Amon Emeka, Ph.D.
Amon Emeka, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
University of Southern California (USC) PHONE: 818-383-6847
Department of Sociology FAX: 213-740-3535
3620 S. Vermont Avenue EMAIL:
Kaprielian Hall 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
Primary Areas of Teaching and Research
Racial Inequality, Racial Identity, Immigrant Adaptation, Demography
Education
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Washington 2004
M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin 1993
B.A. Sociology, California State University-Bakersfield 1991
Professional Positions
2005- Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Department of Sociology
Director of the Honors Program 2012-
Director of Undergraduate Studies 2011-2012
Resident Faculty Fellow, USC International Residential College 2010-
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration 2008-
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2004-2005
2012 Visiting Professor, Summer China Program at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China
1994-2001 Faculty Member, College of the Redwoods, Department of Social Sciences
Department Chairperson 2000-2001
College Honors Program Director 1998
Tenured Faculty Member 1998-2001
Grants
2007-2009 National Institutes for Health (NIH) Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. “Variable Tempo of Dimensions of Immigrant Assimilation.” $171,959.
2007-2008 Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative Grant—USC Office of the Provost. “Competing Conceptions of Race in the Twenty-First Century: A Statistical Analysis.” $24,575.
2005-2006 National Poverty Center Small Grant. “The Incidence of Poverty Across Three Generations of Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” $20,000.
Publication Record
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Amon Emeka and Jody Agius-Vallejo. 2011. “Non-Hispanics with Latin American Ancestry: Assimilation, Race, and Identity among Latin American Descendants in the U.S.” Social Science Research 40(6): 1547-63.
Amon Emeka. 2009. “Race and Unemployment amidst the New Diversity: More Evidence of a Black/Non-Black Divide.” Race and Social Problems 1(3):157-70.
Dowell Myers, Xin Gao and Amon Emeka. 2009. “The Gradient of Immigrant Age at Arrival Effects on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the U.S.” International Migration Review 43(1): 205-29.
Amon Emeka. 2006. “Birth, Fortune and Discrepant Fertility in Twentieth-Century America.” Social Science History 30(3):327-57.
Book
Amon Emeka. 2008. New Blacks, New Whites, and the New Day: Intergenerational Mobility among Black and White Immigrants to the U.S. in the Post-Civil Rights Era. (Published PhD Dissertation). Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag.
Book Chapters
Amon Emeka. 2008. “Demographic Transition Theory” in the Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Edited by Vincent N. Parillo. New York: Sage Publications.
· Also authored the entry on “Intergenerational Mobility”
Amon Emeka and Charles Hirschman. 2006 “Who Applies for and Who is Selected for Washington State Achiever Scholarships? An Early Assessment.” Readings on Equal Education 21:167-194.
Book Review
Amon Emeka, 2010. Commentary on “Children of International Migrants in Europe” by Roger Penn and Paul Lambert (Palgrave-MacMilllan, 2009). Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(10): 1848-9 .
Working Papers
Amon Emeka. 2006. “The Incidence of Poverty across Three Generations of Black And White Immigrants In The Post Civil Rights Era: Assessing The Impacts of Race and Ancestry.” National Poverty Center Working Paper #06-17.
Professional Presentations
2011 “Race, Hispanicity, Ancestry, and Intergenerational Mobility among Post-Civil Rights Era Immigrants.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington.
2010 “Race, Origins, and Poverty across Immigrant Generations in the U.S.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Dallas, Texas.
2010 “Where Race Matters Most: Race, Ethnicity, and Unemployment in 100 U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Dallas, Texas.
2010 “The Changing Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Unemployment in the U.S., 1960-2000.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California.
2010 “Understanding American Indian Poverty Levels by Tribe in Urban and Rural Contexts.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California. (In collaboration with Hoest Heap of Birds).
2010 “I’m not Hispanic, But My Grandma Was: Non-Hispanic Identities among Latin American Descendants in the U.S.” Paper presented at the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration Faculty Seminar.
o Also presented at the University of California, Irvine Center for the Study of Immigration, Population, and Public Policy Seminar Series (11/16/2010)
o Also presented at the University of Washington Sociology Department Research Colloquium (1/18/2011)
o Also presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C. (3/30/2011)
2008 “Who Are the Hispanic Non-Hispanics and Why Do They Matter?” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
2008 “Locating the Color Line(s) in the US Labor Market: Assessing the Effectiveness of Dichotomous and Polytomous Conceptions of Race.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2007 “Competing Conceptions of Race in the 21st Century: A Statistical Analysis.” Paper presented to students and faculty at California State University, Bakersfield.
2007 “Race and Lifetime Earnings in the U.S.: Assessing the Cumulative Costs of Minority Status using Cross-Sectional Data.” Paper presented at the Semi-Annual Meetings of the International Sociological Association Research Committee for Stratification and Social Mobility (RC28), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2007 “Competing Conceptions of Race in the 21st Century: A Statistical Analysis.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, New York, New York.
2006 “Context of Reception and the Incidence of Poverty among Children of Recent Immigrants.” Paper presented at the West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, Seattle.
2006 “Black, White, or Other? Racial Identity among Caribbean Immigrants, 1980 to 2000.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2006 “Exposing the Underbelly of Black Immigrant Success: Race, Ancestry and Poverty among Recent Immigrants.” Poster presented at the Annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California.
2006 “The Incidence of Poverty across Three Generations of Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Paper presented at the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2005 “Movin’ On Up? Residential Mobility among Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2005 “The Misshapen Playing Field: Labor Force Participation and Mobility among Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2004 “Labor Market Experiences of Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, San Francisco, California.
2004 Social Mobility among Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.
2004 “Educational Mobility among Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts.
2003 “New Blacks, New Whites, and the New Day: Intergenerational Mobility and Income among Black and White Immigrants in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 “Who Applies for and Who is Selected for Washington State Achiever Scholarships? An Early Assessment.” Paper presented at the University of Washington Workshop on “Transitions to College,” Seattle, Washington.
2003 “Are Immigrant Youth Particularly Optimistic and Does it Matter?” Poster presented at the University of Washington Workshop on “Transitions to College,” Seattle, Washington.
2002 “On the Racial Frontier: Accounting for Racial Liberalism in the Western United States.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
2002 “Intergenerational Mobility among Recent Black Immigrants: A Unique Case for the Assessment of the Influence of Race on Life Chances in America.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists Meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
1994 “On the Racial Frontier: Anti-Black Affect in the Western United States.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California.
Other Conference Participation
2012 Chair and Discussant. “Regular Paper Session: Ethnoracial Diversity and Change” at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, California.
2010 Panelist/Critic. “Author Meets Critics Session: Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice by Samuel R. Lucas” at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
2008 Moderator. “Immigrant Intergration and Multiethnic Coalition Building” at the USC Conference on Immigrant Integration.
2008 Chair. “Regular Paper Session: Family Transitions and Child Well-Being” at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiania.
2006 Chair and Discussant. “Regular Paper Session: Racial Disparities in Health and Health Insurance” at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California.
2005 Participant. “Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist” sponsored by the National Poverty Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2005 Chair and Discussant. “Regular Paper Session: Immigration and Diversity” at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2004 Panelist. “Career Workshop: Navigating the Graduate Admissions Process” the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.
2003 Participant. “First Annual Summer Institute on International Migration” sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, La Jolla, California.
Media Appearances
2010 Guest Expert, “The Doctor Phil Show.” September 16, 2010. Topic: “Bias: Are We Just Too Sensitive?”
2010 Guest Expert, “KNBC Nightly News, Los Angeles.” March 18, 2010. Topic: “Latino Responses to the Census Race Question.”
2009 Guest Expert, “The Doctor Phil Show.” October 12, 2009. Topic: “Hidden Racial Biases.”
Professional Affiliations
American Sociological Association Pacific Sociological Association
Association of Black Sociologists Population Association of America
National Poverty Center West Coast Poverty Center
Service to the Profession
Editorial Boards
2011- Social Problems
Refereeing Grant Proposals
2010 National Science Foundation
Refereeing of Peer Review Journals
2012 American Sociological Review, Demography, International Migration Review, Social Problems
2011 Demography, Sociological Quarterly
2010 Demography, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration Review
2009 Journal of International Migration and Integration, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly
2008 Ethnic and Racial Studies
2007 Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Forum
2006 Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives
2004 Sociological Perspectives
Service to Professional Associations
2004-2005 Program Committee, Population Association of America
2002-2003 Assisted in the preparation of the ASA Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court case of Grutter v. Bollinger (University of Michigan Law School)
Service to the University of Southern California (2004-Present)
Hiring/Search Committees
2011-2012 Demography search, USC, Dept. of Sociology
2007-2008 Immigration search, USC, Dept. of Sociology
2005-2006 Immigration search, USC, Dept. of Sociology
Other Departmental Committees
2009- Undergraduate Program Committee, USC, Dept. of Sociology
2009-2010 Student-Athlete Affairs Committee (Chair), USC, Dept. of Sociology
2007-2008 Merit Review Committee, USC, Dept. of Sociology
2006-2007 Undergraduate Program Committee, USC, Dept. of Sociology
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committees
2012 Demography, USC Sociology
2010 Demography; Race and Ethnicity, USC Sociology
2007-2008 Race and Ethnicity, USC Sociology
2007 Immigration, USC School of Policy, Planning and Development
2006 Immigration, USC Sociology
Undergraduate Senior Thesis Supervision
2012 Tandia Elijio USC McNair Scholar
2012 Rikeisha Pearce USC McNair Scholar
2012 Andrea Porter USC McNair Scholar
2011-2012 Leslie Grantham USC Sociology
2011 Vannessa Sanchez-Gonzales USC McNair Scholar
2011 Denise Colome USC McNair Scholar
2007-2008 Emma Shakeshaft USC Sociology
2007-2008 Elizabeth Stinnett USC American Studies and Ethnicity
Courses Taught
Introduction to Sociology Society and Population
Sociological Statistics Sociology of Black America
Diversity and Racial Conflict Race and Life Chances (Graduate Seminar)
Race and Ethnic Relations
Teaching Awards
2010 Honored by the USC Chapter of the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society for First Years Students for “Exemplary Performance.”
2009 Tapped (publicly honored) by the USC Mortar Board Society for “dedication to promoting scholarship, leadership, and service at USC and in the neighboring community.”
References
Professor Tim Biblarz
USC Department of Sociology (213) 740-3547
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall Room 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
Professor Charles Hirschman
UW Department of Sociology (206) 543-5035
Box 353340
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3340
Professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
USC Department of Sociology (213) 740-3606
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall Room 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
Professor Mike Messner
USC Department of Sociology (213) 740-8848
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall Room 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
Professor Rhacel Parrenas
Chair, USC Department of Sociology (213) 740-3533
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall Room 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
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