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).