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Jean O'Malley Halley, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. Her book (based on her dissertation) is coming out in July 2007 with the University of Illinois Press. You can view it at: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s07/halley.html Jeffrey Bussolini , CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published an article entitled: "The Wen Ho Lee Affair: Between Race and National Security," in Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order, edited by Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney.  NY: Basic Books.


Alice Cepeda, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has co-authored the following articles: "Risk Behaviors Among Young Mexican American Gang Associated Females: Sexual Relations, Partying, Substance use and Crime," in Journal of Adolescent Research,  18 (1), 91-107 with Avelardo Valdez; "The Process of Paradoxical Autonomy and Survival in the Heroin Careers of Mexican American Women," in Contemporary Drug Problems, 22, 189-212 with Avelardo Valdez and Charles D. Kaplan; and "The Legal Importation of Prescription Drugs in the United States from Mexico: A Study of Customs Declarations," in Journal of Substance Use and Misuse, 33 (12), 2485-2497 with Avelardo Valdez, Zenong Yin, and Charles D. Kaplan.


Grace M. Cho, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published the following articles:  "Death and Yearning" in Qualitative Inquiry, 9:6; "Murmurs in the Storytelling Machine" in Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies 4:2; and "Regression Analysis: Mother, Memory, Data" in Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies 4:3.


Wiliam Difazio, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published a book entitled, Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold StorageFor More information on this book visit: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1674_reg_print.html

Melissa Ditmore, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published the following articles: "Contemporary anti-trafficking legislation in the United States," (forthcoming) at: http://www.nswp.org/mobility/analysis.html ; "Reaching Out to Sex Workers," in Reaching the Hardly Reached (Program for Appropriate Technology and Health), at: http://www.path.org/files/RHR-Article-3.pdf ; and "How immigration status affects sex workers' health and vulnerability to abuse A comparison of two countries," in Research for Sex Work 5. At: http://www.med.vu.nl/hcc/artikelen/ditmore5.htm


Ariel Ducey, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published the following articles: "Regulating Affective Labor: Communication Skills Training in the Health Care Industry," Research in the Sociology of Work 12 and "What's the Use of Job Descriptions? Reflections from the Health Care Industry" Working USA, 6 (2): 40-55 with Heather Gautney and Dominic Wetzel.


Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published the following articles: "Queering Sexuality and Doing Gender: Transgender Men's Identification with Gender and Sexuality," in Gendered Sexualities (Advances in Gender Research Series, Volume 6, pp. 181-233). Patricia Gagne, Richard Tewksbury, Editors. Elsevier Science, Ltd; "On Being a White Person of Color: Using Autoethnography to Understand Puerto Ricans’ Racialization.” Qualitative Sociology, 27, 2:179-203; "Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Speaking Spanish.” Latino Studies Journal, 2 and "Sexuality and Gender in Santería: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Identities at the Crossroads of Santería Religious Practices and Beliefs.” Gay Religion: Continuity and Innovation in Spiritual Practice. Edited by Scott Thumma and Edward R. Gray. Boston Way Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.


Jonathan Wynn, CUNY Graduate Center Alum, has published the following articles:  "Guiding Practices: Some Tricks of Walking Tour Guides," Qualitative Sociology, 28(4) and "Bobos on the Road," Qualitative Inquiry 10(3).


Gregory Anderson, Assistant Professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers College, and Sociology Department alum, has a new book out entitled: Building a People's University in South Africa: Race, Compensatory Education, and the Limits of Democratic Reform. The book is published by Peter Lang, Inc. 2002, and more information about it, including ordering information, can be obtained at: http://commerce.peterlangusa.com.

Raquel Rivera, GC Sociology alum, has just published a new book entitled: New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone. For more information on this book, including ordering information, visit: http://www.geocities.com/raquelzrivera/book.html.

Ellen I. Rosen, GC Sociology alum (1976), Resident Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University has just published a new book entitled: Making Sweatshops: The
Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry

This book is published by University of California Press, 2002. She is now writing a new book about Wal-Mart.
For more info on the book as well ordering information, please visit:
www.amazon.com



Nancy Lopez
, Graduate Center Sociology alum who has been appointed assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, has a new book coming out entitled: HOPEFUL GIRLS, TROUBLED BOYS: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. The book is being published by Routledge, and is expected to be out before the end of 2002. Professor Lopez can be contacted by email at: nlopez@unm.edu, or by phone at: 505-277-3101.


Stephen Duncombe, CUNY Graduate Center Class of 1996, has just published his second book entitled CULTURAL RESISTANCE: A Reader. More information on this book can be found at: http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/d-titles/duncombe_cultural_resist.shtml.

Stephen Duncombe has just received tenure at New York University, where he teaches history and politics of media and culture in the interdisciplinary Gallatin School. Currently, he is co-writing a book with CUNY Sociology ABD Andrew Mattson on "The Bobbed-Haired Bandit" (a once famous, now forgotten, female criminal/media celebrity of NYC in the 1920's). The book will be published by Pantheon/Vintage and is expected to be out next year.


Jennifer Parker Talwar, who received her Ph.D. from the Sociology Program in 1996, has just published her first book-- FAST FOOD, FAST TRACK: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream-- an examination of the experiences and likely futures of different immigrant groups who work in McDonalds and Burger King franchises in New York City.  Under contract with Westview Press, Jenn turned her dissertation, which was based on many, in-depth interviews with workers and managers in these restaurants, as well as an analysis of the labor markets and immigration, into a trade book. The book is designed for both undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas and is a good example of qualitative research. You can read a positive review of the book, published in the Wall Street Journal (of all places) on February 28, 2002, by clicking here. The proud dissertation committee consisted of Sharon Zukin (chair), Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, and Peter Kwong.
--By Sharon Zukin.  


Bruce D. Haynes, CUNY Graduate Center Alumn, recently published a new book about his research in Runyon Heights, community in Yonkers, New York. This community has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. RED LINES, BLACK SPACES: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (Yale University Press: October, 2001) – the first history of a black middle-class community – tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class.

“No one experiences the cruel ironies of American racism more forcefully than does the African American middle class. In this nuanced community study, Bruce Haynes uses historical and ethnographic methods to tell the story of one long-standing black suburban neighborhood. In so doing, he opens a window on the interaction between race and place throughout twentieth century America.”
–Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Bruce Haynes is currently assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis, and an alumni of the CUNY Graduate Center.