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Richard D. Alba 45 Union Avenue Delmar, NY 12054
PRESENT POSITION:
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis & Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research The University at Albany, State University of New York
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Race and ethnicity; immigration; quantitative methods and statistics; demography
EDUCATION: Dates Date Institution Attended Degree Conferred Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1959-60 Columbia College 1960-63 B.A. 1963 Columbia University 1969-74 Ph.D. 1974
Academic honors Graduated summa cum laude by Columbia College Elected to Phi Beta Kappa German prize, Columbia College, 1963 Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship, 1963-64 Eugene Higgins Fellowship (in mathematics), 1964-65 Office of Education Traineeship, 1970-73 Graduate Student Fellowship, Russell Sage Foundation, 1973-74
LANGUAGES: French (excellent reading, good speaking and writing) German (excellent reading, speaking, very good writing) Italian (good reading, basic speaking and writing) Spanish (basic reading)
PROFESSIONAL HONORS:
Fulbright Lectureship, Mannheim University, 1986-87 Elected member, Executive Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 1991-92 Finalist, American Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, 1992 Outstanding book on the subject of human rights in the United States, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States, 1992 Vice President, Eastern Sociological Society, 1993-94 Elected member, American Sociological Association's Committee on Committees, 1993-95
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PROFESSIONAL HONORS (cont.):
Elected to the Sociological Research Association, 1993 Fulbright Research Award, Mannheim University, 1993-94 Excellence in Research Award, The University at Albany, 1994 Elected Chair, International Migration section, American Sociological Association, 1995-96 Elected member, General Social Survey Board of Overseers, 1996-2000 President, Eastern Sociological Society, 1997-98 Guest Professor, Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim, 1997 Excellence in Academic Service Award, The University at Albany, 1998 Theodore Standing Lecturer, The University at Albany, 1998 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 1999 Vice President, American Sociological Association, 2000-01 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000-01 Associate Research Director, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, 2000 German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 2002 Chancellor’s Recognition for Exemplary Contributions to Research, SUNY, 2002 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2003-04 Keynote speaker, New York State Sociological Association, 2003 Honorable mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Sociology & Anthropology 2004 Thomas & Znaniecki Book Award, International Migration section, American Sociological Association Elected Chair, Community and Urban section, American Sociological Association, 2004-06 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society Invited plenary speaker, Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, 2005 Elected member, Council, Population section, American Sociological Association, 2005- Keynote speaker, Netherlands American Studies Association, 2006 Co-moderator, Seminar on Immigration, The Aspen Institute, July, 2006 Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, 2006- Associate, EQUALSOC, European Union network of excellence, 2006- Named as Huggins Lecturer, Afro-American Studies Department, Harvard University, spring, 2008
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EXPERIENCE:
1972 Preceptor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
1974-77 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
1977-80 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
1980- Associate Professor to Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany
1981-90 Founding Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis
1985- Professor, Department of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany
1986-87 Guest Professor, Mannheim University, Federal Republic of Germany
1991-92, Chair, Department of Sociology 1995-97
1993 Guest Professor, Mannheim University, Federal Republic of Germany
1997 Guest Professor, Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany
2000 Chercheur, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
2000- Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Albany
2004- Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis & Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research
Computing:
1965-66 Computer programmer, Service Bureau Corporation (IBM), New York City
1966-67 Computer programmer, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University
1968-69 Senior staff member, Columbia University Computer Center
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PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
David E. Lavin, Richard D. Alba, and Richard A. Silberstein, Right Versus Privilege: The Open Admissions Experiment at the City University of New York. New York: The Free Press, 1981.
Richard D. Alba, Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1985.
Richard D. Alba (ed.), Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A.: Toward the Twenty-First Century. Boston & London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Reprinted from: Richard D. Alba (ed.), "Ethnicity and race in the U.S.A.: Toward the twenty-first century," a special issue of Ethnic & Racial Studies (January, 1985).
Richard D. Alba, Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Excerpted in: Joseph Healey, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class (Pine Forge Press). Finalist, American Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, 1992; Outstanding book on the subject of human rights in the United States, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States, 1992.
Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer (eds.), Deutsche und Ausländer: Freunde, Fremde, oder Feinde? Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000.
In English: Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Honorable mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Sociology & Anthropology; 2004 Thomas & Znaniecki Book Award, American Sociological Association; 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award, Eastern Sociological Society.
Richard Alba, Albert Raboteau, and Josh DeWind (eds.), Religion and Immigration in America: Past and Present. New York: New York University Press, forthcoming.
Articles:
Richard D. Alba, "A graph-theoretic definition of a sociometric clique," Journal of Mathematical Sociology 3 (January, 1973): 113-26.
Richard D. Alba and Charles Kadushin, "The intersection of social circles: A new measure of social proximity in networks," Sociological Methods & Research 5 (August, 1976): 77-102.
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Richard D. Alba, "Social assimilation among American Catholic national-origin groups," American Sociological Review 41 (December, 1976): 1030-46. Reprinted in: F. James Davis (ed.), Understanding Minority-Dominant Relations: Sociological Contributions (AHM Publishing Corp.); Norman R. Yetman and C. Hoy Steele (eds.), Majority and Minority, 3rd edition (Allyn and Bacon).
Richard D. Alba and Dwight C. Smith, Jr., "Ripping out the label that says 'Made in Sicily'," The New York Times (May 19, 1977): Op-Ed page. Reprinted in: Gresham Sykes, Criminology (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).
Richard D. Alba, "Ethnic networks and tolerant attitudes," Public-Opinion Quarterly 42 (Spring, 1978): 1-16.
Richard D. Alba and Gwen Moore, "Elite social circles," Sociological Methods & Research 7 (November, 1978): 167-88. Reprinted in: Ronald S. Burt and Michael J. Minor, Applied Network Analysis (Sage).
David E. Lavin, Richard D. Alba, and Richard A. Silberstein, "Open admissions and equal access: A study of ethnic groups in the City University of New York," Harvard Educational Review 49 (February, 1979): 53-92.
Dwight C. Smith, Jr., and Richard D. Alba, "Organized crime and American life," Society 16 (March/April, 1979): 32-8. Reprinted in: John F. Galliher, Deviant Behavior and Human Rights (Prentice-Hall).
Richard D. Alba and Ronald C. Kessler, "Patterns of interethnic marriage among American Catholics," Social Forces 57 (June, 1979): 1124-40.
Richard D. Alba, "The twilight of ethnicity among American Catholics of European ancestry," The Annals 454 (March, 1981): 86-97. Reprinted in: Norman J. Yetman (ed.), Majority and Minority, 4th edition (Allyn and Bacon); Norman J. Yetman (ed.), Majority and Minority, 5th edition (Allyn and Bacon).
Richard D. Alba, "From small groups to social networks: Mathematical approaches to the study of group structure," American Behavioral Scientist 24 (May/June, 1981): 681-94.
Richard D. Alba and David E. Lavin, "Community colleges and tracking in higher education," Sociology of Education 54 (October, 1981): 223-37. See: Peter Lau, "The problems of comparing transfer and 'native' students: A response to Alba and Lavin," and Richard D. Alba and David E. Lavin, "A rebuttal of Lau," Sociology of Education 57 (April, 1984): 128-31.
Richard D. Alba, "Taking stock of network analysis: A decade's results." Pp. 39-74 in Samuel B. Bacharach (ed.), Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume I. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI, 1982.
David E. Lavin and Richard D. Alba, "Ertrage der Politik der 'offenen' Zulassung an der City University of New York." Pp. 62-81 in Harry Hermanns, Ulrich Teichler, and Henry Wasser (eds.) Integrierte Hochschulmodelle: Erfahrungen aus drei Ländern. Frankfurt: Campus, 1982.
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Reprinted in English as: "Assessment of the open-admissions policy at the City University of New York," in Harry Hermanns et al. (eds.), The Compleat University (Schenkman).
Richard D. Alba and David E. Lavin, "Open admissions: Is higher education a right or a privilege?" Social Policy 12 (Spring, 1982): 37-45. Reprinted in: Kevin Dougherty and Floyd Hammack (eds.), Education and Society: A Reader (Harcourt, Brace).
Richard D. Alba and Gwen Moore, "Ethnicity in the American elite," American Sociological Review 47 (June, 1982): 373-83.
Judith R. Blau and Richard D. Alba, "Empowering nets of participation," Administrative Science Quarterly 27 (September, 1982): 363-79.
Gwen Moore and Richard D. Alba, "Class and prestige origins in the American elite." Pp. 39-60 in Peter Marsden and Nan Lin (eds.), Social Structure and Network Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage. Reprinted as a Working Paper of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).
Richard D. Alba, "The convergence between the common-sense method of reading a table and regression- based models of its structure," Quality and Quantity 16 (December, 1982): 539-47.
Richard D. Alba and Mitchell B. Chamlin, "A preliminary examination of ethnic identification among whites," American Sociological Review 48 (April, 1983): 240-7.
Richard D. Alba, "The twilight of ethnicity among Americans of European ancestry: The case of Italians," Ethnic and Racial Studies 8 (January, 1985): 134-58. Reprinted in: Richard D. Alba (ed.), Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A.: Toward the Twenty-First Century (Routledge & Kegan Paul); Vincent Parrillo (ed.), Rethinking Today's Minorities (Greenwood Press); Jerome Krase and Frank Sorrentino (eds.), The Review of Italian American Studies (Lexington).
Richard D. Alba and Michael J. Batutis, Jr., "Migration's toll: Lessons from New York State," American Demographics 7 (June, 1985): 38-42.
Richard D. Alba and Reid Golden, "Patterns of interethnic marriage in the United States," Social Forces 65 (September, 1986): 203-23.
Richard D. Alba and Katherine Trent, "Population loss and change in the North: An examination of New York's migration to the Sunbelt," Social Science Quarterly 67 (December, 1986): 690-706.
Richard D. Alba, "Interpreting the parameters of log-linear models," Sociological Methods & Research 16 (August, 1987): 45-77. Reprinted in: J. Scott Long (ed.), Common Problems in Quantitative Social Research (Sage).
Richard D. Alba, "Cohorts and the dynamics of ethnic change." Pp. 211-28 in Matilda White Riley, Bettina J. Huber, and Beth B. Hess (eds.), Social Structures and Human Lives. Newbury Park: Sage, 1988 (ASA Presidential Volume).
Richard D. Alba and Katherine Trent, "The People of New York: Population Dynamics of a Changing State." Pp. 19-200 in Jeryl L. Mumpower and Warren F. Ilchman (eds.), New York State in the Year 2000. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.
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Katherine Trent and Richard D. Alba, "Population." Pp. 81-105 in Gerald Benjamin and Charles Brecher (eds.), The Two New Yorks: State-City Relations in the Changing Federal System. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988.
Richard D. Alba, "The emergence of the European Americans," Altreitalie 4 (November, 1990): 14-23. In Italian: "L'ascesa degli euroamericani," Altreitalie 4 (November, 1990): 2-13. Reprinted among the Lectures and Papers in Ethnicity, Robert F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies (University of Toronto).
Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan, "Variations on two themes: Racial and ethnic patterns in the attainment of suburban residence," Demography 28 (August, 1991): 431-53.
Richard D. Alba, "Ethnicity." Pp. 575-84 in Edgar and Marie Borgatta (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Macmillan, 1991. Revised version: Edgar and Marie Borgatta, Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition (Macmillan).
Richard D. Alba, "Intermarriage and the European Americans," Contemporary Jewry 12 (1991): 3-19.
Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan, "Analyzing locational attainments: Constructing individual-level regressions using aggregate data," Sociological Methods & Research 20 (February, 1992): 367-97.
Sung-Joon Jang and Richard D. Alba, "Urbanism and nontraditional opinion: A test of Fischer's subcultural theory," Social Science Quarterly 73 (September, 1992): 596-609. See: Thomas C. Wilson, "Urbanism and nontraditional opinion: Another look at the data," and Richard D. Alba and Sung- Joon Jang, "Reply to Wilson: Type of place matters too," Social Science Quarterly 73 (September, 1992): 610-4.
Richard D. Alba, "'What then is the European American?' Some answers," Altreitalie 8 (December, 1992): 93-9. In Italian: "'Chi é, allora, l'euroamericano?' Alcune risposte," Altreitalie 8 (December, 1992): 86-92.
Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan, "Assimilation and stratification in the homeownership patterns of racial and ethnic groups," International Migration Review 26 (Winter, 1992): 1314-41.
Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan, "Minority proximity to whites in suburbs: An individual-level analysis of segregation," American Journal of Sociology 98 (May, 1993): 1388-1427.
John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba, "Locational returns to human capital: Minority access to suburban community resources," Demography 30 (May, 1993): 243-68.
John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Thomas McNulty, "Ethnic economies in metropolitan regions: Miami and beyond," Social Forces 72 (March, 1994): 691-724.
Richard D. Alba, "Identity and ethnicity among Italians and other Americans of European ancestry." Pp. 21-44 in Lydio F. Tomasi, Piero Gastaldo, and Thomas Row (eds.), The Columbus People: Perspectives in Italian Immigration to the Americas and Australia. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1994.
Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, and Shu-yin Leung, "Asian immigrants in American suburbs: An
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analysis of the greater New York metropolitan area," Research in Community Sociology 4 (1994): 43- 67.
John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Thomas L. McNulty, "The racially divided city: Housing and labor markets in Los Angeles." Pp. 118-40 in Seamus Dunn (ed.), Managing Divided Cities. Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994.
Richard D. Alba, Johann Handl, and Walter Müller, "Ethnische Ungleichheit im Deutschen Bildungssystem," Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 46 (1994): 209-37. In English: "Ethnic inequalities in the German school system," in Peter Schuck and Rainer Münz (eds.), Paths to Inclusion: The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany (Berghahn). In French: "Les inégalités ethniques dans le système scolaire allemand," Formation – Emploi 65 (January-March 1999): 77- 101.
Richard D. Alba, Walter Müller, and Bernhard Schimpl-Neimanns, "Secondary analysis of official microdata." Pp 57-78 in Ingwer Borg and Peter Ph. Mohler (eds.), Trends and Perspectives in Empirical Social Research. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1994.
Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, and Paul Bellair, "Living with crime: The implications of racial/ethnic differences in suburban location," Social Forces 73 (December, 1994): 395-434.
Richard D. Alba, "Assimilation's quiet tide," The Public Interest 119 (Spring, 1995): 1-18. Portions reprinted in: Economic Times 6 (September, 1995); Reprinted in: Norman Yetman (ed.), Majority and Minority, 6th edition (Allyn & Bacon); Stephen Steinberg (ed.), Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates (Blackwell); Walsh and Asch, Immigration (Wadsworth).
Richard D. Alba, Nancy Denton, Shu-yin Leung, and John R. Logan, "Neighborhood change under conditions of mass immigration: The New York City region, 1970-1990," International Migration Review 29 (Fall, 1995): 625-56.
John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba, "Who lives in affluent suburbs? Racial differences in eleven metropolitan regions," Sociological Focus 28 (October, 1995): 353-64.
Richard D. Alba and Steven F. Messner, "Point Blank against itself: Evidence and inference about guns, crime, and gun control," Journal of Quantitative Criminology 11 (December, 1995): 391-410. See: Gary Kleck, "Using speculation to meet evidence: Reply to Alba and Messner," and Richard D. Alba and Steven F. Messner, "Point Blank and the evidence: A rejoinder to Gary Kleck," Journal of Quantitative Criminology 11 (December, 1995): 411-28.
Richard D. Alba, "Italian Americans: A century of ethnic change." Pp. 172-81 in Silvia Pedraza and Ruben Rumbaut (eds.), Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America. Belmont: Westview, 1996.
John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Shu-Yin Leung, "Minority access to white suburbs: A multiregion comparison," Social Forces 74 (March, 1996): 851-81.
John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Tom McNulty, "Les minorités des villes globales: New York et Los Angeles," Societes Contemporaines. 22/23 (June/Sept., 1996): 69-88. In English: "Minorities in global cities: New York and Los Angeles," in Enzo Mingione (ed.), Urban Poverty and the
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Underclass (Blackwell).
John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, Tom McNulty and Brian Fisher, "Making a place in the metropolis: Residential assimilation and segregation in city and suburb," Demography 33 (November, 1996): 443-53.
Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, and Kyle Crowder, "White ethnic neighborhoods and spatial assimilation: The Greater New York region, 1980-1990," Social Forces 75 (March, 1997): 883-912.
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, "Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration," International Migration Review 31 (Winter, 1997): 826-74. Reprinted: Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind (eds.), The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience (Russell Sage Foundation); Peter Kivisto (ed.), Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age (Paradigm).
Richard D. Alba, "Assimilation, exclusion, or neither? Models of the incorporation of immigrant groups in the U.S." Pp. 1-31 in Peter Schuck and Rainer Münz (eds.), Paths to Inclusion: The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany. New York: Berghahn Books, 1998.
Richard Alba, "Immigration and the American realities of assimilation and multiculturalism," Sociological Forum 14 (March, 1999): 3-25 (Eastern Sociological Society Presidential Address). Reprinted: Demographie aktuell No. 14 (1999): 3-16.
Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, Brian Stults, Gilbert Marzan, and Wenquan Zhang, "Immigrant groups in the suburbs: A reexamination of suburbanization and spatial assimilation," American Sociological Review 64 (June, 1999): 446-60.
Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, Wenquan Zhang, and Brian Stults, "Strangers next door: Immigrant groups and suburbs in Los Angeles and New York." Pp. 108-32 in Phyllis Moen, Henry Walker, and Donna Dempster-McClain (eds.), A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba, "Minority Niches and Immigrant Enclaves in New York and Los Angeles: Trends and Impacts." Pp. 172-93 in Frank Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose (eds.), Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
Richard D. Alba, "Assimilation." Pp. 41-4 in Salvatore LaGumina, Frank Cavaiolo, Salvatore Primeggia, and Joseph Varacalli (eds.), The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2000.
Richard Alba and Michelle Johnson, "Zur Messung aktueller Einstellungsmuster gegenüber Ausländern in Deutschland." Pp. 229-53 in Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer (eds.), Deutsche und Ausländer: Freunde, Fremde, oder Feinde? Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000.
In English: "Measuring contemporary prejudice towards immigrants in Germany, " in Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer (eds.), Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany, Palgrave
John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, Michael Dill, and Min Zhou, "Ethnic segmentation in the American metropolis: Increasing divergence in economic incorporation, 1980-1990," International Migration
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Review 34 (Spring, 2000): 98-132.
Charles Hirschman, Richard Alba, and Reynolds Farley, "The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. Census: Glimpses into the future," Demography 37 (August, 2000): 381-93.
Reprinted in: Historical Statistics of the United States, Millenial Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Richard Alba, John Logan, and Brian Stults, "How segregated are middle-class African Americans?" Social Problems 47 (November, 2000): 543-58.
Richard Alba, John Logan, and Brian Stults, "The changing neighborhood contexts of the immigrant metropolis," Social Forces 79 (December, 2000): 587-621.
Richard Alba, Amy Lutz, and Elena Vesselinov, "How enduring were the inequalities among European immigrant groups in the U.S.?" Demography 38 (August, 2001): 349-56.
Richard D. Alba, "Assimilation," in Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought. New York: Routledge, 2001.
John Logan, Richard Alba, and Wenquan Zhang, "Immigrant enclaves and ethnic communities in New York and Los Angeles," American Sociological Review 67 (April, 2002): 299-322.
John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba, "Does race matter less for the truly advantaged? Residential patterns in the New York metropolis." Pp. 71-88 in Marlese Durr (ed.), The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the 21st Century. Westport: Praeger, 2002.
Richard Alba, John Logan, Amy Lutz, and Brian Stults, “Only English by the third generation? Mother- tongue loss and preservation among the grandchildren of contemporary immigrants,” Demography 39 (August, 2002): 467-84.
Reynolds Farley and Richard Alba, "The new second generation in the United States," International Migration Review 36 (Fall, 2002): 669-701.
Richard Alba and Roxane Silberman, "Decolonization immigrations and the social origins of the second generation: The case of North Africans in France," International Migration Review 36 (Winter, 2002): 1169-93.
Richard Alba, “L’assimilation aux États-Unis,” Futuribles 284 (March, 2003): 37-44.
John Logan, Richard Alba, and Brian Stults, "Enclaves and entrepreneurs: Assessing the payoff for immigrants and minorities," International Migration Review 37 (Summer, 2003): 344-88.
Richard Alba, John Logan, and Brian Stults, “Community inequalities in an immigration era: Race/ethnicity and location in the largest metropolitan regions of the U.S.” Pp. 119-150 in Jeffrey Reitz (ed.), Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants. San Diego: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2003
Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer, “Ausländer in the Heimat: Ethnocentrism in contemporary Germany.” Pp. 1-26 in Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer (eds.), Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany. New
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York: Palgrave, 2003.
Victor Nee and Richard Alba, “Toward a new definition.” Pp. 57-65 in Tamar Jacoby (ed.), Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, “Assimilation und Einwanderung in den USA,” pp. 21-39 in Klaus J. Bade and Michael Bommes (eds.), Migration - Integration – Bildung: Grundfragen und Problembereiche, IMIS-Beiträge 23. Osnabrück: Institut für Migrationsforschung, 2004.
Richard Alba and Nancy Denton, “Landscapes of diversity: Residential patterns of immigrant minorities.” Pp. 237-61 in Nancy Foner and George Frederickson (eds.), Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
Richard Alba, “Bright vs. blurred boundaries: Second-generation assimilation and exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28 (January, 2005): 20-49.
Richard Alba and Dalia Abdel-Hady, “Galileo’s children: Italian Americans’ difficult entry into the intellectual elite,” The Sociological Quarterly 46 (January, 2005): 2-18.
Richard Alba, Rubén Rumbaut, and Karen Marotz, “A distorted nation: Perceptions of racial/ethnic group sizes and attitudes toward immigrants and other minorities,” Social Forces 84 (December, 2005): 901-20.
Richard Alba, “Mexican Americans and the American Dream,” Perspectives on Politics 4 (June, 2006): 289-96.
Richard Alba and Philip Kasinitz, “The Sopranos: Sophisticated television, sophisticated stereotypes,” Contexts 4 (Fall, 2006): 72-5.
Richard Alba, “On the sociological significance of the American Jewish experience: Boundary blurring, assimilation, and pluralism,” Sociology of Religion 67 (December, 2006): 347-58.
Richard Alba, “Diversity’s blind spot: Catholic ethnics on the faculties of elite American universities,” Ethnicities 6 (December, 2006): 562-79.
See: Stephen Steinberg, “Barking up the wrong (explanatory) tree,”; Mary J. Hickman, “A response to Richard Alba”; Douglas S. Massey, Diversity’s blind spot or the data’s blind spot”; and Richard Alba, “Beyond race: Recognizing minority status in elite contexts,” Ethnicities 6 (December, 2006): 536-54.
Roxane Silberman, Richard Alba, and Irène Fournier, “Segmented assimilation in France? Discrimination in the labor market against the second generation,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (January, 2007): 1-27.
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, “Assimilation.” Pp. 124-36 in Mary Waters and Reed Ueda (eds.), The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Richard Alba, “Immigrant-native boundaries in North America and western Europe.” Pp. 228-30 in Lorne Tepperman and Harley Dickinson (eds.), Read Sociology: Canadian Perspectives. Ontario: Oxford
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University Press, 2007.
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, “Assimilation.” Pp. 191-96 in George Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Richard Alba, “Whiteness just isn’t enough,” Sociological Forum 22 (June, 2007): 232-41.
Richard Alba, “The paradigmatic status of Jewish immigration.” Pp. 260-5 in Diane Wolf and Judith Gerson (eds.), Memories, Identities and Diasporas: Confronting the Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Jewish Lives. Durham: Duke University Press.
Victor Nee and Richard Alba, “Melting Pot,” forthcoming in Alan Hedblad (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed.
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, “Assimilation,” forthcoming in Vincent Parrillo (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousans Oaks, CA: Sage
Richard Alba and Robert Orsi, “Passages of piety: Generational transitions and the social and religious incorporation of Italian Americans,” forthcoming in Richard Alba, Albert Raboteau and Josh DeWind (eds.), Immigration and Religion in America: Past and Present. New York: New York University Press.
Richard Alba and Roxane Silberman, “The children of immigrants encounter host-society educational systems: Mexicans in the U.S. and North Africans in France,” forthcoming in the Teachers College Record.
Richard Alba and Nancy Denton, “L'expérience aux USA avec les données raciales et ethniques: Le bilan entre la connaissance scientifique et la politique des identités,” forthcoming in the Revue française de sociologie.
In process:
Richard Alba, Dalia Abdel-Hady, Tariq Islam, and Karen Marotz, “Downward assimilation and Mexican Americans: An examination of intergenerational advance and stagnation in educational attainment,” forthcoming in Richard Alba and Mary Waters (eds.), Second Generation conference volume.
Richard Alba and Tariq Islam, “The case of the disappearing Mexican Americans: An ethnic-identity mystery,” presented at the 2005 meeting of the Population Association of America.
Richard Alba, “Connecting past, present and future: Reflections on immigration and the possibilities for racial and ethnic change in the US,” under consideration for the Social Forces special issue on new approaches to the study of race.
Computer programs:
Richard D. Alba and Myron P. Gutmann, "SOCK: A sociometric analysis system," announced in Behavioral Science 17 (May, 1972): 326.
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Richard D. Alba, "COMPLT--a program for analyzing sociometric data and clustering similarity matrices," announced in Behavioral Science 17 (November, 1972): 566.
Comments and other miscellaneous publications:
Richard D. Alba, "Who governs--the power elite? It's all in how you define it," The Human Factor 10 (Spring, 1971): 27-40.
On "Mathematical models in sociometry," Sociological Methods & Research 3 (May, 1975): 489.
On "Ethnic endogamy among Mexican-American grooms," American Journal of Sociology 87 (January, 1982): 935-9.
On "Papers by McKenney, Levin, and Tella and by Nelli and Vecoli," in The Italian Experience in the United States. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies.
Richard D. Alba, "Ethnics a waning factor," Times Union (July 22, 1984): B-1 & B-2. Reprinted under various titles in the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and The Carillon.
Richard D. Alba and Katherine Trent, "Coming battle: Old vs. kids," Newsday (June 12, 1986).
Richard D. Alba, "Unintended chiaroscuro: The state of knowledge about ethnicity and race in the United States," in Donald L. Horowitz, Research on Ethnicity: A Report of a Meeting at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center. August, 1991.
Richard D. Alba, "Comment," The Journal of American Ethnic History 14 (Winter, 1995): 82-90.
Richard Alba, “How relevant is assimilation?,” IMIS Beiträge 4 (October, 1996).
Richard D. Alba, Douglas S. Massey, and Rubén G. Rumbaut. The Immigration Experience for Families and Children. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 1999.
Richard Alba, "Von Bindestrich-Amerikanern und Rassisten," Zeitschrift für KulturAustausch 49, no. 3 (1999): 42-3.
Richard Alba (ed.), "Beyond the Melting Pot 35 years later: On the relevance of a sociological classic for the immigration metropolis of today," International Migration Review 34 (Spring, 2000): 243-79.
Richard Alba et al., “’Who should get in?’ An exchange,” The New York Review of Books (May 23, 2002): 83-4.
Richard Alba, “Payback time: Social Security ‘crisis’ is going according to plan,” Times Union (December 12, 2004).
Victor Nee and Richard Alba, “Response to reviews of Remaking the American Mainstream,” City & Community 3 (December, 2004): 433-6.
Richard Alba, “Bilingualism persists, but English still dominates,” The Migration Information Source
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(February, 2005): http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=282.
Richard Alba and Nancy Foner, “Can it happen here?” The Nation (October 17, 2005).
Richard Alba, “Looking beyond the moment: American immigration seen from historically and internationally comparative perspectives,” Social Science Research Council website on Border Battles: The US Immigration Debates (posted June, 2006): http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/Alba/.
Nancy Foner and Richard Alba, “The second generation from the last great wave of immigration: Setting the record straight,” The Migration Information Source (October, 2006): http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=439.
Richard Alba, “Demographics and the golden door,” Los Angeles Times (June 19, 2007): A17. Reprinted under various titles in the Baltimore Sun and Times Union.
Publicly available research reports:
Richard D. Alba and Michael J. Batutis, Jr., The Impact of Migration on New York State: A Report. Albany: Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Public Policy Institute, and Job Training Partnership Council. September, 1984. 120pp.
Richard D. Alba and Katherine Trent, The People of New York: Population Dynamics of a Changing State. Albany: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. June, 1986. 197pp.
Reprinted in: Jeryl Mumpower and Warren F. Ilchman (eds.), New York in the Year 2000. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
Richard D. Alba and Russell Ward, Tolerance and Bias in the Capital District: A Report Prepared for the Times Union. Albany: Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. July, 1989. 16pp.+appendices.
Reported in The Albany Times Union, July, 1989.
Richard Alba, Language Assimilation Today: Bilingualism Persists More Than in the Past, But English Still Dominates. Albany: Lewis Mumford Center. December, 2004.
Reported in: “Children of Hispanic immigrants continue to favor English, report finds,” The New York Times (December 8, 2004), by Rachel Swarns.
Richard Alba and David Strogatz (with Michael Zdeb, Ruby Wang and Hyoung-jin Shin), The Quiet Crisis: Minority-Majority Disparities for Diabetes in Upstate New York Cities. Albany: EXPORT Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. September, 2006.
Book Reviews:
Edward O. Laumann's Bonds of Pluralism for Social Forces, 1975. Dwight C. Smith's The Mafia Mystique for Dissent, 1976. Annelise Anderson's The Business of Organized Crime for the Political Science Quarterly, 1980. William Petersen's The Background to Ethnic Conflict for Contemporary Sociology, 1981. Paul Holland and Samuel Leinhardt's Perspectives on Social Network Research for the American Journal
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of Sociology, 1981. Peter Peroni's The Burg: An Italian-American Community at Bay in Trenton for Urban Anthropology, 1984. Olivier Zunz's The Changing Face of Inequality: Detroit, 1880-1920 for the Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1984. Micaela di Leonardo's The Varieties of Ethnic Experience for the International Migration Review, 1985. Michael LaSorte's La Merica for Contemporary Sociology, 1987. Frank D. Bean and Marta Tienda's The Hispanic Population of the United States for the American Journal of Sociology, 1989. Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck's American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years for Contemporary Sociology, 1991. Paul Breines's Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry for Social Science Quarterly, 1991. Christopher McAll's Class, Ethnicity, & Social Inequality for Labour/Le Travail, 1991. Donald L. Horowitz and Gérard Noiriel's Immigrants in Two Democracies: French & American Experience for Contemporary Sociology, 1993. Joel Perlmann's Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews & Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935 for Italian Americana, 1993. Yasemin Soysal's Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe, and Klaus Bade's Ausländer--Aussiedler--Asyl: Eine Bestandsaufnahme for Contemporary Sociology, 1995. Nathan Glazer’s We Are All Multiculturalists Now for Social Science Quarterly, 1998. Richard Juliani’s Building Little Italy for Contemporary Sociology, 1999. Thomas Espenshade’s Keys to Successful Immigration for Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1999. David A.J. Richards's Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity for The Journal of American Ethnic History, 2000. Ronald Fernandez's America’s Banquet of Cultures: Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century for Contemporary Sociology, 2001. Gerald Jaynes's Immigration and Race: New Challenges for American Democracy for The Journal of American Ethnic History, 2002. Stefano Luconi's From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia for The American Historical Review, 2002. Nancy Foner’s Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York for Contemporary Sociology, 2002. Doug Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan Malone’s Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration for Contexts, 2002. Thomas Guglielmo’s White on Arrival: Italians, Race, and Color in Chicago, 1890-1945 for the American Historical Review, 2004. Alex Stepick, Guillermo Grenier, Max Castro, and Marvin Dunn’s This Land Is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami for the International Migration Review, 2004. Frank Bean and Gillian Stevens’s America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity for Contemporary Sociology, 2004 (with Victor Nee). Silke Hensel’s Leben auf der Grenze: Diskursive Aus- und Abgranzungen von Mexican Americans und Puertoricanern in den USA for the American Historical Review, 2006. Joseph Califano’s, Insider for The Italian-American Review, 2006. Christian Joppke’s Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State for the International Migration Review. Leo Lucassen’s The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 for International Review of Social History.
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FUNDED RESEARCH:
The analysis of social networks (Charles Kadushin, principal investigator), supported by the Office of Education and the National Science Foundation, 1969-76
Ethnicity in American Society (Donald Treiman, principal investigator), National Institute of Mental Health, 1974-76
The academic fate of ethnic groups under open admissions (with David Lavin), Ford Foundation, $7,000, 1977-80.
The careers of college students, SUNY Research Foundation, $2,400, 1981-83
Population projections for New York state counties, SUNY Chancellor's office, $4,000, 1983.
The forms of ethnic identity, National Science Foundation, $57,000, 1983-86.
The impact of migration on New York state (with Michael Batutis), Public Policy Institute of the Business Council and Job Training Partnership Council, $40,000, 1984.
The people of New York, 1980-2000 (with Katherine Trent), commissioned by the Governor of New York State through the Rockefeller Institute, $29,000, 1985-86.
A profile of regional labor markets in New York State (with Sharon Harlan), New York State Department of Social Services, $37,000, 1985-86.
The Health Workforce of the Year 2000 (with Jeryl Mumpower), New York State Department of Health, $9,000, 1987.
Albany gay rights poll (with Steven Seidman), supported by the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic club, $2,200, 1988.
Readership surveys, New York State Press Association, $9,700, 1988-90.
Ethnic and racial bias survey (with Russell Ward), The Times Union, $6,900, 1989.
Areas of new settlement for racial and ethnic minorities: Issues and policy implications (with Ray Bromley and John Logan), Rockefeller Foundation, $49,800, 1990-91.
Suburbanization patterns of racial and ethnic groups (with John Logan), National Science Foundation, $80,000, 1990-92.
Suburbanization patterns of racial and ethnic groups (with John Logan), National Institutes of Health, $535,400, 1990-93.
Residential patterns of minorities in the metropolis (with John Logan), National Science Foundation, $174,300, 1995-1997.
MEUS module of the General Social Survey (with Tom Smith), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $180,000, 1999-2000 (to National Opinion Research Center).
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Socioeconomic attainments of second generations in immigration societies: An Analysis of Canada, Germany, and the U.S., Russell Sage Foundation, $196,000, 2002-04.
Disadvantaged second generations: Mexicans in the United States and Maghrebins in France, National Science Foundation, $123,600, 2002-04.
Albany Population Center, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $1,082,00, 2004- 07 (replaced John Logan, the original principal investigator).
EXPORT Center for the Study of Health Disparities in Smaller Cities, National Institutes of Health, $1,240,00, 2004-07 (co-Director, Research Core; Lawrence Schell, principal investigator).
New immigrants in the Hudson Valley (with Nancy Denton and Walter Ensel), Russell Sage Foundation, $49,000, 2005-06.
The children of immigrants in schools (with Josh deWind, Margaret Gibson, Jennifer Holdaway, Carola Suarez-Orosco, and Mary Waters), National Science Foundation, $1,528,000, 2005-09.
The social contexts of the children of immigrants (With Nancy Denton and Donald Hernandez), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $850,000, 2006-10.
Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $1,800,000 (est.), 2007-12.
INVITED LECTURES:
Amerika Haus, Cologne & Frankfurt Bard College Boston University Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) Cornell University City University of New York, Graduate Center Duke University George Mason University Harvard University Humboldt University (Berlin) Ined (Paris) McGill University New York University New School for Social Research Rockefeller Institute Princeton University Siena College Sciences Po (Paris) Union College University of Amsterdam University of California, Berkeley
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University of California, Los Angeles University of Kiel University of London University of Mainz University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Munich University of Toronto University of Oldenburg University of Osnabrück University of Paris Oxford University Vanderbilt University Washington State University The Woodrow Wilson Center Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (Mannheim)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Editorial:
Editorial board member, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1979-85 Sociological Methods & Research, 1978-83 Social Forces, 1997-2000 American Sociological Review, 1998-2001, 2006- Consulting editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1982-84 Associate editor, Sociological Forum, 1989-90 Deputy editor, Sociological Forum, 1990-95 Advisory editorial board member, Sage series on Race and Ethnic Relations, 1991 Advisory board member, The New Americans (successor to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups), 2000-06
American Sociological Association:
Vice President, 2000-01 Member (ex officio), Council, 1999-2002 Chair (ex officio), Committee on Nominations, 2001 Member (ex officio), 2001 Program Committee, 1999-01 Member (ex officio), Review Committee, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, 2001-02 Member, American Sociological Association's Committee on Committees, 1993-95 Chair, International Migration section, 1995-96 Chair, Task Force on ASA Policy Statements, 1999-2000 Member, Task Force for the Re-Examination of ASA Restructuring, 1999-2000 Chair, Community and Urban section, 2004-06 Member, Council, Population section, 2005-07 Member, Committee for the Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship, 2005-07 Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies, 2006- Member, Committee on Executive Office and Budget, 2007-
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Eastern Sociological Society:
President, 1997-98 Vice President, 1992-93 Member, Executive Committee, 1991-92 Papers Committee, various years Chair, Publications Committee, 1988-89 Chair, Sociological Forum editor search committee, 2005-06
Population Association of America:
PAA representative on Census Bureau advisory committee, 2005-
Other:
Member, Population Sciences Subcommittee, NICHD, 2006-08 Member, General Social Survey Board of Overseers, 1996-2000 Co-chair, MEUS (Multi-ethnic United States) module design committee, General Social Survey, 1998-2000 Co-chair, Working Group on Religion and Immigration, Social Science Research Council, 2000- Member, Advisory Committee for Program on International Migration, Social Science Research Council, 2001-2003 Member, Fulbright Pre-screening Committee for Germany, 1996-2000 Participant, ASA Congressional seminar on immigration, 1998 Participant, SSRC Summer Institute on Immigration, UCLA, 2004 Participant, Second Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities, University of Amsterdam, 2005 Panelist, Social Security Forum, Troy Area Labor Council, May Day, 2005 Member, Committee of Social Science Personnel, Social Science Research Council, 1978-81 Co-organizer and co-instructor, Census data workshops, SUNY-Albany, various years Seminar Fellow, Rockefeller Institute of Government, 1983-84 Member, New York State Statistical Yearbook Advisory Committee, Rockefeller Institute, 1983 Organizer, Conference on Ethnicity and Race in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century, SUNY- Albany, 1984
ACADEMIC SERVICE (at SUNY-Albany):
Department:
Chair, 1991-92, 1995-97 Member, executive committee, various years Member, graduate committee, various years Member, undergraduate committee, various years Member, recruitment committee, various years Chair, symposium committee, 1987-88 Chair or member, methods examining committee, various years Chair or member, specialization examination committees, various years
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College:
Member, computer committee, 1982-89 Member, directorate of computer facility, 1983-87 Chair, personnel committee, 1988-90 Member, research committee, various years Research mentor, 1987-88 Member, CSDA Board of Directors, 1990-91 Member, CSDA Center Grant Planning Committee, 1992-93
University:
Senator, faculty senate, 1982-84 Chair or member, council on research, 1982-84 Member, vice presidential advisory committee on computing, 1982-83 Convener, private linkages site visit, 1984 Keynote speaker, Honors convocation, 1985 Member, search committee for the Vice President for Research, 1986 Member, Ad hoc committee on social science infrastructure, 1986 Member, Educational Policy Council committee on the evaluation of courses, 1987-88 Member, search committee for the Provost of the Rockefeller College and the Director of the Rockefeller Institute, 1988 Member, search committee for the Directors of Operations and Programs, Rockefeller Institute, 1988 Member, doctoral dissertation evaluation committee, 1989-90 Historian, Phi Beta Kappa chapter, various years Chair, Presidential Fellowship selection committee, 1992 Member, Presidential Fellowship selection committee, 1993 Member, Fulbright Graduate Awards Campus Screening Committee, 1994 Member, Council on Promotion and Continuing Appointment, 1994-95 Member, Presidential Inauguration Steering Committee, 1996 Member, search committee for Vice President for Research, 2005-2006 Member, CAFFECoR, 2005-2006 Member, Advisory Council to the Graduate Dean, 2005-06
University system:
Member, Committee on honorary degrees, 2001-04
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REFERENCES
Nancy Denton Douglas Massey Department of Sociology Department of Sociology SUNY-Albany Princeton University Albany, NY 12222 Princeton, NJ 08544
Nancy Foner Victor Nee Department of Sociology Department of Sociology Hunter College, CUNY Uris Hall 695 Park Avenue Cornell University New York, NY 10021 Ithaca, NY 14853
Herbert Gans Rubén Rumbaut Department of Sociology Department of Sociology Fayerweather Hall University of California, Irvine Columbia University 3151 Social Science Plaza New York, NY 10027 Irvine, CA 92697-5100
Charles Hirschman Mary Waters Department of Sociology Department of Sociology University of Washington William James Hall Box 353340 Harvard University University of Washington Cambridge, MA 02138 Seattle, WA 98195-3340