David A. Cort Department of Sociology (P) 413-545-1041 (F) 413-545-3204 W37A Machmer Hall dcort@soc.umass.edu Amherst, MA 01003 www.sites.google.com/site/davidacort Employment Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Faculty Affiliate, Social and Demographic Research Institute Associate Director, Social and Demographic Research Institute 2007 - Present 2007 - Present 2010 - Present Research Interests Immigration/International Migration Social Demography Social Stratification Residential Mobility Quantitative Methods Education Ph.D. Sociology University of California, Los Angeles 2007 M.A. Sociology George Washington University 2001 B.S. Psychology Oakwood College 1999 Publications Cort, David A. Forthcoming. Reexamining the Ethnic Hierarchy of Locational Attainment: Evidence from Los Angeles. Social Science Research. Cort, David A. 2010. What Happened to Familial Acculturation? Ethnic and Racial Studies 33: 313-35. Cort, Malcolm A. and David A. Cort. 2008. Willingness to Participate in Organ Donation Among Black and White Seventh-day Adventist College Students. Journal of American College Health 56: 691-97. Waldinger, Roger, Nelson Lim, and David A. Cort. 2007. Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience of the Mexican American Second Generation. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 33: 1 35. 1
Papers Under Review Cort, David A. 2011. Spurred to Action: The Effects of Reception Contexts on Naturalization Decisions in Los Angeles. Cort, David A. and Jenny Folsom. 2010. Mexican Incorporation into the Vulnerable and Stable Working Class: Reasons for Pessimism and Optimism. Working Papers in Progress Cort, David A., Ken-Hou Lin, and Gaby Stevenson. 2011. Residential Mobility into Los Angeles Neighborhoods: Racial, Ethnic, and Documentation Status Differences. Cort, David A. & Dwanna Robertson. 2011. Changes in Race Differences in Attitudes toward Immigrants: Incorporating Individual, Neighborhood, and State-Level Factors. Cort, David A. 2011. Documentation Status Differences in Job Transitions. Cort, David A. and Malcolm A. Cort. 2010. It s in the Blood: HIV Stigma and Revealing the HIV Status of Kin in Guyana, South America. Grants, Awards & Fellowships Employment Fraud & Employee Misclassification in Massachusetts 2011-12 Massachusetts Department of Labor - $200,000 Pre-Tenure Sabbatical Fellowship 2010-11 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Small Grant: Legal Status & Residential Mobility 2009-10 National Poverty Center - $16,250 Small Grant: Immigration & Work in Worcester & Lowell, MA 2009-10 UMass Amherst Labor Center - $3,000 Dissertation Grant 2006-07 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation - $20,000 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper (with Vanesa Estrada) 2003 Southern Demographic Association Minority Training Supplement 2002-06 National Institutes of Health Minority Graduate Fellowship 2001-04 American Sociological Association Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship 1997-99 2
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Professional Presentations HIV Stigma and Revealing the HIV Status of Kin in Guyana. Caribbean Healthcare Summit: SUNY- Downstate Hospital, June 2011. Short-Term Residential Mobility into Los Angeles Neighborhoods: Racial, Ethnic, and Documentation Status Differences. Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2011. Healthcare Access for West Indian Populations. Caribbean Healthcare Summit: SUNY-Downstate Hospital, June 2010. Documentation Status Differences in Residential Mobility Decisions: Thoughts for Future Research. Presented at Faculty Colloquium: Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March, 2009. Mis Padres No Entienden: Child Bilingualism, Familial Language Acculturation, and Parental Conflict Among Immigrant Families. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Boston, MA, November 2008. Familial Acculturation and the Assimilation Outcomes of the New Second Generation. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of American, New York, NY, April 2007. Race, Place, and Homeownership in Los Angeles, California. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2003. Nativity and Legal Status Differences in Residential Mobility Decisions. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2003. Group Position, Context, and Contact: Race Differences in Attitudes toward Immigrants. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002. Teaching Immigration - Undergraduate Spring, 2008 Social Stratification Undergraduate Spring, 2008 Fall 2009 Fall, 2011 Social Stratification Graduate 3
Spring 2009 Statistics Undergraduate Spring, 2010 Fall 2011 Introductory Graduate Statistics Fall, 2007 Advanced Graduate Statistics Spring 2009 Spring 2010 UMass Graduate Student Training Kola Afolabi - Education, Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Member, Defended 2010) Mary Creske Public Health, Loma Linda University, Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Member, Defended 2011) Jenny Folsom - Sociology, Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Chair) Melissa Fugiero Sociology, Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Member) Ken-Hou Lin - Sociology, MA Thesis (Committee Member, Defended 2010) Michael Parker Social Psychology, Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Member) Nicole Stokes-Dupass - Sociology, MA Thesis (Committee Member) Gabriela Stevenson Sociology, MA Thesis (Committee Chair) Ted Thornhill - Sociology, MA Thesis (Committee Member, Defended 2008) Yao Wang Social Psychology, Ph.D. Dissertation, (Committee Member) Ayse Yetis-Bayraktar - Sociology, Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Member) Kumar Yogeeswaran Social Psychology, Ph.D. Dissertation, (Committee Member) Professional & Departmental Service Invited Panels & Presentations. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Sociology Forum: Affirmative Action and the 2008 Presidential Election. Summer, 2009. Social Science Research Council- Mellon Mays Graduate Student Conference: Recent Faculty Panel. Summer, 2009. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Regular Session Discussant: Immigrant Families/Communities. Summer, 2010. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Section Organizer: International Immigration. Spring, 2010. Population of Association of America Section Organizer: Beyond Black and White. Ad-Hoc Reviewer American Sociological Review British Journal of Sociology 4
City & Community Ethnic and Racial Studies International Migration Review Public Opinion Quarterly Social Problems Social Science Quarterly Sociology of Education The Sociological Quarterly Urban Studies Professional Memberships American Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Association Population Association of America Southern Demographic Association Departmental Committees Faculty Recruitment Fall, 2011 Visiting Faculty Recruitment Spring, 2009 Intellectual Activities Fall, 2009 Spring, 2010 General Departmental Service Director, Social Inequality Reading Group Co-Director, Race, Immigration, & Citizenship Graduate/Faculty Cluster - Present 5