Presenting UT Research

ASA 2012 Presenters and Participants: UT-Austin

This year we have 65 faculty and students presenting and participating at ASA annual meeting. (See alumni here.) Faculty are in Bold.

To see their profiles, click here (faculty) and here (students).

For the full conference schedule, click here.

Adjepong, Lady Anima
Angel, Jacqueline L.
Angel, Ronald J.
Arevalo, Ellyn Margaret
Averett, Kathleen H.
Beaver, Travis
Beicken, Julie Anne
Brown, Dustin C.
Bylander, Maryann
Cabrera, Sergio Antonio
Carrington, Ben
Cavanagh, Shannon
Charrad, Mounira Maya
Chen, Wenhong
Crosnoe, Robert
Diaz-Venegas, Carlos
Dondero, Molly
Gonzalez-Lopez, Gloria
Gutierrez, Carmen Marie
Hayward, Mark D.
Hummer, Robert A.
Humphries, Melissa H.
Hyun, Jeong Ha
Jensen, Katherine Christine
Jimenez, Hortencia
Lodge, Amy C.
Manglos, Nicolette Denise
McClendon, David Michael
McFarland, Michael Jason
McNamee, Catherine
Muller, Chandra
Neely, Megan Tobias
Neumann, Pamela Jane
Paredes, Christian Luis
Pattison, Evangeleen
Paxton, Pamela M.
Prickett, Kate C.
Raley, Kelly
Regnerus, Mark D.
Riegle-Crumb, Catherine
Roberts, Bryan Rees
Robinson, Brandon Andrew
Robinson, Keith D.
Rodriguez, Nestor P.
Ross, Catherine E.
Rudrappa, Sharmila
Sheehan, Connor
Shifrer, Dara Renee
Sitko, Robert
Sobering, Katie
Spangenberg, Emily Jane
Stevensen, Amanda Jean
Stroud, Angela R.
Sullivan, Mary Esther
Sutton, April M.
Swed, Ori
Tate, Margaret
Thomas, Patricia A.
Thomeer, Mieke Beth
Umberson, Debra
Villarreal, Andres
Wheatley, M. Christine
Williams, Christine L.
Young, Michael P.
Zarrugh, Amina

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Borrowing across Borders: An exploration of migration, microfinance and debt in rural Cambodia.
Presentation by Maryann Bylander at the Rethinking Development Conference at Cornell University

Abstract:
Studies of international migration consider questions of what compels, sustains, and structures migration patterns globally, as well as how migrations shape and impact sending communities. The study of migration and development takes particular interest in the latter question, seeking to understand how migration can impact sending communities and serve as a driver for growth, poverty reduction and social change. Past research highlights how migration can be a poverty reducing household strategy, a brain-draining process, a stable aid alternative, a mechanism for national economic growth, and a catalyst for social change, to name but a few. Relatively ignored in recent analyses of migration and development is the role that debt, particularly newly available microfinance loans, plays in facilitating, shaping, and sustaining migration patterns. Though debt is a central focus in studies of trafficking and debt-bonded migration, few studies of labor migration attempt to understand the relationship between international migration and loans or debt. This study seeks to fill this gap by explicitly exploring the debt-migration connection, with a focus on understanding how debt-financed migration impacts the potential for migration to contribute to development. This is a particularly timely topic of study as the recent expansion of microfinance has significantly altered the accessibility of credit in even the most remote areas, opening up a space to ask what impact newly available streams of credit might have for migration patterns, or the potential that migration holds for poverty reduction in migrant sending areas.

In past decades scholars have pointed to a lack of available credit markets as one of the push factors propelling out-migration, explaining individual migration decisions as part of a household strategy aimed at diversifying incomes, reducing risk, and often responding to undeveloped credit and insurance markets in home countries. Though these theories have been useful in explaining migration streams in many contexts, there has been little theoretical or empirical work re-evaluating this concept in the wake of the proliferation of microfinance in developing countries. This article explores the connections between microfinance, debt and migration in a rural commune in Northwest Cambodia, where there are high rates of out-migration to Thailand. In this context, I find that the new availability of microfinance, and a strong culture of migration interact in ways that challenge past assumptions of relationship between migration and the availability of credit. Instead of curbing migration, access to low-interest credit enables migrations, allowing even the poorest households access to the capital they need to cross borders. At the same time, the strong migration patterns present in the area enable the growth of microfinance, as potential borrowers base their loans on the perceived ability to pay debt back through successful migrations. This interplay raises questions as to the potential for both microfinance and migration to promote sustainable development.

Through a nuanced qualitative analysis, this paper offers new perspectives on both microfinance and migration as potential motors for rural development. Drawing from three years of field work and over 80 interviews with migrants and the family members of migrants, this article illuminates the relationship between microfinance and migration, arguing that in this context migration and microfinance have become mutually enabling processes, with each allowing for and promoting the other’s growth. After exploring the ways in which migration and microfinance are mutually enabling, this paper then discuss the impacts this has on the potential for migration to contribute to development and poverty reduction within households. By highlighting the strong links between migration and microfinance, this article opens up a space for new research questions further exploring the migration/microfinance connection.

Monday, October 3rd Latin American Summer Research Brownbag

Social movement theory, inequality, worker’s rights, social networks and political sociology provided the backdrop for a vigorous discussion led by Latin American researchers: Marcos Perez, Pamela Neumann and Katie Sobering. Conversation was so engaging that we are expanding the format of these panels to encourage an hour or more of discussion after the presentations. Thanks to everyone for an inspiring morning and special thanks to Pamela Neumann for her summary and to Pamela, Marcos and Katie for sharing their work.

Pamela Neumann’s summary:

Writing in 1844, Marx predicted that the rise of capitalism would lead to man’s alienation, both from labor (the act of working) and from his fellow man (community and relationships). These processes could only be reversed, he argued, in the context of an economic system within which workers themselves controlled the means of production and engaged in work aimed at contributing to the general welfare rather than simply to the accumulation of capital. While the merits of the specific system that Marx envisioned continue to be debated, what is undeniable is that work is a fundamental part of who we are. This idea came sharply into focus during today’s Latin American Summer Research Panel in which we discussed worker occupied businesses in Buenos Aires,  Argentina’s piquetero movement (whose primary grievances revolve around the absence of employment opportunities) , and metallurgical workers in La Oroya, Peru who describe themselves as “enfermos” (ill) over their lack of full-time work in the wake of the company’s closure.

In each case, it is clear that the kind, quality, and/or lack of work has profound effects that go well beyond the capacity to meet basic needs–touching issues of identity (how we see ourselves), solidarity (how we relate to others in similar or different circumstances), and mobilization (the ways in which we express grievances and make demands).  In the case of Peru, with which I am most familiar, environmental activists and NGOs were quick to explain the lack of massive protest in the community over the levels of contamination produced by the metallurgical complex as a simple case of people fearing the loss of their jobs. But is it so simple? The Faustian task of choosing between serious negative health effects or the loss of economic livelihood is hardly an easy one. Especially when, perhaps, the phrase “economic livelihood” does not do justice to the full extent to which such labor represents more than a means of acquisition but rather an entire way of life, a deeply internalized part of people’s habitus that touches their very core of being.  A full understanding of such identification was beyond the scope of the five weeks of fieldwork I conducted this summer, but after putting my own preliminary findings in dialogue with those of my fellow panelists today, I look forward to exploring these questions in greater depth in the future.

Marcos Perez in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marcos described the tentative results of five weeks of fieldwork in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The complexities of the decline of a social movement will be presented through the cases of three groups of activists, which will be used as illustrations of the different ways organizations dealt with the reduction in mobilization experienced by Argentinean society after 2002.

Pamela Neumann in La Oroya, Peru
This summer, with funding through the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), Pamela Neumann conducted exploratory ethnographic research in La Oroya, Peru, a hub of metallurgical activity since the 1920s. Her research explores some of the ways in which the residents and organizational actors in this mining town have responded to the high levels of environmental contamination and health effects caused by the town’s metallurgical complex. For example, in the early 2000s, a consortium of local residents, national and international NGOs joined forces to demand that the current owner of the town’s metallurgical complex, Doe Run Peru, comply with the environmental standards set forth by the Peruvian government. However, these activities came to a halt shortly following DRP’s temporary closure in 2009, which has created a variety of new social and economic challenges for residents of La Oroya, which are described in distinctive ways by NGO actors, community leaders, and company workers.

Katie Sobering in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Katie Sobering presented the findings from her summer 2011 fieldwork in Argentina, where she worked at Hotel BAUEN, a worker-recovered business located in downtown Buenos Aires. This project was a continuation of fieldwork begun in 2008 and examined how workers construct legitimacy from a position of economic marginality.  To do so, she compared the variety and diversity of networks present in the hotel during the two periods and then examined both the networks and efforts at coalition-building to understand the changing structures and experience of work in a global economy.

Summer Research Panel with Vivian Shaw, Ori Swed and Christine Wheatley

Many thanks to Vivian, Christine and Ori for yesterday’s informative fieldwork panel. It was interesting not only from the standpoint of diverse projects and methodological approaches in Japan, Mexico and Israel but in the way the research experience evolved for each presenter. Vivian Shaw took us into spatial landscapes marked by political, emotional and cultural significance reflected in peace and war memorials in Japan. Her theoretical framework grew in response to her interaction with the spaces and the cultural, racial and gender nuanced messages which differed significantly for internal and external audiences. Christine Wheatley emphasized the practical approaches she has taken to her ethnographic fieldwork in Jalisco, Mexico. Using course assignments to maximize publishing and fellowship proposal deadlines, Christine funded two summer fieldwork projects, presented her findings at The American Sociological Association and published an article in the Latin Americianist. Building on her success, she will continue pursuing dissertation funding and publishing opportunities. Ori Swed’s archival research in Israel uses a historical/comparative method which is quantified in databases that capture complex relationships between state and terrorist initiated violence. He continues to uncover new questions that affect the theoretical underpinnings of his research. Mapping the context and patterns of violent exchanges in the Second Intifada is expanding Ori’s research on the evolving culture of war in the middle east.

Atomic Memory: The Political Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Trauma in the Museum

Vivian Shaw will discuss her summer 2011 fieldwork in Japan, researching three museums related to World War II and the atomic bombings, the Hiroshima Peace Museum, the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, and Yasakuni Shrine/Yushukan museum, a controversial “war heroes” shrine and museum in Tokyo. Her project looks at the aesthetics of trauma and memory in these spaces as political discourses on nationality, race, and gender. In this talk, Shaw will also evaluate her research process, including challenges and theoretical shifts encountered in her fieldwork.

Deportation and Migration in Jalisco, Mexico

Christine Wheatley’s research interests center on processes of deportation, both as a form of exclusion and of forced return migration, a critical and understudied area with consequences for sending and receiving nations, and migrants themselves. In the summer of 2010, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, she conducted a first phase of pre-dissertation ethnographic fieldwork work across Jalisco, Mexico, gathering over 50 interviews discussing the similarities and differences between voluntary and involuntary return. This summer, with support primarily from the E. D. Farmer International Fellowship via The Mexican at UT, Christine returned to Jalisco for a second phase of pre-dissertation fieldwork in order to clarify the primary research questions that will form the basis of her dissertation project. Since the research project is still exploratory, she visited a number of new towns but spent most of her time in the various hometowns of return migrants that she visited in 2010, conducting follow-up interviews with returnees (most of whom migrated to the U.S. without proper documents) in order to begin to assess how the experience of return changes over time.

The dynamics of Violence between State and Terror Organizations in Israel and Palestine

Ori Swed’s summer research was an archival data collection in Israel as part of a project of examining the dynamics of violence between state and terror organizations. The research uses the case study of the Second Intifada, a conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, which took place in 2000-2005. Ori’s primary research in Israel was collecting information and data in archives and libraries on the conflict. The complimentary aspect of Internet data collection and theory analysis is being done in Austin.

UT AUSTIN SOCIOLOGISTS PRESENTING AT ASA
To search the program schedule: UT presenters listed under University of Texas, University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas-Austin:

Adut, Ari – Thematic Session: Scandal Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session Organizer – Presenter on individual submission: Scandal and the Public Sphere

Angel, Ronald J. Sociology Roundtables.
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Non-Presenter: Ethnic Heterogamy and Partner Violence in Mexico
Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Section on Global and Transnational
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board Meeting
Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am Session Submission Role: Participant

Augustine, Jennifer March
Section on Children and Youth
Social Context, Public Policy, and Child and Adolescent Well-being.
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Child Care and Common Illness Among Preschoolers
Table 05. Getting and Being Married
Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 12:30pm – 1:30pm Session Submission Role:Table Presider

Auyero, Javier
Rose Series in Sociology Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant

Bhatt, Wasudha
Table 06. Roundtables: Immigrants from a Race, Gender, and Class Perspective
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Section on Race, Gender, and Class
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: Racist Medicine: Indian physicians’ experiences with racism, and sexism in U.S. medical workplaces

Julie Beicken
Table 03. Impacts and Outcomes
Unit: Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am
Presenter: “The Impact of Eugenics on U.S. Coercive Sterilization Legislation in the Early 20th Century”

Blanchard, Sarah
Table 08. International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Outcomes
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter: “Scholars without Borders: The Graduate School Trajectories of International Students at a Major Research University”

Brown, Dustin C
Regular Session. Health Issues in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: “Same-Sex Cohabitation and Self-Rated Health”

Brown, Letisha
Table 05. Democracy and Social Organization
Unit / Sub Unit: Theory Section / Section on Theory Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 9:30am
Presenter: “The Black Panther Party for Self Defense: A Marxist, Maoist, Black Nationalist Organization”

Browne, Simone
Thematic Session. Towards a New Racial Studies
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: “Flying While Black: Border Control, DNA and the Case of the Lips”

Bylander, Maryann
Regular Session. International Migration
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Presider

Cabrera, Sergio Antonio
Table 09. Culture as an Educational Tool
Section on Sociology of Culture / Section on Sociology of Culture Refereed Roundtable.
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: “Neoliberal Consumer Citizenship and Relationship Management Marketing: A sociological analysis of marketing textbooks”

Carrington, Ben
Contexts Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant

Cavanagh, Shannon
Social Psychology Quarterly Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Charrad, Mounira Maya
Regular Session. Middle East and Muslim Societies
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Non-Presenter: “The Moroccan Gentle Revolution: Women’s Activism and 2004 Reforms of Islamic Law”
Section on Comparative/Historical Sociology Paper Session. Islam and the Modern World
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: “Patrimonial Politics: Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq”

Chen, Wenhong
Table 19. The Impact of Modern Technology – Refereed Roundtables.
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Community and Urban Sociology
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “The Social Capital Effects: Embedded Resources, Tie Strength, and the Digital Divides”

Crosnoe, Robert
Section on Children and Youth Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 9:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Chair
Section on Children and Youth Invited Session. Sociological Perspectives in Federally Funded Research on Children Unit: Section Invited
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Panelist
Section on Children and Youth Paper Session. Social Context, Public Policy, and Child and Adolescent Well-being
Unit / Sub Unit: Social Context, Public Policy, and Child and Adolescent Well-being.
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Child Care and Common Illness Among Preschoolers”
Section on Sociology of Education Council and Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant
Sociology of Education Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Cuvi, Jacinto
Regular Session. Historical Sociology/Processes II: States, Societies, & Symbolic Power
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: “Blowing the institutional gridlock: informal institutions and symbolic action in the reform of Sunat”

Danielle Dirks (PhD 2011, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Occidental College)
Regular Session. Law and Society
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Tooled for Capacity: Subverting Justice for Juveniles in Texas’ Municipal Courts”
Student Forum Advisory Panel
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant
Student Forum Workshop. Different Types of Publication Opportunities for Students
Unit: Student Forum Sessions
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Panelist

Ebot, Jane Ofundem
Table 02. Causes and Consequences of Health for Children
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Population Refereed Roundtable.
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Presenter: “There’s No Place Like Home: Urban-rural Differentials in Nutritional Status among Children in Ethiopia”

Frederick, Angela
Regular Session. Narrative, Biography, and Culture
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “Bringing Narrative In: Storytelling, Political Ambition, and Womens’ Paths to Public Office”

Ha, Hyun Jeong Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Paper Session.
Open Topic on Collective Behavior and Social Movements.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: “Islamic Feminism, A New Paradigm to Crack out Patriarchy in Egypt”

Hamrock, Caitlin
Table 10. Achieved and Ascribed Characteristics at Work
Unit: Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 10:30am – 11:30am
Presenter: “The Relationship Between Field of Degree and Field of Occupation: Does Education Socialize or Signal?”

Hayward, Mark D
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant
Regular Session. Health and Well-Being
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Non-Presenter: Race/Ethnic Differences in Health among Children Who Live with Parents or Grandparents, U.S. 1972-2009.

Henderson, Andrea
Regular Session. Religion
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “Race-based Discrimination, Religious Involvement and Mental Health among Black Americans”

Hofmann, Erin
Regular Session. International Migration
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “Global Changes and Gendered Responses: The feminization of migration from Georgia”

Hopkins, Kristine
Regular Session. Immigrant Communities/Families II: Family Dynamics and Parenting
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Acculturation and Parent-Teen Communication about Sex among Mexican-origin Families”

Hummer, Robert A
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Regular Session. Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Population Processes in the United States
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Temporal Changes in Self-Rated Health: APC Models of Racial Disparities”

Paul Stanley Kasun
Table 10. Public Opinion on Immigration
Unit: Section on International Migration Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am
Presenter: “Immigration Perspectives Structured Racism and Religion; Attitudes of Welcoming, Economic Threat, Illegal Immigration Toward Immigrants”

Kendig, Sarah M
Table 03. Intra-Familial Investments Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 12:30pm – 1:30pm Table Presider
Table 10. Family and Adolescence Section on Social Psychology Roundtable. (co-sponsored with the Sociology of Emotions)
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: “Race/Ethnic and Class Differences in the Timing of First Sex and Adolescent Pregnancy: Considering Girls’ Mattering?

Kilanski, Kristine
Thematic Session. Gender Disparities in Careers across the Occupational Hierarchy
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: “Gender and the Neoliberal Career”

Kuo, Janet
Table 06. Parenting Section on the Sociology of the Family /Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Presenter: “Causal Effects of Father Involvement on Childrens’ Psychological Well-being in Two Biological-Parent Families in Taiwan”

Lariscy, Joseph Tyler
Regular Session. Immigrant Communities/Families II: Family Dynamics and Parenting
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Presenter: “Acculturation and Parent-Teen Communication about Sex among Mexican-origin Families”

Lodge, Amy
Section on Aging and the Life Course Paper Session. Age and Sociological Imagination: Individual and Micro-level Dynamics
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “Age and Embodied Masculinities: Mid-Life Gay and Heterosexual Men Talk about their Bodies”

Manglos, Nicolette Denise
Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Comparative Religions at Home and Abroad
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Presenter: “Thresholds of Trust: Dynamics of Ethno-Religious Incorporation for Today’s Ghanaian Migrants”
Table 11. Religion and Political Action
Unit: Section on Sociology of Religion Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 9:30am
Presenter on individual submission: “Religion and Political Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Masters, Ryan Kelly
Table 03. Theory and Political Ideology
Unit: Student Forum Session
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

McFarland, Michael
Table 23. Religion and Health
Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Presenter: “Does a Cancer Diagnosis Influence Religiosity? Integrating a Life Course Perspective”

Minagawa, Yuka
Table 10. Comparative and Historical Criminology
Sub Unit: Section on Crime, Law, & Deviance Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “The Social Consequences of Post-Communist Structural Change: An Analysis of Suicide Trends in Eastern Europe”

Mueller, Anna Strassmann
Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. New Perspectives on Gender Inequality in Education
Unit: Open Topic on Sociology of Education (4 Sessions).
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Presider
Table 08. International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Outcomes
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Scholars without Borders: The Graduate School Trajectories of International Students at a Major Research University”
Table 18. Friends and Peer Networks in Schools
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Adolescent Society and the Social Dynamics of Friendship Formation in American High Schools”

Muller, Chandra
Section on Sociology of Education Council and Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Chair
Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. Transitions, Adjustment, and Mobility in Educational Attainment
Unit: Open Topic on Sociology of Education (4 Sessions).
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Non-Presenter: ” The Shape of the River from Middle through High School: Race, Gender, and Grade Trajectories”
Table 07. Academic and Social Determinants of College Attainment
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable – Presider
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Table 08. International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Outcomes
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Scholars without Borders: The Graduate School Trajectories of International Students at a Major Research University”
Table 18. Friends and Peer Networks in Schools
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Adolescent Society and the Social Dynamics of Friendship Formation in American High Schools”
Thematic Session. Gender Disparities in Careers across the Occupational Hierarchy
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Gender and the Neoliberal Career”

Paredes, Cristian Luis
Table 17. Global Ethnicity
Unit: Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: “The Structuring Effects of Racial Agency in Peru”

Pattison, Evangeleen
Table 02. Classical Theory and Contemporary Sociology
Unit: Section on Theory Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 9:30am
Presenter: “Education and Stratification: The Role of Class and Status in Structuring Educational Opportunities”
Table 20. Extracurricular Influences on Equity in Academic Outcomes
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter: “The Role of Sports Participation on Advanced Math Course-taking for Black and White Males”

Paxton, Pamela
Table 12. Gender and Politics
Unit: Section on Political Sociology Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Non-Presenter: “Criminal Violence, Political Resources, and Women’s Political Victories”
Table 13. Civil Discourse and Civic Engagement
Unit: Section on Political Sociology Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Presenter: “Checkbooks in the Heartland: Change Over Time in Voluntary Association Membership”

Perez, Marcos Emilio
Table 10. Income Inequality – Empirical Evidence
Unit: Section on Economic Sociology / Section on Economic Sociology Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Presenter: “Opportunities for a Few: Pro-market Economic Policies and the Regressive Redistribution of Income”

Pieper, Christopher
Table 12. Religion and Social Action
Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Religion Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 9:30am
Presenter: “What Would Jesus Protest?: A Map of Progressive and Conservative Christian Movement Dynamics, 1960-2000″

Pudrovska, Tetyana
Table 16. Mental Health
Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: “Spousal Mental Health Concordance”
Table 23. Religion and Health
Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Does a Cancer Diagnosis Influence Religiosity? Integrating a Life Course Perspective”

Reczek, Corinne E.
Regular Session. Health Issues in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: Same-Sex Cohabitation and Self-Rated Health
Section on Medical Sociology Paper Session. Mechanisms of Health: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Presenter: “The Promotion of Unhealthy Habits in Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Intimate Partnerships”

Regnerus, Mark D.
Thematic Session. The Cultural War and Red/Blue Divide: Re-examining the Debate Demographically and Behaviorally – Panelist
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Reid, Megan
Table 09. Race, Gender, Class & Policy
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm Roundtable
Presenter on individual submission: “Deservingness” and Waiting for Help After Hurricane Katrina”

Riegle-Crumb, Catherine
Section on Sociology of Education Paper Sessions and Roundtable
Session Organizer

Robinson, Brandon Andrew – Brandon is a member of our Fall 2011 graduate cohort
Table 05. Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Unit: Section on Sociology of Sexualities Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Presenter: “This is What Equality Looks Like? How Dutch LGBT Assimilation Marginalizes Gender Non-Conformists”

Robinson, Keith
Sociology of Education EditoriaL Board – participant
Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable Series
Session Organizer of 25 tables

Rodriguez, Nestor P.
Table 06. Immigrants from a Race, Gender, and Class Perspective – Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Presenter: “Racist Medicine: Indian physicians’ experiences with racism, and sexism in U.S. medical workplaces”

Rose, Mary
Section on Sociology of Law Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 9:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Rountree, Meredith
Regular Session. Law and Society
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Presenter: “I’ll Make Them Shoot Me: Accounts of Death Row Prisoners Advocating for Execution”

Ryan, Tricia
Table 03. Comparative Health Policy
Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Presenter: “Unintended Consequences to Health Reform: Patient Responses to Family Medicine and Village Health Committees in Kyrgyzstan”

Sakamoto, Arthur
C. Table 03. Migration
Unit: Open Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Non-Presenter: “Revisiting Malthus for Developed Nations? Non-Poor Population Growth as a Population Characteristic”

Sasson, Isaac
C. Table 03. Migration (3)
Unit: Open Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: “Revisiting Malthus for Developed Nations? Non-Poor Population Growth as a Population” Characteristic

Shafeek Amin, Neveen Fawzy
Table 03. Immigrant Education
Section on International Migration Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am
Presenter: “Religiosity and Academic Achievement among Immigrant Adolescents in the U.S”

Shaw, Vivian
Table 02. Gender and Culture
Unit: Student Forum Sessions
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Shifrer, Dara
Regular Session. Disability and Social Life
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “Social Influences on the Attitudes and Behaviors of High School Students Identified with LD”
Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. Exploring Racial-Ethnic Inequalities from Kindergarten to College
Open Topic on Sociology of Education (4 Sessions).
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Presider
Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Religious Movements and Institutions
Unit:Religious Movements and Institutions.
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: “Education and Religion: Compromises toward the Preservation of a Separatist Community”

Stephan, Rita
Regular Session. Middle East and Muslim Societies
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter : “The Moroccan Gentle Revolution:Women’s Activism and 2004 Reforms of Islamic Law”
Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict Paper Session. Women and Peacebuilding
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Presider

Stroud, Angela R.
Table 05. Gender and Violence
Unit: Section on Sex and Gender Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: “Gender, Violence and Concealed Handgun Licensing”

Sullivan, Mary Esther
Table 12. Rebuilding Communities/Housing
Unit: Section on Community and Urban Sociology Refereed Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Presenter: “Manufacturing Insecurity: Assessing Eviction and Displacement of Mobile Home Park Residents”

Sutton, April M
Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. Transitions, Adjustment, and Mobility in Educational Attainment
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Presenter: “The Shape of the River from Middle through High School: Race, Gender, and Grade Trajectories”
Table 22. Exploring the Influence of Cultural Capital Across Diverse Settings
Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Thomeer, Mieke
Table 16. Mental Health
Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: “Spousal Mental Health Concordance”

Umberson, Deb
JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant
Section on Aging and the Life Course Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 1:30pm – 2:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant
Section on Aging and the Life Course Paper Session. Age and Sociological Imagination: Individual and Micro-level Dynamics
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Non-Presenter: “Age and Embodied Masculinities: Mid-Life Gay and Heterosexual Men Talk about their Bodies”

Villarreal, Andres
American Sociological Review Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Warr, Mark
American Sociological Review Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Wheatley, M. Christine
Table 06. Legal Status and Deportation
Unit: Section on International Migration Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am
Presenter: “Push Back: U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportations, and the Reincorporation of Involuntary Return Migrants in Mexico”

Williams, Christine L.
Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 11:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant
Special Session. Postindustrial Culture and the Flexible Self: Beyond the Cubicle
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Discussant
Thematic Session. Gender Disparities in Careers across the Occupational Hierarchy
Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Presenter: “Gender and the Neoliberal Career”

Young, Michael
2012 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Selection Committee
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 8:30am – 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant
Regular Session. Religion II
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Presenter: “Rebellion and Breakthrough: Evangelical Disruptions, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Values”
Thematic Session. Scandal
Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Discussant

Yu, Wei-hsin
Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work Paper Session. The New World of Work
Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 21 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm
Presenter: “Better Off Jobless? Scar Effect of Contingent Employment in Japan”

Zarrugh, Amina
Table 05. Gender and Violence
Unit: Section on Sex and Gender Roundtable
Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Presenter: “Revenge of the Virtuous Women”: Framing of Gender and Violence in Palestinian Militant Organizations”