BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH SAMUEL COHN. Assistant Professor, Sociology and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

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1 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH SAMUEL COHN APPOINTMENTS Professor, Sociology, Texas A & M University 1997-Present Associate Professor, Sociology, Texas A & M University Assistant Professor, Sociology, Texas A & M University Assistant Professor, Sociology and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1981 M.A., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1979 B.A., Sociology, Yale University NATIONAL HONORS Founder and First President of the Council of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Development Winner of ASA s 1989 Jessie Barnard Award for the best book published on gender for the monograph Process of Occupational Sex-typing: Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain. Philadelphia, Temple. Fulbright Fellow Department of Economics, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Taught an interdisciplinary course in industrial relations theory to institutional economics students.

2 ANTI-DISCRIMINATION SCHOLARSHIP (All Items Also Listed in Lower Headings) 2000 Race and Gender Discrimination at Work. New York, Westview. Reviews Evidence on Race and Gender Discrimination Process of Occupational Sex-typing: Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain. Philadelphia, Temple. (Winner of 1989 American Sociological Association Jessie Barnard Award for Best Book on Gender) A Discrimination Based Theory of Female Employment Opportunity 1998 Other Reason Job Suburbanization Hurts Blacks: Relationship Between the Location Racial Composition of Employment in Detroit and Atlanta Urban Affairs Review 34: Shows Racial Discrimination in Spatial Patterns of Employment (With Mark Fossett) 1996 What Spatial Mismatch? The Proximity of Blacks to Employment in Boston and Houston Social Forces 75: (with Mark Fossett) Attacks Non Discrimination Based Theories of Racial Differences in Urban Employment short articles in Women and Work: a Handbook. Paula Dubeck and Kathryn Borman (eds.), New York, Garland. Occupational Sex-Typing. Pp Human Capital Theory. Pp Discrimination Against Married Women. Pp RESEARCH: MONOGRAPHS 2012 Employment and Development Under Globalization: State and Economy in Brazil. Basingstoke, U.K., Palgrave Macmillan Race and Gender Discrimination at Work. New York, Westview.

3 1993 When Strikes Make Sense and Why: Lessons From Third Republic French Coal Miners. New York, Plenum Process of Occupational Sex-typing: Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain. Philadelphia, Temple. (Winner of 1989 American Sociological Association Jessie Barnard Award for Best Book on Gender) ARTICLES Tea Party in Macrosociological Perspective. Estudos de Tempo Presente O Connorian Models of Peripheral Development or How Third World States Resist World Systemic Pressures By Cloning the Policies of States in the Core. Pp in Salvatore Babones and Christopher Chase-Dunn, (eds.), Handbook of World Systems Analysis. New York, Routledge What Marxist Theory of the State and the Brazilian Amazon Implies For the Prospects of Sustainable Environmental Regulation in the European Union and the United States. In John Robertson and Michael Meimeth (eds.), Sustainable Development Part I: How to Bridge the Knowledge-Action Gap: Exploring the Value Added From Political and Economic Perspectives. Berlin, Nomos When Sergipe Led Brazil: The Golden Years of Employment for Barbers and Beauticians. Ponta De Lanca 1. Brazilian Web Publication i) Impact of Payroll Taxation on Employment in a Third World Setting: Personal Services in BrazilianNonamazonian States Econômica 6, 1: ii) Do Taxes Lower Employment in the Third World? Evidence From Personal Service Firms in Debt Crisis Brazil. Competition and Change 8: (With Elizabeth Rainwater and Matt Bradshaw) 1998 Other Reason Job Suburbanization Hurts Blacks: Relationship Between the Location Racial Composition of Employment in Detroit and Atlanta Urban Affairs Review 34: i) What Spatial Mismatch? The Proximity of Blacks to Employment in Boston and Houston Social Forces 75: (with Mark Fossett) ii) 3 short articles in Women and Work: a Handbook. Paula Dubeck and Kathryn Borman (eds.), New York, Garland. Occupational Sex-Typing. Pp Human Capital Theory. Pp Discrimination Against Married Women. Pp

4 1995 i) "Learning From Other People s Actions: Environmental Variation and Diffusion in French Coal Mining Strikes: " American Journal of Sociology 101: (with Carol Conell) ii)"are Northern Labor Markets Characterized by Greater Inequality in Employment? Intermetropolitan Variance in White-Black Employment Differentials". Social Forces 74: (with Mark Fossett) 1990 "Market-Like Forces and Social Stratification: How Neoclassical Theories of Wages Can Survive Recent Sociological Critiques." Social Forces 68: "Historical Limits on Neoclassical Strike Theories: Evidence From French Coal Mining " Industrial and Labor Relations Review 42: (with Adrienne Eaton) 1988 "Empty Victories, Harmless Defeats: Relationship Between Moderation, Strike Victories and Substantive Benefits Among French Coal Miners, " Political Power and Social Theory 7: "Clerical Labor Intensity and the Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain." Social Forces 63: "Michael Hechter's Theory of Regional Underdevelopment: A Test Using Victorian British Railways." American Sociological Review 47: "Keeping the Navvies in Line: Variations in Work Discipline Among Victorian British Railway Construction Crews." Pp in Louise Tilly and Charles Tilly (eds.), Class Conflict and Collective Action. Beverly Hills, Sage. FORTHCOMING ARTICLES State-Led Development in Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn (eds.), Emerging Trends, Thousand Oaks, California, Sage. A Manifesto for the Sociology of Development in Gregory Hooks (ed.), Handbook of Development Sociology, Berkeley, California. University of California. EXTERNAL FUNDING National Science Foundation New Strategies For State Development Policy Under Globalization: Risk Reduction, Transnational Bargaining and Income Rationing in the Promotion of Employment in Northeast Brazil. $68,750. National Science Foundation Organizational Logic and Economic Development: An Analysis of Brazilian Personal Services. $69,500.

5 National Science Foundation Grant Spatial and Nonspatial Determinants of Black-White Employment Differentials $ 101,598 (with Mark Fossett) National Science Foundation Grant Class Conflict and Wage Determination: Panel Analysis of French Coal Miners. $ 48,545. PRESENTATIONS (Last 5 Years) 2012 University of Virginia Presidential Keynote. Meeting of the ASA Development Sociology Section. Palliative Development : Saving Imperfect States in the Global South; Saving Hegemons From Their Own Internal Contradictions University of Virginia. Public Outreach Lecture. ASA Development Sociology Section. How Do Governments Create Economic Growth? Binghamton. Annual World Systems Conference. The Two Weakest Pillars of Development Sociology. Princeton. Seminar on Migration and Development. Palliative Development and How to Get Out of the Current Andrew Abbott Dead-End of Development Sociology. Denver. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Rethinking Unequal Terms of Exchange: Creating Better Explanations of How Trade and Markets Divide the World Into Core and Periphery Nanyang Technical Institute. (Singapore). Sociology Brownbag. Effective State Led Development Under Conditions of Fiscal and Political Constraint: Sociology of Successful Economic Intervention in Brazil. Cornell. Meeting of the ASA Development Sociology Section. Bad Job Training, Worker Solidarity and Equitable Humanistic Development. Las Vegas, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Effective Developmental State Policies in Societies That Lack the Preconditions for a Developmentalist State. University of New Mexico. Global Development Conference. Job Training, the Economia Solidária, and Creating Articulated Growth Cornell University. Department of Development Sociology Brownbag. James O Connor and Economic Development: Going Beyond Peter Evans In Thinking About the State and Development in Brazil Atlanta. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. What State Policies Raise Employment in Brazil or Why James O Connor Is As Important as Peter Evans.

6 Brasilia. Annual Meeting of the Brazil Studies Association. Brazilian Innovation in the Creation of Employment- or How Tourism Was Untrivialized And Allowed To Improve the Lives of Local People San Francisco. PEWS Conference. Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral States in the Post-Debt Era: Is a New Developmentalism Possible? Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meetings. How the Brazilian Government Creates Jobs ASKA, Saar, Germany. Conference on Sustainable Development. Theory of the State and the Severe Challenges Facing Sustainable Development in Europe and America: Lessons From Brazil University of Pittsburgh. Gunder Frank Commemorative Conference. Gunder Frank and Celso Furtado Duel It Out on the Beach: Underdevelopment and State Centered Programs to Create Tourism Employment in Northeastern Brazil. COURSES TAUGHT Graduate level Development Sociology Graduate level Social Organization Graduate level Social Change Graduate level Sociology of Work Graduate level Industrial Relations Theory Contemporary American Society Design and Analysis Global Social Trends Industrial Sociology Industrial Relations Theory Introductory Sociology Macrosociology

7 Sociology of Organizations SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION First President of the Council of the American Sociological Association Section on Development. Member of the Review Panel for the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation Main Panel (2010, 2011), Dissertation Panel (2009) Review Board American Journal of Sociology ( ) Author of Questions for the Educational Testing Service s Sociology GRE and Major Area Examinations; 1994 (twice), 1995, 1996, General Reviewer American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Multiple More Minor Journals. PUBLIC SERVICE Applied Research for Banco do Nordeste (Primary Regional Development Bank for Northeastern Brazil) 2007 Final Report: Methodological Considerations That May Have Led to the Underestimation of the Effects of Banco do Nordeste Programs. Applied Research for SENAC-Sergipe (Primary Vocational Trainer for the Service Sector Within the State of Sergipe Brazil. Final Report: How Adult Education and Self Employment Serve To Increase Employment in the Third World: Evidence From SENAC. SERVICE TO THE TEXAS A AND M SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT Undergraduate Advisor Director of Undergraduate Programs Instituted an Undergraduate Research Fellows Program to promote undergraduate participation in faculty research. Designed Three Undergraduate Certificate programs for specialized training. Active in Redesigning Measures of Teaching Quality. REFERENCES Edward Telles Department of Sociology 151 Wallace Hall Princeton, New Jersey etelles@princeton.edu

8 Salvatore Babones Department of Sociology University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Gregory Hooks Department of Sociology Washington State University PO Box Pullman, Washington Mark Fossett Department of Sociology Texas A and M University College Station, Texas m-fossett@tamu.edu