Leisy Abrego, “The Gendered Disempowerment of Transnational Central American Families and the Struggle for Social Justice,” LASA, Montreal, September 2007.
--“Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California.” ASA, New York, August 2007.
--“Growing up Transnationally: Salvadoran Non-Migrant Children of Migrants and their Aspirations to Migrate,” ASA, Montreal, August 2006. 

Rene Almeling, "The Intimate Labors of Egg and Sperm Donors", Interdisciplinary Conference on Intimate Labors, UC Santa Barbara,  October 2007.
--“Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Comparing Egg and Sperm Donors,”  ASA, Montreal, August 2006. 

Nurullah Ardic, “How Secular was Turkey’s Secularization? Ziya Gokalp and Islamic Fiqh,” Middle East and Central Asia Conference, Salt Lake City, September 2007.
--"Social Shaping of Technology: The Cell Phone and the Public/Private Distinction," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Washington, D.C., October 2007.
--"Transfer of a 'Case-Sensitive' Concept: Secularization in the Turkish Context" 10th Annual International Conference on Conceptual History, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2007.
--“Nation-states in the Global Village: The Case of Turkey” 5th EuPRA Conference on “Challenges of Peace and Democracy in Europe,” Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey, August 2007.
--"Technology and the Self: The Cell Phone, Everyday Life and the Intertwining" Symposium on "Theoretical Psychology beyond Borders: Transdisciplinarity and Internationalization" organized by The International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP), York University, Toronto, Canada, June 2007.
--“Michael Mann and the Theory of Power” Workshop on Contemporary Social Theorists, Center for Civilizational Studies, Foundation for Sciences and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2006.
--"Islam, modernity and the 1876 constitution: A discourse analysis of 1876 and other reforms from the Tanzimat to the Republic" Symposium on "The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy: An Attempt for New Approaches" Das Orient-Institut, Istanbul and IFEA (Institut Francais d'Etudes Anatoliennes), Palais de France, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2006. 

Hee Young (Kate) Choi, “Mexican Migration and Union Formation Patterns in Sending Communities in Mexico,” PAA, Los Angeles, March/April 2006.
--(with Robert D. Mare), “Mexican Migration and Educational Assortative Mating,” PAA, Los Angeles, March/April 2007.
--(with Judith A. Seltzer), “With or Without this Ring: Racial, Ethnic, and Nativity Differences in the Meaning of Cohabitation,” PAA, Los Angeles, March/April 2007. 

Kathryn Coursolle, “Marital Quality After Retirement: How Does Pre-Retirement Job Satisfaction and the Retirement of a Spouse Make a Difference," PAA, New York City, NY, March 2007.
--(First Author) With Megan M. Sweeney, James M. Raymo, and JeongHwa Ho, “The Effect of Retirement On Emotional Well-Being: Does Marriage Matter?”   Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, November 2006. 

Andrew Deener, “Dynamic Pathways of Participation: Personal Transition, Group Association, and Political Commitment in Neighborhood Activism,” ASA, August 2007. 

Meera Deo, “Legal Ties: The Expectation and Experiences of Members of Law Student Organizations,” ASA, August 2007. 

Faustina DuCros, “’A Really Difficult Juggle”: Latino Students’ Negotiation of Community College and Work,” ASA, August 2007.
--“Louisiana Creoles of Color in Los Angeles: Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Identity.” PSA, Hollywood, April 2006. 

Kjerstin Elmen-Gruys, (with Abigail Saguy), “Weighing Blame, Assessing Responsibility:  News Reporting on Obesity in the US and  France,”  Law and Society Association and Research Committee on Sociology of Law, ISA, Berlin, July 2007.

Esther M. Friedman (with Judith A. Seltzer), Providing for Parents:  Is It a Family Affair? Paper presented at the Population Association of America, New York, NY, March 2007.

Esther M. Friedman (with Judith A. Seltzer), Nature or Nurturing? Examining the Link between Family Structure, Social Support, and Child Well-being. Presented at the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, August 2006.

Esther M. Friedman, Thinking outside the House: Family Type, Social Support, and the Wellbeing of Children in Los Angeles. Paper presented at the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California, March 2006.

Kurtulus Gemici, “Contentious Politics and Anticipatory Emotions,” ASA, August 2007.
--“Hot Money, Cold Money: The Politics of Global Finance in Developing Countries,” SASE, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2007. 

Liana Grancea, “Storytelling ‘Our Side’: Interactional Contingencies of Ethnic Representation and Affiliation in Conversation.” ASA, New York, August  2007. 

Amy Hsin, “Mother’s Time with Children and the Social Reproduction of Cognitive Skills,” ASA, August 2007. 

Noah Grand, “From the President's Mouth to the Printing Press: ‘Attack the Foreigner!’’” National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2007.
-- “Technology, Deadlines, and the Rush to Cover Murders: The Case of a Local Television Station” ASA, August 2006.
-- “Turning People Into News Sources: The Off Camera “Pre-Interview”” 8^th Annual Ethnography Conference, Chicago, April 2006 and Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Montreal, August 2006. 

Margot Jackson, "The Timing of Early-Life Health Disadvantage,"  PAA, New York, March 2007 and ASA, August 2007. 
--"Understanding Links Between Children's Health and Education,.” ASA, August 2007. 

Angie Jamison, "Workers' Rights as Human Rights: Factory Inspections and the Creation of Norms in the Global Apparel Industry," ASA, New York, August 2007. 

Robert Jansen, "Reconceptualizing 'Populism' (as a Mode of Political Practice)," ASA, New York, August 2007.
--"Populist Politics in Peru," UCLA Latin American Institute, Los Angeles, April 2007. 

Marian Katz, “Salubrious Care: Beyond the Sick/Well Dichotomy?,” ASA, August 2007. 

Bongoh Kye, "Poverty Concentration and Public Housing Programs". PAA, New York City, NY, March 2007.
--"Internal Labor Markets and the Effects of Structural Change: Job Mobility in Korean Labor Markets between 1998 and 2000". RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2007.  

Lee, Jooyoung, “Rap Dreams: Everyday Hustles and Careers in the Formal and Underground Economies.” ASA, NY, August 2007.
--. (co-authored with Eric Ishijima), “Self-Other Awareness and Peer Empathy in Adolescents with Autism. ASA, NY, August 2007
--“Rappin’ on the Corner: Transforming Provocations of Street Violence into Play,” SSSP, New York, August 2007.
SUNY Stonybrook Ethnography Conference, NY, March 2007.
--”’Rappin’ on the Corner: Transcending Public Disorder in South Central L.A.,” ASA, and Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Montreal, August 2006 and PSA, Hollywood, April 2006.
--“Just to Get a Rep: Social Order, ‘Face’ and Street Rap in South Central L.A.,” 8^th Annual Ethnography  Conference, Chicago, April 2006 and PSA, Hollywood, April 2006. 

Justin Lee, “Institutionalizing Integration: A Sociological Investigation of the Science & Practice of Psychotherapy Integration,” Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, March/April 2007
 --“The Structural Sources of Occupational Coalescence: Investigating the Hybridity of Wellness Practices”, American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006 

Mutchler, M., Tara McKay, Elman, E., Ayala, G., “How you define your client matters: A comparison of survey findings from two different methodologies at one social service agency,” APHA, November 2006 and UCLA HIV conference, April 2006.

Tara McKay, M. Castillo, E., Candelario, N., Stackhouse, B., & Ayala, G. Sex drugs & HIV: Use and risk among Black and Latino young men who have sex with men in New York and Los Angeles. The UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) annual HIV Research: The Next Generation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2007. 

Arpi Miller, “Working Through Trauma: Activism and Collective Innovation in Salvadoran L.A.,” ASA, August 2007. 

Nori Milman, “’Pay Attention!’: Linking School Context and Attentiveness in First Grade Classrooms,” ASA, August 2007. 

Anthony Ocampo, “The Production of Masculinity Among Men of Color,” ASA, August 2007.
---, The Effect of Family Obligation on the Educational Attainment of Children of Immigrants, Graduate Student Conference on Migration and Race, UCLA, April 2007
---, The Puerto Rican Exodus: Media Representations of Postwar Migration: 1945-1955, ASA, August 2006
--- (First Author) With Anthony Lising Antonio (Stanford University), Cultural Identities in Flux: Relational-Reflexive Pedagogy in an Overseas Study Program in the Philippines, Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Honolulu, HI, March 2006 

Chinyere Osuji, “Core Networks Among First-Generation Latino Immigrants,”ASA, August 2007.
--“Racial Ideology in a Racial Demography: Affirmative Action Policy in Brazil.” Conference of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS), California State University, Carson, November 2006.
--"The Brazilian Cultural Association: A Cultural Tourist Site and the Search for Authenticity," 8^th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, Chicago, April 2006. 

Danielle Pillet-Shore, “Introductions,” ASA, Montreal, August 2006. 

Renee Reichl, “Foreign Detachment: Second generation ’transnationalism’ reconsidered,” ASA, August 2007.
-(with Roger Waldinger), “Has the mainstream been remade? Mexican-origin workers in the new economy” PAA Annual Meeting, New York, April 2007
--“High Skilled Temporary Immigrants in a Segmented Labor Market: A Study of H-1Bs,” PAA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2006 

Kevin Riley, “Speed on the Highways:  The Market in Amphetamines Among Truck Drivers in the 1950s,” SSSP, August 2007. 

Rocio Rosales, “Fruit Vendors in Los Angeles,” SSSP, August 2007. 

Claudia Solari (with Robert Mare), “Housing Crowding Effects on Children’s Wellbeing: National and Longitudinal Comparisons,”  RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2007.
-- “The Effects of Crowded Housing on Children’s Wellbeing,” ASA, August 2007. 

Charles Strohm, “Gender and Sexual Orientation Differences in Social Support from Family, Friends, and Romantic Relationships,” ASA, August 2007. 

Christina Sue, ‘What Racism?: An Ethnographic Study of the Discursive Strategies Surrounding Race in Mexico,” ASA, August 2007. 

Kristin Surak, “Convergence and Japan’s Postwar Foreigner Policies”, Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 2007; Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo, Japan, February 2007.

--, “Tea Ceremony and Gender in Modern Japan,” The Japan  Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, March 29, 2007.

--, ネーション・ワーク：茶道と日本らしさ　(Nation-work: Tea Ceremony and Japaneseness), Chanoyu Bunka Gakkai, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan, September 2007. 

Veronica Terriquez, “Parental School Involvement in the Latino Metropolis.”  ASA, August 2007.
--“Predictors of Parental School Involvement Among Latino Caregivers.” Empirical Summer Program in Applied Multi-Ethnic Research, University of Michigan, Summer 2007.
--“High School Student Employment and the Urban Spatial Structure,” Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 2007.
--“SEIU Local 1877: Building a New Constituency in the Struggle for Quality Schools,” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2007.
--“Resisting Chinese Exclusion: The San Francisco Consent Decree, Ho v. SFUSD, and School  Resegregation,” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2007.
--“Roadblocks to College in California Public Schools,” Presentation given to a consortium of multi-ethnic media in the California Central Valley, 2006. 

Jennifer Winther, “Institutionalizing Expertise: Statisticians in Japan 1880-1920,” ASA, New York, August 2007.
--“Statisticians as Public Intellectuals in Postwar Japan,” Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, April 2007.
--The Embodiment of Sound in Musical Cohesion, Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywod, March 2006
--Producing Official Knowledge of Populations and Individuals in Modern Japan, ASA, Montreal, August 2006

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