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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)