post-Soviet Central Asia and the sociology of reproductive health, for example a socio-demographic analysis of obstetric fistula and the effect of religion on the spread of HIV/AIDS. Prior to coming to Princeton she worked as head of the demography division in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. During her masters work, she interned in Ethiopia with the UN during and worked as a research and teaching assistant, focusing on Moslem fertility in Israel. Before that she taught Environmental Health at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, and traveled for an extended period in the region. Apart from her studies, her other other full-time occupation is being Mommy to one-year old Maya.
Sara Nephew,University of California, Berkeley. Sara's interests include communications, economic sociology, and the sociology of law. Her present work deals with issues related to Internet accessibility as well as with political struggles around new information technologies. She is also interested in environmental sociology and has been collaborating with three other students on a project that explores the way ranching communities in the American West have been affected by and deal with coalbed methane extraction, strip mining, and oil drilling.
Rebecca Pearson,BA The College of New Jersey, MA in Public Administration, Syracuse University. Social Policy, Demography, Family, Inequality, Social Differentiation.
Christine Percheski,BA Dartmouth College. Christine's main research interests center around the intersection of demography, family structures, and employment. She is also interested in issues of inequality and in well-being over the life course. Before attending Princeton, Christine worked at Harvard at Murray Research Center, a research center and data archive for the study of human development.
Rania Salem,
BA Political Sciences (American University in Cairo), MSc Sociology (University of Oxford). Rania's interests include sociology of marriage and the family, gender, and migration. Before attending Princeton, Rania worked at the Cairo office of the Population Council, where she carried out research on youth transitions from school to work, and evaluated an intervention for disadvantaged adolescents.
BA Political Sciences (American University in Cairo), MSc Sociology (University of Oxford). Rania's interests include sociology of marriage and the family, gender, and migration. Before attending Princeton, Rania worked at the Cairo office of the Population Council, where she carried out research on youth transitions from school to work, and evaluated an intervention for disadvantaged adolescents.
Hana Shepherd,
B.A. Humanities: Culture & Politics, & M.A. Sociology (Stanford University). Hana is primarily interested in the mechanisms involved in the maintenance of group-based inequalities, especially racial inequalities. She particularly wants to explore what cognitive and cultural sociology, network dynamics and complex social systems theory, sociology of knowledge, and economic sociology can contribute to an understanding of those mechanisms. Unlike the people who spent time in far away places or working in research centers, Hana spent a year in the wild world of social psychology prior to settling down in sociology.
B.A. Humanities: Culture & Politics, & M.A. Sociology (Stanford University). Hana is primarily interested in the mechanisms involved in the maintenance of group-based inequalities, especially racial inequalities. She particularly wants to explore what cognitive and cultural sociology, network dynamics and complex social systems theory, sociology of knowledge, and economic sociology can contribute to an understanding of those mechanisms. Unlike the people who spent time in far away places or working in research centers, Hana spent a year in the wild world of social psychology prior to settling down in sociology.
Lori D. Smith,
B.A. Indiana University. My interests include social inequality, culture, race and ethnic relations, and ethnography. My work so far has looked at how the social class of strip club patrons influences the encounters and transactions they seek with dancers and the meanings they attibute to them.
B.A. Indiana University. My interests include social inequality, culture, race and ethnic relations, and ethnography. My work so far has looked at how the social class of strip club patrons influences the encounters and transactions they seek with dancers and the meanings they attibute to them.
Ilana Redstone,
B.A. University of New Hampshire (Spanish), 1994. M.A. University of Pennsylvania (Demography), 2002. Ilana is in her third year as a joint Sociology and Demography Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania. She is here with the Exchange Scholar Program. She works with the New Immigrant Survey Pilot data and is currently studying immigrants' occupational mobility. Future interests include consideration of immigrants' public (welfare utilization) and private transfers (loans and remittances).
B.A. University of New Hampshire (Spanish), 1994. M.A. University of Pennsylvania (Demography), 2002. Ilana is in her third year as a joint Sociology and Demography Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania. She is here with the Exchange Scholar Program. She works with the New Immigrant Survey Pilot data and is currently studying immigrants' occupational mobility. Future interests include consideration of immigrants' public (welfare utilization) and private transfers (loans and remittances).
Amy Reynolds,AB, 1999, Harvard University. Interests include religion, economic development, globalization, and statistics. Before attending Princeton, Amy taught at a charter school in DC and worked in El Salvador on coffee and fair trade issues.
Charles Varner,
AB in Russian Studies, Harvard University. Charles's main fields of study are in economic, political, and urban sociology. He is interested in explaining societal tolerance for suboptimal outcomes in a broad array of contexts. Prior to joining the department, Charles directed economic research and analysis projects for Lexecon Inc. in Cambridge, MA. E-mail address: varner@princeton.edu.
AB in Russian Studies, Harvard University. Charles's main fields of study are in economic, political, and urban sociology. He is interested in explaining societal tolerance for suboptimal outcomes in a broad array of contexts. Prior to joining the department, Charles directed economic research and analysis projects for Lexecon Inc. in Cambridge, MA. E-mail address: varner@princeton.edu.
Alexandria Lynn Walton,B.S. Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Alexandria graduated cum laude from Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a major in Comparative Studies: Latin America and the United States. After spending a year abroad at the Universidad de Chile and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alexandria achieved the distinction of Honors in the Major for her thesis entitled: "Does Destination Matter? A Comparative Study of Italian Immigrants in Valparaiso, Chile and San Francisco, California, 1880-1915." Her current research interests include immigration; race and ethnicity; comparative and historical sociology; and American higher education.
Chris Wildeman,BA Dickinson College, 2002, Philosophy, Sociology and Spanish. Chris is currently focusing the bulk of his energies examining the process of desistance from crime. In addition to his interests in crime and punishment, he is also interested in religion, medicine, and life course analysis.
Cristobal Young,
BA in Economics and Sociology (U. Victoria), MA in Economics (UVic). Cristobal's main interests lie in economic sociology, information theory, and the sociology of economics. His MA thesis was titled The Emergence of Sociology from Political Economy in the US: 1880-1940. This paper documents how sociology's entrance into the university system was heavily sponsored by economics departments, and traces the evolution of disciplinary relations from collaboration to post-war disengagement. In a recent review essay [link] published in the Socio-Economic Review, he discusses the mathematical reformation of economics (circa 1930-1950), and its political origins. In the world of broader theory, Cristobal is keenly interested in the dynamics of information, drawing heavily on the work of Erving Goffman (impression management), Thorstein Veblen (status rivalry), and George Ackerlof (the market for lemons). http://ser.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/3/1/161?ijkey=57RoLYCsUZJjA&keytype=ref
BA in Economics and Sociology (U. Victoria), MA in Economics (UVic). Cristobal's main interests lie in economic sociology, information theory, and the sociology of economics. His MA thesis was titled The Emergence of Sociology from Political Economy in the US: 1880-1940. This paper documents how sociology's entrance into the university system was heavily sponsored by economics departments, and traces the evolution of disciplinary relations from collaboration to post-war disengagement. In a recent review essay [link] published in the Socio-Economic Review, he discusses the mathematical reformation of economics (circa 1930-1950), and its political origins. In the world of broader theory, Cristobal is keenly interested in the dynamics of information, drawing heavily on the work of Erving Goffman (impression management), Thorstein Veblen (status rivalry), and George Ackerlof (the market for lemons). http://ser.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/3/1/161?ijkey=57RoLYCsUZJjA&keytype=ref
Adriana Abdenur.BA Harvard, MA Columbia. Adriana's research interests center on development and urbanization, political sociology, and social inequality. Her dissertation is a comparative study of socioeconomic segregation in major Latin American cities.
Rina Agarwala,
BA, Economics and Government, Cornell University, 1995; MPP, Political and Economic Development, Harvard University, 1999. Rina's research interests include social demography, inequality, international development and globalization, social movements, and gender. Her dissertation entitled "From Work to Welfare: Informal Workers' Organizations and the State in India," examines democratic participation among poor women workers as state welfare rhetoric and policy declines on the one hand and the percentage of insecure and unprotected informal labor increases on the other hand. In particular, it investigates (1) how the informal nature of employment affects workers' collective action strategies, and (2) what role the state plays in affecting informal workers' ability to secure labor benefits. From 2003-2005, Rina collected primary data as a Fulbright-Hays grantee in India, conducting 140 interviews with women workers in the construction and tobacco industries, 30 interviews with male workers, and nearly 200 interviews with government officials and trade union leaders. Prior to beginning her Ph.D., Rina worked in the development field at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in China, the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India, and Women's World Banking (WWB) in New York.
BA, Economics and Government, Cornell University, 1995; MPP, Political and Economic Development, Harvard University, 1999. Rina's research interests include social demography, inequality, international development and globalization, social movements, and gender. Her dissertation entitled "From Work to Welfare: Informal Workers' Organizations and the State in India," examines democratic participation among poor women workers as state welfare rhetoric and policy declines on the one hand and the percentage of insecure and unprotected informal labor increases on the other hand. In particular, it investigates (1) how the informal nature of employment affects workers' collective action strategies, and (2) what role the state plays in affecting informal workers' ability to secure labor benefits. From 2003-2005, Rina collected primary data as a Fulbright-Hays grantee in India, conducting 140 interviews with women workers in the construction and tobacco industries, 30 interviews with male workers, and nearly 200 interviews with government officials and trade union leaders. Prior to beginning her Ph.D., Rina worked in the development field at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in China, the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India, and Women's World Banking (WWB) in New York.
Sada Aksartova,
M.A. University of Sussex (UK), B.A. Moscow State University (Russia). Sada is currently a dissertation fellow of the American Association of University Women. Her interests are cultural sociology, organizations, economic and political sociology, philanthropy, development, Soviet history and post-Soviet transition. Sada's dissertation examines the organizational and cultural effects of U.S. civil society assistance in Russia and Kyrgyzstan.
M.A. University of Sussex (UK), B.A. Moscow State University (Russia). Sada is currently a dissertation fellow of the American Association of University Women. Her interests are cultural sociology, organizations, economic and political sociology, philanthropy, development, Soviet history and post-Soviet transition. Sada's dissertation examines the organizational and cultural effects of U.S. civil society assistance in Russia and Kyrgyzstan.
Renelinda Arana,BA University of Texas, Austin (Anthropology). Renelinda's main research interests are ethnographic methods, U.S. immigrant issues, and the U.S. incarceration system. She hopes to continue her investigations of the social, political, and economic inequality of marginalized groups, specifically, of immigrants and prison populations. Community and political outreach efforts and programs are of great interest to Renelinda. Through her affiliation with the Hispanic Americans for Progress organization, she currently teaches an Art Illustration Workshop in the New Jersey State Correctional Facility.
Deborah Lynn Becher,
University of Virginia, Graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1991. Main areas of interest include social inequality, race, political sociology, collective memory and civil society. Currently researching civic participation among first and second generation immigrants to the US. Previous work experience with domestic violence, home construction, and community development in Tucson, Arizona.
University of Virginia, Graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1991. Main areas of interest include social inequality, race, political sociology, collective memory and civil society. Currently researching civic participation among first and second generation immigrants to the US. Previous work experience with domestic violence, home construction, and community development in Tucson, Arizona.
Nick Ehrmann,received his BA in American Studies and History from Northwestern University in 2000. While working as a Teach For America corps member in Washington D.C. for two years, Nick founded "I Have A Dream" -Project 312. Project 312 (www.project312.org) is a long-term youth development organization that empowers thirty of his elementary students to achieve while providing a guaranteed opportunity for higher education. At Princeton, Nick works from within sociology, OPR, and the Woodrow Wilson School on issues of inequality, urban sociology, poverty, and public policy. He can be reached at ehrmann@princeton.edu.
Nicole Esparza,BA University of California, Berkeley. Nicole's main interests include organizations, economic sociology, and philanthropy. Her work focuses on corporate reputations, corporate philanthropy, and competition within the nonprofit sector.
Michelle Bellessa Frost B.S., Physics, Brigham Young University, 1996. M.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1998. Interests: social stratification, domestic educational policy, sociology of education, program and policy evaluation. By utilizing multilevel models and Marta Tienda's Texas Higher Education Opportunity survey data, Michelle is analyzing the impact of high schools on racial differences in students' attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors about college admissions and enrollment.
Filiz Garip,BSc Bogazici University (Industrial Engineering), MSc Princeton University (Operations Research & Finacial Engineering). While in engineering, Filiz analyzed Medicare expenditures in the US and developed a structural model that forecasts future trends. As a sociologist now, Filiz's main areas of interest include inequality, stratification, development, migration and gender. Her current interest focuses on gender-specific migration patterns and their developmental consequences. In the future, she plans to analyze economic inequality among different immigrant groups in the US labor market.
Conrad Hackett,B.A. Seattle Pacific University, M. Div., M.A. Princeton Theological Seminary. Recently Conrad has been studying the limited appeal of mainline Protestant campus ministries. At Princeton Seminary he conducted research on globalization's impact upon American teenagers. In recent summers he has been researching the interreligious relationships and attitudes of denominations and individuals for Robert Wuthnow's Public Role of Mainline Protestantism project. Conrad is particularly interested in how individuals and institutions are responding to, and being shaped by, religious pluralism in America.
Leslie Hinkson,
BA Williams College; MA New School. Leslie Hinkson is a candidate for a Masters of Science in Urban Policy at the New School University. She is also a Graduate Fellow at the J.M. Kaplan Center for New York City Affairs which is aligned with the University. While her primary focus is on education policy, Ms. Hinkson has also conducted research in the fields of welfare reform and workforce development. Ms. Hinkson received her B.A. in political economy from Williams College and has plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology at Princeton University this fall. While at Princeton, she hopes to focus on issues of inequality and social stratification, as they directly impact both access to and quality of education in the United States. She is the mother of a one year old daughter, Olivia.
BA Williams College; MA New School. Leslie Hinkson is a candidate for a Masters of Science in Urban Policy at the New School University. She is also a Graduate Fellow at the J.M. Kaplan Center for New York City Affairs which is aligned with the University. While her primary focus is on education policy, Ms. Hinkson has also conducted research in the fields of welfare reform and workforce development. Ms. Hinkson received her B.A. in political economy from Williams College and has plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology at Princeton University this fall. While at Princeton, she hopes to focus on issues of inequality and social stratification, as they directly impact both access to and quality of education in the United States. She is the mother of a one year old daughter, Olivia.
Donnell Butler,Franklin & Marshall, B.A. Sociology; Franklin & Marshall, B.A. Accounting; Princeton, M.A. Sociology. After graduating in 1995, Donnell worked for three years in the Philadelphia area as a public accountant with Ernst & Young and an accounting manager for Northwestern Human Services of Chester County. While at Princeton, Donnell has completed "Studies of Artists: An Annotated Directory", the twelfth paper of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies working paper series. The directory provides researchers and other interested parties with a range of definitions, identification methods, and sampling procedures currently used in studies of artists. The introduction to the directory provides a critical overview of the numerous methods for identifying and defining "artists". Donnell Butler's varied research interests also include economic sociology with particular emphasis on gendered behaviors in the household economy, social stratification, and the sociology of education. Donnell recently won the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class Section 2002 award for best graduate student paper for a paper that examines how other ascriptive characteristics can influence perceived racial variation in college enrollment. Donnell's dissertation research is a departure from his previous work as he has begun to examine the relationship and distinction between social and spatial integration in multi-racial neighborhoods. Donnell's hobbies include photography, sabermetrics, and participating in recreational sports leagues. For more information on Donnell Butler, please visit his webpage at http://www.djbutler.org.
Joseph Nathan Cohen,Carleton University (Canada), BIB. Born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Specializes in political and economic crisis, economic development, international relations, comparative quantitative analysis and research methods. Areas of concentration inbclude economic sociology, political sociology, world systems theory and organizations. Currently studying the relationship between market liberalization reforms and economic growth, stability and individual welfare in Latin America from 1982 to 2002. Participating in studies of neoliberalism's proliferation across the world and the determinants of national revolutions from 1492 to 1992. Previous projects include the influence of social externalities on the TV and Internet's diffusion across the United States, and the determinants of bank refusals to lend to small- and medium-sized enterprises in Canada. Non-academic work includes participation in a project to create a public relations and fundraising manual for Canadian AIDS organizations for Health Canada, policy analysis for the Progressive Conservative Party's National Leaders Office, teaching English for the Nova school in Nagoya, Japan, and teaching entrepeneurship classes for Junior Achievement Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Becky Yang Hsu,B.A. Sociology, Yale University. Becky is a Woodrow Wilson Scholar and a graduate fellow of the Center for the Study of Religion. Her interests include the creation and destruction of social solidarity, civic participation, religion, NGOs, and development. She has written papers on faith-based social services, religion and economic development, social capital, trust and law-abidingness. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the effect of religion and other social variables on the delivery of international social services administered by NGOs.
Devra Jaffe-Berkowitz,B.A. University of Pennsylvania, M.A. Rice University (Sociology of Religion)
Alexandra Kalev,
Tel Aviv University, B.A. Sociology & Management Science; Tel Aviv University, M.A. Sociology & Anthropology.
Tel Aviv University, B.A. Sociology & Management Science; Tel Aviv University, M.A. Sociology & Anthropology.
Meredith Kleykamp,graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998, with a B.A. in Sociology. Her primary research interests are social demography, race/ethnicity, child health and migration in Latin America. Specifically she is interested in the relationship between race/ethnicity and nativity and birth outcomes as well as broader health outcomes in children and adolescents. Over the summer she worked with Marta Tienda examining adolescent health with a focus on Hispanic females.
Hilary Levey graduated from Harvard University (AB, 2002), magna cum laude, with highest honors in Sociology and from Cambridge University in 2003 with an M.Phil. in Modern Society and Global Transformations (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) as a Gates-Cambridge Fellow. Her current research focuses on childhood (specifically activities-beauty pageants and after school learning programs) and social and cultural change in the US (through a study of university commencement speakers). Interests include culture, childhood, American society, economic sociology, and politics. In addition to her sociological life, Hilary has worked for the U.S. State Department, for a Member of the British Parliament, for ABC News, and for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conducting public policy research. Personally, she loves to read, practice yoga, follow the fashion catwalks, and indulge in weekly doses of pop culture.
Michael Lindsay,D. Michael Lindsay, BA, Baylor University; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Dip., Wyliffe Hall, Oxford Univesity; MA, Princeton University. D. Michael Lindsay studies the relations among religion, culture, and elites. His dissertation explores the role societal leaders play in contemporary religious movements. He has authored two books (with George Gallup); their more recent book, The Gallup Guide: Reality Check for Twenty-First Century Churches (Group, 2002), is a guide for religious leaders on conducting scientific surveys of their local communities and congregations and was nominated for a Gold Medallion Award. He also co-authored Surveying the Religious Landscape: Trends in U.S. Beliefs (Morehouse, 1999), which reviews Gallup's data on religious faith and spiritual practices of Americans. In 2002, he was named a Graduate Research Fellow by the National Science Foundation, an honor bestowed on only six sociologists nationwide that year. In 2003, he was also named a Harvey Fellow by the Mustard Seed Foundation in Washington, DC. And in 2004, he received the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship, one of Princeton's top scholarly honors for graduate students. In addition to these research honors, Michael has been recognized for excellence in teaching as the 2003 recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award in social science, Princeton's highest award for graduate student teaching. Lindsay's current research, with grant support from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and several Princeton grants, involves the nation's largest and most comprehensive study of religion in the lives of societal leaders who are alive today. For more information, view D. Michael Lindsay's homepage (http://www.princeton.edu/~mlindsay).
Gregoire Mallard,B.A Economics and Sociology (Universite Paris X, France), M.A Sociology (ENS-Cachan). His interests are in sociology of science, culture and in economic sociology. His current project is devoted to the study of ethics in natural sciences. He was previously in Princeton as a research collaborator, working with Michele Lamont on her project on the evaluation of research proposals by funding committees in the social sciences in the US. His first master's thesis focused on a research group in literature studies using ethnographic observation.
César F. Rosado-Marzán is is interested in labor movements, the sociology of national and international development and the sociology of law. His dissertation, titled "Modern Colonial Unionism" (Committee members: Miguel Centeno, Chair, Patricia Fernández Kelly and Bruce Western) explores the conditions that affected labor union density in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. César obtained a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, a B.A. in Sociology from Haverford College in 1997.
Jake Rosenfeld,BA Haverford College. Jake's main areas of interest include stratification, political sociology, criminology, and theory. More specifically, he is interested in macro-level analyses of racial and economic inequality in the United States. Before attending Princeton, Jake worked as a researcher at the Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. At the Urban Institute, Jake's research focused on crime victims' issues, federal crime analyses, and the impact ex-inmates have on communities.
Kyoko Sato,B.A., University of Tokyo (English), and M.A., New York University (journalism). Her primary research interest is how the cultural and the political intersect in different national contexts. Her dissertation explores the processes through which different understandings of genetically modified food emerged in the policy frameworks of the U.S., Japan and France. She is currently at Harvard University as a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology and a graduate student affiliate at the Center for European Studies.
Traci Schlesinger,B.A. (Sociology), Fordham University. Traci's primary research areas are criminal justice, race and ethnicity, and anti-discrimination policy. She is the recipient of several awards including a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation, a summer fellowship from Princeton University's Program in American Studies, and a dissertation support grant from Princeton University's Program in African American Studies. Traci's dissertation examines the effects of state-level determinate sentencing policies on the size and composition of the US incarcerated population in an attempt to understand the strengths and limitations of color-blind anti-discrimination policy. She is the author of a paper on racial and ethnic disparity in pretrial criminal processing that is forthcoming in Justice Quarterly.
Steven Shafer,
BA Yale. Migration, Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, and Stratification and Inequality.
BA Yale. Migration, Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, and Stratification and Inequality.
Laura Stark,BS Cornell University (1998). Laura is working on her dissertation, "Morality in Science: Evaluating Research in the Age of Human Subjects Regulation." The project, which is supported by an NSF dissertation improvement grant, explores the extent to which contemporary commitments to treating people morally shape what is scientifically knowable. The project is based on ethnographies of Institutional Review Boards at three universities and archival work on the creation of the federal human subjects regulations. Laura has co-authored three papers: one forthcoming with Professor Mario Small on access to public resources among the urban poor, a second with Professor Hans-Peter Kohler (Penn) published in the European Journal of Population (2004) on the development of the popular debate over low fertility in Germany from 1993 to 2002, and a third also with Professor Kohler published in Population Research and Policy Review (2002) on the contemporary debate about low fertility in eleven countries. Laura has also precepted four courses: Introduction to Sociology with Patricia Fernandez-Kelly; Creativity, Innovation, and Society with Steven Tepper; Practical Ethics with Peter Singer (Philosophy); and History of Human Sciences with Elizabeth Lunbeck (History).
Anna Xiao Dong Sun,Anna has been a Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London (2003-2004), working on her thesis entitled "Confusions over Confucianism: The Emergence of the World Religions Paradigm and the Construction of Confucianism as a World Religion, 1870-1916." Her research interests include sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion, sociology of art, and sociology of East Asia. Among the conferences at which she has presented papers are: the ASA annual meeting (2002), the ESS annual meeting (2002), the Harvard Center for European Studies conference "The Rise and Impact of the Social Sciences" (2002), and the annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Religion (2004), the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Social Science History Association (2004). She has taught sociology of religion at Middlebury College, and she is now an Affiliated Scholar at Kenyon College. An accomplished writer as well as a sociologist, Anna has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow for fiction, and her most recent publication is an essay in the London Review of Books (July 8 2004).
Craig Barton Upright,
B.A. Saint Olaf College, Mathematics and English Literature. (Organizational and Cultural Sociology) Craig came to Princeton with ten-plus years of experience in the restaurant industry, including 4 years as the co-owner of a small cafe in Saint Paul that held punk rock concerts in the basement every weekend. His dissertation explores the development and transformation of the Organic Food industry in the United States from 1970 to 2002, as a product has progressed from alternative to mainstream markets. Culminating in the adoption of the first National Organic Standards, its primary focus is the changing definition of the term "organic" in agricultural, political, and cultural realms of society.
B.A. Saint Olaf College, Mathematics and English Literature. (Organizational and Cultural Sociology) Craig came to Princeton with ten-plus years of experience in the restaurant industry, including 4 years as the co-owner of a small cafe in Saint Paul that held punk rock concerts in the basement every weekend. His dissertation explores the development and transformation of the Organic Food industry in the United States from 1970 to 2002, as a product has progressed from alternative to mainstream markets. Culminating in the adoption of the first National Organic Standards, its primary focus is the changing definition of the term "organic" in agricultural, political, and cultural realms of society.
Scott Leon Washington,B.A. University of California, Berkeley (Sociology and Philosophy). Interests: Race and Ethnicity; Social Classification; Social Stratification; State Formation and State Information; Science; Culture; Epistemology; Education; Politics; Violence; Social Psychology; Historiography; Comparative Methods; Extreme Systems of Social Control, Confinement, and Supervision; Migration and Development; Classical and Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory.
Anna Zajacova,BA in Psychology, 1999, Hunter College. Interests: social epidemiology, statistical methods.
