Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg provides expert analysis of the November 2nd Oakland General Strike for the Christian Science Monitor

Dr. Chris Rhomberg

Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg was quoted in the November 3, 2011 Christian Science Monitor and in the November 2, 2011 Bay Citizen on the November 2 general strike action by the Occupy Oakland protestors in Oakland, California.

Fordham University sociologist Heather Gautney provides expert analysis on Occupy Wall Street

Dr. Heather Gautney

Assistant Professor Heather Gautney’s piece on “What is Occupy Wall Street? The History of Leaderless Movements,” appeared in the on-line Washington Post on October 10, 2011. Professor Gautney has also been interviewed or quoted about the protests on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CNN, NPR, the Associated Press, and several major newspapers. Her book, Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) will be reprinted in paperback edition with a new chapter on the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Associate Professor O. Hugo Benavides publishes three articles on Latin American and post-colonial studies

Professor Benavides

Associate Professor O. Hugo Benavides published a chapter entitled “Indigenous Representations of the Archaeological Record: Spectral Reflections of Postmodernity in Ecuador,” in Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America, edited by Cristóbal Gnecco and Patricia Ayala Rocabado, and a chapter “Shades of the Colonial,” in Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology, edited by Uzma Rizvi and Jane Lydon, both published by Left Coast Press, 2010.  Professor Benavides’ chapter “‘Our Ancestors the Incas’: Andean Warring over the Conquering Pasts,” will be included in The Heritage of War edited by Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino, forthcoming from Routledge in 2012.

Assistant Professor Micki McGee comments on the rise of digital humanities for Inside Higher Education

Assistant Professor Micki McGee was quoted in a story on “The Promise of Digital Humanities” in Inside Higher Ed on September 28, 2001.

Professor Jeanne Flavin speaks out on reproductive and social justice

Professor Jeanne Flavin

Professor Jeanne Flavin's article “On Reproductive Justice and the Importance of Listening to People with Whom We Disagree” appeared the September-October 2011 edition of Footnotes, a publication of the American Sociological Association. Professor Flavin also gave a plenary talk at Fordham's Graduate School of Social Services "Pedagogy, Human Rights, and Social Justice" conference on September 19th entitled "Why We (Still) Can't Wait: The Everyday Pursuit of Social Justice."

David Woods (Ph.D. 2009) is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University. David’s dissertation, a work in urban sociology, was based on his participation in neighborhood and city groups in the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11. His book on this topic, Democracy Deferred: Civic Leadership after 9/11, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in spring 2012.

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez's co-authored volume published in new Chinese edition

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez’s co-authored book, The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, was published in Chinese by Stanford University Press and Renmin Press, 2011.

Professor Emily Rosenbaum continues health and housing research with MacArthur Foundation support

Professor Emily Rosenbaum is in the second of three years of funding from the MacArthur Foundation’s program, “How Housing Matters.” With co-principal investigator Earle Chambers of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she is fielding a survey in the south and west Bronx aimed at understanding how receiving rental housing subsidies may influence the cardiovascular health of low-income Latinos. The project has employed many Fordham College at Rose Hill undergraduates as interns, providing them with the opportunity to learn about social science research firsthand, and – often with funding from the FCRH Dean’s office – to conduct their own research on the connection between housing/neighborhoods and health.

Professor Rosenbaum is also a member of the Russell Sage Foundation’s US2010 project, the Foundation’s decennial research program for Census 2010. Her contribution to the project consists of three inter-related projects: an analysis of trends and differentials in home ownership during the 2000s, with a particular emphasis on the differential effects of the recession and housing market crisis; an analysis of trends and differentials in housing and neighborhood quality since 2000; and an analysis of the housing careers of birth cohorts from 1970 to 2010.

Associate Professor Evelyn Bush continues publishing on religion, gender, and the public sphere

Dr. Evelyn Bush

Associate Professor Evelyn Bush’s article, “Explaining Religious Market Failure: A Gendered Critique of the Religious Economies Model,” was published in Sociological Theory, Vol. 28, Issue 3 (Sept. 2010): 247–354. Her book chapter, “Religious Freedom and Transnational Religion: An Economic Approach,” was published in Religious Actors in the Public Sphere, eds. Jeffrey Haynes and Anja Henning.

 With the assistance of two Fordham graduate students, Dr. Bush recently completed the construction of a dataset of international religious human rights NGOs, which is soon to be published in the online Association of Religion Data Archives (www.arda.com).

Dr. Bush is currently on sabbatical, completing the second year of a three-year research project housed at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, with co-principal investigators Jeremy Carrette and Hugh Miall). The project, entitled Religious NGOs at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, was awarded a £500,000 grant from the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Assistant Professor Heather Gautney and Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg received a grant for $6,900 from the American Sociological Association

Assistant Professor Heather Gautney and Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg received a grant for $6,900 from the American Sociological Association’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, supported by the ASA and the National Science Foundation. The grant, announced in September 2011, will go to support their research project entitled “Beyond the Media Capital: Flexible Specialization and De-agglomeration in the U.S. Film Industry.”

Assistant Professor Orit Avishai's analysis of breastfeeding published in recent anthology

Assistant Professor Orit Avishai's chapter on “Managing the Lactating Body: Breastfeeding in the Age of Anxiety,” appeared in the volume Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices: A Cross Cultural Perspective, edited by Pranee Liamputtong (Springer, 2011).

Dinorah Nieves (Ph.D. 2011) is currently Director of Youth Programs at the Guidance Center of New York. Her research, Resilient Latinas: Women’s Stories of Poverty and Strong Families, has been featured in various publications and public lectures.

Grigoris Argeros (Ph.D. 2011) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mississippi State University. An urban sociologist interested in racial and nativity-status inequalities, his dissertation research focused on disparities in suburban residence. Papers from his dissertation have been presented at various national and regional conferences, and more of Grigoris’ work will be presented at the 2012 meetings of the Population Association of America and the Urban Affairs Association.

Judith A. Perez (Ph.D. 2011) Judy’s research is in urban housing, focusing on issues of class, race, and ethnicity. In 2010 Judy worked as a Fellow at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C. and is currently working as Associate Project Director of the Civil Rights Movement and Labor History Initiative at Teaching for Change, a nonprofit organization located in Washington, D.C.

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez's co-authors article on race, gender, and wage inequality with Fordham doctoral students

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez co-authored, with two Fordham Sociology graduate students, “Does Race and National Origin Influence the Hourly Wages That Latino Males Receive?” in Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys, published by Routledge in 2011. Her co-authors are graduate students Dr. Grigoris Argeros, who received his Ph.D. in 2011, and Michael H. Miyawaki, currently finishing his dissertation. Professor Rodriguez also co-authored, with Dr. Luisa Borrell, “Implications and Impact of Race on the Health of Latinos,” which appeared in Health Issues in Latino Males: A Social and Structural Approach, which is part of the series on “Critical Issues in Health and Medicine” edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden and published by Rutgers University Press in 2010.

Andrew Tiedt (Ph.D. 2011) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Demography and Economics of Aging at the University of Chicago. His research examines gender differences in depression among the elderly in Japan and the United States, focusing especially on the how exchange with family, and other types of social support, can protect against or exacerbate depression. An article based on this research was published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology (2010).

Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg’s article, “A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States," American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 115, No. 6 (May 2010): 1853-94, received the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Article award from the American Sociological Association’s Labor and Labor Movements section, and was co-winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Contribution (Article) award from the ASA Political Sociology section. Professor Rhomberg’s book, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor, is forthcoming from Russell Sage Foundation (2012).

Cheryl Sharman (M.A. 2007) is an urban sociologist and ethnographer. She is the co-author with Russell Leigh Sharman, of the award-winning book, Nightshift NYC (University of California Press 2008).

Assistant Professor Norma Fuentes-Mayorga publishes on race and service work in gentrifying New York neighborhoods

Assistant Professor Norma Fuentes-Mayorga article, “Sorting Black and Brown Latino Service Workers in Gentrifying New York Neighborhoods” was published in Latino Studies, Vol. 9, #1, Spring 2011. She was also an invited special guest lecturer at the Universita’di Genova, Centro Studi Medi, to speak about her latest research on the children of immigrants: “Immigrant Mothers and Siblings as Proximal Others: The New Aspirations and School Mobility of Daughters.” Professor Fuentes-Mayorga recently helped organize a conference on “The Dream Act” with support from Fordham University’s Feerick Center for Social Justice and the Center for International Policies Studies (CIPS).

Bernice Yeung (M.A. 2007) published an article on “Can Health Care Treat Crime” in the June 10, 2011 edition of the East Bay Express, written while she was on a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship through the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

Assistant Professor Matthew Weinshenker interviewed by the NY Times on the increasing number of single fathers

Assistant Professor Matthew Weinshenker was interviewed about the increasing numbers of single fathers raising children in the New York Times blog, “Motherlode,” on June 2, 2011, and was also quoted on this subject in Woman’s Day and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Keith Howey (M.A. 2010) is Evaluation Associate at Common Ground, a New York City nonprofit organization that creats and manages affordable, supportive housing and employment for homeless, disabled, elderly, and low income individuals. Keith collects and analyzes data to provide a basis for improving social services to these groups. Keith recently published, “The Irony of Understanding,” in Contexts (Summer 2011) where he reflects on his experiences interviewing a veteran, similar to himself and his own service in the military.

Stephanie Laudone (M.A. 2006) is currently writing Identity Work on Facebook, a doctoral dissertation about Facebook, the social networking service and website. Stephanie’s paper, on her dissertation findings, was the co-winner of the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Assistant Professor Micki McGee receives National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Start-Up Grant

Assistant Professor Micki McGee received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant of $24,937 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in April 2011. The grant will support the Compatible Database Initiative: Fostering Interoperable Data for Network Mapping and Visualization, of which McGee is Project Director, to support workshops and the development of a consortium to generate standards for shared, interoperable data sets for humanities‑based network analysis projects.

Robert R. Martin (M.A. 2008) is currently a doctoral student at Pennylvania State University and working in the sociology of religion. Rob’s M.A. thesis—The Effect of Belief in a Distant God on Community Volunteering—reflects his close involvement as a sociologist in the understanding of social movements when these are coupled with deeply felt political and/or faith commitments. Rob’s principal approach to the sociology of religion is that of cultural sociologist and he has developed a keen interest in using both quantitative and qualitative methods in his work and research papers.