Panels

Session 1 (9.30--11.00):

Panel I: Religion's Influence Over Time and in Transition
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion

  • Artemis at Brauron: an Analysis of the Cult Evidence and a Means for Cultural Distinction
    Patricia Maloney, Yale University, patricia.maloney@yale.edu
  • Contrasting Images of Major Religious Transitions: How Mental Boundaries Allow Change or Prohibit It
    Stephen Joseph Fichter, Rutgers University, stephen_fichter@hotmail.com
  • Serving God or Mammon? A Look at Religious Mutual Funds
    Jared Peifer, Cornell University, jared.peifer@cornell.edu
  • Accounting for Short Term Mission Trips
    LiErin Probasco, Princeton University, probasco@princeton.edu

Discussant: Bob Wuthnow, wuthnow@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology

Panel II: Exploring Economic Sociology

  • Opportunity Valley--Forgotten City: Development Policy and Social Capital
    W. Michael Donovan, University of Southern Maine, Michael.Donovan@cedarcrest.edu
  • Economic Globalization and Distributive Justice: The Impact of Foreign Trade on People's Attitude toward Inequality
    Dong-Kyun Im, Harvard University, dongim@fas.harvard.edu
  • Towards a Socially-Embedded Development: A Value-Added Network Perspective for the Analysis of the Global Economy
    Iva Petkova, Columbia University, iop2101@columbia.edu
  • "To Lend, or Not to Lend?": A Case Study of a Chinese Commercial Bank's Decision-Making on Corporate Loans
    Ningxi Zhang, Cornell University, nz28@cornell.edu

Discussant: Martin Ruef, mruef@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology

Panel III: Leisure and Sport

  • Poker and Its Less Popular Relatives: High School Gambling and the General Theory of Status Relations
    Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom, University of Pennsylvania, bdicicco@sas.upenn.edu
  • Gambling as a Way of Life
    Jacob Avery, University of Pennsylvania, javery@sas.upenn.edu
  • Peddling the Street: The Construction and Consumption of Black Masculinity in the NBA (adapted from Under the Boards:The Cultural Revolution in Basketball, University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
    Jeffrey Lane, Princeton University, jflane@princeton.edu
  • "I Just Do What I Want"--Female Rugby Players and the Task of Maintaining Individual Agency Inside Structural Constraints
    Alexa Yesukevich, Cornell University, apy3@cornell.edu

Discussant: King-To Yeung, kyeung@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology

Session 2 (11.15--12.45):

Panel I: Using Demographic Methods to Understand Diverse Populations
Co-sponsored by Princeton University's Office for Population Research

  • The Mental Health Burden of Spousal Caregivers of Cancer Patients
    Weihua An, Harvard University, weihuaan@fas.harvard.edu
  • HIV Infection, Marital Dissolution, and Migration in Malawi
    Philip Anglewicz, University of Pennsylvania, panglewicz@gmail.com
  • Bundling of Welfare and the Elderly on Food Stamps: A Comparative Perspective
    Sukriti Issar, Brown University, Sukriti_Issar@brown.edu
  • What Causes Son Preference in Korea and Taiwan to Decline After 1990?
    Tin-chi Lin, Princeton University, tinlin@princeton.edu

Scott Lynch, slynch@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research

Panel II: Various Topics in the Sociology of Education

  • Affect and Commitment: An Exploratory Study of White Female Teachers' Emotional Resilience in Urban Schools
    Fatima Hafiz, Temple University, fhafiz01@temple.edu
  • High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Resistance: New York City Schools in an Era of Increased Accountability
    Bart Liguori, Cornell University, bjl33@cornell.edu
  • Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement: How Important Is Student Race?
    Jennifer Todd, Cornell University, jjt24@cornell.edu
  • Workplace Depoliticized: A Rural School in China
    Dan Wang, Syracuse University, dwang03@syr.edu

Discussant: Angel Harris, angelh@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research

Panel III: Understanding Networks

  • Creating Bridging Social Capital: In Japan, Volunteering is Endearing but Networking Is Not Working
    Katherine Drake, Harvard University, drake@fas.harvard.edu
  • From Socializing to Networking? The Relationship between Social Capital and Internet Use
    Amir Goldberg, Princeton University, amirg@princeton.edu
  • Motivations and Mechanisms in Free Software Production
    Alexander Jerneck, University of Pennsylvania, ajerneck@soc.upenn.edu
  • Measuring Personal Network Size: A Comparison of Five Measures of Degree for Respondent-Driven Sampling Analysis
    Cyprian Wejnert, Cornell University, cwejnert@gmail.com

Discussant: Delia Baldassarri, dbalda@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology

Panel IV: Discussing Civil Society

  • Can Arts Associations Provide Civics Education? Governance Experience, Community Relations, and Social Capital Opportunities in Choral Societies
    Matthew Baggetta, Harvard University, baggetta@fas.harvard.edu
  • Synergy, Mediation, or Exclusion: Towards a Theory of Citizen Participation in Urban Policy
    Esther Hernandez-Medina, Brown University, esther@brown.edu
  • Fair Trade and the Social Dynamics of Moral Boundaries
    Keith Brown, University of Pennsylvania, brownkei@sas.upenn.edu
  • Between States and Participants: Habermasian Bureaucrats and Deliberative Affirmative Action in Developing World Participatory Democracy
    Christopher Gibson, Brown University, Christopher_Gibson@brown.edu

Discussant: Robin Rogers-Dillon, rhrogers@princeton.edu
Queens' College, CUNY, Department of Sociology
Associate Fellow, Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion

Session 3 (2.00--3.30):

Panel I: Arts and Culture

  • Toward a Leisure Theory of Value: The Game of Bird-Watching and the Concern for Conservation in Great Britain
    Stefan Bargeer, University of Chicago, bargheer@uchicago.edu
  • The New Urban Craftsman: Craft and Community in Post-Industrial Brooklyn
    Michael Rainey, CUNY Graduate Center, MRainey@gc.cuny.edu
  • Tradition Modernity, and Autheticity in Riverdance
    Bridget Rose Nolan, University of Pennsylvania, brnolan@sas.upenn.edu
  • mapping the Canon in the Museum's Space
    Anna Zamora, Columbia University, aez2104@columbia.edu

Discussant: Jennifer Lena, jlena@princeton.edu >br /> Vanderbilt University's Department of Sociology
visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

Panel II: Migration in a Global Context
Co-sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development

  • Boundary Formation in Action: Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality
    Ernesto Castaneda, Columbia University, ec2183@columbia.edu
  • Ethnographic Study of Unauthorized Migrants in New Haven
    Esther Chihye Kim, Yale University, esther.kim@yale.edu
  • The State and Civil Society: Partnerships for Development and Democracy
    Daniela Villacres, Brown University, Daniela_Villacres@brown.edu

Discussant: Doug Massey, dmassey@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research

Panel III: Family and Youth
Co-sponsored by The Center for Research on Child Well-Being

  • Resurgence of the "Separate Spheres" Arrangement? The Effect of Spousal Overwork on the Employment of Men and Women in Dual Earner Households
    Youngjoo Cha, Cornell University, yc328@cornell.edu
  • Parental Dependence, Socialization and Hindered Development in Career
    Sylvie Honig, University of Chicago, shonig@uchicago.edu
  • Marriage Choices of Women in Rural China: 1949--2000
    Jing Song, Brown University, Jing_Song@brown.edu
  • Psychological Resources among New Parents and Children's Behavioral Outcomes: Change Over Time and Mechanisms of Transmission
    Kristin Turney, University of Pennsylvania, turney@sas.upenn.edu

Discussant: Mary Clare Lennon, mlennon@princeton.edu
CUNY Graduate Center's Department of Sociology
Visiting Scholar at Princeton University's Center for Research on Child Well-Being

Panel IV: Identity and Boundaries

  • Mind the Gap: Ways of Navigating Difference and Spaces Between
    Nancy Alexander, Yale University, nalexander@callnet.com
  • Constructing Integration: The Alchemy of the Photograph
    Mary Barr, Yale University, mary.barr@yale.edu
  • Boundaries and Bridges: Aboriginal-White Relations in Northwestern Ontario
    Jeff Denis, Harvard University, jsdenis@fas.harvard.edu
  • Examining Korean Adoptee Gatherings through an Interaction Ritual Perspective
    Elizabeth Raleigh, University of Pennsylvania, eraleigh@sas.upenn.edu

Discussant: Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, mpfk@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research

Session IV (3.45--5.15):

Panel I: Sociological Perspectives on International Issues
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International Regional Studies

  • United in Diversity: The Determinants of European Union Citizenship
    Oana Dan, Harvard University, odan@fas.harvard.eduSchool Expansion and Educational Stratification in China, 1981--2006
    Maocan Guo, Harvard University, mguo@fas.harvard.edu
  • The Ties that Blind: The Story of the Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland
    Bridget Rose Nolan, University of Pennsylvania, brnolan@sas.upenn.edu
  • Self-Employment in Urban China's Market Transition: Multiple Destinations, Diverging Pathways
    Zi Pan, Yale University, zi.pan@yale.edu

Discussant: Alejandro Portes, aportes@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research

Panel II: Conversations about Cultural Sociology

  • "Who Will Subsidize Our Emotional World?" Toward a Critique of Multiculturalism
    Meirav Aharon-Gutman, Columbia University, ma2719@columbia.edu
  • Homophily and Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market
    Lauren A. Rivera, Harvard University, larivera@fas.harvard.edu
  • Reconciling the "Hostile Worlds" of Cultural Sociology and Social Psychology: An Outline for a Methodological Bridge
    Matthew Hoffberg, Cornell University mdh54@cornell.edu
  • "The Anti-'Economic' Economy of Pure Art": Bourdeiuian Discourse of Legitimation Among Professional Dominatrices
    Danielle J. Lindemann, Columbia University, djl2103@columbia.edu

Discussant: Paul DiMaggio, dimaggio@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology

Panel III: Topics in Political Sociology

  • Iconicity of Peaceful Revolution: Comparative Study of Berlin and Warsaw, 1979--2004--A German Story
    Dominik Bartmanski, Yale University, dominik.bartmanski@yale.edu
  • Negotiating the Post-Post-War Peace: The Indigenous Farmworkers' Movement in 21st Centuray Guatemala
    Jennifer Costanza, Brown University, Jennifer_Costanza@brown.edu
  • Understanding Radicalization: Insights from an Agent-Based Model
    Michael Genkin, mg324@cornell.edu and Alexander Gutfraind, both Cornell University
  • How to Critique Modernization
    Baris Mucen, Rutgers University, mucen@eden.rutgers.edu

Discussant: Arthur Stinchcombe, a-stinch@northwestern.edu
Northwestern University's Department of Sociology
Visiting Professor, Princeton University's Department of Sociology