Back to 2006 Montreal Meetings
*ROUNDTABLES
Monday, August 14 – 10:30am –
12:10 pm
Roundtable Session Organizers: Leslie Martin (Boise State University) and Rachael Woldoff (West Virginia University)
Table 1: Community as a Living
Environment
Presider: David Elesh (Temple
University)
Cognition and the City
Brian Miller (University of Notre Dame)
Foregrounding Nature: An Invitation to Think About Shifting Nature/City
Boundaries
Stella M. Capek (Hendrix College)
Urban Publics and Incorporated Space: A Case Study of Bryant Park
David J. Madden (Columbia University)
Table 2: Crime and Community
The Influence of
Individual and Zip Code Characteristics on Arrests Among Injection Drug Users
Alexis N. Martinez (Univ of California, San Francisco),
Alex H. Kral (RTI International),
Jennifer Lorvick (RTI International), Ricky N.
Bluthenthal (RAND)
Continued Strategic Annoyance:Disrupting the Frequency, Geography, Participation
in and Monetary Benefits of Crime
Clairissa Breen (Temple University)
Table 3: The Community Context of Hurricane Katrina
Who Is to Blame?
Students' Opinions on Poverty and Hurricane Katrina
Carrie Graf (Baylor University)
When the Big One Hits: Preliminary Considerations on Social Capital, Social
Control and Emergency Preparedness
Lee M. Miller (Sam Houston State
University)
The Burdens of Social Capital: How Socially-Involved People Dealt with Stress
after Hurricane Katrina
Frederick Weil (Louisiana State University), Edward
Shihadeh (LSU), Matthew R. Lee (Louisiana State University)Discussant: W. Allen
Martin (University of Texas-Tyler)
Table 4: Urban Sprawl and the Urban Environment
An Integrative Theory:
The Human Ecology and the Political Economy Perspectives in Study of Urban
Sprawl
Xi Chen (Texas A&M University)
Foreign Direct Investment, Urban Sprawl, and Local State in China
Xiulian Ma (University of Utah)
Discussant: Deirdre A. Oakley (Northern Illinois University)
Table 5: Social Consequences of Community Revitalization
History and Habitus:
Redeveloping Public Housing
Wenona C Rymond-Richmond (Northwestern
University)
From Riot to Renaissance?: Prospects for Urban Redevelopment in Newark, NJ and
Detroit, MI.
Max Arthur Herman (Rutgers University)
Gays, Drugs and Schools: Protecting Kids in Gentrifying Communities
Leslie Martin (Boise State University)
Caroline E. Hanley (University of
California, Berkeley)
Table 6: Community Politics and Social Movements
The City as Production,
Text, Context: Transgressing the Boundary between Urban Sociology and
Communication Studies
Timothy Gibson (George Mason University),
Mark Lowes (University of Ottawa)
The Conservation Machine: A Challenge to Urban Regime Theory
Caroline W. Lee (University of California,
San Diego)
The Social, Spatial, and Institutional Organization of Political Consciousness:
the Chicago School Reform Movement
Luis Celestino Martos (Harvard University)
Table 7: Communities and Social Networks
Friendship and
Community Organization
Rebecca G. Adams (University of North
Carolina at Greensboro)
Koji Ueno (Florida State University)
From Bowling Alone To Lattes Together: A Reinvestigation of the Alleged Decline
of Social Capital in the U.S.
Sangyoub Park (Washburn University)
Local Social Capital and Health Disparities in New York City
Hilary Silver (Brown University)
Discussant: Gustavo S. Mesch (University of Haifa)
Table 8: Postmodern Cities and Communities
Dismantling the
Urban-Global Divide: An Exploration of Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis
Marina Karides (Florida Altantic
University)
Splitting the City: Uneven Development and the Production of Internal Boundaries
Judit Bodnar (Central European University)
Twelve Smokestacks in a Strip Mall: The Transformation of Homestead,
Pennsylvania
Lori Delale-O'Connor (Northwestern
University)
Discussant: Richard D. Lloyd (Vanderbilt University)
Table 9: Hierarchies of Place
Presider: Jon R. Norman (University
of California, Berkeley)
Children’s Exposure to
Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence in the United States, 1990 to 2000
Jeffrey M. Timberlake (University of
Cincinnati),
Joe Michael (University of Cincinnati)
Hierarchy in the Organizational and Community Ecology of the Western United
States, 1997
Robert Alan Hanneman (University of
California, Riverside)
Moving Behavior and Children’s Activities: Differences among City and Suburban
Movers in the Gautreaux Two Housing Mobility Program
Anita L. Zuberi (Northwestern University)
Table 10: Global Cities
Constitutive Cities and
Transnational Traces
Ryan Centner (University of California,
Berkeley)
Housing the Second Demographic Transition: Does Access to Housing Still Serve as
a Preventive Check on Family Formation?
Nathanael T. Lauster (University of British
Columbia)
Out of Apartheid: The Social Geography of Race in Durban, South Africa, after
Transition
Daniel M. Schensul (Brown University)
The Effect of Social Context, Social Structure, and Social Capital on
International Migration from Mexico
Nadia Yamel Flores (Texas A&M University)
Discussant: Xuefei Ren (University of Chicago)
Table
11: Housing and Diversity
Table Presiders: Krista E. Paulsen
(University of North Florida) and Seth A. Ovadia (Bowdoin College)
Does Race Really Matter
? Dimensions of Housing Inequality in Miami
Katie Ellen Woodlieff (University of South
Carolina)
Effects of Racial Composition on Housing Appreciation in Columbia, SC
Wenqian Dai (University of South Carolina)
Ying Yang (University of South Carolina)
Getting and Keeping a Home: Black/White Homeownership Transitions in the US,
1969-2003
Vanesa Estrada (Univ. of California, Los
Angeles)
Table 12: Community, Housing,
and Policy
Discussant: Jennifer A. Stoloff
(Dept. of Housing and Urban Dev.)
Tony Blair and the
British City: A Community Planning Case Study
Norman Leonard Bonney (The Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen, UK)
Race and Risk in a Multiracial Housing Market: Los Angeles
David W. Bartelt (Temple University)
Kristen B. Crossney (Rutgers University)
Residential Segregation and Desegregation: Is Housing Discrimination a Relevant
Sociological Issue in the 21st Century?
George P. Mason (Wayne State University),
Ginalynn Clausen (University of Toledo),
Jessica Theis (Bowling Green State
University), Corey Fountain (Bowling Green State University)
Table 13: Social Capital and
Health
Presider: Kent Schwirian (The Ohio
State University)
Toward a Social Capital of Empowerment
Lois M. Takahashi (University of
California, Los Angeles)
Michelle G Magalong (University of
California, Los Angeles)
Social Interaction and Identity in Times of Illness
Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham (University of
Pennsylvania)
Neighborhood Influences on Health Disparities:
Jennifer Tower Lloyd (UMBC), Jessica A.
Kelley-Moore (University of Maryland, Baltimore County),
Alan Zonderman (National Institute on
Aging), Michele Evans (National Institute on Aging),
Janet Donohue (National Institute on Aging)
Table 14: Immigrant Communities
English Fluency among
the Foreign-born in the Metropolitan United States
Juan Xi (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
Sean-Shong Hwang (University of
Alabama-Birmingham)
Settling In: Residential Strategies and Segregation Among African, Asian,
Hispanic and Middle Eastern Immigrants in Nashville, Tennessee
Daniel B. Cornfield (Vanderbilt University)
Ari Wisch (Vanderbilt University)
Discussant: Susan Pearce (West Virginia University)
Table 15: Public and Private
Spaces
Presider: Melinda J. Milligan (Sonoma
State University)
Public Gated
Communities: The Social Impact of Gates in Private versus Public Housing
Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores (Vera Institute of
Justice)
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Perceived Social Support from Kin Networks
Kristin Elizabeth Turney (University of
Pennsylvania)
Kathryn J. Edin (University of
Pennsylvania)
Table 16: Community Case Studies
Common Pasts, Different
Presents, Common Vision: Place Construction, Rural Identity and Environmental
Decision Making
Alison Hope Alkon (University of
California-Davis)
Michael Traugot (University of California,
Davis)
Community in a Liminal Landscape
John F Toth (Hendrix College)
Do Geographical Characteristics Matter for the Development of Relational Ties?
Miyuki Vamadevan (Washington State
University)
Discussant: Daina Cheyenne Harvey (Rutgers University)
Table 17: Change and Politics in Communities
Presider: Elizabeth Jefferis Terrien
(University of Chicago)
Do Narratives Matter in
Campaigns?
Andrew G. Kourvetaris (Columbia University)
Participatory Democracy in Progressive “Faith-Based” Community Organizing
Robert Kleidman (Cleveland State
University)
Neighborhood Effects and the Invisible Motor of Community Change
Matthew D Matsaganis (University of
Southern California)
Table 18: Culture, Public
Spaces, and Communities
Presider: Lori A. Burrington (Ohio State University)
Resilient Communities:
Fostering Citizens through Arts and Culture
Claudia Pato Carvalho (Center for Reflective Community
Practice), Carlos Fortuna (University Coimbra)
Ceasar McDowell (Center for Reflective Community
Practice)
Race, Ethnicity, and Place: Being Dutch in Pella, Iowa
Monica Sue Erling (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Table 19: Extremely Disadvantaged Populations
in Their Communities
Presider: Claire H. Kohrman
Social Capital and
Suicide Ideation among the Homeless
Jessica Irwin (University of Alabama at
Birmingham), Kevin M. Fitzpatrick (University of Arkansas),
Mark E. La Gory (University of Alabama at
Birmingham), Ferris J. Ritchey (Univ of Alabama-Birmingham)
Rural Communities in the South: Persistent Black Belt Poverty
Robyn Bateman Driskell (Baylor University)
Elizabeth Embry (Baylor University)
Feenin Equals HIV: African American Women's Substance Abuse
Marlese Durr (Wright State University)
Table 20: Community Formation
and Identity
Presider: Miguel A. Carranza
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
The Role of Homogeneity
in Determining Community Boundaries and Identity: Consumption as a Valid Measure
Marc M. Sanford (University of Chicago)
Getting Settled in the Heartland: Community Formation and Settlement Patterns of
First- and Second Generation Iranians in Iowa City, Iowa
Mohammad A. Chaichian (Mount Mercy College)