VITA
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Office:
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Date of Birth:
Education:
Ph.D. Political Science SUNY/Albany, December, 1979
Major: American Political Systems
Minors: Political Theory/Public Administration
Cognate: Social Psychology
M.A. Political Science SUNY/Albany, December, 1973
B.A. St. Lawrence University, May 1971
Honors and Awards:
Best Paper Award, Public Policy Section, American Political Science Association, Co-authored with Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, and Linda Houser, “Deciding to Discipline: A Multi Method Study of Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” (Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 29-September 2, 2007).
Best Paper Award, Public Policy Section, American Political Science Association, Co-authored with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “The Color of Devolution: The Politics of Local Punishment in an Era of Neoliberal Welfare Reform,” (Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2005).
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Change Masters Award, Bryn Mawr College 2002-2003.
Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association for Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
Walter Mondale Policy Fellow, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1991-92.
Distinguished
Alumnus Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, 1989.
Alumni
Citation, St. Lawrence University, 2008.
Prior Academic Administrative Appointments:
Co-Director, Center on Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, Bryn Mawr College, 2002-2006
Acting Chairperson, Department of Political Science, SUNY/Potsdam 13676, 1/84-12/84
Chairperson, Department of
Political Science, SUNY/Potsdam,
Acting Chairperson,
Department of Political Science,
Prior Academic Teaching and Research Appointments:
Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Associate Professor, Political Science, SUNY/Potsdam, 1983-1991
Assistant Professor, Political Science, SUNY/Potsdam, 1980-1983
Instructor, Political Science, SUNY/Potsdam, 1978-1980
Visiting Appointments:
Visiting Scholar,
Visiting Professor (Faculty
Exchange), Department of Political Science,
Adjunct Professor,
Visiting Scholar, Visiting Associate Professor, Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993-94
Visiting Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993-94
Visiting Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Visiting Scholar, Visiting Associate Professor, Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986-1987
Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, UW/Madison, 1986-1987
Current Academic Appointments:
Visiting Professor, Graduate
School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, 9/97-
National Affiliate,
Editorial Appointments:
Editorial Board, Social Work for a New Century (Michael Reisch editor, Multi-volumes, Sage)
Editorial Board, Critical Public Policy: Analysis and Practice
International Advisory Board,
Consulting Editor, Social Work: Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, 2001-2004
Co-Editor, Annual Review for Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 1995-2000
Journal Manuscript Review:
American Political Science Review
American Sociological
Review
American Journal of
Sociology
American Journal of Political Science
Journal of Politics
Perspectives on Politics
Polity
Publius: The Journal of Federalism
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Journal of Political and
Military Sociology
Signs
Social Science Quarterly
Social Forces
Social Service Review
Social Work
Critical Policy Analysis
Policy Sciences
Book Manuscript Review:
Columbia University Press
Cornell University Press
Duke University Press
MIT Press
New York University Press
Pennsylvania State University
Press
State University of New York
Press
Temple University Press
University of California
Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Pennsylvania
Press
Yale University Press
Recent Tenure(T)/Reappointment(R)/
Promotion (P) Reviews:
Political Science:
Brooklyn College (T),
Brooklyn College (P), Brown University (T), University of California-Irvine
(T), University of Oregon (T), Hunter College-CUNY (T), Hunter College- CUNY
(T), Ohio University (T), UC-Santa Cruz (R)
Sociology:
Northwestern University (T)
Social Work:
Science and Technology
Studies:
RPI (T)
Public Affairs:
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
(T), Virginia Commonwealth University (P)
School of Communication:
University of Southern
California (T)
Primary Teaching Areas:
American Politics
Political Economy
Social Welfare Policy
Social Theory
Globalization
Welfare Reform
Public Policy Advocacy
Class, Race and Gender
Social Science Research Methods
Political Research Methods
Administration and Management of Public Agencies
Director of Work for the Ph.D.:
Rosemary Barbera
Wesley Bryant
Thomas Duffin
Patrick Kaylor
Janet Panning
Michael Pfeiffer
Melania Popa
Roland Stahl
Jennifer Stotter
Committee Member for the Ph.D.:
Atsuko Sato (UH-Manoa)
Ron Ayler
Nina Berven
(University of Bergen, Norway)
Page Buck
Margo Campbell
Ivory Copeland (University of
Delaware)
Grace Cheng (UH-Manoa)
Patrice Gammon
Tine Hartmann
Thomas Hawley (UH-Manoa)
Linda Houser
Tina Kimmel (UC-Berkeley)
Isis Leslie (Rutgers
University)
Justine McNamara
Lauren Miltenberger (University of Delaware)
Stephen Pimpare (CUNY Graduate Center)
Sarah Podolin
Greg Richardson (UH-Manoa)
Corey Shdaimah
Barbara Toews
Sarah Van Belle
Books Published:
Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). Winner of the Michael Harrington Book Award for 1996 from American Political Science Association.
Tales of the State:
Narrative in
Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom? (Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), Co-edited with Samuel H. Beer.
After Welfare: The Culture
of Postindustrial Social Policy (
Praxis for the Poor: Piven
and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare (
Race and the Politics of
Welfare Reform (
Welfare Discipline:
Discourse, Governance, and Globalization
(
Making Political Science
Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research and Method (
Change Research: A Case
Study of Housing Advocacy and Social Work Research (New York: Columbia University Press, in press),
Co-authored with Corey Shdaimah and Roland Stahl.
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press), Co-authored with Joe Soss and Richard C. Fording.
Published Articles and Book Chapters:
with Richard Hurley, "Title XX and the Elderly," Social Work, March 1977, pp. 95-102.
with David F. Osten, "CETA and the Aging," Aging and Work, August 1978, pp. 163-74.
"Elderly Policy Particularism and the New Social Services," Social Service Review, March 1979, pp. 75-91.
"Citizen Participation in Planning Social Services Programs," Social Work, March 1980, pp. 153-54.
"Elderly Policy Particularism," The Aging in Politics: Process and Policy, Robert B. Hudson, ed. (Springfield, Ill: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1981).
"Politics, Professionalism and the Changing Federalism," Social Service Review, March 1981, pp. 78-92.
"The Myth of Workfare," Catalyst, Winter 1982, pp. 49-61.
"Social Services for Older People," Age or Need? Bernice Neugarten, ed. (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1983).
with J. Patrick Turbett, "Civil Disorder and the Welfare Explosion: A Two-Step Process," American Sociological Review, June 1983, pp. 408-14.
with J. Patrick Turbett, "The Welfare Explosion: Mass Society versus Social Control," Social Service Review, December 1983, pp. 614-25.
with Antone Aboud, "Public Policy and Public Sector Strike Behavior," Journal of Collective Negotiations, Spring 1984, pp. 109-15.
with Antone Aboud, "An Overview of Plant Closing Legislation and Issues," Plant Closing Legislation, Antone Aboud, ed. (Key Issues Number 27 ILR Press, Cornell University, 1984).
with Antone Aboud, "Plant Closing Legislation and Issues," Paul Studohar and Holly Brown, eds., Deindustrialization and Plant Closings (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1986).
"The New Federalism and
Social Welfare: AFDC in the
with Pat Turbett and Paul Wilken, "Child Poverty and Welfare Benefits: Reconsideration with State Data," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, October 1988, pp. 409-422.
with Paul Wilken, "It's No 'Laffer' Matter: Welfare Spending and Poverty," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April 1989, pp. 203-218.
with Michael Wiseman, "Should Families be Protected
from AFDC-UP?" (
with Theresa Funiciello, "Welfare in the Cuomo Years: Less is Less," in New York State Today, Peter Colby and John K. White, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 281-91.
with Funiciello, "Post-Mortem on the Deterioration of the Welfare Grant," in The Reconstruction of Family Policy, Elaine Anderson and Richard Hula, eds. (Greenwood Press, 1991), pp. 149-64.
"Welfare Spending and Poverty: More is Less," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April 1991, pp. 129-42.
"The Postmodern Presidency and the Grammar of Electronic Electioneering," Critical Studies in Mass Communication, June 1991, pp. 210-16.
"Postpositivistic Policy Analysis and the Family Support Act of 1988: Symbols at the Expense of Substance," Polity, Summer 1992, pp. 633-55.
"World Hunger: A Review--Bread for the World, Hunger 1993: Uprooted People (1993)," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, October 1993, pp. 492-93.
"Postindustrial Family Policy: Just Say No to Women and Children," Review of Radical Political Economics, 26,1, March 1994, pp. 36-63.
with Gary Krueger, "Interstate Variation in Welfare Benefits
and Migration of the Poor: Substantive Concerns and Symbolic Responses," (
"Postmodern Policy Analysis: Identity and Difference in Social Policy," Policy Sciences, 26, 2, Spring 1993, pp. 249-70.
with Philip T. Neisser, "(Re)doubling Denial: Industrial Welfare Policy Meets Postindustrial Poverty," Social Text, 41, Winter 1994, pp. 41-60.
with Gary Krueger, "'Welfare Magnets' and Benefit Decline: Symbolic Problems and Substantive Consequences," Publius, 24,4, December 1994, pp. 44-67.
"Inverting Political Economy: Perspective, Position, and Discourse in the Analysis of Poverty," Rethinking MARXISM, 8,2, Summer 1995, pp. 78-99.
"Against Policy Analysis: Critical Reason and Poststructural Resistance," Policy Sciences, 28, 4, Fall 1995, 375-84.
with Carol Weissert, "Federalism 1995-1996: An Overview," Publius, 26, 3, Fall 1996, pp. 1-26.
with Carol Weissert, "Federalism 1996-1997: An Overview," Publius, 27, 2, Spring 1997, pp. 1-31.
with
with R. Scott Daniels, “’Poor’ Statistical Accounting: Welfare Policy Research in Cyberspace and Public Sphere,” Theory & Event, 2.2, Spring 1998.
with Carol Weissert, "Federalism 1997-1998: An Overview," Publius, 28, 2, Spring 1998, pp. 1-28.
"Introduction," Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom? Special Issue, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 28, 3, Summer 1998, pp. 1-9.
with Joe Soss, "Making Something Out of Nothing: Welfare Reform and the New Race to the Bottom," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 28, 3, Summer 1998, pp. 67-88.
with Joe Soss, "The Real Value of Welfare: Why Poor Families Do Not Migrate," Politics and Society, 27, 1, March 1999, pp. 39-66.
with Thomas Vartanian, Joe Soss, and Jim Baumohl, "Already Hit Bottom: Welfare Retrenchment, General Assistance and Single Male Migration," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 26, 2, June 1999, pp. 151-74.
with Carol Weissert, " The State of
"In the Clinic: The Medicalization of Welfare," Social Text, 62, 18, 1, Spring 2000, pp. 81-107.
with Carol Weissert, " The State of
with Joe Soss, Thomas Vartanian and Erin O’Brien, “Setting the Terms of Relief: Explaining State Policy Choices in the Devolution Revolution,” American Journal of Political Science, 45, 2, April 2001, pp. 378-95.
“Federalism: Reconciling National Values with States Rights and Local Control in the 21st Century,” Focus on Law Studies, (a dialogue with Michael Belknap, Michael Greve, Jennie Kronenfeld, Kathryn McDermott, Robert Nagel, Paul Posner, Denise Scheberle, and Sanford Schram) Published by the American Bar Association, 26, 1, Spring 2001, pp. 1-16.
with Joe Soss, “Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy
Discourse, and the Politics of Welfare Reform,” The Annals of the
“Social Welfare After September 11,” The Nonprofit Quarterly, Spring 2002, pp. 21-24.
with Joe Soss, “Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy
Discourse, and the Politics of Welfare Reform,” in Randy Albelda and Ann
Withorn, eds., Lost Ground: Welfare, Poverty and Beyond (
“Race and State Welfare
Reform Choices: A Cause for Concern,” in From Poverty to Punishment: How
Welfare Reform Punishes the Poor (
“Federalism in the
with Joe Soss, Thomas Vartanian and Erin O’Brien, “The
Hard Line and the Color Line: Race, Welfare, and the Roots of Get-Tough
Reform,” in
“Illusions of Change: Rethinking the Current Welfare Retrenchment,” Social Service Review 77, 3, September 2003, pp. 475-80.
“Return to Politics: Perestroika and Postparadigmatic Political Science,” Political Theory 31, 6, December 2003, pp. 835-51.
“The Praxis of Poor People’s Movements: Strategy and Theory in Dissensus Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 1, 4, December 2003, pp. 715-720.
with Joe Soss, Tom Vartanian, and Erin O'Brien, “Welfare Policy Choices in the States: Does the Hard Line Follow the Color Line?,” Focus, 23, 1, Winter 2004, pp. 9-15.
“Beyond Paradigm: Resisting the
Assimilation of Phroentic Social Science,” Politics & Society, 32,
3, September 2004, pp. 413-433.
“Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad,” in Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram, eds. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy (SUNY Press, 2005), pp. 261-89.
“Return to Politics: Perestroika, Phronesis, and
Post-Paradigmatic Political Science,” in, Kristen Monroe, ed., Perestroika!
The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science (
“Federalism in the
“Dependency,” in Poverty
in
“‘Working Poor’,” in Poverty
in
“Regulating the Poor: Frances
Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward,” in Poverty in
“Contextualizing Racial Disparities in American Welfare Reform: Toward a New Poverty Research,” Perspectives on Politics 3, 2, June 2005, pp. 253-68.
“Social Security Act of
1935,” in Encyclopedia of American Federalism, Joseph Marbach, Ellis
Katz and
“Shapiro v. Thompson,” in Encyclopedia
of American Federalism, Joseph Marbach, Ellis Katz and
“Personal Responsibility
& Work
“TANF,” in Encyclopedia of
American Federalism, Joseph Marbach, Ellis Katz and
“That Old
Black Magic? The New Politics of
Racial Implication,” in Keith Kilty and Elizabeth Segal, eds., The Promise of Welfare Reform: Results or
Rhetoric? (
“Homelessness and the Ownership Society: An Inclusive Exclusion,” Political Theory 34, 1, February 2006, pp. 132-35.
“New Poverty Research,” in Encyclopedia
of Governance, Mark Bevir, ed. (
with Joe Soss, “Coloring the Terms of Membership:
Reinventing the Divided Citizenry in an Era of Neoliberal Paternalism,” (
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, "Devolution,
Discretion, and Local Variation in TANF Sanctioning." (
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Devolution, Discretion,
and Variation in Local TANF Sanctioning,” Insights on Southern Poverty
4, 1, Spring
2006, pp. 1, 3-5.
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “The Bottom Line, the
Business Model and the Bogey: Performance Management, Sanctions, and the Brave
New World of Welfare-to-Work in
with Joe Soss, “Welfare Reform as a Failed Political Strategy:
Evidence and Explanations for the Stability of Public Opinion,” Focus,
24, 3, Fall-Winter 2006, pp. 17-23.
with Joe Soss, "A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform and Policy Feedback," American Political Science Review, 101, 1, February 2007, pp. 111-127.
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Devolution, Discretion
and the Effect of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning,” Social
Service Review 81, 2 (June 2007): 285-316.
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Distributing
Discipline: Race, Politics, and Punishment at the Front Lines of Welfare
Reform,” (
with Joe Soss, "The Promise of a
Public Transformed: Welfare Reform and Policy Feedback," in Joe Soss,
Jacob Hacker, and Suzanne Mettler, eds. Remaking
“Taking Political
Science Seriously: Mixing Methods Makes for a More Contingent but
Self-Reflective Discipline,” Human Studies, 30, 3 (September 2007):
275-280.
“Race, Blood, Land: Fugitive Fictions and the Facts of America,” Theory
& Event, 11, 3 (Fall 2007): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v010/10.3schram.html.
“Political Science Research: From
Theory to Practice,” Core Essay, International Encyclopedia of Political
Science, forthcoming.
“Poor
People’s Movements,” entry, Encyclopedia of Social History, forthcoming.
with Corey Shdaimah and Roland Stahl, “When You Can See
the Sky through the Roof: Policy Analysis from the Bottom Up,” in Edward
Schatz, ed. Political Ethnographies (under review at the
with Joe Soss, “Coloring the Terms of Membership:
Reinventing the Divided Citizenry in an Era of Neoliberal Paternalism,” in Ann
Chih Lin and David Harris, ed., The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic
Disparities Persist (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming).
“Success
Story Syndrome: Crediting Welfare
Reform Rather than the People Who Survive It,” New Labor
Forum 17, 1 (Spring 2008): 90-99.
with Brian Caterino,“A Response to Todd Landsman,” Political
Studies 6, 2 (May 2008): 186-87.
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Neoliberal Poverty
Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in U.S. Welfare Policy,” Cambridge
Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1, 1 (April 2008): 17-36..
with Joe Soss and Richard Fording, “The Color of Devolution: The Politics of Local Punishment in an Era of Neo-liberal Welfare Reform,” American Journal of Political Science 52, 3 (July 2008): 536-553 .
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Distributing
Discipline: Race, Politics, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare
Reform,” (under review at the American Journal of Sociology).
with Joe Soss, Richard C.
Fording, and Linda Houser, “Deciding to Discipline: A Multi-Method Study of
Race, Choice and Punishment on the Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” (Ann Arbor:
National Poverty Center, Working Paper #07-33, 2007): http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/u/working_paper07-33.pdf.
with Avis Jones-Deweever, Bonnie Thornton Dill, “Racial, Ethnic, and Gender
Disparities in the Workforce, Education, and Training under Welfare Reform,” in
Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and
Practice, Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana,
eds., Patricia Hill Collins, forward (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
2009), pp. 150-179.
with Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, and Linda Houser,
“Deciding to Discipline: A Multi-Method Study of Race, Choice and Punishment on
the Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” American Sociological Review, 74, 3
(June 2009): 398-422.
with Joe Soss and Richard C.
Fording, “Neoliberal Paternalism: Race and the New Poverty Governance,” in The State of White Supremacy: Race, Coercion,
and the U.S. Empire-State, Moon-Kie Jung,
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, João CostaVargas,
eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming).
with Corey Shdaimah and Roland Stahl, “When You Can See
the Sky Through Your Roof: Policy Analysis from the Bottom Up” in Edward
Schatz, ed. Political Ethnography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2009), pp. 255-74.
With Joe Soss, Richard Fording
and Linda Houser, “The Third Level of Welfare Reform: Neoliberal Pedagogy,”
(forthcoming at Citizenship Studies).
with Joe Soss and Richard Fording, “The Organization of
Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment,”
(forthcoming at JPART).
Book Reviews Published:
Linda Nicholson, Identity Before Identity Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), New Political Science, forthcoming.
Joel F. Handler and Hasenfeld, Blame Welfare, Ignore
Poverty and Inequality (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), Social
Service Review, 82, 1 (March 2008): 149-150.
Irene Lurie, At the Front Lines of the Welfare System:
A Perspective on the Decline in Welfare Caseloads (Albany: Rockefeller
Institute Press, 2006), Political Science Quarterly, 122, 3 (Fall 2007):
499-501.
Patrick Chabal and Jean-Pascal Daloz, Culture
Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2006), Journal of Politics, 69, 1 (March 2007): 251-252.
Lawrence
M. Mead, Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2004), Publius, 36, 3, Summer 2006, pp. 463-66.
http://intl-publius.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/36/3/463.
Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present (
Ange-Marie Hancock, The
Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen (
Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie
Solinger, eds., Welfare: A Documentary History of
Jeffrey Isaac, The Poverty of Progressivsm: The Future of
American Democracy in a Time of Liberal Decline (
Stefano Harney, State
Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (
Joan Roelofs, Foundations
and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (
R. Kent Weaver, Ending Welfare As We Know It (
Benjamin I. Page and James R.
Simmons, What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality (
Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), American Journal of Sociology, 105, 4, January 2000, pp. 1226-27.
Amy E. Hirsch, “Some Days are
Harder than Hard”: Welfare Reform and Women with Drug
Convictions in
Howard Zinn, Marx in
Peter DeLeon, Democracy
and the Policy Sciences (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 1997), The
Annals of the
Desmond King, Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995), American Political Science Review, 91, 1, February 1997, pp. 218-19.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer and
Theda Skocpol,
Herbert J. Gans, The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy (New York: Basic Books, 1995); Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (New York: Routledge, 1995), The Annals, 548, November 1996, pp. 233-34.
Richard Nathan, Turning Promises into Performance: The Management Challenge of Implementing Workfare (Columbia University Press, 1993), Publius , Fall 1993, pp. 151-52.
Marc Allen Eisner, Antitrust
and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise, and Policy Change, (
Martha Derthick, Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government (Brookings, 1990), Journal of Politics, May 1992, pp. 593-95.
Theodore Marmor, Jerry Mashaw
and Philip Harvey,
Paul Peterson and Mark Rom, Welfare Magnets: The Case for a National Welfare Standard (Brookings, 1990), Publius, Fall, 1991, pp. 200-01.
Thomas Wartenberg,
Forms of Power: From Domination to Transformation (
Stewart Clegg, Frameworks of Power (Sage, 1989), American Political Science Review, March 1991, pp. 262-63.
Benjamin DeMott, The Imperial Middle (Morrow 1990), Perspective, Fall, 1992.
Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tarr, Georg Luckas (Transaction Books, 1989), Perspective, Fall 1990, p. 245.
Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry
L. Mashaw, eds., Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis (
Jeffrey C. Isaac, Power and Marxist Theory: A Realist View by (Cornell, 1987), American Political Science Review, September, 1988, pp. 975-76.
Martin Staniland, What is Political Economy? (Yale, 1985), Perspective, Fall 1988.
Paul M. Johnson and William R. Thompson, ed., Rhythms in Politics and Economics, Perspective, 15, 4, July/August, 1986, p. 120.
Clement Cottingham, ed., Race, Poverty and the Underclass, Administration in Social Work, Spring 1984, pp. 134-35.
Research Papers Presented:
with John K. White, "Renovation versus Realignment:
Variations in State Republican Party Renovation in
"Realignment and the Mass Media: The Effects of Television on Partisanship" (Paper presented at the New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albany, New York, April 1982).
"The Aging and the New Federalism: Age vs. Need Strategies" (Paper presented at the Gerontological Society Annual Meeting, Boston Massachusetts, October, 1983).
with J. Patrick Turbett, "The Standardization of AFDC" (Paper presented at the New York State Sociological Association Annual Meeting, November, 1983).
with J. Patrick Turbett, "State Discretion in AFDC" (Paper presented at the New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, April 1985).
with "The Intergovernmental Structure of AFDC: Consequences for the Poor in an Age of Social Cutbacks" (Paper presented at the New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albany, New York, April 1986).
with J. Patrick Turbett and Paul H. Wilken, "Welfare Dependency and Poverty Reconsidered" (Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August, 1986).
with J. Patrick Turbett and Paul H. Wilken, "Child Poverty and Welfare Dependency: A Reconsideration with State Data" (Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, September 1986).
"(Dis)courses of Dependency: Workfare and the Code of Welfare," (Paper presented at the NEH Summer Seminar "Symbolism and Politics" directed by Murray Edelman, June 11 - August 6, 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison).
"The Ideological Limits of Welfare Rights: The Political Consequences of the Commodification of Welfare," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, April 29, 1988, Albany, New York).
"State Discretion in AFDC: Response to the Reagan Reforms," (Paper presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, October 28, 1988, Seattle, Washington).
with Theresa Funiciello, "Post-Mortem on the
Deterioration of the Welfare Grant," (Paper presented at the 20th Annual
Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association,
with Mark Prus and Turbett, "Intergovernmental Finance in Social Welfare: The Effects of Food Stamps on AFDC," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1989, Atlanta, Georgia).
"Reinforcing the Work Ethic by Negative Example: The Family Support Act," (Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 3, 1990, San Francisco CA).
"JOBS: The Politics of Workfare," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29, 1991,Washington DC).
"Pragmatic Theories vs. Theories of Pragmatism: Post-positivistic Political Theory," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 18, 1992, San Francisco CA).
"Substitution, Competition, Attraction and Crowding-Out: The Intergovernmental Dynamics for Financing Public Assistance," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1, 1992, Chicago IL).
"Postindustrial Welfare Policy: Just Say No to Women and Children," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1992, Chicago IL).
"'Welfare Magnets' and Benefit Decline: Symbolic Problems and Substantive Consequences," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1, 1994, New York City).
"Regulating the Poor: The Universal Technology of the Self," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1994, New York City).
"Contracting America: Business, Law and the Contagion of Policy Discourse in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1995," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1995, Chicago, Illinois).
"Welfare-Taking as a Social Movement: Micro-Power, Performative Politics and Narratives of Welfare (In)dependency," (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1995, Chicago, Illinois).
“The Orphanage as the New State of Nature,” (Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 30, 1996, San Francisco, California).
“American Federalism in Review: 1996,” (Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 31, 1996, San Francisco, California).
“Policy Developments in American Federalism,” (Paper Presented at the American Society for Public Administration, July 26, 1997, Philadelphia PA).
“Overview of American Federalism: 1996-1997,” (Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 28, 1997, Washington, D.C.).
with Joe Soss, "The Real Value of Welfare: Why There
is No Welfare Migration," (Paper Presented at the Conference,
"Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom?"
"Deconstructing Devolution: Racing to the Bottom and Other Ironies of Welfare Reform," (Paper Presented at the Western Political Science Association, Seattle WA, March 26, 1999).
"Major Developments in American Federalism, 1997-1998," (Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 28-31, 1998, Boston MA).
"After Social Security: Reconsidering Universalism in the Welfare State," (Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2-5, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia).
"The Social Work of Politics: The 'Other' in Jane Addams' Feminist Theory of Democracy," (Paper Presented at the Northeast Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA, November 5, 1999).
"Race, Riots, and Reform: Welfare Reform Politics from the 1960s to the 1990s," (Paper Presented at Conference on Work, Welfare and Politics, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, February 28-29, 2000).
With Joe Soss, Tom Vartanian and Erin O’Brien, "Race, Ideology and Economy: Welfare Retrenchment in the Devolution Revolution," (Paper Presented at Conference on Work, Welfare and Politics, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, February 28-29, 2000).
with Joe Soss, Tom Vartanian and Erin O’Brien, “Setting the Terms of Relief: Explaining State Policy Choices in the Devolution Revolution,” (Paper Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 21, 2000).
"The Future of Social Science in Social Welfare: Piven and Cloward, Daniel P. Moynihan, David Ellwood, Jane Addams," (Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 31-September 3, 2000, Washington DC).
“Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad,” (Paper Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 20, 2001).
“Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad,” (Presentation at the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University, October 17, 2001).
“The Real Social Security Crisis: The Linguistic
Bankruptcy of ‘Insurance’” (Paper Presented at the Conference “The Social
Security ‘Crisis’: Critical Analysis and Solutions, The
Center for Full Employment and Price Stability,
“The Stigma of Entitlements: Bureaucratic Tragedies
under Welfare Reform” (Presentation at the “Food Security Research to Action
Colloquium,” Prevention Institute and California Department of Health Services,
“The Invisible Hand (Maiden): Privatization,
Neoliberalism, Globalization and the Behavioral Modification Regime of Welfare
Reform” (Paper Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropology Association,
“The Real Uses of a False Dichotomy:
“Racial Disparities under Welfare Reform: A New
Racism?” (Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association,
“Did Somebody Say Dependency? The
Globalization of Welfare Policy Discourse” (Paper presented at the 2004 Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September
2-5, 2004).
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Local Discretion and the Implementation of Welfare Reform: An Analysis of Sanctioning Outcomes in the Florida TANF Program,” (Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10, 2005).
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “The Color of Devolution: The Politics of Local Punishment in an Era of Neoliberal Welfare Reform,” (Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2005).
“Rethinking the Ownership Society: Discourse and its Others,” (Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2005).
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “The Business Model, the Bottom Line, and the Boegey: Sanctions, Performance Measurement, and the Brave New World of Welfare-to-Work in Florida,” (Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2006).
“The Colour of Devolution: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management,” (Workshop on Poverty and Place, Cambridge-MIT Institute, Cambridge University, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, England, September 27-29, 2006).
with Joe Soss and
Richard Fording, “The Politics of Performance and Punishment:
Administrative
Feedback and the Dynamics of Welfare Sanctioning”
(Paper presented at the Fall Conference of the Association for Policy Analysis
and Management, Madison Wisconsin, November 2-4, 2006).
with Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Wel*Mart:
Devolution, Privatization and the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management,” (Paper
presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting,
with Linda Houser, Richard Fording and Joe Soss, “Deciding to Discipline: A Multi Method Study of Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” (Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 29-September 2, 2007).
with Linda Houser, Richard
Fording and Joe Soss, “Sanctions as a Policy Tool in the Transformed System of
Welfare-to-Work,” (Paper presented at the 11th Annual Welfare
Research and Evaluation Conference, Administration for Children and Families,
Washington, DC, May 28-30, 2008).
with Joe Soss, Linda Houser,
Richard Fording, Paul Rosenstein and Tatiana Winterbottom
“The Recovery Model Comes to Welfare: Success Stories, Oblates, Advanced
Marginalization, and the Medicalization of Welfare”
(Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 1-4, 2009).
with Joe Soss, and Richard Fording,“Governing the Poor: The Rise of the Neoliberal Paternalist State” (Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 1-4, 2009).
with Joe Soss and
Richard Fording, “Who Knew It Would Rain? Exploring the Mismatch between
TANF Programs and Hard Times” (Paper presented at the Fall Conference of the
Association for Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November 5-7,
2009).
Conference Panels:
Chair, "Social Policy Implementation" (Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 18-20, 1991, Chicago IL).
Discussant, "Reengendering the Family in Political Theory and Welfare Policy," (Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1993, Washington DC).
Chair, "Discursive Economies of Postindustrialism," (Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 1994, New York City).
Discussant, "Rountable: Twenty-five years of Regulating the Poor," (Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Review, September 3, 1994, New York City).
Discussant, "State Capacity to Implement Welfare Reform: A Comparison Across Four Midwestern States" (Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 23, 1998, Chicago IL).
Chair, "Explorations in Postpositivistic Policy Analysis" (Panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2-5, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia).
Discussant, “Beyond ‘Poverty’: Rethinking Income
Inadequacy Using New Perspectives and New Approaches,” (Panel at the 23rd
Research Conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and
Management,
Participant, Roundtable Celebrating 25th
Anniversary of the Publication of Poor People’s Movements (American
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 29-September 1, 2002,
Boston, Massachusetts).
Participant, Roundtable discussing Kenneth Hoover’s Economics
as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
(
Participant, Roundtable of contributors to Perestroika!
The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science (
Discussant, “Problematizing the Normative/Empirical
Distinction in Political Theory,” (Panel at the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting,
Chair and discussant,
“Progressive Sociology: Once Real, Then Lost, Now Reclaimed,” (Annual Meeting
of the American Sociological Association,
Chair and discussant, “The
Welfare State: As it Was, Is and Should Be,” (Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 10-14,
2007).
Conferences Organized:
with Sam Beer, I organized a conference "Welfare
Reform: A Race to the Bottom?" which was sponsored by the
Current Research:
I am currently researching a
book on welfare reform in
Op-Ed Articles:
“The Expiring Welfare Law: Jobs Add Little,” Newsday,
“Barn Door Opens to Expose Failure of Welfare Reform,”
With Joe Soss, “New Report Sows Confusion About Welfare, Poverty,” WomensEnews,
“The Other Miscount: Welfare
Reform,” Philadelphia Daily News,
“Welfare Reform is Failing,” The Honolulu Advertiser,
“What Should
“Welfare Cuts to Hit Legal
Immigrants the Hardest,” The
“Welfare Reform Will Fail:
Cost Later Will Dwarf Savings Now,” The
“The Welfare Dust Bowl,” The Honolulu Advertiser, October 20, 1996, pp. B1-B4.
"Welfare Reform: Block Grants
No Answer," The
"Cato Figures Inflate
Welfare Benefits," The
"Is Poverty Best Seen as
a Personal Responsibility?" Saint Paul Pioneer Press,
"Finding New Ways to
Blame the Poor,"
"Privatized public assistance in the U.S. falls far short of American's basic needs," Saint Paul Pioneer Press, February 17, 1991, p. A12.
Public Presentations:
“Governing
the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race,” (presented
at the Northeast People of Color Conference, University at Buffalo School of
Law, October 23, 2009).
“The Organization of
Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment,”
(presented at the symposium “Welfare States in Transition: Social Policy
Transformation in Organizational Practice,” School of Social Service
Administration, University of Chicago, May 15, 2009).
“The Third Level of Welfare
Reform: Neoliberal Pedagogy,” (presented at the conference on “Women, Welfare
Rights and Access to Higher Education,” Brooklyn College, March 24, 2009).
“At the Frontlines of
Neoliberal Poverty Governance: Bottom-Up Strategies for Change,” Keynote
address at The Welfare State from Below: The 20th Anniversary of the Social
Welfare Research Centre (University College of Olso,
Norway, November 20, 2008).
“Neoliberal Poverty
Governance: Disciplining the Poor in an Era of Globalization,” (The Pedagogical
State: Education, Citizenship, Governing, The Open University, Milton Keynes,
England, September 24-25, 2008).
“Neoliberal
Poverty Governance and the Presidential Election of 2008” (Presentation
for “What the Next President Needs to Know about Welfare and Poverty,” School
of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, September 18, 2008).
“Neoliberal Poverty
Governance: U.S. Welfare Policy in an Age of Globalization” (Presentation at
“The New Poverty Agenda: Reshaping Policies in the 21st Century” Queen's
University, International Institute on Social Policy, Kingston, Ontario, August
18-20, 2008). http://www.queensu.ca/sps/conferences_events/qiisp/2008/Schram.pdf
“Deciding to
Discipline: A Multi-Method Study of Race, Choice and Punishment on the
Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” (Presentation for Alumni Reunion Weekend, St.
Lawrence University, May 30-31, 2008).
“Deciding
to Discipline: A Multi-Method Study of Race, Choice and Punishment on the
Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” (National Poverty Center, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 30, 2007).
“Neoliberal Poverty
Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in U.S Welfare Policy,” (RS7
Workshop, Activation and New Governance Structures, Nordic Centre of
Excellence, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway October 22-23, 2007).
“Neoliberal Poverty
Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management,”
(Department of Geography,
“The Color of Devolution:
Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management,” (
"Uncaring Neoliberal Paternalism:
A Compassionate Response to the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management”
(Presentation at the In/Dependence Conference for the Center on 21st
Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
“A Continuing Legacy: Race as a Resource for Affirming Welfare Retrenchment,” (Presentation to Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston, April 9, 2004).
“Contextualizing
Racial Disparities Under Welfare Reform: Toward a New Poverty Research,”
(Presentation to the Weekly Brown Bag Series, “What Counts?” Center on Science and Society,
“Illusions of Change:
Rethinking the Current Welfare Retrenchment,” (Presentation at the Department
of Government,
“Assuming the Best: A Counter-Discourse for Social Policy,” (Closing Presentation at the “Whose Welfare: Income Transfers & Social Justice Conference, Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley CA, November 15, 2002).
“Success Stories: Welfare
Reform, Policy Discourse and the Future of Social Policy,” (Presentation at the
Episcopal Church of Redeemer, Haverford PA,
“Putting a Black Face on Welfare:
The Good and the Bad,” (Presentation at Parents’ Weekend, Bryn Mawr College,
November 2, 2001).
Testimony on Welfare Reform Reauthorization, U.S.
House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce,
Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, September 20, 2001
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/GSSW/schram/findings.pdf.
“Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad,” (Keynote Address, Politics and Arts Group Conference, Narrative, Identity, Order, September 13-15, 2001, Tampere, Finland).
“Success Stories: Welfare
Reform and Policy Discourse,” (
“Rethinking Welfare Reform from the Bottom Up,” (Presentation at the “Peoplespeak” Welfare Reform Conference, Organized by Widener University Center for Social Work Education and the Delaware County Coalition to Save Our Safety Net, February 23, 2001, Chester, PA)
http://www.dccsos.org/3-2001%20sos%20alert.htm.
“Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad,” (Bryn Mawr College, Center for Visual Culture, October 4, 2000).
"Predicting Welfare
Reform Retrenchment" (
"After Social Security: Reconsidering Universalism in the Welfare State," (A Presentation as part of the Political Colloquium Series, the New School for Social Research, September 21, 1999, New York City).
"Deconstructing
Devolution: Racing to the Bottom and Other Ironies of Welfare Reform,"
(1999 Sandison Memorial Lecture,
"Contracting America: A Postindustrial Ethic," (A Presentation, Masters Students Speakers Series, April 1, 1998, Bryn Mawr College).
"Deconstructing Devolution: Reconsidering Welfare Reform," (A Presentation, Doctoral Students Speakers Series, March 17, 1998, Bryn Mawr College).
“The Secret Story of Welfare Reform: Ushering in a New Era of Inequality” (The Annual Lecture for Louise Hess Miller Learning Center for Modern Media, October 16, 1997, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu Hawai‘i).
“The Race to the Bottom in Welfare Reform: Rules for Resistance” (Communities in Action, A Conference Sponsored by the Committee on Welfare Concerns, October 17, 1997, State Capitol, Honolulu Hawai‘i).
“Rethinking Welfare Reform: What’s Next?” (Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Hawaii Public Health Association, April 21, 1997, Honolulu HI).
"Don't Sign the Contract with America" (Greater Minneapolis Area Social Work Continuing Education Workshop, Shokapee MN October 11, 1995).
"Home Economists as the
Real Economists," (Institute for Research on Poverty, Seminar Series,
"Ross Perot and the Politics of Resentment," (Temple Emanuel, St. Paul Minnesota, June 12, 1993).
"Reinforcing the Work
Ethic by Negative Example," (University of
"Social Assistance, Self-Reliance and Personal Empowerment" (Annual Dinner of the St. Lawrence County Community Development Agency, June, 1986).
"Social Welfare as a 'Public Good'" (St. Lawrence County Department of Social Services, December 1985).
"Social Security and Social Welfare" (50th Anniversary of Social Security, Hopkinton Democratic Town Committee, June, 1985).
"The Myths of Welfare" (St. Mary's Parish Council, Potsdam N.Y., March 1982).
Grants:
“Sanctions and
Welfare-to-Work in
“Putting
Sanctions into Practice: Devolution, Privatization, and Caseworker Discretion in
the Florida TANF Program,” with Richard Fording and Joe Soss. April 2007. Department of Health
and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation. (Funded through University of Kentucky
Center for Poverty Research, Internal Grants Program). $5,000.
Bryn Mawr College Faculty
Research Grant, “Welfare Caseworkers and Race: An Experiment,” 6/06-6/07, $2,500.
Bryn Mawr
College Faculty Research Grant, “Implementing Welfare Reform,” 6/04-6/06,
$2,500.
“Low-Income Home Repair: Problems and Policies,” (Grant from Women’s Community Revitalization Project and the William Penn Foundation, 2003-2005), $48,000.
Summer Stipend, “Boundaries and Borderlands,” Summer Institute on Mulitculturalism, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) at Brown University, Providence RI, 7/13-7/23/00.
Summer Stipend, Wye Faculty Seminar at the Aspen Institute on "Citizenship and the American Polity," Queenstown MD, 7/22-7/28/00.
Summer Stipend, National Institute of Mental Health, Seminar on "Poverty, Risk and Mental Health," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 7/23/98-7/30/98.
Summer Stipend, National Endowment of Humanities Summer Seminar, "Social Problems: The Constructionist Stance," 6/12-7/28/94.
Summer Stipend, National Endowment of Humanities Summer Seminar, "Symbolism in Politics," 7/11/87-8/7/87.
Recent College Service:
Policy Committee, Graduate
Curriculum Committee,
Graduate
Search Committee, Graduate
School of Social Work, 2005-2006
Search Committee, Sociology
Department, 2004
Diversity Committee, Graduate School of Social Work, Bryn Mawr, 1997-99,
2000-2003
Admissions Committee,
Sustained Dialogue on Diversity Advisory Committee, 2003-2006
Committee on Academic Computing, Bryn Mawr College, 1998-2001, Chair, 2000-01
Senior Advisory Group on Information Technology, Bryn Mawr College, 2000-2001
Blackboard Demonstration
Project,
Steering Committee, Center on Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, Bryn Mawr College, 2001-2003, (Co-Director 2002-2006)
Steering
Other Academic Service:
SUNY Task Force on Unequal Access to Information, 1986
Middle States Accreditation Team, Kean College of New Jersey, 1990-91
Outside Evaluator for Tenure
Reviews for 12 faculty from other institutions, 1999-
Community Service:
Member, Affordable Housing
Coalition,
Chair, Research Working Group
on General Assistance,
Committee on Welfare
Concerns,
Board Member, Citizens Against Violent Acts, 1985-1986
Panelist,
Paul
MN,
Membership in
Professional Associations:
American Sociological Association
American Political Science Association
Association for Policy Analysis and Management
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