Simone Ispa-Landa

Graduate Student in Sociology

09/25/2008

Research Interests: gender; children's living arrangements; sociology of education; race/ethnic/minority relations; qualitative methods; life course research; transition to adulthood; neighborhoods effects; intersectionality theory

Previous Degrees: M.A. Harvard 2003 Regional Studies (Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia)
BA Hampshire College 1999

Teaching Experience
Caribbean Societies	TF (Spring 2007)
Qualitative Methods	TF (Fall 2006)
Love and Intimacy	TF (Spring 2006)

Qualifying Paper Title: "Gender Schemata Persistence in Post-Soviet Russia"

Committee: Jason Kaufman, Orlando Patterson, and Martin K. Whyte

Prospectus Title: "Social Effects of an Urban-to-Suburban Racial Desegregation Program: A Natural Experiment"

Committee: Orlando Patterson (advisor), Rob Sampson, William Julius Wilson, Chris Winship

Papers available in Portable Document Format (PDF)

Rapport, Reciprocity, and Truth-Telling in Qualitative Data Exchanges

Ispa-Landa

Pp. 211-221 in Aktualnie problemi v Rossii, edited by Tatyana Gurko. Moscow: Reglant.

Presentations and Publications

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2007. "Immigrants from Central and Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria, Former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Former Yugoslavia." Pp. 433-444 in The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, edited by Mary Waters, Reed Ueda, and Helen Marrow. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2006. "Reciprocity, Truth-Telling, and Power in Qualitative Data Exchanges"(In Russian). Pp. 211-21 in Actualnie Problemi v Rossii, edited by Tatyana Gurko. Moscow: Reglant.

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2003. "Russian Preferred Self-Image and the Two Chechen Wars." Demokratizatsiya 11:305-319.

Miscellaneous Additional Information

Oral Exam Topic

"Family Contexts of Afro-American Children's Living Arrangements"

Oral Exam Committee Members: Orlando Patterson, Martin K. Whyte, and William Julius Wilson

Conferences at Which I've Made Presentations

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2007. "The Persistence of the Strong Woman/Infantile Man Discourse in Post-Soviet Russia." Paper presented at the Regular Narratives and Practice in Organizations and Post-Socialist State Ideology Session of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting, New York, August 11-14, 2007.

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2006. "Rapport, Reciprocity, and Truth-Telling in Qualitative Data Exchanges." Paper presented at the Regular Ethnography Session of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 11-14, 2006.

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2006. "Suspended Causality: Cultures of Intimacy among Two Cohorts of Russian Families." Paper presented at the Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, IL, March 29-April 2, 2006.

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