Conley – Vita DALTON CONLEY 295 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor Phone: (212) 998-7580 New York, NY 10012 Fax: (212) 995-4010 Email: [email protected] EMPLOYMENT 2005- University Professor (Professor of Sociology, Medicine & Public Policy) New York University – New York, NY 2003- Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) – Cambridge, MA 2003- Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine – New York, NY 2012- Dean of Arts and Sciences (pro bono) University of the People; The World’s Tuition-Free Online University http://www.uopeople.org/ 2008-2012 Dean for the Social Sciences New York University – New York, NY 2010-2011 Senior Vice Provost New York University – New York, NY 2006-2009 Chair, Department of Sociology New York University – New York, NY 2005-2008 Senior Advisor (pro bono) United Nations Millennium Project – New York, NY 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 POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING 1996-1998 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research U.C. Berkeley – Berkeley, CA Dalton Conley 2 EDUCATION 2014 Doctor of Philosophy in Biology (Genomics) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University (Advisor: Mark L. Siegal) 2009 Master of Science in Biology Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University 1996 Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (with Distinction) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (Advisor: Seymour Spilerman) 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 1986 Stuyvesant High School New York, N.Y. VISITING APPOINTMENTS 2013-14 Visiting Fellow Russell Sage Foundation – New York, NY 2013 Visiting Fellow (Summer) SFB 882 “From Heterogeneities to Inequalities” University of Bielefeld – Bielefeld, Germany 2012-13 Visiting Scholar Center on Inequality and the Life Course Yale University – New Haven, CT 2012 Visiting Scholar (Summer) Institute for Behavioral Sciences University of Colorado – Boulder, CO 2011 Distinguished Visiting Professor (Summer) University of Auckland – Auckland, New Zealand 2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology (Fall) Yale University – New Haven, CT 2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology (Spring) 2 Dalton Conley 3 Princeton University – Princeton, NJ HONORS / AWARDS 2013 Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship 2012 Elected to the Sociological Research Association 2012 Elected Chair of the Children and Youth Section; American Sociological Association 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship 2011 Claude S. Fischer Award for Best Writing in Contexts 2009 Fellow, French-American Foundation Young Leaders Program 2009 Innovative Idea Champion, Corporation for Enterprise Development 2007 Elected to permanent membership in the Council on Foreign Relations 2006-09 Elected to the Executive Council, American Sociological Association 2006 Fellow, Young Leaders Forum, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations 2006 SEED Magazine “Innovative Mind” Award; Seed Media Group 2006 Awarded an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship from 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 Elected to the NYU of Society of Fellows 2001 Selected for Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (Unable to Accept). 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 3 Dalton Conley 4 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 2014-17 P.I. – Mizuko Ito / Dalton Conley $310,845 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Subcontract from UCI for Research Network on Connected Learning 2011 P.I. – Dalton Conley $35,000 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; Individual Fellowship “In Search of Missing Heritability” 2005-10 P.I. – Dalton Conley $500,000 National Science Foundation (SES-0540543) Alan T. Waterman Award 2005-07 P.I.s – Dalton Conley & A. Lareau $30,830 Russell Sage Foundation (83-06-01) “Social Class: How Does it Work?” 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. 2001-04 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.” 2000-04 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. 4 Dalton Conley 5 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. – Jeanne Brooks-Gunn $2,500 Center for Young Children and Families Teachers College Columbia University, Dissertation Research Grant PUBLICATIONS Academic Books: Forthcoming Molecular Me: How social genomics is transforming the way we understand our world and ourselves with Christopher Dawes and Jason Fletcher. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 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. (2009) 10th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword. Trade Books: 2014 Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2009 Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety. New York: Pantheon Books. Paperback Edition: Vintage Books 2010. 2004 The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why. New York: Pantheon Books. Paperback Edition: Vintage Books 2005. 2000 Honky. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Paperback 5 Dalton Conley 6 Edition: Vintage Contemporaries 2001. Textbook: 2009 You May Ask Yourself… An Introduction to Thinking like a Sociologist. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. 2nd Edition, 2011. 3rd Edition, 2013. 4th Edition, 2015. Edited Volumes: 2008 Social Class: How Does it Work? (co-edited with Annette Lareau); New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press. 2004 After the Bell—Family Background and Educational Success. (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. “Genotyping a New, National Household Panel Study.” In Press. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement. Conley, D., B. Domingue, D. Cesarini, C. Dawes, N. Rietveld, J. Boardman. 2015. “Is the effect of parental education on offspring biased or moderated by genotype?” In Press. Sociological Science. Moran, E….D. Conley…J. Scholz. 2014. “Opinion: Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for the Social Sciences.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111: 15855-15856. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1416561111 Rietveld, C.A., D. Conley… Social Science and Genetics Consortium. 2014. “Replicability and Robustness of GWAS for Behavioral Traits.” Psychological Science. 25: 1975-1986. doi: 10.1177/0956797614545132 Conley, D. 2014. “How I Became a Socio-Genomicist.” Contexts. Fall: 16-17. Domingue, B.W, J. Fletcher, D. Conley and J.D. Boardman. 2014. “Reply to Abdellaoui et al.: Interpreting GAM” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi/10.1073/pnas.1413105111 Rietveld, C.A. … D. Conley… P. Koellinger. 2014. “Common Genetic Variants Associated with Cognitive Performance Identified Using Proxy-Phenotype Method.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1404623111. 6 Dalton Conley 7 Conley, D., J. Fletcher and C. Dawes. 2014. “The Emergence of Socio-Genomics.” Contemporary Sociology. 43:458-467. doi: 10.1177/0094306114539640. Domingue, B.W, J. Fletcher, D. Conley and J.D. Boardman. 2014. “Genetic