Recent Presentations

Dayton, Elizabeth - “First in my Family”: The role of families in first-generation college-going. 2011 American Sociological Association roundtable. Las Vegas NV

Dayton, Elizabeth - “First in my Family”: How children become the first generation in college. 2011 American Educational Research Association presentation. New Orleans LA

Dayton, Elizabeth & DeLuca, Stefanie - Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Educational Success: Testing Coleman’s Theories of Social Capital. 2011 American Educational Research Association roundtable. New Orleans LA

Dayton, Elizabeth - The “Anomaly” of Women’s Academic Achievement: Differences in college-enrolled women and men’s motivations and aspirations. 2010 American Sociological Association roundtable. Atlanta GA

DeLuca, Stefanie & Dayton, Elizabeth - Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes. 2009 American Sociological Association presentation. San Francisco CA

Dayton, Elizabeth - Class and Conformity: The Missing Middle? 2009 American Sociological Association roundtable. San Francisco CA

DeLuca, Stefanie & Dayton, Elizabeth - “Soft” and “Hard” Skill Sets: Measuring Educational and Social Attainment in Young Adulthood with Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits. 2009 American Educational Research Association roundtable. San Diego CA

HARRIS, Kevan - “Governance and Society in Iran and Syria: Challenges and Prospects in Regional Perspective.”  Invited speaker at The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Beirut, Lebanon, May 20, 2011.

HARRIS, Kevan - "Giovanni Arrighi’s Radical Rethinking of Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century.”  Paper co-authored with Felipe Filomeno and Beverly Silver, presented at The Eighth Annual Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts at Boston, April 13-14, 2011.

HARRIS, Kevan - “Iran’s Economy and the Sanctions Regime.”  Invited panelist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, February 18, 2011

REESE, Mike - Invited with Steve Plank to attend the Forum on Characterizing the Impact and Diffusion of Transformative Engineering Education Innovations. Hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education of the National Academy of Engineering. New Orleans, LA. (2/7-8/2011)

Rosenblatt, Peter and Katherine Newman 2011 - “The Impact of Foreclosure Waves on the City of Baltimore.” Report for Congressman Elijah Cummings, in preparation for Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Field Hearing “The Foreclosure Crisis,” United States House of Representatives, March 8, 2011.

Recent Publications

DeLuca, Stefanie & Dayton, Elizabeth . 2009. “Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes.” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 35

FILOMENO, Felipe Amin . Semeando o desenvolvimento: políticas de propriedade intelectual para a indústria de sementes. Agroanalysis (FGV), v. 13, 2011. (Title in English: "Seeding development: intellectual property policies for the seed industry").

FILOMENO, Felipe Amin . A crise Baring e a crise do Encilhamento nos quadros da economia-mundo capitalista. Economia e Sociedade (UNICAMP. Impresso), v. 19, 2010. (Title in English: "The Baring and the Encilhamento Crises in the context of the capitalist world-economy").

FILOMENO, Felipe Amin . Em direção ao transgênico socialmente responsável. Revista de Política Agrícola, v. XIX, 2010.  (Title in English: "Towards socially responsible transgenics").

HARRIS, Kevan. "Reorienting Iran: Following Gunder Frank's Advice One Decade at a Time."  2011. Pp. 196-210 In Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development: Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations, ed. by Patrick Manning and Barry Gills. London: Routledge.

Current Projects

FILOMENO, Felipe Amin. Intellectual Property Regimes in South American Soybean Agriculture