Curriculum Vita

 

Ted Mouw

 

July 31, 2009

 

Department of Sociology

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

CB#3210, 155 Hamilton Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210

(919)-962-5602 (work)

(919)-960-8514 (home)

 

Fax: 919-962-7568

E-mail: tedmouw@email.unc.edu

 

Education:

 

Ph.D.        University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

                 Sociology: August, 1999

M.A.        University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

                 Economics: May, 1999

B.A.         Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

                 English Literature: May, 1990

                

Positions Held

 

2005-         Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

 

1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

 

Areas of Interest

 

Social Stratification, Immigration, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, and Demography

 

Professional Affiliations

 

American Sociological Association, Population Association of America, American Statistical Association.

 

Publications

 

Ted Mouw and Arne Kalleberg.  Forthcoming.  “Occupations and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the United States.” American Sociological Review. [Link]

 

Ted Mouw and Arne Kalleberg.  Forthcoming.  “Do Changes in Job Mobility Explain the Growth of Wage Inequality among Men in the United States, 1977-2005?”  Social Forces [Link]

 

Ted Mouw.  2007.  “The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis.”  in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer.

 

Ted Mouw and Barbara Entwisle. 2006.  “Residential Segregation and Interracial Friendship in Schools.”  American Journal of Sociology.  Volume 112 Number 2 (September 2006): 394–441 [Link]

 

Ted Mouw.   2006.  “Estimating the Causal Effect of Social Capital:  A Review of Recent Research.” Annual Review of Sociology. 32:79-102 [Link]

 

Ted Mouw. 2005.  “Sequences of Early Adult Transitions: How Variable are They, and Does it Matter?” Chapter 8 in On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. Edited by Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Rubén G. Rumbaut. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Link]

 

Ted Mouw.  2003.  “Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter?”  American Sociological Review. 68(December):868-898. [Link to additional files] [Link to paper]

 

Ted Mouw.  2002.  “Racial Differences in the Effects of Job Contacts: Conflicting Evidence from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data.” Social Science Research 31(4):511-538. [Link]

 

Ted Mouw. 2002.  "Are Black Workers Missing the Connection?  The Effect of Spatial Distance and Employee Referrals on Interfirm Racial Segregation." Demography 39(3):507-528. [Link]

 

Ted Mouw and Michael Sobel. 2001. “Culture Wars and Opinion Polarization: The Case of Abortion.”  American Journal of Sociology.  106(4): 913-943. [Link]  [Link to programs and data used in the paper]

 

Ted Mouw.  2000.  “Job Relocation and the Racial Gap in Unemployment in Detroit and Chicago, 1980-1990” American Sociological Review.  65(5): 730-753. [Link]

 

Ted Mouw and Yu Xie.  1999. “Bilingualism and the Academic Achievement of Asian Immigrants: Accommodation with or without Assimilation?”  American Sociological Review 64(2): 232-253.  [Link]

 

Ted Mouw. 1995. “Human Capital and Regional Differences in Development: Secondary School Participation Rates in Java and Bali”  Populasi: Buletin Penelitian Kebijaksanaan Kependudukan [Populasi: Bulletin of Demographic Policy Research] 6(2):15-32.  Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

 

Papers Under Review

 

Ted Mouw and Andy Sharma. 2009. “Migration and the Diffusion of Latinos in the United States, 1980-2007” [Link] (under review at Demography)

 

Ted Mouw, Sergio Chavez, and Jacqueline Hagan.  2009.  “Occupational Enclaves and the Wage Growth of Latino Immigrants” [Link] (revise and resubmit, Social Forces)

 

 

Working Papers

 

 

Ted Mouw.  "Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap Revisited: The Problem of Attenuation Bias due to Occupation Coding Errors" [Link]

 

Ted Mouw, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, and Barbara Entwisle.  “Ambiguous Ethnicity?  Social Segregation among Hispanics.” [Link]

 

Ted Mouw. “The Use of Social Networks among Hispanic Workers: An Indirect Test of the Effect of Social Capital.” [Link]

 

Grants

 

National Science Foundation, R03, 2008-10 “Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment in the United States” (PI)

 

“Migration and Low Wage Labor Markets in North Carolina and Michoacan, Mexico.”  Mellon Foundation.  May-September 2005.   $15,274.

 

Course development grant, University of North Carolina.  2005. $5,000.

 

Honors and Awards

 

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of North Carolina, 2007.

 

Edward Kidder Graham Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina, 2005.

 

Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best student paper, Population Association of America, 2000

 

High Pass, Demography and Human Ecology Preliminary Examination, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, 1996

 

International Predissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 1994-1995. 

 

Regents’ Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1993-1994.

 

Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Fellowship to Indonesia, 1990-1992.

 

Highest Honors for Senior Thesis, “The Discourse of Modernism in the Work of Thomas Pynchon,” Department of English Literature, Oberlin College, 1990.

 

Phi Beta Kappa, Oberlin College 1990.

 

Oberlin College National Merit Scholarship, 1986-1990.

 

Professional Activities

 

Peer reviewer, American Sociological Review.

 

Languages: English, Indonesian (fluent), Spanish (proficient)