CURRICULUM VITAE

STEVEN JAMES GOLD

OFFICE

Professor and Associate Chair

Department of SociologyBerkey Hall509 East Circle Drive, Room 316Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48824-1111USA517-353-6352 (office)gold@msu.edu

EDUCATION

Sociology and Psychology major, 1973-1975

Brandeis University

B.A. in Sociology and Psychology with highest honors and college honors, 1977

University of California, Santa Cruz

M.A. in Sociology, 1980

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. in Sociology, 1985

University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation Title: Refugee Communities: Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in the San Francisco Bay Area.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Proposal Israeli Immigrants Involvement in the High Technology Sector, Selected for New Immigrant Labor Market Niches issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Conference presentation and funding. 2016.

Visiting Scholar, Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master in International Migration and Social Cohesion (MISOCO), University of Amsterdam and University of Osnabruck, October-November 2014.

Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology, Michigan Sociology Association, East Lansing, October 2007

Award for Exemplary Work for the Mid-Michigan International Community from the American Red Cross and Refugee Services, Lansing Michigan, March 22nd, 2007

The Israeli Diaspora receives American Sociological Association International Migration Section Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, for Best Book in International Migration, 2003

Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award for Outstanding Contribution to Equal Opportunity for Achievement and an Environment of Excellence, Michigan State University Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, April 2003

Recognition Award from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Big 10 Universities + University of Chicago) for Support of the SROP, July 1999

Outstanding McNair/SROP Faculty, Michigan State University, 1997

Refugee Communities nominated for Thomas and Znaniecki Award, 1996

Refugee Communities finalist for Robert Park Award, 1993

GRANTS

Conflicts between ethnic merchants and customers: A global analysis. Provosts Undergraduate Research Engagement Program in the College of Social Science, 2012-2013

Request for student workers to assist with a Study of the Impact of Anti-Affirmative Action Laws on Minorities and Women in Michigan and Other States (with Joe T. Darden), Provosts Undergraduate Research Engagement Program in the College of Social Science, 2009-2010.

The Impact of Proposal 2 on the Survival of Minority and Women-Owned New Firms in Michigan, (with Joe T. Darden) Michigan Applied Public Policy Research Grant, 2007-2009, Co-PI.

Racial Solidarity and Entrepreneurial Resources: Social Capital and Black Self-Employment in Detroit (with Joe T. Darden) Michigan Applied Public Policy Research Grant, 2006-2007, Co-PI

Estimating the Refugee Population of Lansing, Families and Communities Together Coalition Grant (with John Melcher and Lori Post), 2006-2008.

Partnerships for Stronger Families and Neighborhoods, Community Vitality Program, Michigan State University, (with Joe Darden, Catherine Kuhn and Rex LaMore) 2005-2006, Co-PI

Bounded and Society-Wide Social Capital: An Investigation within an Immigrant Community, Social Capital Interest Group, Michigan State University, 1999-2000.

Social Capital and Settlement Decisions: A Study of Israeli Migrants in London, Social Capital Interest Group, Michigan State University, 1998-9.

ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award: Israeli Migrants and Transnationalism, 1996.

Michigan Partnership for Community Economic Development Assistance Award, 1996, $5000

Qualitative Study of Jewish Philanthropy in Detroit, Nonprofit Research Initiative, Michigan State University, 1995.

Qualitative Study of Jewish Philanthropy (with Bruce Phillips), Aspen Institute, 1994-1996, Co-PI

Irvine Educational Foundation Grant, 1993.

Haynes Foundation Grant, Israelis in Los Angeles, 1992-1993.

Irvine Educational Foundation Grant, 1992.

Ripon Educational Fund, Urban Enterprise Zones, 1991-1992.

Whizin Institute, Israelis in the U.S., 1991-1992.

Wilstein Institute Grant, Israelis in the U.S., 1991-1992.

Haynes Foundation Grant, Chinese-Vietnamese Businesses: Their Job-Creation Potential, 1989-1990.

U.S. Department of Labors Office of International Research Grant, The Employment Potential of Refugee Entrepreneurship, 1988.

Haynes Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 1987.

NSF Equipment Grant (with Dallas Rhodes), 1987.

Faculty Research Grants, Whittier College, 1986-1992.

Chancellors Patent Fund, University of California1982.

University Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-1983.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University

August 1999-August 2008, August 2012-August 2016.

Graduate Program Director, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University

August 2002-August 2012

Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University

June 1999-Present

Acting Chair, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University

August 2003February 2004

Acting Associate Chair and Graduate Program Director, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, January 1999-August 1999

Associate Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University

August 1994-June 1999

Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work, Whittier College

February 1993-August 1994

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Whittier College

June 1991-August 1994

Senior Fellow, Wilstein Institute on Jewish Policy Studies

1991-1999

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Whittier College

September 1985-May 1991

Research Assistant, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Applied Science Division

June 1980-August 1985

Program Developer, Center for Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement, San Francisco

June 1982-January 1984

Research Assistant, Welfare State and Equality Project, Institute of International Studies;

Professor Harold Wilensky, Supervisor, March 1981-October 1982

Junior Specialist I, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Legal Study,

Discrimination in White Collar Employment; Professor Bob Blauner, Supervisor

September 1980-April 1981

Research Assistant, NSF-funded study: Consumer Coping Behavior with Malfunctions of

High-Technology Appliances, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Business and Economic Research, Professor Franco M. Nicosia, Supervisor

August 1978-September 1979

Market Research Department, Off Track Betting Corporation of New York City

November 1977-August 1978

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict, Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2010, Paperback edition, 2012

The Israeli Diaspora, University of Washington Press/Routledge, 2002

Ethnic Economies (with Ivan Light), Academic Press, 2000. Light wrote 6 chapters, Gold, 4.

From the Workers State to the Golden State: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in California, Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Sage, 1992.

Edited Books

The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies (with Stephanie Nawyn) Routledge 2013, Paperback edition 2014

Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Russell Sage Foundation, 2000 (with Rubn G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner). Paperback edition, 2003, Co-editor.

Guest Editor

American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue: Transformations: Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States, Vol. 42, No. 9, June/July 1999. (with Rubn G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner, Co-editor)

Qualitative Sociology, Special Issue: Visual Methods in Sociological Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring1997.

Book Series Editor

The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society (with Rubn G. Rumbaut), LFB Scholarly Publishing, San Antonio, 2002 to 2014, Co-editor. (100+ volumes).

Chapters in Books

Russian Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the US: A Comparison of Migrant Populations, pp. 103-122 in Zvi Gitleman (ed.). The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israeli and Germany. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Ethnic Economies in John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, Anthony D. Smith, and Xiaoshuo Hou (eds.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, First Edition. Oxford and Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. 2016. (ISBN 9781405189781) DOI:10.002/978118663202.wberen147

Race and Ethnic Consciousness, (with Paula Miller), George Ritzer (ed.), Wiley/Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Second Edition, Malden MA, John Wiley and Sons, 2015, DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x

Ethnic Enclaves, pp. 1-18, in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Robert Scott and Stephan Kosslyn (eds.), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2015.

Detroits Arab American Community, pp. 296-297 in Joseph F. Healey and Eileen OBrien. Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2015.

Undocumented Immigrants and Self Employment in the Informal Economy, pp 167-190 in Lois Ann Lorentzen (ed). Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration, Volume 3: Economic, Politics and Morality. Santa Barbara CA: Prager, 2014

Reflections on Ethnographic Childhoods, pp. 175-184 in Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography. Editors: Tamara Mose Brown and Joanna Dreby. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.

Israelis and Israeli Americans, 1940-Present in Elliot Barkan (ed.) Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation and Integration, Volume 3, pp. 1029-1039, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2013

Introduction, (with Stephanie Nawyn) The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies (with Stephanie Nawyn) London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-8.

Using Photography in Studies of International Migration, The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies (with Stephanie Nawyn) London: Routledge, Ch 44, 2013, pp. 530-542.

"The Contingent Basis of Transnational Networks among Israeli Emigrants." Pp. 56-80 in Min Zhou and Guoxiong Zhang (eds.), International Migration and Social Development. Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2012 (also in Chinese).

Israeli Jewish Immigrants pp. 1149-1187 in Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans edited by Ron Bayor, Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2011.

The Impact of Proposal 2 on the Survival of Minority and Women Owned New Firms in Michigan, (with Joe Darden), pp. 357- 379 in Michigan Applied Public Policy Program: Informing the Debate: Key Issues Facing Michigan. Institute of Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2011

Black Entrepreneurship in a Black Majority Environment: The case of Detroit and other selected Central Cities (with Joe T. Darden), pp. 423- 444 in Michigan Applied Public Policy Program: Informing the Debate: Key Issues Facing Michigan. Institute of Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2011

Life-Span Development and International Migration (with Ramona Fruja Amthor), Ch 30, pp. 777-804 in Karen Fingerman, Cynthia Berg, Jacqui Smith and Toni Antonucci (eds.) Handbook of Life-Span Development. New York: Springer 2011.

"After the Cold War: Comparing Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Youth in the 1980s to Todays Young Refugees," in How to Help Young Immigrants Succeed edited by Gerald Holton and Gerhard Sonnert, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 75-88, 2010

The place of Israel in the identity of Israelis in the Diaspora: An Ethnographic Exploration. pp. 185-205 In Danny Ben-Moshe and Zohar Segev (eds.) Israel, The Diaspora and Jewish Identity by Brighton, UK Sussex Academic Press, 2007

Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals pp. 215-235 in Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf (eds.) Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007

Using Photography in Studies of Immigrant Communities: Reflecting Across Projects and Populations pp. 141-166 in Gregory C. Stanczak (ed.) Visual Research Methods: Image, Society and Representation. Los Angeles: Sage, 2007.

Israeli Emigration Policy pp. 283-304 in Nancy L. Green and Franois Weil (eds.) Citizenship and Those Who leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Race and Ethnic Consciousness pp. 3740-3743. George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Malden MA, Blackwell, 2007.

Middle East and North Africa pp. 518-533. Mary Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow (eds.) The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007 (with Mehdi Bozorgmehr), lead author.

Russians pp. 579-592. Mary Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow (eds.) The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007.

La Politique dmigration isralienne pp. 251-271 en Nancy L. Green et Franois Weil (eds.) Citoyennet et migration: Les Politiques du depart. Paris: ditions de Lcole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, 2006.

Eight photo essays (40 images) on Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, Southeast Asian Americans, South Asian Americans, Second Generation Asian Americans and Economic Adaptation in Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (2e) edited by Pyong Gap Min, Thousand Oaks, CA, Pine Forge Press, 2006.

Migrant Networks: A Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration Ch 12, pp. 257-285 in Mary Romero and Eric Margolis (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, Malden MA, Blackwell, 2005.Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Customers Throughout the 20th Century, pp. 315-340 in Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson, editors, Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. (Book received Honorable Mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Award, for Best book of 2005 from the ASA Section on International Migration).

The Emigration of Jewish Israelis, pp. 445-464 in Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman (eds.), Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England, 2004.

Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration, pp. 127-147 in Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (ed.), Gender and US Immigration: Contemporary Trends. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Reprinted pp. 26-42 in Brandeis University, The Center for German and European Studies, Russian-Jewish Emigrants after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada and the United States. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2006,

From The Jazz Singer to What a Country! A Comparison of Jewish Migration to the United States, 1880 to 1930 and 1965 to 1998, pp. 253-284 in Pyong Gap Min (ed.) Mass Migration to the United States: Classical and Contemporary Periods. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002

Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States (with Rubn G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner) pp. 1-19 in Nancy Foner, Rubn G. Rumbaut and Steven J. Gold (eds.) Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, co-author.

Israeli Americans Pp. 409-420 in Peter Kivisto and Georganne Runblad, Multiculturalism in the United States: Current Issues, Contemporary Voices, Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2000.

Transnational Communities: Examining Migration in a Globally Integrated World, in Preet S. Aulakh and Michael G. Schechter. (eds.), Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention. London: Macmillan, Ltd., 2000, pp. 73-90.

Continuity and Change Among Vietnamese Families in the United States, in Harriette Pipes MacAdoo (ed.), Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity, second edition. Newbury Park, Ca Sage, 1999, pp. 225-234.

Southeast Asians, in Elliot Barkan (ed.), Our Multicultural Heritage: A Guide to Americas Principal Ethnic Groups. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999, PP. 505-519.

Chinese-Vietnamese, in David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1997, pp. 168-175.

Jews, Israeli, in David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1997, pp. 518-523.

Jews, Soviet, in David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, Vol 1. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1997, pp. 529-535.

Jewish Americans, Encarta 98. Redmond, WA: Microsoft, 1997.

Russian Americans, Encarta 98. Redmond, WA: Microsoft, 1997.

Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, in Ivan Light and Richard E. Isralowitz (eds.), Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Immigrant Absorption in the United States and Israel. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, pp.209-238.

Community Formation Among Jews from the Former Soviet Union in the U.S., in Noah Lewin-Epstein, Yaacov Roi, and Paul Ritterband (eds.), Russian Jews on Three Continents: Migration and Resettlement. London: Frank Cass, 1997, pp. 261-283.

A White Guy Among Vietnamese Women, in Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Mike Messner (eds.), Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997, pp. 86-90.

Creating an Israeli-American Identity, in Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Alison Feldman (eds.), Middle Eastern Diaspora Communities in America. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Summer Institute of the NYU/Princeton Joint Center for Middle Eastern Studies. New York: Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU, 1996, pp. 34-45.

Soviet Jews, in David Haines (ed.), Refugees in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996, pp. 279-304.

Mobility and Continuity Among Eastern European Jews (with Bruce Phillips), in Silvia Pedraza and Rubn G. Rumbaut (eds.), Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1996, pp. 182-194, lead author.

Ethnic Americans, Encyclopedia of Democracy. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995, pp. 57-60.

Photo Essay: Bostons Immigrants in Business, in Marilyn Halter (ed.), New Migrants in the Marketplace: Bostons Ethnic Entrepreneurs. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995, pp.81-96.

Chinese-Vietnamese Entrepreneurs in California, in Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucy Cheng (eds.), The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, pp. 196-226.

Continuity and Change Among Vietnamese Families in the United States, in Harriette Pipes MacAdoo (ed.), Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993, pp. 300-314.

Ethical Issues in Visual Fieldwork, in Grant Blank, James L. McCartney, and Edward Brent (eds.), New Technology in Sociology: Practical Application in Research and Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1989, pp. 99-109.

Dealing with Frustration: A Study of Interactions Between Resettlement Staff and Refugees, in Scott Morgan and Elizabeth Colson (eds.), People in Upheaval. New York: Center For Migration Studies, 1987, pp. 108-128.

Refereed Journal Articles

A Critical Race Theory Approach to Black American Entrepreneurship Ethnic and Racial Studies, special issue on Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Critical and Comparative Perspective, Zulema Valdez and Mary Romero (eds), Published online: 24 Mar 2016.DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1159708

Patterns of Adaptation among Contemporary Jewish Immigrants to the US, American Jewish Yearbook , Edited by Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin, Vol 115. 2016: Ch 1, 3-44, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24505-8

Arab American Reflections on Documentary Images of their Community: A Photo-Elicitation Study, Visual Studies 30:3, 228-243, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2015.1017348. Published on line 9-17-2015.

Adaptation and Return among Israeli Enclave and Infotech Entrepreneurs Research in the Sociology of Work: Special Issue on Immigration and Work, Apr 2015: 203-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320150000027022.

Contextual and Family Determinants of Immigrant Women's Self-Employment: The Case of Vietnamese, Russian-Speaking Jews, and Israelis. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, V.43, Issue 2 April 2014: 228-255.

Enhanced Agency for Recent Jewish Migrants to the US, Contemporary Jewry Vol 33, No 1-2, April July 2013, pp. 145-167.

Three Studies of the Portuguese Diaspora in North America Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2012 19:1, 103-112.

Michigan's Public Square, Photo Essay, Contexts Vol. 11 N. 1, Winter 2012: 62-69.

A Capture-Recapture Approach to Estimation of Refugee Populations International Migration, Early View, on line January 25, 2012: 1-23 (with Wilma Novales Wibert, Vera Bondartsova, Brian J. Biroscak, Lori A. Post).

Sebastio Salgado and Visual Sociology, Sociological Forum, Special Issue Celebrating the Work of Sebastio Salgado: A Sociological Lens on Salgado's Documentary Photography June 2011 (Volume 26, Number 2): 418-423.

Transnational Ties During a Time of Crisis: Israeli Emigration, 2000 to 2004, International Migration, Vol 51, N 3. 2013 pp. 194-215 (with Rona Hart). (Early View 2009)

Immigration Benefits America Symposium on Citizenship, Immigration and the American Dream, Society, Volume 46, Issue 5, September 2009: 408-411, Reprinted in Kurt Finsterbusch (ed.) Annual Editions Sociology 11/12,39th edition, New York: McGraw Hill, 2011, pp. 204-206.

From Nationality to Peoplehood: Adaptation and Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora

Diaspora 13, 2/3 (Fall/Winter 2004): 331-358 (Published 2008).

Jewish Israelis in Los Angeles Espace-Populations-Socits 1, 2006, pp. 47-60.

The Second Generation and Self-Employment (with Ivan Light and M. Francis Johnston). Migration Information Source, (October 1, 2006) http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=447

Trabajando Duro Todos Los Das Learning from the Life Experiences of Mexican-Origin Migrant Families, (with Jos Rubn Parra-Cardona, Laurie A. Bulock, David R. Imig and Francisco A. Villarruel) Family Relations, 55 (July 2006): pp. 361-375.

The Migrant Economy Axess Magazine Issue 4, 2005, http://www.axess.se/english/2005/04/theme_gold.php (In Swedish in Axess 4, Maj, 2005, pp. 14-17).

Neue Amerikaner and Yordim Menora 15,Jahrbuch fr Deutsch-Jdische Geschichte 2004, Russische Juden und transnationale Diaspora. 2005, pp. 329-368.

From Jim Crow to Racial Hegemony: Evolving Explanations of Racial Hierarchy Ethnic and Racial Studies 27, 2004, pp. 1-18.

Using Photography in Studies of Immigrant Communities American Behavioral Scientist 47 (12) 2004, pp. 1551-1572.

Israeli Diaspora, Photo Essay Contexts 2 (3), 2003, pp. 50-57.

Social Capital and Economic Cooperation among Israeli Emigrants, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 22 (9/10) 2002, pp. 77-103.

The Arab-American Community in Detroit Michigan, Photo Essay Contexts 1 (2), 2002, pp. 48-55.

New Americans and Yordim: Perspectives on American Identity among Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israel, Migration, 33/34/35, 2002, pp. 119-154.

Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States (with Rubn G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner) Items and Issues, Social Science Research Council, Vol. 2, No. 1-2, Summer 2001, pp. 1-6.

Gender, Class, and Network: Social Structure and Migration Patterns among Transnational Israelis Global Networks 1, 1 (2001): 5778. (www.globalnetworksjournal.com)

Ethnic Economies and Social Policy (with Ivan Light), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 22, Summer 2000, pp. 165-191.

From The Jazz Singer to What a Country! A Comparison of Jewish Migration to the U.S., 1880 to 1930 and 1965 to 1998, Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1999, pp. 114-141.

"Rethinking the Professional Socialization of Graduate Students (with D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn), The American Sociologist 30 (4) 1999: 56-63.

Introduction: Transformations: Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States (with Rubn G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner) American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 9, June/July 1999, pp. 1258-1263.

Perspectives on Becoming an American Among Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israel, Centennial Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3, Fall 1997, pp. 644-659.

Womens Changing Place in Jewish Philanthropy, Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 18, 1997, pp. 60-75.

Transnationalism and Vocabularies of Motive in International Migration: The Case of Israelis in the U.S., Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 40, No. 3, Fall 1997, pp. 409-426.

Introduction, Qualitative Sociology (special issue on Visual Sociology), Vol. 20, No. 1. Spring 1997, pp.3-6.

Religious Agencies, Immigrant Resettlement, and Social Justice, Research in Social Policy, Vol. 5, Social Justice Philanthropy, 1997, pp. 47-65.

Israelis Settle in Los Angeles (photo essay), Society, Vol. 34, No. 2, January/February1997, pp. 66-72.

Israelis in the United States (with Bruce Phillips), American Jewish Yearbook, 1996, pp. 51- 101, lead author.

Gender and Social Capital Among Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, Diaspora, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1995, pp.267-301.

New York/L.A.: A Visual Comparison of Public Life in Two Cities, Visual Sociology, Vol 10, Nos. 1/2, 1995, pp. 85-105.

Israeli Immigrants in the U.S.: The Question of Community, Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 17, No 4, 1994, pp. 325-363.

Patterns of Economic Cooperation Among Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, International Migration Review, Vol. 28, No. 105, Spring 1994, pp. 114-135.

Soviet Jews in the United States, American Jewish Yearbook, 1994, pp. 3-57.

Vietnamese Refugees and Blocked Mobility (with Nazli Kibria), Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1993, pp. 27-56, lead author. Reprinted in Asians in America, Vol. 6, Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status, edited by Franklin Ng. Hamden, CT: Garland, 1998.

Jews From the Former Soviet Union in the United States (with Mia Tuan), New Faces of Liberty, 1993.

The Employment Potential of Refugee Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in California, Policy Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 2., 1992, pp. 176-186.

Mental Health and Illness in Vietnamese Refugees, The Western Journal of Medicine, September 1992, pp. 290-294.

Nascent Mobilization in a New Immigrant Community: The Case of Soviet Jews in the U.S., Research in Community Sociology, Vol. II, Communities in Transition, JAI Press Inc., 1992, pp. 189-211.

Ethnic Boundaries and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Photoelicitation Study, Visual Sociology, Vol. 6, No.2, 1991, pp. 9-22.

Soviet Jews in the United States: Image and Reality, Secular Humanistic Judaism, No. 3, November1991, p. 36.

Soviet Jews in the United States, New Faces of Liberty, 1990.

Differential Adjustment Among New Immigrant Family Members, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 17, No. 4, January 1989, pp. 408-434.

Refugees and Small Business: The Case of Soviet Jews and Vietnamese," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.11, No. 4, 1988, pp. 411-438.

Patterns of Interaction Among Soviet Jewish Refugees, Contemporary Jewry, Vol.9, No. 2, 1988, pp.87-105.

Styles of Activism in Refugee Communities: The Case of Soviet Jews and Vietnamese, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Nos. 65-66, 1986, pp. 35-48.

Getting Well: Impression Management as Stroke Rehabilitation, Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1983, pp. 238-54. Reprinted in Perspectives on Disability, edited by Mark Nagler. Palo Alto: Health Markets Research, 1990.

Book Reviews

Holzer, Elizabeth. The concerned women of Buduburam: refugee activists and humanitarian dilemmas. Cornell, 2015. 200p bibl index afp ISBN 9780801454080 in Choice April 2016.

Jewish Youth Around the World, 1990-2010: Social Identity and Values in a Comparative Approach by Erik H Cohen, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014 in Choice, May 2015.

Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City by Elizabeth M. Aranda, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal. Boulder and London: Rienner Publishers Latinos Exploring Diversity and Change, 2014, Social Forces Advance Access published January 22, 2015.

The German Jews in America: A Minority within a Minority, by Gerhard Falk, University Press of America, 2014 in Choice, November 2014.

Unwelcome exiles: Mexico and the Jewish refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945, by Daniela Gleizer, tr. by Susan Thomae. Brill, 2014, in Choice, May 2014.

The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism edited by Rebecca Kobrin, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2012. ix + 311 pp. American Jewish History, Volume 97, Number 4, October 2013, pp. 453-456.

The Renewal of the Kibbutz: From Reform to Transformation, by Raymond Russell, Robert Hanneman, and Shlomo Getz. Rutgers, 2013. 179p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813560762, $39.95; ISBN 9780813560779 e-book, $39.95 in Choice, October 2013.

Life Beyond the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream by Pawan Dhingra. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 2012, Sociological Form 28: 3 (September) 2013:644-646.

Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies: A Critical Realist Perspective by Theodoros Iosifides. Farnham UK and Burlington, VT.: Ashgate, 2011 Contemporary Sociology, 42: 396-398, May 2013

Displaced: Life in the Katrina diaspora, edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek. Austin Texas: University of Texas Press 2012, in Choice, January 2013

Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States, edited by Paul DiMaggio, Patricia Fernndez-Kelly. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010 in Contemporary Sociology, March 2012, vol. 41 no. 2 pp: 195-196.

Where We Live Now by John Iceland, University of California Press, 2009 in Journal of American Ethnic History 31(2) Winter 2012, pp. 116-117.

Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel, by Magid Shihade, Syracuse, 2011. Choice, December 2011.

Dictionary of Visual Discourse: a Dialectical Lexicon of Terms, by Barry Sandywell, London, Ashgate, 2011. Choice, October 2011.

Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism, by Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Oxford, 2010, Choice, June 2011.

Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America, by M. Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2009, Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 33 No. 10 November 2010 pp. 1839-1840.

Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American-White Couples by Kumiko Nemoto. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. Contemporary Sociology 39(3): 331-332 (May) 2010.

Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City, Pyong Gap Min. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008. Xi + 193 pp. $32.50 cloth. Journal of Asian American Studies, 12 (2) June 2009: 229-232.

Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context, Sarah S. Willen (ed.) Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007, Ethnic and Racial Studies 32 (5), June 2009: 916-917.

Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon by Charles Watters. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Contemporary Sociology 38(2): 150-151 (March) 2009.

Ethnic Origins: The Adaptation of Cambodian and Hmong Refugees in Four American Cities by Jeremy Hein, A Volume in the American Sociological Associations Rose Series in Sociology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. Contemporary Sociology Vol. 36, No 3, 2007: 262-263.

A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization and Reform in New Yorks Garment Industry by Daniel Soyer. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. American Jewish History Vol. 92, No 3, 2004: 392-394. (Published 2006).

Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry, by Margaret M. Chin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2006: 279-280.

Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation. Edited by Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf and Mary C. Waters. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004 Pp. xii+419. $39.95., American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 2 : 646-648, Sept. 2005

Buddha is Hiding Refugees, Citizenship, The New America. By Aihwa Ong, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003, Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 28 No. 2 March 2005

Americas Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity by Frank D. Bean and Gillian Stevens. A Volume in the American Sociological Associations Rose Series in Sociology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. American Journal of Sociology, 110 (3): 256-257, November 2004.

Migration, Transnationalization and Race in a Changing New York. Hctor R. Cordero-Guzmn, Robert C. Smith and Ramn Grosfoguel (eds.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Critical Sociology Vol. 29, No. 3, 2003: 439-442.

Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities. Edited by Jan Rath. Berg Publishers, 2002. American Journal of Sociology, 108 (4): 892-894, January 2003

Restless Nation, Starting over in America, by James M. Jasper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000. Contemporary Sociology, Vol 31, No. 1, 2002: 60-61.

Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota, by Jon D. Holtzman. Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1999. Contemporary Sociology, March 2001: 173-174.

The Soviet Jewish Americans by Annelise Orleck. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group 1999. Journal of American Ethnic History 20 (1): 107-108, 2000.

The Great Immigration: Russian Jews in Israel by Dina Siegel. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998. Ethnic and Racial Studies 23(2): 389-391, 2000.

Struggle for Ethnic Identity: Narratives by Asian American Professionals, Edited by Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest 2(2):44, October 1999

Gatherings In The Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration, Edited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. Social Forces, Spring 1999

Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 159.

War, Exile, and Everyday Life: Cultural Perspectives. Edited by Renata Jambresic Kirin and Maja Povrzanovic. Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, 1996. Ethnic and Racial Studies, January 1999.

Jewish History in Modern Times by Joseph Goldstein. Sussex: Sessex Academic Press 1995. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 4., No. 3, Fall 1998, pp. 129-130.

Race, Self-Employment and Upward Mobility: An Illusive American Dream by Timothy Bates. Washington D.C.: Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997. Michigan Sociological Review, Vol. 12, Fall 1998, pp. 150-153.

In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America, by Rita J. Simon. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Contemporary Sociology, January 1998.

The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance and Change in Monterey Park, California, by John Horton with the assistance of Jose Calderon, Mary Pardo, Leland Saito, Linda Shaw and Yen-Fen Tseng. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995 Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) Vol. 1. 1998, pp. 107-109.

Migration and Identity: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Vol. III, edited by Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Oral History Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Winter 1997, pp. 137-139.

Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1989-92: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East, by Clive Jones. London, England, and Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 1996. International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fall 1997, p. 754.

The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City, by Margaret Morton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Contemporary Sociology, January 1997.

The New American Ghetto, by Camilo Jos Vergara. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Contemporary Sociology, January 1997.

Race, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Urban America, by Ivan Light and Carolyn Rosenstein. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995. American Journal of Sociology, May 1997.

Immigration, Acculturation, Integration and Other Questions: A Review of the Recent Literature on Soviet Jews in the United States (with Madeleine Tress). Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Summer 1996, pp. 375-379.

Uprooted in Old Age: Soviet Jews and Their Social Networks in Israel, by Howard Litwin. The Middle East Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3, Summer 1996.

Sociology and Visual Representation, by Elizabeth Chaplin. Sociological Inquiry, Spring 1996, pp.230-232.

Sociology and Visual Representation, by Elizabeth Chaplin. Visual Sociology, Vol.10, Nos.12, 1995, pp. 109-111.

A Community in Spite of Itself: Soviet Jewish migrs in New York, by Fran Markowitz. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 379-380.

The Vietnamese Experience in America, by Paul James Rutledge. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.17, No. 2, April 1994, pp. 366-67.

Irangeles: Iranians In Los Angeles, by Ron Kelley and Jonathan Friedlander. Visual Sociology, Vol.9, No. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 79-80.

Refugees in the Cold War: Towards a New International Regime in the Early Postwar Era, by Kim Salomon, International Migration Review, Vol. 27, No. 101, Spring 1993, p. 202.

You Are My Darling Zita, by Glenn Busch. Temple University Press. American Journal of Sociology, March 1992.

Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, by Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich. Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 1991.

Ethnic Business Enterprise: Korean Small Business in Atlanta, by Pyong-Gap Min. Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 1991.

American Ritual Dramas: Social Rules and Cultural Meanings, by Mary Jo Deegan. Contemporary Sociology, January 1990, pp. 115-116.

Ethnic Groups in Canada, by Edward N. Herberg. American Journal of Sociology, September1989.

Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns of Filipino and Chinese Settlement in the United States, by Luciano Mangiafico. Explorations in Sights and Sounds (National Association of Ethnic Studies), Summer 1989, pp. 52-53.

Sojourners and Settlers: Yemini Immigrants in the U.S., edited by Jonathan Friedlander. International Migration Review, Vol. 23, Spring 1989, pp. 128-129.

Uprooting, Loss and Adaptation: The Resettlement of Indochinese Refugees in Canada, edited by Kwok B. Chan and Doreen Marie Indra. Migration World, Vol. 16, No. 4/5, 1988.

Ethnic Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy, edited by Mohammed E. Ahrari. Explorations in Sights and Sounds (National Association of Ethnic Studies), No. 8, Summer 1988, pp. 1-2.

The Soviet Way of Crime: Beating the System in the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., by Lydia Rosner. Qualitative Sociology, Vol.11, No.3, 1988, pp. 248-249.

Competitive Ethnic Relations, edited by Susan Olzak and Joane Nagel. Contemporary Sociology, September 1988.

Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives, edited by Jerry Boucher, Dan Landis, and Karen Arnold Clark. Contemporary Sociology, September 1988.

Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924, by A.T. Lane. International Migration Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1988.

Camera Culture, by Halla Beloff. Visual Sociology Review, Vol.2, No.2, Fall 1987, pp.1819.

New Lives: The Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States and Israel, edited by Rita J. Simon. International Migration Review, Vol. 21, No. 78, 1987, pp. 436-437.

Invited Shorter Articles

International Students in the United States (Photo Essay) Society (6) 1-8, August 2016, DOI 10.1007/s12115-016-0060-2, Online First, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-016-0060-2

The Sociology of Migration and Understanding Recent Transformations in US Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Footnotes.asanet.org Vol. 44, No. 3 March/April 2016, pp. 11-12.

The Politicization of Anti-immigrantSentiment in Mobilizing Ideas The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/the-politicization-of-anti-immigrant- sentiment/https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/

The Arab American Community in Detroit, Michigan, (Photo Essay), in Joseph F. Healey, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change, 4Th Edition, Thousand Oaks, CA 2006.

Chairs Column, Topics of Study in International Migration, World on the Move, Spring 2004

Forward pp. vii-ix in Dennis Shasha and Marina Shron, Red Blues: Voices from the Last Wave of Russian Immigrants. New York: Holmes and Meier, 2002

Conference Report: Self-Employment, Gender and Migration in San Feliu de Guixols, Spain from October 28th to November 2nd, 2000. International Migration Review Vol. 35, No. 133, Spring 2001, pp. 315-317.

Theodore Bikel, in Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans edited by Elliot Barkan. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio Press, 2001, pp. 41-42.

Amitai Etzioni, in Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans edited by Elliot Barkan. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio Press, 2001, pp. 117-118.

Social Capital and Urban Development, Community News and Views (publication of M.S.U. Community and Economic Development Program), Vol. 10, No. 1, Winter 1998, pp.1, 1415.

Arab Americans in Detroit (photo essay), focus page on The Community Web; posted January 1998, http://www.urbsoc.org/community/sgold/detroit.shtml.

Introductory Statement, in Refugio Rochin (ed.), Immigration and Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos (Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University), 1996.

Soviet Jews in California (photo essay), Society, November/December 1991, pp. 76-80.

Americanization of Vietnamese (photo essay), Society, November/December 1989, pp. 72-75.

Stereotypes, Success and Self-Exploitation, invited critique to Asians, Jews and the Legacy of Midas, by Alan Spector, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, January 1989, pp. 29-30.

Ethnic Groups in Photography (show statement), Exhibition Catalogue, Chico State University, September 1989.

Images in Context, The Rock (Whittier College Alumni Magazine), Summer 1988.

President's Column, Visual Sociology Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 1989.

Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Refugees (photo essay), Framework, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1988.

Concrete Images and Abstract Ideas: Course Exercises for Visual Sociology, Visual Sociology Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1988.

Creatures as Commodities: Domestic Animals on Display, Visual Sociology Review, Vol.2, No.1, Spring 1987.

Oral Histories of Immigration, The Rock (Whittier College Alumni Magazine), Vol.LVIII, No.2., Winter 1986-1987, pp. 8-10.

Reading Materials in Visual Sociology: Where's the Middle Range? Visual Sociology Review, Vol.1, No.2, Fall 1986.

Photography and Field Contacts, Visual Sociology Review, Vol.1, No.1, May 1986.

Student Critiques and Teaching Visual Sociology, Visual Sociology Review, Vol.1, No.1, May1986.

Research Reports

An Estimation of the Number of Immigrants and Refugees in Lansing (Michigan), 20052007, Report prepared for the Family and Community Vitality Focus Area of the Innovation in University-Community Research Collaboration Grants by Steven J. Gold, Wilma Novales Wibert, Vera Bondartsova, John Melcher, Lori A. Post, and Brian J. Biroscak, December 2008.

The Impact of Proposal 2 on the Survival of Minority and Women Owned New Firms in Michigan, Michigan Applied Public Policy Research Report (with Joe Darden), July 2008

Black Entrepreneurship in a Black Majority Environment: The case of Detroit and other selected Central Cities (with Joe T. Darden), Michigan Applied Public Policy Research Report, June, 2007

Social Capital and Settlement Decisions: a Study of Israeli Migrants in London Draft Research Report for Social Capital Interest Group December, 1999, co-author.

The Social Basis of Jewish Philanthropy: A Qualitative Study of a Jewish Federation (with Bruce A. Phillips). Report to the Aspen Foundation, Grant No. 94-1-NSRF-18, December 1997, co-author.

The Communal Dimensions of Federation Involvement: A Qualitative Study of Jewish Philanthropy (with Bruce A. Phillips). Report to the Aspen Foundation, Grant No. 941nsrf18, May 1996, lead author.

State of the State Survey (Michigan), 1995.

Urban Enterprise Zones and Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Ripon Society, 1993.

Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, Whizin and Wilstein Institutes, University of Judaism, Fall1992.

The Employment Potential of Refugee Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in California, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of International Research, October 1988.

Low Income Households and Energy Use in California (with Edward L. Vine), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report 19127, March 1985, second author.

Administrative Reports

Self-Study, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, February 2013 (Co-author).

Self-Study, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, February 2002

Self-Study, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Whittier College, April1993.

Paper Presentations

Latino Jews International Migration Section Roundtable Session, American Sociological Association Meeting, Seattle, August 24, 2016.

Israeli Immigrants Involvement in the High Technology Sector, New Immigrant Labor Market Niches, Russell Sage Foundation, June 3, 2016.

Latin American Jewish Immigrants in the US, Grand Rapids Jewish Federation, March 2016.

Discussant, Transnational Families Session, Migration without Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Migration at Michigan State University, October 10, 2015

Latin American Jewish Immigrants in the US, Jewish Studies Faculty and Student Research Seminar, Co-Sponsor, Chicano-Latino Studies, Michigan State University, September 18, 2015

Migration and Human Security in Global Perspective, Discussant, International Migration Section Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 24, 2015

Panethnic Mobilization among Arab Americans in Detroit during the Post-9/11 Era: A Photo Elicitation Study International Migration Section Roundtable Session, American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago, August 24, 2015.

Expert Participant, Forum on Ethnic Groups from the Middle East and North Africa, US Bureau of The Census, Suitland Maryland, May 29, 2015.

Migrant Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Economies, Presentation to DYMI/MISOCO Programs, University of Amsterdam October 17th, 2014.

Migration Regimes and Social Conflicts, University of Osnabruck, Germany, October 29, 2014

Qualitative Methods and Visual Sociology for Immigration Research, University of Osnabruck, Germany, October 30, 2014.

Undocumented Immigrants and Self Employment in the Informal Economy. University of Osnabruck, Germany, October 30, 2014.

Migrant Transnationalism and Diasporas: A Review after 20 Years, Presentation to DYMI/MISOCO Programs, University of Amsterdam, November 7th 2014.

"The Fable of White Ethnic Harmony and Black/White Opposition: Race in Merchant/Customer Conflict in the US, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam, November 7, 2014.

Contextual and Family Determinants of Immigrant Women's Self-Employment: The Case of Vietnamese, Russian-Speaking Jews, and Israelis. American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 16, 2014

Visual Sociology: Using Photography in Sociological Fieldwork, Invited Presentation, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI September 20, 2013

Enhanced Agency for Recent Jewish Migrants to the US International Migration Section Roundtables, American Sociological Association Meeting, New York, August 10 2013

Undocumented Immigrants and Self Employment in The Informal Economy, Mini Conference on International Migration, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section, CUNY Graduate Center, August 9, 2013

Russian Speaking Jews in the US, Presentation at NEH Summer Institute, Americas Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: 20th Century Migration and Memory, June 17, 2013, Columbia University

Visual Sociology Western Michigan University, Department of Sociology, March 13, 2013

The Store in the Hood Western Michigan University, Department of Sociology, March 13, 2013

Demographic Change and Urban Transformation: Interactions between Immigrant Business Owners and Customers, 1970 to 2007, American Sociological Association Meeting, Denver, August 2012.

Migration and Intergroup Relations: The Case of Cubans in the US and Jamaicans in the UK, International Symposium on Migration and Intergroup Relations, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou China, June 23, 2012.

Film Discussion Nobodys Business (with Kirsten Fermaglich) Michigan State Library Film Series, Part of Telling Family Stories Program, MSU Jewish Studies Program, February 29, 2012.

"Russian-Speaking Jews & Israeli Emigrants in the U.S.: A Comparison of Migrant Populations" MSU Jewish Studies Brown Bag Faculty Lecture Spring 2012, February 24

Store in the Hood Taste of Soul Sunday, Celebration of African American History Month, Grand Rapids Michigan Public Library, February 19, 2012

Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the U.S: A Comparison of Migrant Populations, Conference on the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, November 13-15, 2011

Bridging Communities, Building Coalitions. MSU-Committee on Institutional Cooperation Workshop, Making the Periphery Central, Michigan State University, June 22, 2011.

Ethnic Merchants in a Black Majority City: The Case of Detroit, Invited Presentation, Oberlin College, October 7, 2010

The Contingent Basis of Transnational Networks among Israeli Emigrants, International Symposium on International Migration and Qiaoxiang Studies Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China, September 9-12, 2010

Sebastio Salgado and Visual Sociology Paper presented in "Celebrating the Work of Sebastio Salgado: A Sociological Lens on Salgado's Documentary Photography" a session honoring Sebastio Salgado as recipient of the ASA Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues, American Sociological Association Meeting, Atlanta, August 2010

An Introduction to the Theories and Methods of Qualitative Field Research Center for Statistical Training & Consulting Program, Michigan State University, February 19, 2010

The Informal Economy as a site of Competition between Disadvantaged Populations and Ethnic Merchants, American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 2009

Comparing Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Youth in the 1980s to Todays Young Refugees, Mini Conference on International Migration, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section, UC Berkeley, August 7, 2009

The Informal Economy as a site of Competition between Disadvantaged Populations and Ethnic Merchants, Global Urban Studies Program, Michigan State University, March 17, 2009.

Immigrant Entrepreneurs Relations with Customers in the Early 20th Century US, American Sociological Association Meeting, Boston, August 2008.

Social and Economic Perspectives on Immigrants in West Michigan, Lakeshore Region Summit on Racism, Hope College, Holland Michigan, May 20, 2008.

Visual Ethnography of Middle Eastern Immigrant Communities Middle East and Middle East American Studies Center and Department of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center March 5, 2008

From Yordim to Transnationals: Perspectives on Israeli Emigration from the 1970s to the Present The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, March 4, 2008.

Arab American Reflections on Documentary Images of their Community: A Photo-elicitation Study International Visual Sociology Association Meeting, New York, August 2007

Black Entrepreneurship in a Black Majority Environment (with Joe Darden), American Sociological Association Meeting, New York, August 2007

Does Black Residential Segregation and Black Demographic Dominance Enhance Black Business Development? Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007 (with Joe Darden, Jay Newberry and Charles Petrin).

A Conversation with Alejandro Portes Panelist, Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, Philadelphia, March 17, 2007

After the Cold War: Comparing Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Youth in the 1980s to Todays Young Refugees, Invited Presentation, How to Help Young Immigrants Succeed Conference, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, November 10, 2006

Terrorism, Economic Crisis and Israeli Transnationalism 2000 to 2005, American Sociological Association Meeting, Montreal, August 2006.

Contemporary Topics in the Study of International Migration, Invited Presentation, Program for Research on Black Americans, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 22nd, 2006

New Scholarship in Race and Ethnicity Assimilation of Second-Generation Korean Americans: Education, Work, Identity, and Intermarriage Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, March 17th, 2006

Invited Critic, Author Meets Critic Session on Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration, American Sociological Association Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2005.

Transnational Ties during a Time of Crisis: The Israeli Diaspora since Fall 2000 Middle Eastern Diasporas: (In)visible Minorities, Yale University, March 18, 2005

Processes, Prospects and Problems for Immigrant Self-Employment: An Overview, World Urban Forum II Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 15, 2004

Invited Critic, Author Meets Critic Session on Bean and Stevens Americas Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 2004.

Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 2004

"The Israeli Diaspora: Perspectives on Emigration, Adaptation, and Return," University of

Toronto, Centre for Ethnic Studies and Department of Sociology, Friday, February 6, 2004.

"Visual Ethnography and Immigrant Religion: The Case of Soviet Jews, Israelis and Vietnamese," Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Religion and Immigration Working Group, University of Southern California, January 16, 2004.

The Israeli Diaspora CUNY Graduate Center, Sponsored by Department of Sociology; Middle East Studies Center and Jewish Studies, Oct 30, 2003.

From Nationality to Peoplehood: Adaptation and Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora, American Sociological Association meeting, Atlanta, August 2003.

The New Second Generation and Self-Employment (with Ivan Light) Russell Sage Foundation Conference on the New Second Generation in LA, New York, May 22, 2003

Contemporary Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals American Sociological Association meeting, Chicago, August 2002.

From Nationality to Peoplehood: Adaptation and Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Global Migrations and Identities Lecture Series, University of Washington, Jackson School, May 16, 2002

Relations between Immigrant Entrepreneurs and their Customers through the 20th Century Social Science Research Council Conference Immigration Race and Ethnicity Then to Now, March 7-9, 2002, Kennolyn Conference Center, Soquel, California

Israeli Emigration Florida-Israel Institute, Florida Atlantic University, February 25, 2002.

Israeli Emigration Policy Citoyennet et migration conference, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, December 2001

"Strong Ties, Structural Holes and Gendered Networks: Social Capital among Israeli Emigrants in London" MSU Social Capital Initiative Seminar, November 16, 2001.

Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals Sociological Perspectives on the Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Jewish Life Conference, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, October 26, 2001

Invited Critic, Author Meets Critic Session on Ebaugh and Chafetz Religion and the New Immigrants Association for the Sociology of Religion Meeting, Anaheim, August 2001.

Continuity and Change in Inter-Ethnic Conflicts: Relations between Minority Groups and Middleman Entrepreneurs at the Beginning and End of the 20th Century Social Science Research Council Program on International Migration, Working Group on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity: Then and Now Conference, Savannah, February 22-24, 2001.

"Contextual and Family Determinants of Migrant Womens Entrepreneurship: The Case of Vietnamese, Soviet Jews, and Israelis" at Self-Employment, Gender and Migration, European Science Foundation Conference, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 28 October- 2 November 2000.

Gender, Class, and Network: Social Structure and Migration Patterns among Transnational Israelis American Sociological Association meeting, Chicago, August 1999.

Ethnic Economies, Inequality and Social Policy (with Ivan Light), thematic session, American Sociological Association meeting, San Francisco, August 1998.

Invited Critic, Author Meets Critic Session on Warner and Wittner Gatherings in the Diaspora Association for the Sociology of Religion Meeting, San Francisco, August 1998.

Transnationalism: Its Potential for Understanding Migration in a Globally Integrated World, M.S.U. Globalization Conference, April 4, 1998.

New Americans and Yordim: Perspectives on American Identity Among Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israel, American Sociological Association meeting, Toronto, August 1997.

Womens Changing Place in Jewish Philanthropy, American Sociological Association meeting, Toronto, August 1997.

Visual Sociology and Textbook Illustration: A Personal Reflection, International Visual Sociology Association meeting, Boston, July 8, 1997.

Transnationalism and Vocabularies of Motive in International Migration: The Case of Israelis in the U.S., special lecture, Communities and Institutions Area Program, Department of Sociology, U.C.L.A., March 4, 1997.

New Americans and Yordim: Perspectives on American Identity Among Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israel, American Studies Conference, M.S.U., November1996.

Womens Changing Place in Jewish Philanthropy, Michigan Sociological Association meeting, Oakland University, October 1996.

Transnationalism and Vocabularies of Motive in International Migration: The Case of Israelis in the U.S., American Sociological Association, New York, August 1996.

Returning to the Diaspora: The Israeli Migrants Experience, Middle Eastern Diaspora Communities in America, NYU/Princeton Joint Center for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Summer Institute, June 1996.

Soviet Jews Resettlement in the U.S., Partnership 2000 meeting, M.S.U./Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit, June 1996.

Ethnic Social Capital and Urban Development in California, Michigan Community Economic Development Program, East Lansing, May 1996.

Use of the Archive for Visual Sociology, Shades of L.A. Conference, Los Angeles Public Library, February 5, 1996.

Gender and Social Capital Among Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, ASA annual meeting, Washington, DC, August 1995.

Shooting Scripts, Style Scripts and Depictions of New Immigrants in Los Angeles, International Visual Sociology Association meeting, Windsor, Canada, July 1995.

Jews From the Former Soviet Union in the U.S., World on the Move Conference, M.S.U., April 1995.

Israeli Immigrants in the U.S.: The Question of Community. International Visual Sociology Association meeting, Chicago, July 1994.

Gender, Immigration and Social Capital Among Israelis in Los Angeles, Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 1994.

Patterns of Economic Cooperation Among Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993.

Vietnamese Adaptation in California, Immigration History Society, Anaheim, April 17, 1993.

Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles," U.C.L.A. Department of Sociology Graduate Seminar, November 5, 1992.

Subethnicity, Social Capital and Immigrant Entrepreneurship, California Sociology Association, October 17, 1992.

Chinese-Vietnamese Entrepreneurs in California, American Sociological Association Conference, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

Patterns of Economic Cooperation Among Israeli Immigrants in Los Angeles, Ethnicity and the Entrepreneur, Conference on New Immigrants in Business, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University, May 1992.

Soviet Jews in the U.S.: What We Know and What We Don't Know, Wilstein Institute Conference on Soviet Jews in the U.S., Stanford University, June 1991.

An Art Show for Soviet migrs, International Visual Sociology Association annual meeting, Whittier College, June 22, 1990.

Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Refugees in California, Los Angeles Demographic Forum, U.S.C., June 5, 1990.

Visual Sociology and Ethnic Studies, Conference on Visual Literacy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, March2, 1990.

Visual Sociology and Photographic Education, discussion panel member, Society for Photographic Education regional meeting, Costa Mesa, October 28, 1989.

Vietnamese Refugees in the U.S.: Model Minority or New Underclass? (with Nazli Kibria, Tufts University), American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 1989.

Refugee Resettlement, American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 1989.

Visual Sociology and Ethnic Business, Eyes Across the Water, International Conference on Visual Studies of Society, University of Amsterdam, June 1989.

Soviet Jews in the United States, New Faces of Liberty Program (teacher education program), University of California, Berkeley, May 12, 1989.

Visual Sociology for Social Understanding, 4th Annual Conference on Visual Literacy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, March 3, 1989.

New Immigrant Organizations and Old Country Links: The Case of Soviet Jews in the U.S., American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, August 1988.

Depicting Wellness: The Presentation of Self in a Stroke Rehabilitation Center, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, August 1988.

New York/L.A.: Images of Place, International Visual Sociology Association annual meeting, Rochester, New York, July 14-17, 1988.

Creatures as Commodities, Pacific Sociological Association meeting, Las Vegas, April 6, 1988.

Migration and Family Adjustment: Continuity and Change Among Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in the United States, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, August1987.

Visual Fieldwork With New Immigrants, International Visual Sociology Association meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, July 1987.

Creatures as Commodities: Domestic Animals on Display, International Visual Sociology Association meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, July 1987

Definitions of Ethnicity as Subgroup Ideologies: Conflict and Unification Among Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Refugees, National Association for Ethnic Studies annual meeting, SanDiego, February, 27, 1987.

Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Refugees in Small Business (roundtable discussion), Immigrants and Minority Business Formation, American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York, September 1986.

Community Formation Among Soviet Jewish Refugees (roundtable discussion), American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York, September 1986.

Refugee Entrepreneurship, Department of Sociology, U.C.L.A., November 7, 1985.

Dealing With Frustration: A Study of Interactions Between Resettlement Staff and Refugees, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, August 26-30, 1985.

Small Business Activities Among Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Refugees, Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, April 17-20, 1985.

Styles of Activism in Refugee Communities: The Case of Soviet Jews and Vietnamese, Kroeber Anthropological Society annual meeting, March 24, 1984.

Getting Well: Impression Management and Communication in a Stroke Rehabilitation Center, Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meeting, San Francisco, September 1982.

Sessions Organized at Professional Meetings

International Migration Section Roundtables, American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 2013. (Co-organizer with Min Zhou)

Jewish Immigrant Groups in the United States at Socio-Demography of American Jewry Conference, October 23-24, 2011 Brandeis University

Impact of the Global Recession on International Migration, International Migration Section Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Los Vegas, NV, August 2011.

Immigration and Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation, International Migration Section Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.

International Migration Section Roundtables, American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2005.

Visual Sociology, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August, 2005.

Immigrants, Refugees/Asylees, & Government Policies at Point of Reception Session Co-Organized with Michael Wishnie, NYU School of Law, Transcending Borders: Migration, Ethnicity, and Incorporation in an Age of Globalism, New York University, November 1, 2003.

International Migration Section Roundtables, American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, August 2001.

Ethnographies of Identity and Solidarity, Michigan Sociological Association, Calvin College, October 16, 1999.

Three immigration sessions: (I)Exclusion, Selective Inclusion and Identity; (II) States and Migrant Incorporation; (III) Labor Market Incorporation. American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 1998.

Migration, a day-long session at Social Capital Conference, M.S.U., April 19-21, 1998.

Forced Migration, a special session, American Sociology Association annual meeting, NewYork, August 1996.

New Immigration (organized with Nazli Kibria), regular sessions on Black/Korean Conflict, Community Change, and New Immigrant Economies, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, August 1994.

Tour: Jewish Los Angeles (organized with Bruce Phillips), American Sociological Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, August 1994.

Visual Sociology, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Cincinnati, August2327, 1991.

International Visual Sociology Association annual meeting, Whittier College, July 14-17th 1990.

Visual Studies Workshop, International Visual Sociology Association annual meeting, Rochester, NY, June 21-23, 1988.

The Immigrant Experience: Individual and Community as Revealed in Oral History, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies annual meeting, Whittier College, October 9-12, 1986.

Advisory Editor

David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1997.

Pyong Gap Min (ed.) Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 2005.

Mary Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow (eds.) The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007

Frank Bean and Susan Brown (eds.) Encyclopedia of Migration, Heidelberg Germany, Springer, (forthcoming), Section Editor: Experiences of Migrants: Self-Employment.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ACTIVITIES

SecondPlace winin MSU Global Focus photo Contest (Photos taken outside of the US), Faculty Division, 2015.

48 Photographs in Immigrant America 4th Edition, by Alejandro Portes and Rubn G. Rumbaut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.

Arab and Proud, You Tube Video on Dearborn Arab American Festival, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC494Y_OaTI

Runner Upin MSU Global Focus photo Contest (Photos taken outside of the US), Faculty Division, 2010.

Photographs in Traveling Exhibit Building Islam in Detroit by Andrew Shryock and Sally Howell. Harvard University, Yemen, Tanzania, Ethiopia, 2007-2008.

Photographs in Permanent Collection, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York City.

Photographs in Americans All (2e) by Peter Kivisto and Wendy Ng. Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2005

Photographs in Legacies by Alejandro Portes and Rubn G. Rumbaut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Runner Upin MSU Global Focus photo Contest (Photos taken outside of the US), Faculty Division, 1999.

Photographs in Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr (eds.), Ethnic Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage, 1996.

Photographs displayed in Shades of L.A. exhibit, Los Angeles Public Library, February 1996. Photos in permanent collection.

Photographs in Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America, edited by Silvia Pedraza and Rubn G. Rumbaut. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1996.

Photographs in Family Tightrope by Nazli Kibria. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Urban Scape/Rural Scape exhibit, Downey Museum of Art, January 1992.

Visual Studies of Society: A Group Show (exhibition organizer), Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, June 21-August9, 1990.

N.Y./L.A.: Images of Place, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, March 1990.

Photographs in Immigrant America by Alejandro Portes and Rubn G. Rumbaut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990; second edition, 1996, third edition, 2006.

Soviet migr Artists (cocurator and exhibitor), Downey Museum of Art, November-December1988.

Photographs in Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles by Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Faculty Show, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, March 1988.

Creatures as Commodities: Domestic Animals on Display, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, January 1987.

Members exhibition, L.A. Center for Photographic Studies, September 13-October 10, 1986.

Authors photograph in Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah et al. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986

Authors photograph in The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Photographs published in Time, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, American Journal of Sociology, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Whittier Daily News, The Rock, Lofty Times, Cleveland Jewish News, Framework, Contexts

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

Migration and Social Change, Sociology of Culture, Visual Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, Professional Training Seminar, Introduction to Sociology, Economic Sociology, Medical Sociology, Deviance and Social Control, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Modern Society, Sociology of Welfare, Social Psychology.

CAMPUS SERVICE

Michigan State University

College of Social Science Committee for Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure, 2012-2014

Affiliate, Center for Regional Food Systems at MSU. January 2012 to Present

Chair, Chair Search Committee, Department of Sociology, 2010-2012

Member, Latino Entrepreneurship Scholar Search Committee (Julian Samora Research Institute/Department of Marketing) 2011

Consulting Senior Scholar, MSU-Committee on Institutional Cooperation Workshop, Making the Periphery Central, Michigan State University, 2010- 2011.

Chicano/Latino Studies PhD Program Faculty 2006-Present

Global Urban Studies Program Planning Committee and Affiliate, 2004-Present

Julian Samora Research Institute Director Search Committee 2004-2005

College of Social Science Representative to MSU Academic Council 2004-2006

Ruth Hamilton Memorial Symposium Committee 2003-2004

University Distinguished Fellowship Selection Committee, 2003-2004

Asian Pacific American Studies Program, 2002-present, Acting Chair, 2002-2004

Department of Sociology, Chair Search Committee, 2002-2003

Chair, Department of Sociology, Self-Study Committee, 2001-2002

Core Faculty, Women and International Development Program, 2001-present

University Committee on Tenure and Promotion, August 2000-May 2002

Jewish Studies 1998-Present

African American and African Studies PhD Program Faculty 1999-present

Department of Sociology Executive Committee, 1995-1999

Chair of Executive Committee, 1995-1999

Futures Committee, 1995-1996

Honors College Committee, College of Social Science Representative

College of Social Science Curriculum Committee, 1996-1997

Committees on Structural Inequality, Methods, Theory, Undergraduate Education, Health and Well-Being, Migration (Chair)

McNair/SROP Research Supervisor, 1995-1999, 2001-2004, 2008

Connections Program, 1994-1998

Social Capital Interest Group, 1996-Present

Community Economic Development Program Board, 1997-Present

Whittier College

Courses of Study Committee, 1993-1994

Chair, Fineburg Lectures Committee, 1990-1994

Religious Life, 1990-1993; Chair, 1992-1993

Admissions Committee, 1992-1994

Dean's Search Committee, 1992

Organizer, Friday Film Series, 1989-1991

Professional Interests Committee, 1988-1989

Founding Chair, Human Subjects Review Committee, 1986-1993

Faculty Executive Committee, 1986-1988

Academic Standing Committee, 1985-1986

MSU DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED

Denise Mae Reiling, An exploration of the relationship between Amish identity and depression among the Old Order Amish, 2000.

Ken R. Crane, Communities of memory and change: an ethnography of second generation youth in Latino churches of Michigan and Indiana, 2000.

Henry Hyunsuk Kim, The social function and meaning of Protestantism for Koreans and Korean Americans, 2003

Oswald Warner, In search of a better life abroad: an exploratory case study of the perceptions and responses of Afro-Trini immigrants to their economic incorporation experiences in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, 2004

Yu Hsi Lin, Adaptation and Health among First-Generation Taiwanese Americans, 2004

Catherine Kuhn, Movin' On Out? Toward a Better Understanding of the Residential

Outcomes of Low Income Families Living in Concentrated Poverty, 2006

Karijn Nijhoff, Moving to a Welfare State: Economic Mobility Compared among Surinamese in Amsterdam and Puerto Ricans in New York City, 2006

Brikena Balli, Albanian Migrants: Earning a Living and Building a Life in Greece, 2009

Elisabeth Waeckerlin, Catholic and Protestant Conservatives: Structures of Gender Ideology in the Formation of Opinions Regarding the Responsibility of Poverty, 2009

Manashi Ray, Transcending National Borders to Embrace the BeyondA Study of Transnational Asian Indian Entrepreneurs in the United States and India, 2010

Charles Spurlock, From the Tigris to the Rouge:An Exploratory Study of Chaldean Gendered Ethnicity and Gender Transition, 2010

Paul Hernandez, Alternative Pedagogy: Empowering Teachers through Real Talk, 2010

Ramona M. Fruja Amthor, Making Citizens: The Rhetoric, Practice and Educational Implications of the New United States Naturalization Exam, 2010

Pauline Acosta, Inequality and Health Care Access:A Mixed-Methods Study of the Experiences of Mexican Origin Families in California, 2010

Elizabeth Ann Whittaker, The Role of Gender in Adaptation Work Following an Employee Relocation, 2011

Juan Jos Bustamante, Borderlands Transnationalism: The Significance of Political, Gender, and Family Ties on Mexican Immigrant Life in South Texas, 2011

Rashida Harrison, Towards a Transnational Black Feminist Discourse: Body Politics in the United States and United Kingdom, 1973-1989, 2011 (Co-advisor with Pero Dagbovie)

Cedric Andrew Taylor, Socioeconomic Position and Low Birth Weight:An Evaluation of Selected Measures across Race in Michigan, 2011

Lissa Marie Schwander, Gathering Together: The Role of Church in Jamaica in Developing and Maintaining Migrant Social Networks, 2014

John Girdwood, Redefining the Homeless Experience in Michigan, 2015

Jeffrey Oliver, Capitalism, Politics and Immigrant Threat Narrative in the Media, 2016

MSU MASTERS THESES CHAIRED

Michael Stephen Hanson, Roundball and Resistance: Pickup Basketball as site of Black Cultural Expression, 1995.

Elizabeth Ransom,Bringing Bodies Back in: The Construction of Bodies in Womens Intercollegiate Cross Country Running, 1998

Angela Jackson, Tenant Management in Public Housing: An Evaluation of its Empowering Potential. 1999

Angela Pok, Choices for Survivors of Sexual Assault: A Critique of Individualism and Psychology, 2001

Evangelia Christodoulou, The Holy Community and Its Converts, 2003

AFFILIATIONS

ASA Committee on Professional Ethics, 2017

Founding Scholar of the Entrepreneurship Research Society (ERS), September 2013

ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, Selection committee, 2013-2016

Editorial Board, Asian Migration Series, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 to Present

Editorial Board of ASAs Rose Book Series, 2014-2017

Editorial Board, Sociological Methodology, 2010-2012

Editorial Board, Studies of World Migrations Series, University of Illinois Press

Associate Editor Visual Studies

Advisory Board, Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities,

Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Editorial Advisory Board, The New Americans, Harvard University Press

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology

Editorial Board, The Encyclopedia of Racism (Pyong Gap Min, editor)

Social Science Research Council, Postdoctoral Grant Review Committee, 1999 to 2002

Editorial Board, Sage Publications Series on Race and Ethnic Relations

Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of American Immigrant Cultures

AKD Sociology Honor Society

Manuscript Reviewer, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Minnesota Press, Columbia University Press, Roxbury Publishers, Sage Press, American Sociological Association Rose Monograph Series, Altamira Press, SUNY Press, Temple University Press, Routledge, Pluto Press, Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford University Press, John Hopkins University Press, NYU Press, University of Indiana Press, Rutgers University, Princeton University Press, Michigan State University Press, Rowman and Littlefield

Article Reviewer: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociologist, Qualitative Sociology, International Migration Review, Social Problems, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Visual Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly, Anthropological Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Demography, American Anthropologist, Social Forces, Sociological Methodology, City and Community, International Migration, Contemporary Jewry,

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Sociological Association

Committee on Participation 1991-1994

Section on Asia and Asian AmericaCouncil 1994-1997

Award Committee, 1996

Section on International Migration Council 2007-2010, Chair, 2003-2004;

Newsletter Editor, 1994-2001

Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award Committee, 1996, 2002, 2006

Ari Zolberg Student Paper Award Committee, 2001, Chair 2016

Prize for Public Sociology in International Migration Award Committee, 2011-2012

Pacific Sociological Association

National Association for Ethnic Studies

International Visual Sociology Association; President, 1987-1990

Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Michigan Sociological Association; Board of Directors, 1996-1998

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