Research Experience, Grants and Publications
Research Experience:
1990 Research Assistant: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Social Mobility in New York City
Funded by the Research Foundation, City University of New York
1987 Research Assistant: An Oral History of the Bronx Funded by Bronx
Funded by Bronx Regional and Community History Project Lehman College
Grants:
2005 Co-ordinaor: William E. Simon Urban Research and Action Project
2005 Kenny Fellowship: Examining the Census for Trends in Racial and Ethnic Integration
and Segregation in Jersey City
1994 Co-Director:: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Exploring our Common Humanity –
Looking Beyond Individual Communities Funded by New Jersey Council for
the Humanities
1988 Director: A Case Study of Ethnic Revival in New York City Funded by the Research
Foundation, City University of New York
Publications:
2006 An Examination of Racial Segregation in Jersey City:
A Comparison of the 1990 and 2000 Census
Monograph of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Association
of African American Studies (Forthcoming)
2002 Managing Hostility in the Classroom with Fadia Joseph, in Handbook on Hostility in
the Classroom edited by Rebecca Bach and Betsy Lucal.
2001 Diversity – Get to Know Your Neighbors with Fadia Joseph, Jersey Journal, Nov. 27
2001 The Social Norms of the Moviegoer Media Addict (on-line journal)
1989 The IrishArtsCenter: A Case Study in Ethnic Revival New York Irish History Vol. 4
1989 Social Meaning of Second Homes for Urban Dwellers, with Rolf Meyersohn,
The Apple Sliced: Sociological Studies of New York City. Vernon Boggs,
Gerald Handel, and Sylvia Fava, eds. Praeger Pr.
Professional Presentations:
2006 Asset Based Models of Engagement as A Means to
Student Success and Empowerment
The Sixth International Conference on Diversity in
Organizations, Communities and Nations (Forthcoming)
2006 An Examination of Racial Segregation in Jersey City:
A Comparison of the 1990 and 2000 Census
Annual Meeting of the National Association of African American Studies
2005 The Wal-Martization of America: The Impact of Wal-Mart on Labor Practices and the
Urban Environment with Lloyd Klein & Steven Lang
Roundtable: Labor Theory and Process
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
2005 Contextualizing Jesuit Education? Justice Education at St. Peter’s
With Prof. Jennifer Ayala and Prof. David Surrey
Commitment to Justice Conference – John Carroll University
2004 Images of Social Class in Jersey City
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
2003 The War of the Words: Mass Media Depictions of Government
Justifications for Wartime Engagement with Lloyd Klein
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
2003 A Portrait of Social Life in Jersey Citywith Fay Joseph
Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
2003 The Role of Consumer Culture on College Campuses
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
2002 Alternative Approaches to Teaching Social Problems
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
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