Nazgol Ghandnoosh
C.Phil. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 2009
M.A. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 2007
B.S. Economics (magna cum laude), University of Pennsylvania 2001
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
nanoosh@ucla.edu
Subfield
Areas of Interest: Comparative race and ethnicity, urban poverty, international migration, qualitative methods
Research Interests
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of a group of elderly African American men and women in South Los Angeles. I am exploring how poverty, crime, and the demographic composition of the neighborhood affect their daily lives.
Publications
"'Cross-Cultural' Practices: Interpreting Non-African-American Participation in Hip-Hop Dance" (Under Review)
"Organizing Workers Along Ethnic Lines: The Pilipino Workers’ Center" in R. Milkman, J. Bloom, and V. Narro (ed.) Low-Wage Worker Organizing and Advocacy: The L.A. Model, Cornell University Press, 2010
"Strangeness at the Gates: The Peculiar Politics of American Immigration" (with Roger Waldinger), International Migration Review, 40(3): 719-734, 2006
Grants and Awards
2009 UCLA Quality of Graduate Education (QGE) summer stipend
2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), summer (declined)
2008 UCLA Quality of Graduate Education (QGE) summer stipend
2007 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program
2007 Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) mini-grant
2006 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program
2006 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation
2005-2010 UCLA Department of Sociology Fellowship
Advisors
Stefan Timmermans (Chair), Rogers Brubaker, Jack Katz, Mark Sawyer (Political Science)
Conference Presentations
"Cross-Cultural Practices as Tolerance, Appropriation or Essentialism? Interpretations of Non-African-American Hip-Hop Dancers" presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association - August 2009, San Francisco
"From Shop Floor to Ethnic Group Organizing: The Pilipino Workers' Center" presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association - August 2008, Boston
_____ presented at "Organizing Low-Wage Workers in 21st Century Los Angeles: A Dialogue with Scholars and Advocates" UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment - June 2008, Los Angeles
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