Affiliated Faculty
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2001
Assistant Professor
Department: Art and Archaeology
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978
Professor of Psychology
Psychology Department
2-N-14 Green Hall
609.258.0655
sfiske@princeton.edu
Research Summary
Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. We begin with the premise that people easily categorize other people, especially based on race, gender, and age. Going beyond such categories, to learn about the individual person, requires motivation. Social relationships supply one form of motivation to individuate, and our work shows that being on the same team or depending on another person makes people go beyond stereotypes. Conversely, people in power are less motivated to go beyond their stereotypes. In laboratory studies, we examine how a variety of relationships affect people forming impressions of others.
Society's cultural stereotypes and prejudice also depend on relationships of power and interdependence. Group status and competition affect how groups are (dis)liked and (dis)respected. In surveys, we examine the content of group stereotypes based on race, gender, age, (dis)ability, income, and more, finding patterns in the ways that society views various groups.
Douglas S. Massey
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-4949
dmassey@princeton.edu
"WHY IS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INCREASING AND WHY IS RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION SO HARMFUL?"
By the late 20th century, every developed country had become an immigrant-receiving society, drawing migrants primarily from the developing world. Return to Aztlan focused on the social mechanisms promoting and sustaining emigration from Mexico to the United States. Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium developed a theoretical synthesis to account for immigration. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic Integration used the same theoretical framework to analyze the history of Mexico-U.S. migration, offer a critique of past U.S. policies, and suggest avenues for future reform.
African Americans are uniquely segregated in American cities, and since the publication of American Apartheid, I have been working on the consequences of segregation for African Americans and Latinos of African ancestry. Segregation figured prominently in explanations for black underachievement in the Source of the River, and it interacts with shifts in the U.S. income distribution to yield a rising concentration of poverty that, in turn, intensifies social disorder and violence that undermines the health of African Americans, reduces their life expectancy, and impairs their cognitive development
CURRICULUM VITA (pdf)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Massey, Douglas S. 2005. Return of the L-Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Massey, Douglas S.. 2005. Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World. New York: Norton Publishers.
Massey, Douglas S., Camille Z. Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary F. Fischer. 2003. Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Durand, Jorge, and Douglas S. Massey. 2002. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic Integration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Massey, Douglas S., and Jorge Durand. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
William A Massey
Edwin S. Wiley Professor
E410 Engineering Quadrangle
(609)258-7384
wmassey@princeton.edu
http://engineering.princeton.edu/news/massey_prize
Research Interests: Performance and pricing models for telecommunications systems. Asymptotic analysis and stochastic bounds for queueing networks. Special interests in the theories of queues with time-varying rates and stochastic networks.
"William Massey, a 1977 Princeton graduate and the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, participated in a panel discussion with other faculty members on 'Princeton Today: Leading Research and Education.' Massey was praised for his role as a mentor to generations of Princeton students. ...
"The two-day conference, titled 'Leading Change in Science and Technology: A Princeton Engineering Conference for Black Alumni,' brings together black leaders in science and technology, as well as public policy and business. The event, which was set to continue on Saturday, presents a forum for alumni to learn about research and education in Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science and to share ideas about leadership, entrepreneurship and "best practices" for increasing diversity in the scientific and engineering fields."
Cecilia Rouse
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor, Department of Economics and Director, Education Research Section
Firestone Library
(609) 258-4042
rouse@dakar.princeton.edu
Professor Cecilia Rouse's primary research and teaching interests are in labor economics with a particular focus on the economics of education. She has studied the economic benefit of community college attendance, evaluated the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, examined the effects of education inputs on student achievement, and tested for the existence of discrimination in symphony orchestras. Her current research includes studies of Florida's school accountability system and randomized evaluations of the use of computers in schools.
Nicole Shelton
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1998
T: 609.258.2467
E: nshelton@princeton.edu
2-N-5 Green Hall
Psychology Department
The focus of my research is on understanding prejudice and discrimination from the target's perspective. In one line of research, I examine social interactions between Whites and ethnic minorities. Here I explore how interpersonal concerns about issues of prejudice (i.e., concerns with appearing prejudiced and concerns with being rejected) influence the dynamics of intergroup contact. Additionally, I've been exploring personality and situational factors that influence the development and maintenance of cross-racial friendships. In the second line of research, I've been studying issues related to targets' detection of and responses to prejudice and discrimination. Here I've been examining situational and personality factors that influence the extent to which ethnic minorities and women will make attributions to discrimination and confront perpetrators of prejudice. Additionally, I've been examining the personal and social costs of confronting and not confronting perpetrators of prejudice.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts
Room 214, 185 Nassau Street
609-258-2924
tksmith@princeton.edu
Tracy K. Smith was raised in Northern California. She received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. Her book, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Kevin Young, and published in 2003 by Graywolf Press. She is the recipient of awards from the Rona Jaffe, Mrs. Giles Whiting and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundations. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Callaloo, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, the Nebraska Review, Post Road, and anthologies Poetry 30, Poetry Daily, Legitimate Dangers, and elsewhere.
Awards & Publications
Poetry –The Body’s Question, (2003), winner Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Duende, (forthcoming in 2007); Whiting Writer's Award (2005), Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award (2004), Austin Chronicle Favorite Book of 2003, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation (2002), Wallace Stegner Fellowship (1997-99).
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.
Wole Soboyejo was educated in England before moving to the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT. Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems.
Edward E. Telles
Professor of Sociology
151 Wallace Hall
t: (609) 258-4324
f: (609) 258-2180
etelles@princeton.edu
HOW HAVE MAINSTREAM U.S. MODELS DISTORTED THE SOCIOLOGY OF RACE/ETHNICITY?
I have sought to understand how race or ethnic groups interact and inequality among them is produced in social contexts beyond the African American (segregated) and the European American (assimilative) experiences, the two models that have driven sociological understandings of race and ethnicity. In Race in Another America I seek to understand a wide range of social phenomena regarding human relations in Brazil based on skin color, including classification, inequality, discrimination, intermarriage, residential segregation, and social policy. In Generations of Exclusion, I address the intergenerational experiences of Mexican Americans on similar dimensions over the past 100 or more years. In both studies, I rely largely on demographic and other empirical evidence, with a grounding in historical context and sociological theory. My findings show that the Brazilian and the Mexican American experiences run contrary to mainstream sociological perspectives. For example, intermarriage across race/ethnicity is fairly common and inequality is substantial in both cases, whereas the dominant paradigm expects inequality to be low or nonexistent when intermarriage is substantial.
CURRICULUM VITA (pdf)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Telles, Edward E. and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race. 2008. Russell Sage Foundation Press.
Telles, Edward E. 2004. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. 2004. Princeton University Press.
Telles, Edward E. 2007. "Race, Ethnicity and the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals in Latin America". Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2(2):185-200.
Sue, Christina and Edward E. Telles. 2007. "Assimilation and Gender in Naming". American Journal of Sociology 112(5): 1383-1415.