Curriculum Vita

Ted Mouw

March 30, 2011

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. 2010. “Occupations and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the United States.” American Sociological Review. [Link]

Ted Mouw and Arne Kalleberg. 2010. “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 Currently Under Review

Asthon Verdery and Ted Mouw. “Estimated Sampling Variance in Respondent Driven Sampling: Do you know if you have an imprecise sample?” (Currently under review at Sociological Methodology) [Link]

Jacob Pedersen, Ted Mouw, and Christian Larsen. “Relevant Ties Matter” (revise and resubmit, Acta Sociologica)

Ted Mouw and Ashton Verdery. “Network Sampling with Memory: A proposal for more efficient sampling from social networks” (Currently revise and resubmit at Sociological Methodology) [Link]

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

Current Working Papers

Ted Mouw and Arne Kalleberg. 2010. “Stepping Stone versus Dead End Jobs: Occupational Pathways out of Working Poverty in the United States, 1979-2006.” [Link]

Ted Mouw and Sergio Chavez. 2011 “Bi-national Social Networks and Assimilation: A Test of the Importance of Transnationalism” [Link]

Sergio Chavez, Ted Mouw, Heather Edelblute, and Ashton Verdery. 2011 “Collecting Binational Network Data on a Migration Stream between the US and Mexico” [Link]

Alexis Silver, Sergio Chavez and Ted Mouw, 2011. “Family Separation and Emotional Distress in a Transnational U.S-Mexico Immigrant Community” [Link]

Ashton Verdery and Ted Mouw. 2011. “Assimilation, transnationalism and the structure of migrant networks: New data and theory” [Link]

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

Grants

National Science Foundation, R03, 2010-11 “Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment in the United States” (PI, with Jennie Brand) $140,000

“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

Bowman and Gordon Gray Teaching Professorship, University of North Carolina, 2009-2014.

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: Indonesian (fluent), Spanish (proficient)