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Rick Baldoz, Assistant Professor |
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My research focuses on race, immigration law, and the politics of citizenship. I am the author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) and co-author of The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology and Global Production (Temple University Press). My work has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Du Bois Review, and American Studies. My current project focuses on Filipinos and Puerto Ricans who served in the United States armed forces during World Wars I and II. |
Pawan Dhingra, Associate Professor |
| Pawan Dhingra is currently Museum Curator at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. He heads a new, major initiative, entitled, HomeSpun: Smithsonian Indian American Heritage Project. For more information, please visit www.homespun.si.edu; http://www.facebook.com/ Pawan Dhingra's latest book, Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream, is forthcoming in April 2012 from Stanford University Press. He also is co-authoring a textbook, entitled, The Sociology of Asian Americans, for Polity Press. |
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My research investigates a variety of topics in urban sociology including spatial analyses of urban populations, suburbanization, and processes of residential choice, especially as it relates to the perpetuation of neighborhood related inequalities. Currently, I am completing my dissertation, "The Social Reproduction of Neighborhood Context" which examines intergenerational effects on adult residential choice.
Courses I teach include introduction to sociology, urban sociology, social orders and disrders, and a seminar on housing in the United States.
Originally from Manhattan, Kansas, I have spent the last 7 years as an Ohioan. Some of my other research interests include the sociology of sports, quantitative methods, and immigration. My work has appeared in Urban Affairs Review and in a fothcoming edited volume Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today.
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| Daphne John gave a lecture at Wells College in October on her research regarding masculinities and NASCAR entitled "From whisky trippin' to wine sipping: Competing masculinities in NASCAR". She presented a paper, "Drive for diversity: Latinos, whiteness and the need for new NASCAR citizens" at the American Studies Association meeting in November and recently received a Curriculum Development Grant from the College for a course on the Sociology of Sport. Prof. John also mentors Cindy Camacho through the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Program. See a recent article on student research presentation to the trustees in "The Source" http://new.oberlin.edu/details/photo_gallery.dot?id=1618204. |
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| Greggor was awarded a Powers Travel grant of $4,350 by the Research and Development Committee to complete interviews and research for his book manuscript, Governing Loose Women: The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform. The award will fund travel to his field sites in Germany, Sweden, Finland and The Netherlands in the Summer of 2010. Greggor Mattson and lead author Claude Fischer published an article in the 2009 Annual Review of Sociology, entitled "Is America Fragmenting?" The article reviews evidence for the oft-repeated claims that America is falling apart, finding that "the loudest claims of fragmentation, those concerning value issues, are based on the most contested evidence, but the widening gap between Americans by income and education - which receives less popular attention - is substantial and serious." |
