Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Fordham University
Dissertation Title: Consuming Identities: Consumption, Gender and Ethnicity among West Indian Adolescents in Brooklyn Published as: She's Mad Real:Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn New York University Press, 2011.
Associate Professor, University California Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Achieving Full Citizenship: An Institutional Approach to the Political Incorporation of Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada Published As: Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United...
Dissertation Title: Crime and the Transition to Adulthood: A Person-Centered Analysis of At-Risk Boys Coming of Age in 1940s Boston, 1970s London, and 1990s Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Nebraska
Dissertation Title: Streetwise versus Schoolwise: The Attitudes of Urban and Inner City Youth towards Schooling Published as: T ough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling (Routledge, 2002)