Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology        Ph.D., Political Science 1979

Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia)                 M.A., Political Science 1972

Western Michigan University                            B.A., Political Science 1968

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1998-Present: Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley.

1998-Present: Director, Center for Urban Ethnography,  University of California at Berkeley

1990-1998: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley.

1989-1993: Director, Center for Latino Policy Research, Insititute for the Study of Social Change, University of California at Berkeley.

1985-90: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley.

1982-83: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico.

1979-82: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College.

1977 (Spring Quarter): Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.

1975-76: Technical Assistant for The Huron Institute on the Development of Bilingual Education Program for Del Rio, Texas, sponsored by the Office of Child Development, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

1968-69: Junior High and High School Teacher, Detroit, Michigan.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

University Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 1969-1972

Institute Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972

Institute Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973 (declined)

Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1973-1974

Research Grant, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974

Ford Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1975

Research Grant, Weatherhead Foundation, 1975-76

Jeffrey L. Pressman Fellowship, Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, 1978

Research Grant, Huber Foundation, 1979

Research Grant, National Institute of Mental Health, 1979-82

University of California Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Berkeley Campus, 1983-84

Research Grant, Ford Foundation, 1984-86
National Science Foundation (with M.Hout, M.Burawoy, E.Wright), 1989-90
Spencer Foundation (with M.Hout, M.Burawoy, E.Wright), 1990-91
MacArthur Foundation (with M.Hout, M.Burawoy, E.Wright), 1990-91

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2000-2002

 

Field Research Experience:

2001-Present: Poverty and Health in Outer Island Villages of Fiji

2000-2002: Inter-Ethnic Violence in Inner-City Schools

1991-Present: Underground and Informal Economy of major U.S. urban areas.

1989-1994: Antecedent causes of interpersonal violence in urban poverty neighborhoods.

1990-1999:  Change and Stability in Low-Income Community Institutions.

1990-1993:  Social Structure, Social Inequality, and Class Consciousness in the Soviet Union and the United States.

1988-1989:  Satanic Cults in the Los Angeles Area.

1977-1988:  Youth Gangs, Crime and Public Policy in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston.

1976-1979:  Politics of Bilingual Education, Montreal, Quebec; New York City; Los Angeles, CA.

1976-1977:  White attitudes and political involvement in the Boston anti-busing movement.

Oct-Dec 1976:  Doctoral Dissertation Research, Los Angeles; Albuquerque; San Antonio.

Dec-Jan 1974:  Research on Chicano College Students Residing in Texas and California.

 

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PANELS

“Social Capital and Family Dynamics,” Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association, Tokyo, Japan, March 27 through April 1, 2003.

“School Politics and Social Stratification in Poor Inner-City Schools,” Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association, Oxford, Great Britain, 10-13 April, 2002.

“The Concept of Poverty in Social Stratification Research: Problems and Prospects,” Meeting of the Reseach Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association, Mannheim, Germany, 26-28 April, 2001.

“Causality and Causal Inference in Participant Observation Research: Notes on Evaluating Evidence,” Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association, Lebornne, France,  11-14 May, 2000.

“’Entrepreneurial’ and ‘Bureaucratic’ Strategies for Socioeconomic Mobility Among Urban Low-Income Latino and African American Young Males,” Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association, Warsaw, Poland, 5-7 May, 1999.

“Globalization, Urban Marginality, and Crime,” Conference on Globalization and the New Inequality, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 20-22 November, 1996.

“Gangs and the Structure of Society,” Associaçâo Nacional De Pós Graduaçâo E Pesquisa Em Ciências Sociais, [Plenary Paper] Caxambu, Brasil, 22-26 October, 1996.

“The Dislocation of the Working Class in Inner-city Neighborhoods,” Association Française d’Etudes Américaines, Lyon, France, 17-19 May, 1996.

"La transformation des institutions des quartiers pauvres des grandes métropoles dans le dernier quart de siècle,"  [Institutional Change Among Poor Neighborhoods in Urban Areas in the Last quarter Century] Colloquium on "Cities and Urban Policies in Canada and The United States," Institut du Monde Anglophone, Centre D' Études Canadiennes, Paris, France, May 17-18, 1995.

"From 'The Violent City' to the 'City of Violence'," Association Française d'Etudes Américaines, La Rochelle, France, 27-29 May, 1994.

"The Conscious Middle: Americans' Views On Social Class," (with Micael Hout and Abel Valenzuela), Meeting of theResearch Committee on Social Stratification, International Sociological Association, Trondheim, Norway, 19-21 May, 1993.

"Crime, Violence and Youth Gangs," Summit Conference on Substance  Abuse in the South, Hilton Head, South Carolina, March 17-20, 1992.

"Situations in Gang Violence," FBI National Academy, Quantico, Virginia, February 27, 1992.

"Ethnography, Inequality and Crime,"  American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA., November, 1991.

"Integrating a Scientific Approach to Participant Observation    Research," American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1991.

"Mobility Within the Underclass in the U.S.: Participation in the Illicit Underground Economy," Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification, International Sociological Association, Prague, Czechoslovakia, July, 1991.

"Social Policy, Drugs and The Low-Income Community." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August, 1990.

"Latinas in Gangs: A Comparison of Chicanas and Puertorriquenas," Sixth International Conference on Hispanic American Cultures, Germershein, West Germany, July, 1990.

 "The Underclass and the Culture of Privilege: Unclassifying Race," (with Troy Duster), International Institute of Sociology Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, June 1989.

"Change and Persistence in Political Attitudes of Chicanos: A Panel Study, 1976-1986," Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1988.

"Youth Culture and the Development of Satanic Cults," Pacific Sociological Association's Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 1988.

"The Politics of Immigration:  A Comparative Analysis of the Simpson-Mizzoli and British Nationality Act," British Political Studies Association's Annual Meeting, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1987.

Organizer of Section on "Deviance and Social Control" and paper presented on "Social Origins of Satanic Cult Ideology," American Sociological Association Meeting, New York City, 1986.

"Youth Gang Violence," American Sociological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1985.

"Minorities in Academic Professions," Conference on Ethnicity in the 1980's, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, 1982.

Participant, Roundtable on "Immigration During 1980's: Reagan Administration." Caucus for a New Political Science, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, 1982.

Participant, Roundtable on "Professional Opportunities in Political Science for Minority Students," Conference on Opportunities for Minority Students in Graduate Education: Arts, Sciences, and Engineering," Harvard University, 1979.

"The Chicano Experience in U.S. Society," Yale University, New Haven, 1974.

Roundtable on "Revolution in Industrial Societies," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, June 1, 1972.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer of Manuscripts, Urban Affairs Quarterly,  1991-Present. Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency, 1992-Present. Social Forces, 1993-Present. Comparative Urban and Community Research, 1993-Present. American Sociological Review, 1993-Present.  Health Services Research, 1999-Present.

Consultant to the City of Salinas, California on their Anti-Violence Program, 2000-Present.

Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992-1994.

Member of the Fellowship and Grant Selection Committee, Research on the Urban Underclass, Social Science Research Committee, 1992.

Consultant, City of San José, California on their "Comprehensive Gang Program," 1991-92.

Consultant, Planning Workshop on Gangs, Drugs, Crime and Communities, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., November 14-15, 1991.

Member of the Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Profession, American Sociological Association, 1987-1990.

Consultant, City of Los Angeles on youth gang violence, 1981-82.

Assistant to the Chairman, Conference on "The Dilemma of an Open and Closed Border Between Mexico and the United States," Weatherhead Foundation, San Antonio, Texas, 1975.

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Teaching Fields

1.Poverty 

2.Race and Ethnicity

3.Urban Sociology

4.Methodology 

Research Fields

1. The Sociology of Poverty
2. Comparative Analyses of Violence.
3. Race and Ethnicity Relations
4. Social Policy
5. Sociology of Health and Health Policy

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Sociological Association

International Sociological Association

American Political Science Association

American Society of Criminology

National Association for Chicano Studies

University of California's Chicano/Latino Policy Group

 

LANGUAGES:

Spanish, French (read)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth [with Claude Fischer, Michael Hout,

Samuel Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss] (Princeton University Press,1996). Winner of the 1997 “Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.” 

Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society. (University of California Press, 1991).  

            Winner of the American Sociological Association's 1992 "Robert E. Park          Award." 

            Winner of the Society For the Study of Social Problems' 1993 "Best Book in    Crime and Delinquency Award."

Honorable Mention for the 1992 C. Wright Mills Award.

City Bound: Urban Life and Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth.  (University of New Mexico Press, 1986).

            Winner of Choice’s 1987 "Outstanding Academic Book Award."

 

Chapters, Articles, Working Papers

“Gangs and Social Change,” Theoretical Criminology, Vol 7, No. 2, (2003): 191-215.

“Minority Youth and Civic Engagement: The Impact of Group Relations,” Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 6, No. 4, (2002): 237-245.

“Representation, Responsibility and Reliability in Participant-Observation,” Tim May (ed.), Qualitative Research in Action (London: Sage Publications, 2002)

“The Concentration of African American Poverty and the Dispersal of the Working Class: An Ethnographic Study of Three Inner City Areas,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23, 4 (Dec. 1999): 619-637.

"Where Have All The Nationalists Gone?: Change and Persistence in Radical Political Attitudes Among Chicanos, 1976-1986," David Montejano (ed.), Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century (University of Texas Press, 1999).

“Gangs,” Neil Larry Shumsky (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Cities and Suburbs (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1998).

“Using Computers To Analyze Ethnographic Field Data: Theoretical and Practical Considerations” [with Daniel Dohan], John Hagan and Karen S. Cook (eds.) Annual Review of Sociology, 24, (1998): 477-98.

“As gangues e a estructura da sociedade norte-americana,” [Gangs and the Structure of U.S. Society] Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 12, 34 (June 1997): 25-35.

"The Increasing Significance of Status in U. S. Race Relations," Michael P. Smith and Joe R. Feagan (eds.) The Bubbling Cauldron: Race and Ethnicity in the Urban Crisis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

"Ethnography, Inequality and Crime in The Low-Income Community," John Hagan and Ruth D. Peterson (eds.) Crime and Inequality (Stanford: Stanford University Press,1995).

“Les ganges et la presse,” [Gangs and the Media]  Actes De La Recherche En Sciences Sociales, 101-102, (March, 1994): 101-117.

"Gangs in Politics" in Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Politics of The World (Oxford University Press, 1993).

"Ethnic Identity and Political Consciousness in Different Social Orders." New Directions for Child Development 56 (Summer 1992).

"The Politics of Immigration Reform:  Some Comparative Notes on the Reagan and Thatcher Governments," Working Paper Series, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.

 

Books in Preparation

[Main Title]: Change and Maintenance in Poverty Neighborhoods (Berkeley: University of California Press). A book reporting the findings from nine years of participant observation study in five urban low-income neighborhoods in the United States.  Eleven chapters completed and being edited.  Expected date of sending manuscript to the Press is December 1, 2003.

[Main Title]: The Anatomy of Violence among the Poor in School. A book reporting the findings of from two years of participant observation in five Inner-City Schools in Los Angeles and Oakland, California.  Three Chapter Completed, and four more to write.  Expected completion in September, 2004.

 

Chapters and Articles in Preparation

"Work Trajectories in the Illegal Underground Economy," An article reporting the findings from longitudinal ethnographic data gathered on 102 subjects in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston that I have been following since 1980.

"Some Social Sources Influencing The Involvement of White Residents in the Boston Anti-Busing Movement."  An article reporting the findings of 200 in-depth interviews conducted among white residents of Charlestown and South Boston.

 

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