THE CARSEY INSTITUTE • HUDDLESTON HALL G05B • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE • DURHAM, NH 03824 PHONE 603-862-2821 • FAX 603-862-3878 • E-MAIL JENNIFER.SHERMAN@UNH.EDU
JENNIFER D. SHERMAN
EMPLOYMENT
January 2007
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire.
EDUCATION
2006
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation: “Wealthier with Half the Income: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America” Dissertation Committee: Raka Ray (chair), Michael Hout, Laura Enriquez, Sandra Smith, Louise Fortmann (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management) Research and Teaching Fields: Gender, Stratification, Poverty, Rural, Work, Family, Theory. M.A. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Masters Thesis: “Indian Casinos as Economic Development: A Search for Positive Outcomes” B.A. Sociology and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Graduated with Distinction.
2001
1995
AWARDS RECEIVED
Spring 2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 Spring 2004 Fall 2003 Spring 2003 1998
Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, UC Berkeley Sociology Department (declined). University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center Rural Poverty Dissertation Fellowship. UC Berkeley Gertrude Jaeger Prize for the best paper written by a female graduate student in Sociology. UC Berkeley Department of Sociology Fellowship. UC Berkeley Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award (3 year award).
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1995 1995 1993- 1995
PUBLICATIONS
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Association. Dean’s List, University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Jennifer Sherman. 2006. “Coping with Rural Poverty: Economic Survival and Moral Capital in Rural America.” Social Forces, 85:2, December, 891-913. Jennifer Sherman. 2005. “Men Without Sawmills: Masculinity, Rural Poverty, and Family Stability.” Rural Poverty Research Center Working Paper No. 05-03.
http://www.rprconline.org/WorkingPapers/WP0503.pdf
Jennifer Sherman. 1999. “Rural Poverty, Community and Land Use: An Annotated Bibliography.” Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics Bibliographies #B00-3. Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/Bib/B03-Sherman.pdf Jennifer Sherman, Don Villarejo, Anna Garcia, Stephen McCurdy, Ketty Mobed, David Runsten, Cathy Saiki, Steven Samuels, Marc Schenker. 1997. Finding Invisible Farm Workers: The Parlier Survey. Davis, California: California Institute for Rural Studies. Gene Summers and Jennifer Sherman. 1997. “Who’s Poor in Rural America?” Working Together for a Change. Madison, Wisconsin: Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty. Gene Summers, Jennifer Sherman and Mark Nord. 1998. “Poverty in Rural America and Wisconsin.” Capitol Comments, 16: 8, December 1998.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Poverty and Family in the U.S. Instructor, Fall 2006. University of California, Berkeley. Senior seminar for Sociology undergraduate majors. Evaluation of Evidence. Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2002, University of California, Berkeley. Teaching assistant to Professor Mike Hout, Department of Sociology. Lower-division course required for Sociology undergraduate majors. History of Sociological Theory. Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2000 and Spring 2001, University of California, Berkeley. Teaching assistant to Professor Jim Stockinger, Lecturer, Department of Sociology. Upper-division course required for Sociology undergraduate majors.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Researcher, September 2001-August 2002, University of California, Berkeley. Principal Investigators Professors Mike Hout and Claude Fischer, Department of Sociology. Graduate Student Researcher, January-June 2000, University of California, Berkeley. Principal Investigator Professor Louise Fortmann, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Graduate Student Researcher, March-August 1999, University of California, Berkeley. Principal Investigator Professor Michael Watts, Geography Department. Research Associate and Publications Director, November 1995 – July 1998, California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis, California.
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Project Assistant, February - June 1995, Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Principal Investigator Professor Gene Summers, Rural Sociology Department.
PRESENTATIONS
Jennifer Sherman, “Men Without Sawmills: Masculinity, Rural Poverty, and Family Stability,” presented to the Men, Masculinity, and Joblessness brown bag session, for the Consortium for Women and Research Labor and Labor Organizing Series, University of California, Davis, November 9, 2006. Jennifer Sherman, “Family Values, Rural Poverty, and the Moral Boundaries of ‘Tradition’,” presented to the Families in 21st Century America Regular Paper Session at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 13, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Jennifer Sherman, “Coping with Rural Poverty: Economic Survival and Moral Capital in Rural America,” presented to the American Communities and American Citizenship Panel at the 2006 Labor and Employment Research Fund Graduate Student Conference, May 13, 2006, University of California, Santa Barbara. Jennifer Sherman, “Coping with Rural Poverty,” presented to the Poverty Paper Session at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 13, 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jennifer Sherman, “Men Without Sawmills: Masculinity, Rural Poverty, and Family Stability,” presented to the Section on Sociology of the Family Paper Session on Families and Poverty at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 16, 2004, San Francisco, California. Jennifer Sherman, “Remaking Rural Masculinity: Fatherhood and Masculine Identity in the Spotted Owl’s Shadow,” presented to Rural Gender Issues Paper Session at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, August 14, 2004, Sacramento, California. Jennifer Sherman, “Effects of Casino Development on Native Americans’ Well Being,” presented to Communities and Community Development Regular Paper Session at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 17, 2002, Chicago, Illinois. Jennifer Sherman, “Indian Casinos as Economic Development: A Search for Positive Outcomes,” presented at The 72nd Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, March 2001, San Francisco, California. Jennifer Sherman and Don Villarejo, “Land Tenure in California Agriculture,” presented at Who Owns America II Conference, June 1998, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology Reviewer, Rural Sociology Member, American Sociological Association Member, Rural Sociological Society Graduate Student Editor, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1998-2000
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REFERENCES
Raka Ray, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-9565 rakaray@berkeley.edu Laura Enriquez, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-4766 enriquez@berkeley.edu Louise Fortmann, Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 510-642-7018 fortmann@nature.berkelely.edu Mike Hout, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 643-6874 mikehout@berkeley.edu
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