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Curriculum Vitae [November 2015] Michael Hout Professor of Sociology New York University Address Phones Department of Sociology Office: (212) 998-8360 New York University Department: (212) 998-8340 295 Lafayette Street, 4th floor Email New York, NY 10012 mikehout @ nyu.edu Education 1976 Ph.D. Indiana University [Sociology] Dissertation: Determinants of Marital Fertility in the United States, 1960–1970 1973 M.A. Indiana University [Sociology] 1972 B.A. University of Pittsburgh [Sociology and History] Employment History 2013– New York University, Professor of Sociology 2013– University of California, Berkeley, Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology & Demography, emeritus 2009-13 University of California, Berkeley, Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology & Demography 2006-13 University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Sociology & Demography 1988-2006 University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Sociology 1985-88 University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of Sociology 1982-85 University of Arizona, Associate Professor of Sociology 1976-82 University of Arizona, Assistant Professor of Sociology Honors 2007 American Sociological Association Population Section: Otis Dudley Duncan Award, for Century of Difference 2006 Elected to the American Philosophical Society 2003 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences 2000 Indiana University: Distinguished Alumnus 1998 Gustavus Myers Center: “Outstanding book” on Human Rights, for Inequality by Design 1997 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 Population Association of America: Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Award “In recognition of distinguished contributions to the collection, modeling, and analysis of census and survey data.” 1989 Elected to Sociological Research Association Books 2006 Fischer, Claude S., and Michael Hout. Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last Hundred Years. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout. The Truth About Conservative Christians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996 Fischer, Claude S., Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1989 Hout, Michael. Following in Father’s Footsteps: Occupational Mobility in Ireland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Curriculum Vitae: Michael Hout 1983 Hout, Michael. Mobility Tables. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage. Journal Articles and Book Chapters 2016 Hout, Michael, and Orestes P. Hastings. “Reliability of the GSS Core Items, 2006-2012.” Sociological Methods and Research forthcoming. Hout, Michael. “Money and Morale.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, forthcoming. 2015 Hout, Michael. “A Summary of What We Know About Social Mobility.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 657: 27-36. 2014 Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer. “Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987-2012.” Sociological Science 1: 423-447. 2013 Hout, Michael, and Daniel Laurison. “The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2004.” Chapter 119 in Social Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender in Sociological Perspective [4th edition], edited by David Grusky. Boulder CO: Westview Press. 2012 Hout, Michael, and Avery M. Guest. “Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850: Comment.” American Economic Review: 2021-2040. [note: Although it is an invited comment on an article by Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie, it went through normal peer review at AER] Hout, Michael. “Social and Economic Returns to Higher Education in the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology 38: 379-400. Hout, Michael, and Andrew M. Greeley. “Religion and Happiness.” Pp. 288-314 in Social Trends in American Life, edited by Peter V. Marsden. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2011 Hout, Michael, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth. “Job Loss and Unemployment During the Great Recession.” Pp. 59-91 in The Great Recession, edited by David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, and Christopher Wimer. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Hout, Michael, and Alexander Janus. “Educational Mobility Since the 1930s.” Pp. 165-186 in Whither Opportunity?, edited by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2010 Kesler, Christel, and Michael Hout. “Entrepreneurship and Immigrant Wages in U.S. Labor Markets: A Multi-Level Approach.” Social Science Research 42: 187-201. 2008 Hout, Michael. “How Class Works in Popular Conception: Most Americans Identify with the Class Their Income, Occupation, and Education Implies for Them.” Pp. 25-64 in Social Class: How Does It Work?, edited by Annette Lareau and Dalton Conley. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Hout, Michael, and Benjamin Moodie. “The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2004.” Pp. 567-575 in Inequality: Readings in Race, Class, and Gender [3rd edition], edited by David Grusky. Boulder CO: Westview Press. 2007 Hout, Michael. “Maximally Maintained Inequality Revisited: Irish Educational Stratification in Comparative Perspective.” Pp. 23-40 in Changing Ireland in International Comparison, edited by Betty Hilliard and Maire NicGhiolla Phadraig. Dublin: Liffey Press. 2006 Hout, Michael, and Thomas A. DiPrete. “RC28’s Contribution to Knowledge: An Assessment and an Agenda for the Future.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 1-20. Beller, Emily, and Michael Hout. “Welfare States and Social Mobility.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 353-365. Beller, Emily, and Michael Hout. “Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective.” The Future of Children 16: 19-36. !2 Curriculum Vitae: Michael Hout Hout, Michael. “Economic Change and Social Mobility.” Pp. 112-130 in Inequalities of the World, edited by Goran Therborn. London: Verso. Hout, Michael. “Maximally Maintained Inequality and Effectively Maintained Inequality: Crossnational Comparisons.” Riron to Hoho [Sociological Theory and Method] 21: 235-252. 2005 Fischer, Claude S., and Michael Hout. “The Family in Trouble? Since When? For Whom?” Pp. 120-140 in The Family Transformed, edited by Steven M. Tipton, and John Witte, Jr. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 2004 Gerber, Theodore P., and Michael Hout. “Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia’s Economic Transition.” American Sociological Review 69 (October): 677-703. Fischer, Claude S., Gretchen Stockmayer, Jon Stiles, and Michael Hout. “Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000.” Demography 41: 37-59. Hout, Michael. “Social Mobility and Inequality: A Review and an Agenda.” Ch. 26 in Social Consequences of Growing Inequality, edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Evans, William R., Susan Mayer, and Michael Hout. “Inequality Effects” Ch. 27 in Social Consequences of Growing Inequality, edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Hout, Michael. “Educational Progress for African Americans and Latinos Since the 1950s.” Pp. 262-297 in Ethnicity and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective, edited by Glenn Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven Teles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hout, Michael, and Melissa J. Wilde. “The Denominational Society in the United States: A Reappraisal.” Pp. 19-49 in Patterns and Processes of Religious Change in Modern Industrial Societies: Europe and the United States, edited by Alasdair Crockett and Richard O’Leary. London: Edwin Mellen. 2003 Hout, Michael. “Demographic Methods for the Study of Religion.” Pp. 145-154 in Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, edited by Michele Dillon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hout, Michael, “The Inequality-Mobility Paradox.” New Economy 10: 205-207. 2002 Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer, “Explaining the Rise of Americans with No Religious Preference: Generations and Politics.” American Sociological Review 67: 165-190. Hout, Michael, “Test Scores, Education, and Poverty.” Pp. 329-54 in Race and Intelligence, edited by Jefferson Fish. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2001 Hout, Michael, Andrew M. Greeley, and Melissa J. Wilde, “The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change.” American Journal of Sociology 107: 468-500. Goodman, Leo A., and Michael Hout. “Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Comparing How Two-Way Associations Vary Among Countries, Among Groups, or Over Time, Part II: Some Simple Extensions and Simple Examples.” Sociological Methodology 31: 189-211. 2000 Fischer, Claude S., Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss). “Inequality by Design.” Chapter 2 in Social Stratification (second edition), edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [reprinted again in Grusky & Szelenyi (2006), The Inequality Reader, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.] Hout, Michael, and Harvey S. Rosen. “Self-employment, Race, and Family Background.” Journal of Human Resources 35: 670-693. Hout, Michael, “Social Mobility.” 840-841 in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2nd edition), edited by Joel Krieger. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hout, Michael, “Alienation Among Divorced and Remarried Catholics in the United States.” America: . !3 Curriculum Vitae: Michael Hout 1999 Greeley, Andrew, and Michael Hout. “Americans’ Increasing Belief in Life After Death: Competition and Assimilation.” American Sociological Review 65 (December): 813-836. Greeley, Andrew,
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