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Devah Pager's research focuses on
institutions affecting racial stratification, including education,
labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Pager's current
research has involved a series of field experiments studying
discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage
labor market. Recent publications include "The Mark of a Criminal
Record," published in the American Journal of Sociology (March 2003)
and "The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and Occupational
Determinants of the Black-White Wage Gap," published in the American
Sociological Review (September 2001, with Eric Grodsky). Pager
holds Masters Degrees from Stanford University and the University of
Cape Town, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Martin Ruef has research and teaching
interests in organizational theory, economic sociology, network
analysis, and the sociology of culture. His current work addresses
the social context of entrepreneurship, from both a contemporary and
historical perspective. He has also written on the postbellum
transformation of the American South and the history of the U.S.
healthcare field. His book Institutional Change and Healthcare
Organizations (co-authored with W. Richard Scott, Peter Mendel,
and Carol Caronna) won the Max Weber prize from the American
Sociological Association's section on Organization, Occupations, and
Work.
Katherine Newman joins the Princeton
faculty in 2004 with a joint appointment in Sociology and the
Woodrow Wilson School. She has previously taught at Harvard,
Columbia, and the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests
lie in the qualitative study of social stratification, with a
special emphasis on the cultural meaning of mobility, work, poverty,
and violence. Dr. Newman enjoys working with teams of doctoral
students and coauthors papers and books with her students on a
regular basis. She is presently completing a book entitled
Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low Wage Labor Market, which
will complete her eight year study of African American and Latino
service sector workers. Her recent publications include Rampage:
The Social Roots of School Shootings (2004), A Different
Shade of Gray: Mid Life and Beyond in the Inner City (2003),
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (1999),
Falling From Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence
(2nd edition, 1999), and Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the
American Dream (1993).
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