Conley – Vita

DALTON CONLEY

295 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor Phone: (212) 998-7580 New York, NY 10012 Fax: (212) 995-4140 Email: [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT

PRESENT University Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology New York University – New York, NY

Senior Advisor, UN Millennium Project One U.N. Plaza, New York, NY

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) – Cambridge, MA

Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine – New York, NY

Fall 2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Yale University – New Haven, CT

Spring 2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Princeton University – Princeton, NJ

2000-2005 Associate – Full Professor of Sociology (and Public Policy) & Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research New York University – New York, NY

1998-1999 Assistant Professor, Departments of Sociology & African and African-American Studies; Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies Yale University – New Haven, CT

EDUCATION

1996 Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology with Distinction Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

1992 Master in Public Policy and Administration School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

1990 Bachelor of Arts in Humanities College of Letters and Science, University of California at Berkeley Dalton Conley 2

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

1996-1998 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, U.C. Berkeley – Berkeley, CA

HONORS / AWARDS

2006 Fellow, Young Leaders Forum, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

2006 SEED Magazine Award; Seed Media Group

2006 American Marshall Memorial Fellowship. The German Marshall Fund of the United States (unable to accept)

2005 Alan T. Waterman Medal, National Science Foundation

2005 International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations

2001 Selected for Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (Residence Year to be Determined).

1999 Research Fellowship, Gilder-Lehrman Center of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University

1997 American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for Best Dissertation

1996 Doctoral Thesis Awarded Departmental Distinction, Columbia University

1995 American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section Student Paper Award

1994 American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section Student Paper Award

1993-6 Columbia University President’s Fellowship

1992-6 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellowship in Sociology

1986 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: Semifinalist

GRANT SUPPORT

Currently active grants:

2005-07 P.I. – Dalton Conley $30,830

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Russell Sage Foundation (83-06-01) “Social Class: How Does it Work?” with Annette Lareau

2005-08 P.I. – Dalton Conley $500,000 National Science Foundation (SES-0540543) Alan T. Waterman Award

Past grants:

2003-05 P.I. – Dalton Conley $150,000 The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03 HD043056-01) “Wealth and Health: Race, Assets and Child Development” with W. Jean Yeung.

09/01-08/04 P.I. – Dalton Conley $201,610 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation Social and Behavioral Sciences Division (SES- 9983636) “Sibling, Cousin & Neighbor Differences in Child Development.”

06/00-05/04 P.I. – Dalton Conley $217,559 Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (038651) “Family, Community and Health: A Latent Variable Approach.”

2000-01 P.I. – Dalton Conley Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation $16,000 Grant in support of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research High School Fellowship Program for Disadvantaged High School Students.

1995-7 P.I. – Neil Bennett Smith Richardson Foundation Grant $155,000 Co-author, “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Low Birth Weight and Child Cognitive Development: Understanding Causal Mechanisms.”

1996 P.I. – Neil Bennett C.S. Mott Foundation Grant $100,000 Co-author, “One in Four: A Statistical Portrait of America’s Youngest Poor Citizens.”

1995 P.I. – Seymour Spilerman $5,500 National Science Foundation (95-21011) Dissertation Research Grant

1995 P.I. – Dalton Conley $2,500 Center for Young Children and Families Teachers College Columbia University, Dissertation Research Grant

PUBLICATIONS

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Academic Books:

2003 The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances with Kate Strully and Neil G. Bennett. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

1999 Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Trade Books:

2007 Socioscapes: Introduction to Sociology. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

2004 The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why. New York: Pantheon Books. Paperback Edition: Vintage Contemporaries 2005.

2000 Honky. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Paperback Edition: Vintage Contemporaries 2001.

Edited Volumes:

2007 Social Class: How Does it Work? (Edited, with an Introduction; co-edited with David Grusky, Mike Hout, and Annette Lareau); New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.

2004 After the Bell—Family Background and Educational Success. (Edited, with an Introduction; co-edited by Karen Albright). London & New York: Routledge.

2002 Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader. (Edited, with an Introduction) Oxford: Blackwell.

Journal articles:

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. F.C. “Sibling Similarity and Difference in Socioeconomic Status: Life Course and Family Resource Effects.” Social Stratification and Mobility. NBER Working Paper#11320.

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. 2006. “Family Background, Race and Labor Market Inequality.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Conley, D., K.M. Pfeiffer, and M. Velez. 2006. “Explaining Sibling Differences in Achievement and Behavioral Outcomes: The Importance of Within- and Between-Family Factors.” Social Science Research. .

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. 2006. “Gender, Body Mass and Socioeconomic Status: New Evidence from the PSID.” Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research. 17:255-280. NBER Working Paper# 11343.

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Conley, D. and K. Strully. 2006. “Low Birth Weight and Infant Mortality: A Twin Difference Approach.” Economics and Human Biology; NBER Working Paper #9901.

Conley, D. and M. Ryvicker. 2006. “The Price of Female Headship: The Effect of Gender and Family Structure on Savings, Inheritance and Wealth Accumulation.” Review of Income Distributions.

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. 2006. “Parental Educational Investment and Children’s Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variation in Fertility.” Journal of Human Resources. NBER Working Paper #11302.

Conley, D. and B. Gifford. 2006. “Home Ownership, Social Insurance and the Welfare State.” Sociological Forum.

Conley, D. 2005. “Urban Dynamics in New York City: Commentary.” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review.

Conley D. and Jean Yeung. 2005. “Black-White Differences in Occupational Prestige: Their Impact on Child Development.” American Behavioral Scientist. 48:1229-1249.

Strully, K. and D. Conley. 2004. “Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Interactions and their Implications for Health Policy: The Case of Low Birth Weight.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Conley, D. 2002. “How Much is Forty Acres Worth Today? The Debate over Reparations for African Americans.” Contexts. 1:13-20.

Conley, D., A. Douglass, R.D.G. Kelley and M. Marable. 2002. “Whiteness in New York City: A Critical Dialogue” Souls.

Conley, D. 2002. “Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Race and Ethnicity.” Sociological Forum. 17:549-551.

Conley, D. and N. Bennett. 2002. “Outcomes in Young Adulthood for Very-Low-Birth-Weight- Infants.” (Letter) New England Journal of Medicine. 347:141.

Conley, D. and K. Springer 2001. “The Welfare State and Infant Mortality.” American Journal of Sociology. 106. November.

Conley, D. and N. Bennett. 2001. “Birth Weight and Income: Interactions across Generations.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 42:450-465.

Conley, D. and M. Ryvicker. 2001. “Race, Class and Social Control in the Streets.” Sociological Forum. 16: 759-772.

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Conley, D. 2001. “A Room of One’s Own or A Room with a View? Housing and Educational Stratification.” Sociological Forum. 16(2): 263-280. (Winner of the 1995 Community and Urban Sociology Student Paper Award.)

Conley, D. 2001. “Capital for College: Parental Assets and Educational Attainment.” Sociology of Education. 74:59-73.

Conley, D. 2001. “Decomposing the Black-White Wealth Gap: The Role of Parental Resources, Inheritance, and Investment Dynamics.” Sociological Inquiry. 71:39-66.

Conley, D. 2000. “The Racial Wealth Gap: Implications for Philanthropy in the Black Community.” Nonprofit and Volunteer Sector Quarterly. 29:530-540.

Conley, D. 2000. “Sibship Sex Composition and the Educational Attainment of Men and Women.” Social Science Research. 29:441-457.

Conley, D. and N. Bennett. 2000. “Is Biology Destiny: Birth Weight and Life Chances.” American Sociological Review. 65:458-467.

Conley, D. and N. Bennett. 2000. “Race and the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight.” Social Biology. 47:77-93.

Conley, D. 1999. “Getting into the Black: Race, Wealth and Public Policy.” Political Science Quarterly. 114:595-612.

Aber, L., N. Bennett, D. Conley, J. Li. 1997. “The Effects of Poverty on Child Health and Cognitive Development.” Annual Review of Public Health. 18:463-483.

Conley, D. 1996. “Getting it Together: Social and Institutional Obstacles to Getting off the Streets” Sociological Forum. 11: 25-40. (Winner of the 1994 Community and Urban Sociology Student Paper Award).

Chapters in Books:

Conley, D. 2005. “Poverty and Life Chances: The Conceptualization and Study of the Poor.” Pp. 327- 344 in The Handbook of Sociology . Edited by Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek and Bryan S. Turner. Sage Limited, U.K.

Conley, D. and T. Baldwin. 2004. “Racial Stratification in the U.S. After Emancipation: Effects on Occupation and Ownership.” Patrick Weil, Mickaëlla Périna, and Laurent Dubois, eds., Colonization, Slavery and Afterward. Working Paper, Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University.

Conley, D. 2003. “Calculating Slavery Reparations: Theory, Numbers and Implications.” Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices. Edited by John Torpey. Rowan and Littlefield.

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Conley, D. 2002. “Equity Inequity.” Annual Editions: American Government (New York: McGraw Hill / Dushkin, 2002 & 2003); originally appearing in The Nation. 3/26/01; 272(12):20-22.

Conley, D. 2001. “Universal Freckle,” lead chapter in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Eric Klinenberg, Irene Nexica, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Jillian Sandell, and Matt Wray, editors. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. * Peer reviewed.

Reprinted in Privilege (edited by Michael S. Kimmel) ABC-Clio Press.

Conley, D. 2001. “Why Assets? Toward a New Framework on Social Stratification” forthcoming in the Ford Foundation Volume, The Mechanisms and Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership among the Poor. Russell Sage Foundation.

Conley, D. 2000. “Wealth Matters” excerpted from Being Black, Living in the Red in Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, Eds. 4th Edition. Wadsworth Press.

Conley, D. 2000. “Being Black, Living in the Red” excerpted from Being Black, Living in the Red in Understanding Society: Readings in the Sociological Perspective. Margaret L. Andersen, Kim A. Logio and Howard F. Taylor, Eds. Wadsworth Press.

Zukin, S., D. Conley et al. 1994. “The Bubbling Cauldron: The Interaction of the Global and the Local in New York City Restaurants” in The Culture of Cities (S. Zukin).

Other Articles:

2006 “The Silver Lining in the SAT Snafu” Salon. 3/21.

2005 “A Man’s Right to Choose.” Op-Ed. New York Times. 12/1.

2004 “Turning the Tax Tables to Help the Poor” Op-Ed. New York Times. 11/21.

2004 “John Edwards’ Problem Brother” Op-Ed. Los Angeles Times. 9/29.

2004 “How to Raise Successful Children: What We Can Learn from Sibling Differences.” Worth. July Issue.

2004 “Whether They Work or Not, Moms Set and Example” Op-Ed. USA Today. 5/3.

2004 “Two Is Enough: Why Large Families Shouldn’t Get a Tax Break.” Slate. 3/29.

2004 “For Siblings, Inequality Starts at Home.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 3/5.

2004 “My Brother the Bum” Forbes 3/1.

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2003 “The New Science of Natural Experiments.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 12/18.

2003 “The Compassionate Conservative is a Radical.” Op-Ed. New York Newsday. 11/11.

2003 “Junk the Machine and Local Politics Will Be Fine.” Op-Ed. New York Newsday. 9/12.

2003 “Is Activism Dead?” Newsweek Online. 6/5.

2003 “Reward but no Risk.” Op-Ed. New York Times. 5/10.

2003 “A Battle for Hearts, Minds and Burgers.” Op-Ed. Los Angeles Times. 2/17.

2003 “The Cost of Slavery.” Op-Ed. New York Times. 2/15.

2002 “The Importance of Being White: Now a Curriculum on the Most Privileged Race.” New York Newsday. 10/13.

2001 “The Afghan Handshake.” Salon. 11/16.

2001 “La Couleur du Patrimonie.” The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique. (September Pp 26-27).

2001 “Distance Has Totally Collapsed” New York Times. 9/16.

2001 “How to Widen the Black-White Wealth Gap.” Salon. 4/5.

2001 “Equity Inequity.” The Nation. 3/26/01; 272(12):20-22. Reprinted in Annual Editions: American Government (New York: McGraw Hill / Dushkin, 2002 & 2003).

2001 “Put Your Pencils Down: On Getting Rid of the SAT.” Feed Magazine. 3/7.

2001 “Housing Policy is Education Policy” Op Ed, New York Daily News. Sunday Edition. 3/10.

2001 “Raphael’s Loft” Urban Latino Magazine. March issue.

2001 “Who’s Your Nanny?” Feed Magazine. 1/15.

2000 “What You Lookin’ At? Three Writers Talk About Growing up White in a Black Neighborhood.” Salon. 12/14.

2000 “Harsh Lesson: On why the debate over school vouchers misses the point.” Feed

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Magazine. 12/13.

2000 “A Free Election Market Failure” Salon. 11/16.

2000 “Mad (Social) Scientist” Contentville. 12/5.

2000 “Judging Graffiti” New York Times, City Section. 11/18.

2000 “White Boy in the Projects” Chronicle of Higher Education. 11/3.

2000 “Learning Whiteness.” The New York Times Magazine. 7/16.

2000 “Forty Acres and a Mule.” National Forum. 80:21-24.

1992 “Digging up Roots on Alex Haley’s Farm.” Amsterdam News. 2/29; pg. 25

1991 “Back from Behind Enemy Lines.” Time (International).

Book Reviews:

2005 Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) (Kennedy); Washington Post.

2004 American Dream (DeParle); American Prospect (November)

2004 The Working Poor (Shipler); Boston Globe.

2002 Color and Money: Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America (Squires and O’Connor); Contemporary Sociology.

2002 American Project: The Life and Death of a Modern Ghetto (Venkatesh); American Journal of Sociology.

2001 The Color of Opportunity: Pathways to Work, Family and Welfare (Stier and Tienda); American Journal of Sociology.

2001 “Breakthrough Books: The New Economy and the World of Work.” Lingua Franca. Vol. 11(4). May/June.

2001 Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945. (Darity and Myers); Social Service Review. 75:171.

2000 Race, Money and the American Welfare State (Brown); American Journal of Sociology. 105:1790.

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1997 Resources, Deprivation and Poverty (Nolan and Whelan); American Journal of Sociology.

Work in Progress and Manuscripts in the Review Process:

Conley, D. and K. Albright. N.D. “Does Having a Working Mother Lead to Increased Gender Equality in the Family?” R&R - JMF.

Yeung, J. and Conley, D. N.D. “Family Wealth and the Black-White Acheivement Gap.” R&R – Child Development

Conley, D. and N. Bennett. N.D. “Sociodemographic Determinants of Low Birth Weight: Birth Order, Paternity and Birth Spacing.” Revise and Resubmit from Population Research and Policy Review.

Conley. D. N.D. “Weight, Height and Social Stratification: Sibling Fixed Effects and IV Estimates from the PSID.” Under Review.

Conley, D., and R. Glauber. N.D. “Sibling Correlations in Socioeconomic Status over the Life Course.” Under Review.

Conley, D., R. Glauber & G. Topa. N.D. “Aardvark et al.: Alphabetization as an Agent of Stratification in Social Science and an Instrument to Estimate the Mathew Effect.”

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. N.D. “The Production of Height and Weight in Families: Gender, Income and Cohort Trends.”

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. N.D. “Cohort Changes in the Effect of Family Background on Earnings and Total Income: How and Efficient Marriage Market is Making America a Less Mobile Society”

Conley, D. and R. Glauber. N.D. “Sibling Similarity in Economic Status: Family Structure and Resource Effects.”

OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

2006-09 Executive Council, American Sociological Association

2006 NIH Review Panel:

2005- Scientific Advisory Board Member, Talking Science

2005- Scientific Advisory Board Member, Millennium Villages Project; Earth Institute, Columbia University.

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2005- Board Member, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI)

2005- Social Science Research Council, Committee on the Privatization of Risk

2004 NIH Review Panel (RFA-OB-03-005; R21 SSS-N 51) Mind-Body Interactions and Health: Exploratory and Developmental Research

2003 NIH Review Panel (ZHD1 DSR-W 30 R): Intergenerational Family Resources

2002 - Associate Editor, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

2002-05 Associate Editor, Contexts

2002 - Member, Advancement Project

2002 Elected Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations

2002 Judge, NYC Junior Science and Humanities Symposium; New York Academy of Sciences

2002 Judge, Bruno Brand Book Award – Simon Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance

2001 - Member, “Roster of Experts”; Institute for Public Accuracy

2001 - Steering Committee: Urban Institute, Audrey Cohen College

2001 Social Science Research Council, Committee on Poverty and Health

2001- Judge, NYC Quality of Life Competition

2001-2003 Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology

2000 - Growing Wealth Working Group, Corporation for Enterprise Development

1999 - International Sociological Association: Committee on Social Stratification; Committee on Sociology of Children

1998-2002 American Sociological Association: Community and Urban Sociology Section of the ASA (Nominating Committee, 2002, 2003 [Chair]) Race and Ethnic Minorities Section: (Oliver Cox Awards Committee, 98-99) Sociology of Children Section: (Nominating Committee, 98-99; Session Organizer, 2001; Section Council Member 2003-5)

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1994-1997 Research Consultant, National Center for Children in Poverty Columbia University – New York, NY

NYU Society of Fellows; Alternate Faculty Senator; Graduate Admissions Committee (Chair, 2001-2002), Computer Committee, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Colloquium Committee; Research Committee (Chair, 2000-2002). Urban Studies Master Teacher: Draper Graduate Program; Steering Committee: Joint Degree Program in Diversity Studies University of Cape Town and New York University. Member, Board of Advisors, Office of Institutional Engagement

Yale Statlab Committee; Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty; Program Faculty & Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program

TRAINING RECORD

Trainee’s Role in Inclusive Current Position & Name Level of Learner Training & Setting Dates of Training Institution Employed NYU Graduate Jennifer Heerwig Research Mentor 9/2005 - Present NYU Graduate Student Student NYU Graduate Brian McCabe Research Mentor 9/2005 - Present NYU Graduate Student Student NYU Graduate Ashley Mears Research Mentor 9/2004 – Present NYU Graduate Student Student NYU Graduate Melissa Velez Research Mentor 9/2003 - Present NYU Graduate Student Student NYU Graduate Sheera Olasky Research Mentor 9/2002 - Present NYU Graduate Student Student NYU Graduate Advisor & Rebecca Glauber 9/2001 - Present NYU Graduate Student Student Dissertation Chair NYU Graduate Advisor & RWJF Scholar -- Kate Strully 9/2001 – 8/2005 Student Dissertation Chair Harvard NYU Graduate Advisor & Post-Doc Researcher, Karen Albright 1/2000 – 8/2004 Student Dissertation Chair Stanford University NYU Graduate Advisor & Research Associate – Brian Gifford 1/2000 – 8/2003 Student Dissertation Chair RAND Yale Graduate Assistant Professor, Kristen Springer Advisor 9/1998 - 12/1999 Student Rutgers University

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Sociology Wealth and Poverty in America Race, Class and Public Policy How Stuff is Made Research Methods Ascription and Achievement in Modern Society Statistics for the Social Sciences I & II (Graduate and Undergraduate)

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LANGUAGES

Italian, Fluent; French, Proficient; Spanish, Reading Knowledge

SELECTED LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS

2006 “Race, Wealth and Fair Housing” Author Keynote, Natonal Fair Housing Policy Conference, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (6/29)

2006 “Whither Perverse Equality? Inter and Intergenerational Mobility for Blacks and Whites” Invited Presentation, Inequality Workshop, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. (6/16)

2006 “Birth Weight and Its Discontents” Keynote, Conference on the Social and Economic Consequences of Low Birth Weight. Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health. (6/15)

2006 “How Family Background Works and When,” Keynote, District of Columbia Sociological Society, Annual Banquet. (5/3)

2006 “Toward an Asset Policy” Invited Presentation, Hosted by Senator John Edwards: Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, UNC Law School. (3/24)

2006 “What Determines Occupation for Blacks and Whites?” Invited Presentation, Yale University Law School, Colloquium on Workplace Theory and Policy. (2/27)

2006 “Family Background in Black and White” Invited Lecture, National Science Foundation. (2/15)

2006 “Child Investment and Child Development in Black and White.” Invited Lecture, Carolina Development Consortium, UNC. (2/13)

2005 “Beyond Birth Order: The Pecking Order in American Families.” Grand Rounds Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Bronx, New York (12/15).

2005 “Race, Wealth and the American Dream,” Rockefeller University Pugwash Group. New York, NY (10/27).

2005 “The Three Bs of Intra-Family Inequality: Birth Weight, Birth Order and Body Mass.” Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, New Horizons in Science Meeting, Pittsburg, PA. (10/24).

2005 “The Socioeconomic Causes and Consequences of Body Mass.” Grand Rounds Lecture. Department of Community Medicine. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. New York. (9/30).

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2005 “Conceptualizing and Measuring Within-Family Stratification.” Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. (9/15).

2005 “White Privilege” Invited Lecture; University of Wisconsin, River Falls. 4/27.

2005 “Down with the Ghetto! Long Live the Ghetto! Why Ownership and not Design Matters for Inner City Poverty.” Architecture.org conference. New York. 4/22.

2005 “The War on Poverty: A 40 Year Perspective” Invited Lecture, Northwestern University. 4/12.

2005 “Is the Family Home a Level Playing Field?” Reed Smith Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work. 3/21.

2004 “Physical Appearance and Inequality” Sociology Department Colloquium, Harvard University. (11/30)

2004 “Never too Thin, Never too Rich? Physical Appearance, Obesity and Social Stratification.” Emory S. Bogardus Research Colloquium Series Lecture; University of Southern California. 11/5.

2004 “Sociological Memoir as a Genre.” Invited Lecture, M.F.A. Program in Writing, Sarah Lawrence College. 11/3.

2004 “White Matters.” Invited Lecture, Illinois Wesleyan University. 10/28.

2004 “Race, Class and Privilege in America.” Invited Lecture, Johnson and Wales University. 10/26.

2004 “Linked for Life: Sibling Relationships in Context.” Keynote, Heed University Annual Psychoanalytic Conference. New York, NY. 10/24.

2004 “Twins, Clones and Butterflies: The Nature-Nurture Paradox in Social Research.” Keynote address, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Annual Meeting. Colorado Springs, Colorado, 5/6.

2004 “The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why.” Invited Lecture, Rutgers University, 4/21.

2004 “Author Meets Critic: The Pecking Order.” NYU School of Education Book Series, 4/7.

2004 “The Price of Female Headship: Gender and Wealth Accumulation.” Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2/22.

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2004 “The ‘True’ Effect of Sibship Size and Birth Order: IV Estimates from Exogenous Variation in Fertility.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2/21.

2003 “Infant Health and Public Policy.” Invited Lecture, Aging, Development and Population Seminar Series, RAND. Santa Monica, California. (12/1)

2003 “Wealth Research: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going.” Invited lecture, Mini-Conference on New Directions in for the Study of Wealth, Center for the Study of Economy and Society & Center for the Study of Inequality. Cornell University. (11/21)

2003 “Birth Weight and the Intergenerational Transmission of SES.” Invited Lecture, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. (11/18)

2003 “The Pecking Order in American Families.” Invited Lecture, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University. (11/6)

2003 “Honky Talk” Invited Lecture, Wake County Public Schools, Raleigh, North Carolina. (10/28)

2003 “Modeling Biology and Environment: The Case of Race, Income and Low Birth Weight.” Invited Lecture, Leonard Davis Health Economics Institute, Wharton School of Business & Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. (10/24)

2003 “White Like Me?” Invited Lecture. Hobart & William Smith College. (8/1)

2003 “A Pound of Flesh? Birth Weight and Life Chances.” Presentation to the New York Academy of Medicine (7/16).

2003 “The Role of Money in Child Development.” Children’s Psychotherapy Project Annual Conference on Child Welfare. William Alanson White Institute. New York City (5/23).

2003 “Estimating Sibling Effects on Educational Stratification Using the US Census.” RC28 Committee on Social Stratification Conference. Tokyo, Japan (3/1).

2003 “Honky Talk.” Presentation to the McCallie Academy. Chattanooga. TN (2/10).

2002 “Honky and Sugar” Invited Author Panel (with Bernice McDermott), National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA. (11/23)

2002 “Can We All Get Along? Teaching Diversity in a White College Context.” Invited Lecture, Roanoke College. (11/14)

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2002 “The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances” Grand Rounds, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Department of Health Policy. (9/24)

2002 “Understanding White Privilege” Invited Lecture, Northern Kentucky University. (9/18)

2002 “Estimating the effect of income on health: fixed effects, instrumental variable and natural experimental approaches.” Invited Panel, “Understanding Disparities and Improving Health,” Academy of Health Services Research. Washington, D.C. (6/24).

2002 “The Impact of Assets on Adolescent Outcomes: Lessons from the PSID for the IDA Program.” Invited Presentation, United States Department of Health and Human Services Annual Conference on Welfare Reform (6/13). 2002 “Racial Inequality, 2002” Invited Lecture, Colgate University (4/17).

2002 “Income and Health: Two Way Street or Dangerous Intersection?” Invited Lecture, Department of Sociology. SUNY Albany (4/12).

2002 “Institutional Obstacles to Community Development in Inner City America” Invited Lecture, “Making Connections” Annie E. Casey Foundation Conference. Baltimore, MD. (3/14).

2002 “How much does 40 Acres Cost Now? Calculations and Ideologies in the American Slavery Reparations Debate.” Invited presentation for Marhsall Fund Conference on “Integration in Policy and Practice in Europe and the Americas.” Middlebury College (3/2).

2002 “Race and Assets: Implications for IDAs.” Invited lecture. Peopleworks Annual Conference. San Diego, CA (1/29).

2002 “The benefits of outsider status.” Invited lecture. Youth Communications. (can be seen on CSPAN Book TV: www.booktv.org). New York (1/3).

2001 “The Starting Gate: Biology and Life Chances Across Generations” Invited Lecture: Inequality and Social Policy Seminar Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (12/3).

2001 “Culture, Home Owning and Poverty.” Invited presentation, Workshop on “Lack of Resources and Abundance of Values: Explaining Poverty Shaped by Group Affiliation and Culture.” Central European University; Budapest, Hungary (12/1).

2001 “Race, Class and Biology: Sorting It All Out.” Sociology Department Colloquium. City University of New York Graduate Center (11/16). 2001 “What Whiteness Means: A Natural Experiment.” Invited Lecture. The Northwest Forum. University of Washington, School of Public Policy.

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2001 “Race, Poverty and Birth Weight: Estimating Biological and Environmental Interactions.” Invited Lecture, Institute for Research on Poverty and Race and Ethnic Brown Bag, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison (10/18).

2001 “Home Ownership and Asset Building” Invited Panel, Fannie Mae Foundation Annual Conference. Washington D.C. (10/3).

2001 “Debt and Debtors” Invited, Thematic Panel at the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA (8/21).

2001 “What Money Can and Can’t Buy: Resources and Children’s Life Chances” Sociology of Children Section Session Organizer and Chair. American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA (8/19).

2001 “The Color of Opportunity” Discussant for the Annual Doctoral Lecture, Wagner School of Public Affairs, NYU (4/17).

2001 “Race Matters.” Brooklyn Public Library Lecture Series (4/12).

2001 The Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Seminar on Equality and Justice in American. Baruch College, City University of New York. (4/6)

2001 “Property Relations Post-Emancipation in the U.S. South” Conference on The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Europe and the Americas. Saint-Claude, Guadaloupe. (3/9).

2001 “Author Meets Critics: Honky.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, (3/1). Philadelphia, Pa.

2001 “Housing and Welfare Policy” Invited Lecture, Public Policy Colloquium, Columbia University (2/28).

2001 “Racial Wealth Disparities: is the Gap Closing?” Panel Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economics Association (2/23).

2001 “Housing Tenure, Income Support and Voting Behavior: Cross-National Comparisons.” Chicago and Urban Studies Colloquium. Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research (1/23).

2001 “Understanding Social and Genetic Predictors of Low Birth Weight Across Generations.” Grand Rounds Invited Lecture, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine (1/10).

2000 “Families and Public Policy” National Press Club Forum Panel (12/4), Washington,

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D.C.; with S. Jody Heymann and Colleen Grogan.

2000 “Urban Book Dialogues: Honky.” Audrey Cohen College Invited Lecture.

2000 “Surmounting the Challenges of Graduate Education.” Discussion Panel Sponsored by the McNair Graduate Fellows Program. University of New Hampshire.

2000 “Professional Workshop: Funding Opportunities and Strategies.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2000 “Home Ownership and Social Class.” Sociology Departmental Colloquium, Princeton University.

2000 “Race, Class and Biology: Understanding the Intergenerational Dynamics of Low Birth Weight.” Invited Lecture, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University.

2000 “Home Ownership, the Welfare State and Cross-National Poverty Comparisons.” Sociology Departmental Colloquium. University of California at Los Angeles.

2000 “The Family Home as Social Insurance.” Conference on Saving, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Distribution of Wealth. Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

2000 “Urban Dialogues 2000: Invited Panel on Urban Racial and Class Segregation.” With Mary Patillo-McCoy and Andrew Hacker. Audrey Cohen College.

2000 “Modeling the Impact of Welfare State Spending Using Cross-National Data.” Wagner School of Public Service Doctoral Colloquium, New York University.

2000 “Creating the Stakeholder Society” National Press Club Forum Panel on Asset Policy.

2000 “The Wealth Equation and Community Development.” Invited Lecture, Milano School for Urban Affairs, the New School University.

2000 “Wealth Accumulation: Global Impacts and Local Prospects, How Race and Ethnicity Matter.” Plenary Panel, University of Maryland.

2000 “Welfare State versus Economic Development: The Case of Infant Mortality.” Colloquium Series. Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley.

2000 “Returns to Public Health Investments in Rich Countries.” Invited Lecture, Health Policy Seminar Series, University of Michigan.

2000 “Only Half Free? Property and Emancipation, the Cases of the Freedman's Bank

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and the Southern Homestead Act.” Invited Lecture, Gilder-Lehrman Center, Yale University.

1999 “Philanthropy in Communities of Color” Plenary Panel: ARNOVA Conference Washington, D.C.

1999 “The Political Sociology of Infant Mortality: Welfare State Spending, Globalization and Death Rates.” Presented to the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program Colloquium Series, Yale University.

1999 “Assets and Social Policy.” Presented to White House Domestic Policy Staff, Washington, D.C.

1999 “Inequality and Opportunity: Theories, Stories and Research.” Presentation to the McNair Graduate Fellows Program. University of New Hampshire.

1999 “Capital for College: Parental Assets and Educational Attainment.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Il.

1999 “Property, Education and Racial Inequality: Policy Options” United States Department of Education. Washington, D.C.

1998 Rappateur, Ford Foundation Conference on Asset Development among the Poor. New York University, New York City.

1998 “A Brief History of Capitalism: Technology, Abundance and Social Stratification.” Invited Lecture, School of Visual Arts, New York City.

1998 “The Baby or the Egg? Paternal Effects and the Intergenerational Transmission of Low Birth Weight.” Paper Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, Ca.

1998 “Public Policy: What Does Sociology Have to Offer?” Presentation to the Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University, August 6.

1998 “Is Biology Destiny or Destiny Biology? Socio-Economic Circumstances and Intergenerational Aspects of Low Birth Weight.” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Aspen Institute. Aspen, Colorado.

1998 “Last but not Least: An Investigation of the Effects of Parity, Paternity and Birth Spacing on Risk for Low Birth Weight Using Sibling Data from the PSID.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Chicago, IL.

1997 “Putting the Class into Class-Based Affirmative Action Policy” presented as part of

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the Public Policy Institute of California Lecture Series.

1997 “The Timing of Maternal Poverty and Birth Outcomes” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Aspen Institute. Aspen, CO.

1997 “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Birth Weight.” Presented to the National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University.

1997 “Assets, Race and Family Structure.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Washington, DC.

1996 “Wealth and the Cycle of Racial Inequality.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York, NY.

1996 “Where and When Race Matters.” Panel Discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, N.Y. Organized by Melvin Oliver, including Lawrence Bobo, David Harris, George Wilson and Camille Zubrinsky.

1995 “A Room of One’s Own or A Room with a View? Housing and the Educational Stratification of Blacks and Whites” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Washington, D.C. (Winner of the 1995 Community and Urban Sociology Student Paper Award)

1994 “Getting it Together: Social and Institutional Obstacles to Getting off the Streets” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, Ca. (Winner of the 1994 Community and Urban Sociology Student Paper Award)

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