Curriculum Vitae Van C

Curriculum vitae Van C. Tran

Van C. Tran

The Graduate Center, CUNY http://vanctran.org/ PhD Program in Sociology [email protected] 365 Fifth Avenue, 6112.04 (212) 817-8786 New York, NY 10016 December 2019

EDUCATION Harvard University PhD in Sociology and Social Policy 2007-2011 Committee: Mary Waters (Chair), Orlando Patterson, William J. Wilson, Christopher Winship Dissertation: “Rethinking Culture and Structure: Race, Class and Assimilation in America” AM in Sociology with Distinction 2004-2007 City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College, BA in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa 2002-2004 Hostos Community College, AA in Liberal Arts, Class Valedictorian Speaker 1999-2002

ACADEMIC POSITIONS The Graduate Center, City University of New York Associate Professor of Sociology 2019- Deputy Director, Center for Urban Research 2019- Faculty Associate, Institute for Demographic Research 2019- Columbia University Associate Professor of Sociology 2019-2019 Assistant Professor of Sociology 2013-2019 Founding Faculty, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (REM) Workshop 2014-2019 Affiliated Faculty, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) 2014-2019 Affiliated Faculty, Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) 2014-2019 Affiliated Faculty, Urban Studies Program, Barnard College 2014-2019 Affiliated Faculty, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics 2018-2019 Affiliated Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar 2013-2014 University of Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar 2011-2013 Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics 2011-2013

AWARDS AND HONORS Outstanding Service Award, ASA Section on International Migration 2019 Nancy W. Malkiel Scholars Award*, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 2018 *For research excellence and an extraordinary commitment to creating inclusive community Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching*, Columbia University 2018 *Highest university-wide teaching honor to recognize lasting intellectual influence on students Faculty Mentoring Award*, Graduate Student Advisory Council, Columbia University 2017

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*For excellence in mentoring PhD students during their graduate career Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows*, University of Michigan (declined) 2011 *For outstanding scholars in the humanities, social, physical and life sciences Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Community and Urban Sociology 2011 Cristina M. Riegos Distinguished Paper Award, ASA Section on Latino/a Sociology 2011 Distinguished Student Scholarship Award, ASA Section on International Migration 2010 Distinction in Oral Exam on Immigration, Harvard University 2007 Graduate Student Scholar, Academy of Achievement’s International Summit* 2005 *For outstanding graduate students and most promising young leaders of tomorrow Alpha Chi Alpha - Frances Morehouse Prize*, Hunter College, CUNY 2004 *For the graduating senior with the most distinguished record in the Social Sciences Suzanne Keller Award for Academic Achievement*, Hunter College, CUNY 2004 *For the graduating senior with the best academic record in Sociology Summa Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa, Hunter College, CUNY 2004 Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society, Hunter College, CUNY 2004 Elected to the Golden Key International Honor Society, Hunter College, CUNY 2004 Class Valedictorian Speaker, Hostos Community College, CUNY 2002

PUBLICATIONS Journal articles and book chapters (peer-reviewed) Tran, Van C. 2020. “The Borders Around Us: Forced Migration and the Politics of Border Control.” City & Community 19(2): forthcoming. Tran, Van C. and Francisco Lara-García. 2020. “A New Beginning: Integration of Recent Refugees in the Early Years of Arrival to the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(3): forthcoming. Tran, Van C., Fei Guo and Tiffany Huang. 2020. “The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and in the United States.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, forthcoming. Tran, Van C. 2020. “Assimilation.” Forthcoming in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, John Solomos, Ed. London, UK: Routledge Publishing. Lee, Jennifer and Van C. Tran. 2019. “The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action.” Sociological Science doi.org/10.15195/v6.a21 Tran, Van C. 2019. “Second-Generation Contextual Mobility: Neighborhood Attainment from Birth to Young Adulthood in the United States.” International Migration Review, doi.org/10.1177/0197918319832235 Tran, Van C., Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang. 2019. “Revisiting the Asian Second-Generation Advantage: Response to Comment by L.J. Zigerell.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(13): 2272-2277. Tran, Van C., Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang. 2019. “Revisiting the Asian Second-Generation Advantage.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(13): 2248-2269.

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Tran, Van C. 2019. “Coming of Age in Multi-Ethnic America: Young Adults’ Experiences with Diversity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(1):35-52. Valdez, Nicol M. and Van C. Tran. 2019. “Gendered Context of Assimilation: The Female Second- Generation Advantage among Latinos.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1569504 Tran, Van C. 2018. “Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 667(1):105-188. Tran, Van C., Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, and Jess Lee. 2018. “Hyper-Selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(5):189-209. Tran, Van C. and Katharine M. Donato. 2018. “The Social Provision of Healthcare to Migrants in the U.S. and in China.” China Population and Development Studies 2(1):83-107. Tran, Van C. 2017. “Beyond the Ballot Box: Age-At-Arrival, Civic Institutions, and Political Participation among Latinos.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(5):766-790. Tran, Van C. and Nicol M. Valdez. 2017. “Second-Generation Decline or Advantage? Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession.” International Migration Review 51(1):155- 190. Tran, Van C. and Mengying Li. 2017. “New York City’s Ethnic Neighborhoods.” In America’s Changing Neighborhoods: An Exploration of Diversity through Places, Reed Ueda, Ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Tran, Van C. 2016. “Ethnic Culture and Social Mobility among the Asian Second Generation.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(13):2398-2403. Tran, Van C. 2016. “Social Mobility among Second-Generation Latinos.” Contexts 15(2):28-33. Tran, Van C. 2015. “Revisiting the Americano Dream.” Pathways, Spring:18-23. Tran, Van C. 2015. “Immigrant Assimilation.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online in Sociology. Jeff Manza, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Tran, Van C. 2015. “More than Just Black: Cultural Perils and Opportunities in Inner-City Neighborhoods.” Pp. 252-280 in The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, Orlando Patterson, Eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lee, David C., Brendan G. Carr, Tony E. Smith, Van C. Tran, Daniel Polsky and Charles C. Branas. 2015. “The Impact of Hospital Closures, Hospital and Population Characteristics on Increasing Emergency Department Volume: A Geographic Analysis.” Population Health Management 18(6):459-466. Hopkins, Daniel J., Van C. Tran and Abigail F. Williamson. 2014. “See No Spanish: Language, Local Context, and Attitudes toward Immigration.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 2(1):35-51.

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Tran, Van C., Corina Graif, Alison D. Jones, Mario L. Small, and Christopher Winship. 2013. “Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizational Involvement in Boston.” City & Community 12(3):187-210. Waters, Mary C., Anthony Health, Van C. Tran and Vikki Boliver. 2013. “Second-Generation Attainment and Inequality: Primary and Secondary Effects on Educational Outcomes in Britain and the U.S.” Pp. 120-159 in The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe, Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway, Eds. New York: New York University Press. Tran, Van C., Susan K. Brown and Jens Schneider. 2012. “Neighborhoods and Perceptions of Disorder”. Pp. 81-91 in The Changing Face of World Cities, Maurice Crul and John Mollenkopf, Eds. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Tran, Van C. 2010. “English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? Language Assimilation among Second- Generation Latinos in Young Adulthood.” Social Forces 89(1):257-284. Waters, Mary C., Van C. Tran, Philip Kasinitz and John H. Mollenkopf. 2010. “Segmented Assimilation Revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Outcomes in Young Adulthood.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(7):1168-1193. Tran, Van C. 2008. “Understanding Latino Diversity: Pan-Ethnic Identity Formation among Latinos.” Pp. 47-77 in Ethnicity and Social Divisions: Contemporary Research in Sociology, Karin Halldén, Elias le Grand and Zenia Hellgreen, Eds. England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Book reviews: Tran, Van C. 2016. Review of Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality and Change: Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government by Hannah Jones (University of Chicago Press 2013) in American Journal of Sociology 121(5): 1628–1630. Tran, Van C. 2016. Review of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park by Tarry Hum (Temple University Press 2014) in Journal of American Ethnic History 36(1): 120-122. Tran, Van C. 2015. Review of Caring Across Generations: The Linked Lives of Korean American Families by Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim (New York University Press, 2013) in Social Forces 94(4): e120. Tran, Van C. 2015. Review of Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Roithwayr (New York University Press, 2014) in Political Science Quarterly 130(1): 167-168. Tran, Van C. 2014. Review of Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality by David Card and Steven Raphael (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013) in Journal of Children & Poverty 20(1):69-70. Tran, Van C. 2012. Review of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican-Americans, Immigration and Identity by Tomas R. Jimenez (University of California Press, 2010) in Sociological Forum 27(1): 258-261. Tran, Van C. 2009. Review of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age by Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Mary Waters and Jennifer Holdaway (Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2008) in ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America. Winter Issue, pp. 68-70.

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Tran, Van C. 2008. Review of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing Religious Landscape by Peggy Levitt (The New Press, 2007) ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America. Spring Issue, pp. 73-74. Opinion editorials: Lee, Jennifer, and Van C. Tran. 2019. “How Harvard Admissions Can Be a Barometer of Our Deepest Divides.” CNN Opinion, September 27, 2019. Lee, Jennifer and Van C. Tran. 2019. “Asian Americans May Have an Educational Advantage, but They Face a ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ at Work.” The Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2019. Goodwin, David L. and Van C. Tran. 2019. “Remembering Jane Bolin: The First African-American Female Judge in the U.S.” The New Haven Register, February 27, 2019.

GRANTS Southern Poverty Law Center (PIs: Maria Abascal, Jennifer Lee and Van Tran) 2019-2020 Intervening in Attitudes about Immigration ($63,618) Columbia University, ISERP and CPRC Conference Grant 2017-2018 Shaping the Future of DACA: Bridging Research and Policy ($10,000) Columbia University, Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant 2014-2016 Amsterdam Avenue: Neighborhood Gentrification in a Global City ($6,000) Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Mobility Research Grant 2013-2014 Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession ($20,000) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar Research Seed Grant 2011-2013 Neighborhood Resources and Immigrant Health in New York City ($20,000) Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ Health Services Research Seed Grant 2012-2013 Impact of a Large Urban Hospital Closure on Emergency Department Use ($10,000) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar Research Seed Grant 2012-2013 Impact of a Large Urban Hospital Closure on Emergency Department Use ($10,000) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar Research Grant 2010-2011 Neighborhood Context & Mental Health among Second-Generation Youth ($5,000) Harvard University, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Research Grant 2009-2010 The 2008 Somerville/Everett Exit Poll ($1,000) Special Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) Grant 2008-2009 Local and National Influences on Intergroup Attitudes

FELLOWSHIPS Harvard University Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2010-2011 Ford Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Honorable Mention) 2010-2011 Real Estate Academic Initiative Research Fellowship 2010-2011 Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics Dissertation Fellowship 2009-2010 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Dissertation Research Award 2009-2010 Taubman Center for State and Local Government Dissertation Research Award 2009-2010

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Merit Fellowship/Term-Time Research Award, Harvard University (declined) 2009-2010 Center for American Political Studies Graduate Student Seed Grant Award 2009-2010 Hauser Center for Non-Profits Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008-2009 European Network for Inequality Research Fellowship 2008 Graduate Student Council Summer Research Award 2008 Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy Doctoral Fellowship 2006-2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2006-2009 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans 2004-2006 Hunter College of City University of New York David and Sadie Klau Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2004-2005 NIMH - Career Opportunities in Research, Education and Training Fellowship 2003-2004 Irene Diamond Summer Research Fellowship, CUNY Pipeline Program 2003-2004

INVITED LECTURES, PANELS AND TALKS External Invitations (selected) Russell Sage Foundation, Asian Americans: Diversity and Heterogeneity Conference 2019 Columbia World Project, Urban Ethics: Definitions and Design 2019 92nd Street Y, Panel, Panel on Newcomers: Gentrifications and Its Discontents 2019 Columbia University, Office of University Life, Panel on Immigration and The Nation Now 2019 Columbia Business School, Guest Lecture, Racial Inequality and the American Divide 2019 The Tenement Museum Talks, A Seat in the Classroom: Asian Americans, Access and Education 2019 Cornell University, Sociology Colloquium Series, Asian Americans and Affirmative Action Policy 2019 Russell Sage Foundation, Visualizing Global Migration and Urban Super-Diversity Workshop 2019 The Asia Society, Panel on Asian Americans and Higher Education: An End to Affirmative Action 2019 Russell Sage Foundation, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in 21st Century Conference 2019 Eastern Sociological Society, Presidential Panel on Asian Americans, Achievement and Meritocracy 2019 MIT, Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration, Asian Americans and Affirmative Action 2018 Harvard University, CSRE Workshop, Asian Americans and Affirmative Action 2018 Georgetown University, Global Refugee and Migration in the 21st Century Conference 2018 Fordham University, Keynote Speaker, A Nation of Immigrants? 50 Years of the New Immigration 2018 Boston University, Sociology Colloquium Series, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2018 New York University, Vietnamese Student Association, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2018 American Sociological Association, Thematic Session on Life in a New America 2018 University of Pennsylvania, ASA Mini-Conference on Future of Immigration Scholarship 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship 20th Reunion, Panel on Gentrification: The Dilemma of Living Well 2018 Baruch College, CUNY, Panel on Nationalism v. Globalism in American and European Politics 2018 Eastern Sociological Society, Presidential Panel, Immigration and the New American Mainstream 2018 Princeton University, Center for Migration and Development , Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Mobility 2018 The Graduate Center, CUNY, Immigration Seminar Series, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Mobility 2018 Washington University in St. Louis, Colloquium Series, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2018 University of Maryland, College Park, MPRC, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2017 Harvard University, MII Workshop, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2017 American Sociological Association, Thematic Session, The Integration of the Children of Immigrants 2017 New School for Social Research, NYACI, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2017 Russell Sage Foundation, Immigration and Changing Identities Conference 2017 Carnegie Mellon University, Race and Diversity Series, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian Racial Mobility 2017 Russell Sage Foundation, What the Census Bureau Needs to Know Workshop 2017

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Hostos Community College, CUNY, Hostos Heritage Lecture, Immigrant New York 2016 The Graduate Center, CUNY, Diversity, Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement Workshop 2016 The Graduate Center, CUNY, Super-Diversity: A Transatlantic Conversation Workshop 2016 The Graduate Center, CUNY, Center for LGBTQ Studies, Amsterdam Avenue Project 2016 Brown University, Sociology Colloquium Series, Amsterdam Avenue Project 2015 Colby College, Sociology Colloquium Series, Amsterdam Avenue Project 2015 University of Connecticut-Storrs, Sociology Colloquium Series, Amsterdam Avenue Project 2015 University of Pennsylvania, ISA RC28, Beyond the Model Minority 2015 Eastern Sociological Society, Presidential Panel, Beyond the Model Minority 2015 Hostos Community College, CUNY, Salute to Graduates Address 2015 Harvard University, MII Workshop, Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession 2014 Yale University, CIQLE, Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession 2014 University of Wisconsin, IRP, Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession 2014 U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Latino Assimilation & the Great Recession 2014 Princeton University, Department of Sociology, Panel Retrospective on the Work of Alejandro Portes 2014 Indiana University, Department of Sociology, The Face of Health Symposium 2014 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CASS-SSRC Common Concerns Seminar Series 2014 Hunter College, CUNY, Sociology Colloquium Series, Latino Assimilation & the Great Recession 2013 Stanford University, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Latino Assimilation & the Great Recession 2013 APPAM Annual Meeting, Latino Assimilation & the Great Recession 2013 16th Annual Welfare Research & Evaluation Conference, Latino Assimilation & the Great Recession 2013 Oxford University, Migration, Social Development, and Social Protection Workshop 2013 Texas A&M University, Minorities, Politics and Health Workshop 2013 Queens College, CUNY, Sociology Colloquium Series, Second-Generation Neighborhood Mobility 2013 Princeton University, CMD, Second-Generation Neighborhood Mobility 2013 University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Colloquium Series, Second-Generation Neighborhood Mobility2013 University of Pennsylvania, REI Workshop, Culture and Mobility among the Second Generation 2013 Eastern Sociological Society, Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools Mini-Conference 2012 Social Science Research Council, “Migration, Social Development & Social Protection” Workshop 2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Annual Meeting 2012 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Migration & Social Change in China & in U.S. Workshop 2011 Columbia University, Department of Sociology, Neighborhood Mobility in Multi-Ethnic America 2010 New York University, Department of Sociology, Neighborhood Mobility in Multi-Ethnic America 2010 Stanford University, Department of Sociology, Neighborhood Mobility in Multi-Ethnic America 2010 UCLA, Department of Sociology, Neighborhood Mobility in Multi-Ethnic America 2010 UCSD, Department of Sociology, Neighborhood Mobility in Multi-Ethnic America 2010 University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, Neighborhood Mobility in Multi-Ethnic America 2010 Columbia University (selected) INCITE, Social Sciences Summer, Immigrant New York & Ethnography of Immigrant Communities 2019 Columbia World Project, Urban Science in New York City 2019 Columbia Population Research Center, Asian Americans and Affirmative Action Frames 2019 ISERP, Dean’s Lunch Speaker Series, Asian Americans and Affirmative Action Frames 2019 Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity & Inclusion, The First-Generation Experience 2018 Columbia Business School, Guest Lecture, Racial Inequality and the American Divide 2018 School of General Studies, Summer Jumpstart Series, Immigrant New York 2018 INCITE, Social Sciences Summer, Immigrant New York 2018 Columbia College Alumni Association, 2018 Reunion, Café Columbia, Immigrant New York 2018 First-Generation Graduation Ceremony, Keynote Speaker, Reflections on Mobility and Opportunity 2018 GSAS Office of Academic Diversity Research Collective, Navigating Your PhD Program 2018 School of International and Public Affairs, Panel Discussion, The Future of DACA 2017

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Office of University Life, Understanding Charlottesville: White Nationalism and American Society 2017 School of General Studies, Summer Jumpstart Series, Immigrant New York 2017 INCITE, Social Sciences Summer, Immigrant New York 2017 Office of Government & Community Affairs, Policy Forum for Elected Officials & Civic Leaders 2017 Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Academic Career Panel for Postdocs 2017 Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Hyper-Selectivity and Asian American Racial Mobility 2017 Center for Teaching and Learning, ITSI, Amsterdam Avenue: Gentrification in a Global City 2016 Asian Graduation Ceremony, Keynote Speaker, What is Not on Your Résumé? 2016 Columbia Population Research Center, Linking Internal and International Migration Conference 2016 Language Resource Center, Language Teaching with Urban and Linguistic Landscapes Workshop 2016 Teachers College, Panel Discussion, My Brooklyn 2016 INCITE, Social Sciences Summer, Immigrant New York 2016 Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Amsterdam Avenue: Gentrification in a Global City 2016 Language Resource Center, Reading the City Workshop 2015 Columbia Population Research Center, Panel on The Syrian Refugee Crisis 2015 GlobeMed at Columbia, Panel on Immigration and Health Disparities: A Conversation 2015 Office of University Life, Panel on The American Dream, Immigration, and Belonging 2015 INCITE, Social Sciences Summer, Immigrant New York 2015 Columbia Voting Week, Columbia University Democrats and Latinx Heritage Month 2015 Columbia College, Days on Campus, Master Class, Immigrant New York 2015 Students of Color Alliance, From Creating Community to Successful Academic Trajectories Panel 2015 Columbia Asian American Alliance, Thought Project Panel 2015 Columbia Society of Fellows & Heyman Center for the Humanities, Managing Borders Conference 2015 Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences, Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession 2015 Forum on Migration, Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession 2014 Urban Studies Program, Whose City: Change, Race and Culture Workshop 2014 Columbia School of Social Work, Health Consequences of Migration Conference 2014 The Harriman Institute, America’s East Central Europeans: Migration and Memory Conference 2014 Journal of Politics and Society, Panel on After Bloomberg: Conversation about New York Policy 2013 Harvard University (very selected) Memorial Church, Faith & Life Forum, The Pursuit of Academia: An Intellectual Autobiography 2009 Memorial Church, Morning Prayers, On the Promise and Challenges of Diversity 2008

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (VERY SELECTED) American Sociological Association Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics for Angela Garcia’s Legal Passing 2021 Organizer, Regular Session on Diverse Experiences among Asian Americans 2020 Organizer, Author-Meets-Critics for Tomás Jiménez’s The Other Side of Assimilation 2019 Organizer, Author-Meets-Critics for Héctor Carrillo’s Pathways of Desire 2019 Organizer, Regular Session on Navigating Diversity in Everyday Life 2019 Organizer, Regular Session on Immigrant Families & Communities 2018 Organizer, Author-Meets-Critics for Lee & Zhou’s Asian American Achievement Paradox 2016 Organizer, Regular Session on The Future of America’s Neighborhoods and Cities 2013 Eastern Sociological Society Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics for Edward Telles and Christina Sue’s Durable Ethnicity 2020 Organizer, Author-Meets-Critics for Ernesto Castañeda’s A Place to Call Home 2019 Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics for John O’Brien’s Keeping it Halal 2019 Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics for Onoso Imoagene’s Beyond Expectations 2018

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Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics for Richard Ocejo’s Masters of Craft 2018 Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics for Justin Gest’s The New Minority 2018 Organizer, How to Obtain Competitive Funding for Your Research 2018 Organizer, Author-Meets-Critics for Michèle Lamont et al.’s Getting Respect 2017 Organizer, Presidential Panel on Beyond the Model Minority 2015 Organizer, Presidential Panel on Future of Neighborhoods and Cities 2015 Organizer, Presidential Panel on Consequences of Incarceration 2015 Organizer, Presidential Panel on Thinking About Causality in the Social Sciences 2015 Organizer, Presidential Panel on Class Boundaries: Education, Inequality and Diversity 2015 Organizer, A Conversation with Professor Herbert Gans 2015 Population Association of America Organizer, Regular Session on Immigrants in New Destinations 2020 Organizer, Regular Session on Assimilation of Immigrant Generations 2014

TEACHING AND ADVISING (SELECTED) The Graduate Center, CUNY Immigrant New York: Fall 2019 Urban Poverty and the City: Spring 2020 Columbia University Immigrant New York (Undergraduate): Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016 Immigration & American Society (Undergraduate): Spring 2014, Spring 2015 Senior Thesis Seminar (Undergraduate): Fall 2017-Spring 2019 Methods for Social Research (Undergraduate): Spring 2015 Social Statistics (Undergraduate): Fall 2013 Qualitative Social Analysis (Graduate): Fall 2015, Fall 2017 Neighborhood Effects & Urban Poverty (Graduate): Spring 2014, Fall 2018 Dissertation Development Seminar (Graduate): Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Race, Ethnicity and Migration Workshop (Graduate): Fall 2015-Spring 2019 Harvard University Committee on Social Studies, Senior Thesis Adviser 2009-2011 Department of Sociology, Senior Thesis Adviser 2008-2011 Department of Sociology, Teaching Fellow 2006-2008 Lowell, Kirkland and Winthrop Houses, Sociology Concentration Adviser 2009-2011 Lowell House, Senior Staff Tutor for the Senior Common Room 2007-2011 Lowell House, Sophomore Academic Adviser 2007-2011 Lowell House, Resident Tutor in Sociology & Social Policy 2005-2011 Lowell House, Fellowships Advising Committee, 2005-2011 Lowell House, Chair of Graduate School Advising Committee 2006-2009 Lowell House, Co-Chair of Committee on Race Relations and Diversity 2005-2008 PhD Advisees, Chair of Dissertation Committee Dialika Sall, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2020 (exp.) Daeshin Hayden Ju, PhD in Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2021 (exp.) Kasey Zapatka, PhD in Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2023 (exp.) Alexandra Smith, PhD in Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2025 (exp.)

PhD Students, Member of Dissertation Committee Janina Selzer, PhD in Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2023 (exp.)

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Francisco Lara-García, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2023 (exp.) Tiffany Huang, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2023 (exp.) Magda Maaoui, PhD in Urban Planning, Columbia GSAPP 2022 (exp.) Sandra Portocarrero, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2022 (exp.) Bailey Brown, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2020 (exp.) Brittany Fox-Williams, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2020 (exp.) Kathleen Griesbach, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2020 (exp.) Rebecca Karam, PhD in Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2020 (exp.) Brenda Gambol, PhD in Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2020 (exp.) Nicol Valdez, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2019 Lauren Fox, PhD in Sociology and Education, Teachers College 2019 Adele Lee, PhD in Behavioral Nutrition Program, Teachers College 2019 Tolga Kobas, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2018 Warren McKinney, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2018 Devon Wade, PhD in Sociology, Columbia 2018 Julie Hyunjung Kim, PhD in Education, Teachers College 2018 Jacquelyn Duran, PhD in Education, Teachers College 2018 Marina Mazur, PhD in Clinical Psychology, Teachers College 2018 Jeremy Heyman, PhD in Education, Teachers College 2015 MA Advisees, Primary Advisor Andrea Avila, MA in Sociology 2019 Sadiatur Reza, MA in Sociology 2019 Sara Shameem, MA in Sociology 2018 Keitaro Okura, MA in Sociology 2017 Tianhao Zhang, MA in Sociology 2016 Xueting Wu, MA in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2016 Weicen Zheng, MA in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2015 Selma Hedlund, MA in Sociology 2015 Mengying Li, MA in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2014 Yu Hsiu Angie Wang, MA in Sociology 2014 Demet Kutmando, MA in Sociology 2014

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND NATIONAL SERVICE Editorial Boards Ethnic and Racial Studies 2018- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2018- American Journal of Sociology, Consulting Editor 2017-2019 Social Forces 2014-2017 The Sociological Quarterly 2013-2016 Advisory Boards and Selection Committees The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Advisory Committee on Cultural Engagement 2020-2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, Selection Committee 2020-2021 Museum of the City of New York, New York at Its Core, Academic Advisory Committee 2014-2018 Youth and Hope Foundation, Advisory Board 2015-2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, Selection Committee 2011-2016 American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section, Elected Council Member 2019-2022

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Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Selection Committee 2018-2020 International Migration Section, Chair of Local Organizing Committee 2018-2019 International Migration Section, Elected Council Member 2015-2018 International Migration Section, Nominations Committee and By-Law Committee 2015-2017 International Migration Section, Thomas & Zaniecki Book Award Committee 2013-2014 International Migration Section, Co-Organizer, Shaping the Future of Immigration Research 2012-2013 Community and Urban Sociology Section, Jane Addams Paper Award Committee 2012-2012 Latino/a Sociology Section, Distinguished Contribution to Research Award Committee 2012-2013 Latino/a Sociology Section, Cristina Maria Riegos Student Paper Award Committee 2012-2013 Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities, Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award Committee 2011-2012 International Migration Section, Distinguished Student Scholarship Award Committee 2011-2012 International Migration Section, Archivist for Making Connections 2008-2009 International Migration Section, Organizing Committee for Making Connections 2008-2009 International Migration Section Annual Mentoring Lunch Committee Co-Chair 2007-2008 International Migration Section, Elected Graduate Student Representative 2007-2008 Eastern Sociological Society 2018 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Program Committee 2017-2018 2015 Annual Meeting in New York City, Program Committee 2014-2015 2007 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Program Committee 2006-2007

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE The Graduate Center, CUNY Admissions Committee, PhD Program in Sociology 2019- Curriculum Committee, PhD Program in Sociology 2019- Faculty Membership Committee, PhD Program in Sociology 2019- LMIS Director Search Committee, Center for Urban Research 2019-2020 Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Office of the Provost 2019-2020 Website Redesign Advisory Council 2019-2020 Columbia University Committee on Citizenship: Promoting Democratic Inclusion and Full Participation 2018-2019 Urban Studies Program, Academic Advisory Committee, Barnard College 2015-2019 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Selection Committee 2018-2019 Department of Sociology, Summer School Faculty Representative 2015-2019 GSAS-Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program, Faculty Mentor 2015-2019 Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race, Transnational Asian American Series 2014-2019 Journal of Politics and Society, Faculty Adviser 2014-2019 Columbia Population Research Center Co-Convener of Migration Research Group 2017-2018 International Sociological Association RC28 Meeting, Organizing Committee 2016-2017 Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Liaison 2016-2017 Department of Sociology, Diversity Faculty Search Committee 2015-2017 Office of University Life, Race, Ethnicity and Inclusion Task Force 2015-2016 Department of Sociology, Graduate Student Awards Committee 2015-2016 Department of Sociology, Sociology Colloquium Series Organizer 2013-2015 Harvard University Department of Sociology, Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop Coordinator 2005-2008 Graduate Student Council, Departmental Representative for Social Policy 2007-2008 Department of Sociology, Committee on Sociology Colloquium Series 2007-2008

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Department of Sociology, Committee on Professional Development Assessment 2006-2007 Department of Sociology, Committee on Graduate Admissions 2006-2007 Department of Sociology, Committee on Research Assistantship 2005-2006

ACADEMIC PEER-REVIEW Grants and Fellowships University Presses National Science Foundation Columbia University Press Russell Sage Foundation New York University Press William T. Grant Foundation Polity Press Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Russell Sage Foundation U.S.-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation University of California Press Academic Journals American Journal of Sociology Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies American Sociological Review Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics American Journal of Political Science Migration Studies American Journal of Public Health Politics, Groups and Identities American Journal of Epidemiology Qualitative Sociology American Behavioral Scientist Social Forces American Politics Research Social Problems British Journal of Sociology Social Science Research City & Community Sociological Forum Demography Sociological Methods and Research Demographic Research Sociological Theory Emerging Adulthood Sociology of Education Ethnic and Racial Studies Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Ethnicities Sociological Science International Migration Review The Sociological Quarterly International Journal of Comparative Sociology Urban Affairs Review Journal of Contemporary Ethnography W.E.B. Du Bois Review

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Shaping the Future of DACA: Bridging Research and Policy, Columbia University 2018 Race, Ethnicity, & Migration: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Columbia University 2015 Shaping the Future of Immigration Research , The Graduate Center, CUNY 2013 New Frontiers in Research on Inequality and Social Exclusion, Harvard Unviersity 2008 Latino Immigration & Transformation of the American Society, Harvard University 2005

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Race, ethnicity and immigration; neighborhoods and urban poverty; social inequality and public policy; civic and political participation; community and population health; Asian American and Latino/a studies; qualitative, quantitative and spatial methods.