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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. |
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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 disorders, social movements, sociological theory, and a seminar on housing in the United States. Some of my other research interests include the sociology of sport, race and ethnicity, and immigration. My work has appeared in Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, and in a forthcoming edited volume Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today.
Originally from Manhattan, Kansas, I currently reside in Oberlin with my wife and two children.
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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 Mattson presented a paper, "Swedish Anthropometric Expertise and the Geopolitics of Lapp Categorization," at the Social Science History Association conference, held November 1 to 4, 2012, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Hiss presentation explained the many innovations by Swedes in measuring ethnic differences as a function of concerns over race mixing between Swedes and the indigenous Sámi in Lapland. These innovations allowed Sweden to conceive and market itself as homogenous through their expertise in physical anthropology, genetics and eugenics, maintaining national prestige after their loss of empire. |
