ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITA

EDUCATION
Ph.D.    Public Policy and Sociology     University of Michigan, 2005
M.A.     Sociology                            Kansas State University, 1999
B.A.      Psychology                        Grambling State University, 1997

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE____________________________________________

2007-       Princeton University
.               Assist. Prof. of Sociology and African American Studies

2006-7     University of Texas at Austin
.               Assistant Professor of Sociology

2005-6     University of Michigan
.               Research Fellow, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, ISR

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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.  “Minority Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College Admissions Policy in Texas.”  Forthcoming, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

10) Harris, Angel L. and Kris Marsh.  “Is a Raceless Identity an Effective Strategy for Academic Success Among Blacks.” (Forthcoming, Social Science Quarterly)

11) Harris, Angel L.  “Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in Schooling.” Forthcoming in Global Network on Inequality, edited by Paul Attewell and Katherine Newman, Oxford University Press. (Read Study).

12) Harris, Angel L., and Marta Tienda.  “Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top Ten Percent Law.” Forthcoming book chapter, eds. D. Leal and R. Lineberry, University of Texas Press. (Read Study).

 

Under Review

13) Jeremy Staff, Angel Harris, Ricardo Sabates, Laine Briddell. “Uncertainty in Early Occupational Aspirations: Role Exploration or Floundering?” (Revise and Resubmit, Social Forces).

14) Robinson, Keith and Angel L. Harris.  “Race, Parental Responses to Inadequate Achievement, and Academic Outcomes.”  (Under Review)

15) Harris, Angel L., Jeremy Staff, and Ricardo Sabates.  “Oppositional Culture Beyond the United States?: Perceptions of Discrimination and Academic Engagement within the United Kingdom.” (Under Review).

16) Ricardo Sabates, Angel Harris, Jeremy Staff.  “The Long-term Consequences of Misaligned Ambitions: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study.” (Under Review).

17) Yates, Scott, Angel L. Harris, Ricardo Sabates, and Jeremy Staff.  “Young People’s Ambition and Future Employment Outcomes in the United Kingdom.” (Under Review).

18) Robinson, Keith and Angel L. Harris.  “The Asian American Achievement Advantage: The Significance of Immigration, Parental Expectations, and Parent/Peer Influences.” (In Progress).

 

 

GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH

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