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ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITA
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Public Policy and Sociology University of Michigan, 2005
M.A. Sociology Kansas State University, 1999
B.A. Psychology Grambling State University, 1997PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE____________________________________________
2011- Princeton University
. Assoc. Prof. of Sociology and African American Studies2007-11 Princeton University
. Assist. Prof. of Sociology and African American Studies2006-7 University of Texas at Austin
. Assistant Professor of Sociology2005-6 University of Michigan
. Research Fellow, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, ISR
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SCHOLARSHIP
A) Books
1) Harris, Angel L. 2011. Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2) Robinson, Keith and Angel L. Harris. Raising Learners: Parental Involvement in the Era of High Stakes Achievement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Forthcoming 2012)
B) Articles
1) Chavous, Tabbye M., Angel Harris, Deborah Rivas, Lumas Helaire, and Laurette Green. 2004. “Racial Stereotypes and Gender in Context: African Americans at Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges.” Sex Roles 51: 1-16. (Read Article)
2) Mahoney, Joseph L., Angel L. Harris, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. 2006. “Organized Activity Participation, Positive Youth Development and the Over-Scheduling Hypothesis.” Society for Research on Child Development Social Policy Report, 20 (4):3-30. (Read Article)
3) Harris, Angel L. 2006. “I (Don’t) Hate School: Revisiting ‘Oppositional Culture’ Theory of Blacks’ Resistance to Schooling.” Social Forces 85: 797-834. (Read Article)
4) Harris, Angel L., and Keith Robinson. 2007. “Schooling Behaviors or Prior Skills?: A Cautionary Tale of Omitted Variable Bias within the Oppositional Culture Theory” Sociology of Education 80:139-57. (Read Article)
5) Lacy, Karyn and Angel L. Harris. 2008. “Breaking the Class Monolith: Understanding Class Differences in Black Adolescents’ Attachment to Racial Identity.” Pp. 152-178 in Social Class: How does it Work?, edited by Dalton Conley and Annette Lareau. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press. (Read Chapter)
6) Harris, Angel L. 2008. “Optimism in the Face of Despair: Black-White Differences in Beliefs about School as a Means for Upward Social Mobility.” Social Science Quarterly 89:629-51. (Read Article)
7) Harris, Angel L., Monica Trujillo, and Kenneth Jamison. 2008. “Academic Outcomes among Latino/a and Asian Americans: An Assessment of the Immigration Effect.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620: 90-114. (Read Article)
8) Harris, Angel L. 2009. “Oppositional Culture Theory.” Pp. 329-333 in The Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by Deborah Carr. Gale Publishing Group, Michigan: Macmillan. (Read Entry)
9) Harris, Angel L., and Marta Tienda. 2010. “Minority Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College Admissions Policy in Texas.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 627: 60-81. (Read Article)
10) Harris, Angel L. and Kris Marsh. 2010. “Is a Raceless Identity an Effective Strategy for Academic Success Among Blacks.” Social Science Quarterly 91: 1242-1263. (Read Article)
11) Harris, Angel L. 2010. “Black Americans in the 21st Century: Should we be Optimistic or Concerned?” The Review of Black Political Economy. (Read Article)
12) Yates, Scott, Angel L. Harris, Ricardo Sabates, and Jeremy Staff. 2010. “Young People’s Ambition and Future Employment Outcomes in the United Kingdom.” Journal of Social Policy, London School of Economics. (Read Article)
13) Jeremy Staff, Angel L. Harris, Ricardo Sabates, Laine Briddell. 2010. “Uncertainty in Early Occupational Aspirations: Role Exploration or Floundering?” Social Forces 89: 659-683. (Read Article)
14) Harris, Angel L. 2010. “Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in Schooling.” Pp. 284-308 in Growing Gaps: Educational Inequality Around the World, edited by Paul Attewell and Katherine Newman, Oxford University Press. (Read Chapter)
15) Ricardo Sabates, Angel Harris, Jeremy Staff. 2011. “Ambition Gone Awry: The Long-Term Socioeconomic Consequences of Misaligned And Uncertain Ambitions During Adolescence.” Forthcoming in Social Science Quarterly. (Read Article)
16) Harris, Angel L., and Marta Tienda. 2011. “Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top Ten Percent Law.” Forthcoming in Race and Social Problems. (Read Study)
C) Articles Under Review
17) Harris, Angel L., “Can Members Of Marginalized Groups Remain Invested In Schooling?: An Assessment From The United States And The United Kingdom.”
18) Harris, Angel L., Jeremy Staff, and Ricardo Sabates. “Oppositional Culture Beyond the United States?: Perceptions of Discrimination and Academic Engagement within the United Kingdom.”
19) Robinson, Keith and Angel L. Harris. “Racial and Social Class Differences in How Parents Respond to Inadequate Achievement: Consequences for Children’s Future Achievement.”
D) Work in Progress
Harris, Angel L. Learning How to Read: A Guide to Reading and Understanding Quantitative Research on Inequality. (Book Manuscript)
GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH
Seed funding from the Education Research Section, Princeton University, for the Trenton Public Schools Study, 2010-2011, $75,000.
Visiting Member Award from the School of Social Science at The Institute for Advanced Study, to study “Education, Schools, and the State,” the theme for 2009-2010, $50,000.
Jacobs Foundation Young Scholars Research Grant, “The Role of Career Aspirations and Educational Expectations in the Process of Socioeconomic Attainment,” 2007-2008, Co-Principal Investigator (Ricardo Sabates and Jeremy Staff), $75,000.
Jacobs Foundation Travel Grant, “Jacobs Foundation Conference: Transition from School to Work,” Marbach Castle, Germany, April 2007, $1,000.
National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), “Enhancing the PSID Child Development Supplement,” January 2005 - August 2007, Principal Investigator, $187,516.
Funded Masters Thesis, Offices of Diversity and Dual Career Development, the Midwest Desegregation Center, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, and the Athletic Department (all at Kansas State University), “Evaluation of Self-Competence among African-American Students within the Classroom Setting: A Comparison between a Predominantly Black College and a Predominantly White College,” 1998 - 1999, $1,034