Presentations
 Kevan Harris. “Reorienting Iran: Following Gunder Frank's Advice One Decade at a Time.” Paper to be presented at the Conference on Andre Gunder Frank's Legacy of Critical Social Science, University of Pittsburgh, April 11-13, 2008.
Steve Plank, Christian Villenas, and Mike Reese. "How do we study diffusion of innovation in education? A review
of 20 years of research." Paper to be presented at the 2008 American Educational Research
Association Annual Meeting in New York.
Joseph Gasper. "Does Involvement in Delinquency Increase the Risk of Dropping Out of High School?" Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in New York City in March 2008.
Elizabeth Dayton. "Neighborhood Influences on Obesity: Assimilation, Segregation, and Enclave Economies for Mexican and Chinese Immigrants." Poster to be presented at the 2007 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) annual meeting on "Partnerships to Achieve Health Equity," Alexandria, Virginia. (Professors Lingxin Hao and Steve Plank were invaluable advisers in this research.)
Linda M. Burton, Andrew Cherlin, Donna-Marie Winn, and Angela Estacion. "The Role of Trust in Low-Income Mothers' Intimate Unions." Paper to be
presented at the session on "The Formation of Marital and Cohabitating Unions" at the 2007 ASA Meeting, New York.
Cross-Barnet, Caitlin and Andrew Cherlin. "Promises
They Can Keep." Paper to be presented at the session on Marriage, Civil Unions, and Cohabitation at the 2007
ASA Meeting, New York.
Gasper, Joseph and Stefanie DeLuca. "Does Residential and School Mobility
Increase the Likelihood of Delinquency?" Paper to be presented at ASA 2007,
New York.
Harris, Kevan. "Social Appropriation after a Social Revolution: The Trajectory of Iranian Student Organizations 1979-1999." Paper to be presented in the Session on Islam at the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting, New York.
Harris, Kevan. "The China That Can Say No: The Financial
Underpinnings of US Hegemony and Transformations in the South." Paper to be presented during the PEWS roundtable session at the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting, New York.
Buford, II, Mindelyn. 2007. "Theoretical Foundations of a Multi-Sited Ethnography of African Immigrants in Maryland." Center for Africana Studies Graduate Student Grant Recipient Symposium. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 13, 2007.
Deluca, Stefanie, and Joseph Gasper. 2007. "Transfer and Turbulence: A New Look at School Mobility and Attendance." American Educational Research Association Meeting in Chicago, IL, April 10, 2007.
DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2007. "Does Moving To Better Neighborhoods
Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an
Experimental Housing Voucher Program." American Educational Research Association Meeting in Chicago, IL, April 10, 2007.
Buford, II, Mindelyn. 2007. "Identity Formation and Community Building: 'Black America' in the 21st Century."
Boston University Community Building and Identity Formation in the African Diaspora Conference. Boston, MA, March 31, 2007.
Fomby, Paula and Angela Estacion. 2007. "Cohabitation and Children's Developmental Well-Being in Latino Families." Annual Population Association of America Meeting. New York, NY, March 31, 2007.
Buford, II, Mindelyn. 2007. "Toward Integrating International Migration, Immigrant Assimilation and Race Theories." Eastern Sociological Society Meeting in Philapdelphia, PA, March 16, 2007.
Harris, Kevan. February 2007. "Unintended Consequences and Social Change: The Post-Revolutionary Trajectory of Iranian Student Movements." JHU Institute for Global Studies.
Lowinger, Jake. August 2006. "Organized Labor and the Resistance to Border Formation in Yugoslavia, 1980-1989." 2006 American Sociological Association Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
Recent Publications
 Moy, Ernest and Dayton, Elizabeth. (2007). "Frontiers in Gender-Based Research: Health Care Quality Data." Women's Health Issues. In Press.
Bonini, Astra. "Cross-national Variation in Individual Life Satisfaction: Effects of National Wealth, Human Development, and Environmental Conditions". Social Indicators Research.
Zhang, Lu. “Determining Appropriate Course Goals and Pacing: An Exercise for Advanced TAs/Beginning Instructors” (co-authored with Allyson McCabe) in Catherine Ross and Jane Dunphy (eds.), Techniques for TA/ITA Development. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2007.
Hough, Phillip. "Colombia," in David Levinson and Karen Christensen eds., Global
Perspectives on the United States: A Nation by Nation Survey, vol. 1 & 2,
Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, MA: 2007
Gosa, Travis L & Alexander, Karl L. (2007). "Family (Dis)Advantage and
the Educational Prospects of Better Off African American Youth: How
Race Still Matters." Teachers College Record, Volume 109 Number 2,
2007, p. 285-321
Zhang, Lu. “Globalization, Market Reform and Changing Labor Politics in China’s Automobile Industry”. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM). Vol. 6, No. 4, 2006
Projects
 Diffusion of innovation and educational change. Ph.D. students Christian Villenas and Mike Reese, in collaboration with Professor Steve Plank, are conducting a major literature review of education and sociology journal articles published during the past 25 years dealing with innovation diffusion or educational change. They have three main objectives: First, they will describe central tendencies and variation across the set of articles. Second, they will assess how closely these articles approximate the conceptual imagery and analytic methods centrally featured in the diffusion of innovation tradition associated with authors such as Everett Rogers, Vijay Mahajan, and Robert Peterson. Third, they will offer their own assessment of whether different data collection strategies and conceptual framing of questions on the part of education researchers would offer major improvements in theoretical and empirical understandings, or whether the current state of studies of educational change and diffusion are fundamentally sound and powerful.
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